NAIROBI, (Reuters) - Offshore dollar inflows into high yielding government securities are seen boosting the Kenyan shilling in the coming days, traders said, as the currency held steady in lacklustre trade on Monday. 

CAIRO (Reuters) - Protesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding the Egyptian interior ministry on Sunday and were forced back with volleys of tear gas.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's military has struck al Shabaab targets in one of the most devastating attacks against the al Qaeda-linked insurgents since it launched an operation in Somalia to crush the rebels last October, a Kenyan army officer said on Saturday.
 

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian police have questioned the wife of former president Rupiah Banda about the source of funding for a luxury villa, the latest in a string of investigations into high-profile figures by the southern African country's new government.
 

President Mwai Kibaki  with the visiting British Foreign Secretary William Hague at his office in Harambee House.

 NAIROBI (KWP) - President Mwai Kibaki has today asserted that the moment to stabilize Somalia is ripe and called on the international community to take advantage of the opportunity.

 NAIROBI(Reuters) - Kenya's Mumias Sugar posted a slight pick-up in pretax profit to 1.30 billion shillings ($15.5 million) for its first half through December, it said on Friday.
 

President  Kibaki flanked by Prime Minister Odinga unveils a plaque to mark the opening of Kisumu International Airport

KISUMU (KWP) - President Mwai Kibaki today officially opened the expanded Kisumu International Airport and reassured of the Government developing various modes of transport so as to spur economic activities in the country.

MOGADISHU,(Reuters) - Britain appointed its first ambassador to Somalia for 21 years on Thursday during a visit to the capital of the anarchic Horn of Africa nation by Foreign Secretary William Hague.

President Mwai Kibaki presents the Equity Group Foundation, the MasterCard Foundation and the USAID 2140 'Wings to Fly' scholars  scholarship

NAIROBI (KWP) - President Mwai Kibaki has directed the Ministers for Finance and Education to work out modalities to further increase the available spaces in secondary schools so as to admit the growing number of students exiting primary schools.

President Mwai Kibaki receives FAO Director General Jose Graziaano Da Silva at his Harambee House office, Nairobi.

NAIROBI (KWP) - President Mwai Kibaki has appreciated the proactive role played by the Food and Agriculture Organization-FAO in helping nations achieve food security.