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BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO Controversy has erupted over the relocation of a Sh 30m secondary school in Voi, Taita-Taveta County to pave way for the Standard gauge Railway(SGR) project. The Voi Girls Education Centre which was built with CDF funds is located...
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COUNTY ROVER Crying for a society on the precipice of moral decay BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO The seemingly distraught chap walked straight to my table and planted himself next to me. My apparent indifference to him did not seem to move him as he kept casting...
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COUNTY ROVER Crying for a society on the precipice of moral decay BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO The seemingly distraught chap walked straight to my table and planted himself next to me. My apparent indifference to him did not seem to move him as he kept casting...
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. You might dismiss them as mere confidence tricksters. Or at the very best, and if you are the superstitious type, you may describe them as a necessary evil. You have come across their signboards in streets and alleys, proclaiming to cure any ailment...
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In Report on Rolling Stone, a Case Study in Failed Journalism By JONATHAN MAHLER APRIL 5, 2015 When Rolling Stone took the unusual step of bringing in Steve Coll, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dean of America’s most prestigious journalism school, to dissect...
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BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO Lilian Mkita is a sad and depressed single mother of three. The casual laborer from Mwakingali village in Voi, Taita-Taveta County, has been having a hectic time with her mentally ill son who dropped out of school in form three. “My...
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BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO We branch off from the main Nairobi/Mombasa highway and take a dusty road into the expansive Izera ranch. The area is dotted with elephant dung, acacia trees, reddish brown anthills and tufts of dry grass. After about half an hour...
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BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO She rises up early, around 5 am. After finishing her household chores, she picks a shovel and makes a beeline to the mines. On many occasions she is the first to arrive at the mine and is joined shortly by her male colleagues. After...
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Culture BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO A story is told of two hunters who had a very close encounter with a rogue rhino. One of the hunters had aimed twice and missed the enraged wild animal with poisoned arrows. The charging animal was about to gore the hunter...
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