Kanini Evans Kariuki
He completed his secondary education at Afraha Secondary School in Nakuru town , Rift Valley province,Kenya,in 1980, and then joined Naitiri High School,Western Kenya, for his"A"level education,completing in 1982. Later, he underwent training in journalism in some institutes in Kenya.
Kanini who doubles up as a researcher, has worked for all the leading Daily newspapers in Kenya;the Daily Nation, The Standard, The Kenya Times and The People Daily.He was the Eldoret town Bureau Chief of The Star newspaper-Kenya's most incisive and authoritative by-weekly newspaper, which collapsed way back in 1998 due to what was perceived as political machinations worked out against it by the past government.Eldoret town is in the Rift Valley part of Kenya,which was the hotbed of the 2007 ugly political violence.
Kanini is currently also a media consultant for Soldiers of Peace International Association,Africa liason office,Nairobi.
In his long-standing career as a journalist,Kanini has covered various dramatic events in Kenya which include the story of former renown detainee Koigi wa Wamwere. He has also covered the 1992 and 1997 politically-instigated ethnic violence in the expansive Rift Valley province, and the worst of all, the 2007 political violence in Kenya where over 1,500 people were killed,350,000 displaced, hundreds maimed and property worth billions of shilings torched following the disputed elections.
Kanini also covered the sad story of the late outspoken and fiery Kenyan clergyman bishop Alexander Kipsang arap Muge, who was famous in the East African region for fighting corruption, land -grabbing, political assassinations,bureaucracy and other irritating vices.
Bishop Muge perished in a bizzare road accident on August 14,1990 along the Eldoret/Turbo road, facing Western Kenya.
The bishop died after a controversial but triumphant visit to Western Kenya in Busia, after receiving death threats from a former cabinet minister, warning him that he would die if he dared visit the area.
Kanini also covered the historic Somalia National Peace and Reconciliation Conference from when it first kicked off in Kenya on October 15 2002, to the end.
Kanini is in the files of Amnesty International for his courage in the reportage of events in the volatile Rift Valley region, and has received commendation from the global Human Right's watchdog.
Apart from covering events in the Rift Valley, he also writes about issues affecting East and Central Africa as well as other parts of Africa.
Kanini has been trained on Journalism and ethics by the Media Institute in Kenya, and has also undergone various in-house trainings in journalism with the Daily Nation Media Group, East Africa's largest circulating newspaper.
Articles by Kanini Evans Kariuki
November 22, 2009
ARGUABLY ONE OF THE BEST AND ELOQUENT FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER'S KENYA HAS EVER PRODUCED,WETANGULA EMERGES THRICE AS MUCH POPULAR,ASSERTIVE,CONFIDENT,BOLD AND AS FEARLESS AS EVER WITH THE DISMISSAL OF THE ELECTION PETITION AGAINST HIM. READ ON:
SIRISIA constituency, in Western Kenya, exploded i...
November 15, 2009
THE SPECIAL STORY OF A LEADING AND INFLUENTIAL BUSINESSWOMAN AND POLITICAL STAR. READ HER CAPTIVATING STORY. HERE WE GO.......
HER name is Mary Wambui.
She is a respected heroine from Kenya in the East African region, located in the larger Africa.
She is a leading and prominent busines...
November 13, 2009
READ THE MOVING STORY OF SHAI RESHEF THE GREAT, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE (UOPEOPLE) WHICH HE FOUNDED.HERE WE GO.................
HISTORY will judge him very warmly, very generously,very kindly and very
appreciatively.
Yes, when history is read and re-read by generations and generation...
November 07, 2009
FOLLOWING the recent move by Nandi elders to install Industrialization minister Henry Kosgey as a senior elder from the community, Rift Valley leaders have hailed his development record which they said was unmatched, and described him as the only remaining true leader of the Nandi´s.
Addressing t...
November 08, 2009
THE university of the people(UO PEOPLE)is the world's first tuition-free online university, with no tuition fees.
It is a non-profit organisation launched in May at the United Nations, with the specific aim of providing high quality education at the lowest possible cost to the greatest number of ...
November 04, 2009
THE sweltering sun rays threw an endless glare at the site of the ceremony, but the huge crowd-the biggest ever witnessed in Kenya in recent times, was determined to remain in attendance without any strand of their hair being shaken.
The heat of the sun would not keep the curious and attentive cr...
November 01, 2009
SPECIAL REPORT ON NICHOLAS BIWOTT-ONE OF AFRICA´S MOST SEASONED AND BEST KNOWN POLITICIANS
HUNDREDS OF Western Kenya residents have enthusiastically welcomed the formation of the National Vision Party (NVP),whose party leader is former powerful cabinet minister honorable Nicholas Biwott.
The r...
October 29, 2009
APPOINTMENT OF EX-SOLDIERS AS ELDERS OF THE KALENJIN ETHNIC COUNCIL RAISES QUESTIONS
THE Kalenjin Political Association(KPA)has launched a blistering attack on the newly-appointed Kalenjin council of elders who mainly comprise retired soldiers charging that they cannot be entrusted with the manda...
October 11, 2009
THE news agencies reported that the state Minister, Sheikh Yusuf, was kidnapped, beaten up and later hospitalized at a Ugandan hospital where he is recuperating from injuries he sustained during his ordeal.
However, the chairman of the Somali Transitional Federal Parliament,Information, Culture ,...
October 07, 2009
READ THE MOVING AND SPECIAL REPORT ON ROLE MODEL WHO STARTED MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS.HERE WE GO.........
SIMON GICHARU-an intensely intelligent and wise scholar from Kenya,is among the most outstanding stars of the moment Africa has ever produced.
HE is a great thinker a...
October 04, 2009
THE bombardment of the Bakaraha business center of Mogadishu by the African Union(AU) forces this month, and which was in retaliation to the Al-Shabaab and Hisbul-Islam staged attacks on the bases of the AU, unfortunately led to the killings of several people,injuries and wanton destruction of comme...
October 02, 2009
AS I had earlier predicted, heavy fighting has now broken out between the Al-Shabaab and Hisbul-Islam following a stand-off in the Kismayu area,located 500 Kilometres South of Mogadishu.
And following the serious battle heightened by blood-cuddling burst of machine gun fire, Al-Shabaab has now se...
September 25, 2009
DURING the UN General Assembly meeting of September 2009, His Excellency Muamar Gaddafi, current chairman of the AU and leader of the great Jamahiriya of Libya, delivered a 90-minute speech in which he addressed the injustices and slavery activities perpetrated by the colonialists against Africans.
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September 26, 2009
THE Tailors and Textiles Workers Union (TTWU), yesterday expressed displeasure over the government´s failure to address the plight of workers in Kenya, and charged that they were wallowing in great misery despite previous pledges by leaders to have their situation improved.
Addressing the press, ...
September 21, 2009
THE ongoing impassioned and divisive debate over the Mau complex is tragic testimony of the sorry state of a nation faced with an uncertain and bleak future.
The political dithering over the Mau scam and other fundamental policy guidelines on governance are only helping to hasten the writing...
September 19, 2009
A CLOSE EXAMINATION OF THE SIGNIFICANT AND ICONIC WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY THESE HEROES FOR THE SAKE OF MANKIND.READ THE EXCLUSIVE STORY OF THE TWO EXTRAORDINARILY DEVOTED AND GIFTED PROMINENT PERSONALITIES.HERE WE GO.................
DR Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh comes from a line of spiritual leade...
September 15, 2009
THE Kalenjin community resident in the Rift Valley province, Kenya, has vowed to support Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the presidency during the 2012 General elections.
Led by councilor David Mutai and councilor Paul Serem, they said the community which voted overwhelmingly for Raila during the...
September 16, 2009
IN my previous articles, I have highlighted the serious situation of Somalia globally, regionally and locally.
Sadly, Somalia became a threat to the security of all nations for being the epicenter of sea piracy, terrorism and the dumping of toxic waste.
Much to the chagrin and disappointment o...
September 12, 2009
TRaila Amollo Odinga (born on January 7, 1945), is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as the Prime Minister of Kenya with President Mwai Kibaki in a coalition government.
He has served as the Member of parliament for Langata constituency since 1992, was minister for Energy from 2001 to 2002,...
September 15, 2009
THE Inter-Party Youth Leagues (IPYL), and the umbrella of students organization (USO), has petitioned Parliament to either strengthen the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) to enable it discharge its duties effectively, or disband it altogether if it cannot measure up to expectations.
In ...
September 04, 2009
SOMALI refugees are noticed in nearly over 30 countries in the world.
As the West Monson season ended on the first days of the current September month, the Somali boat commenced crossing to Yemen and other Gulf States, and already, more than 120 people died in the course of swimming near the co...
September 05, 2009
PRIME MINISTER Raila Odinga is a stickler for procedure and order, illustrated not only in his resolve to conserve the Mau but in several other aspects of his long political career.
Kenyan´s and many in Africa are also not lost on the PM´s eye for detail, dexterity and accuracy.
He does not se...
August 25, 2009
AFTER having completely ignored retired Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi´s outbursts over the raging Mau Forest complex, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has eventually asked the unsettled and panicky former Head of State to steer clear off the affairs of the country´s most vital water tower...
August 20, 2009
SPECIAL REPORT ON PRIME MINISTER RAILA ODINGA
AS the row over the Mau Forest complex rages, Kenyans are reeling under the effects of the settlement on the most important water tower in this East African country.
There is the protracted drought, depressed water levels, food and electricity cr...
August 06, 2009
A section of Rift Valley province Kalenjin youths allied to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), have registered their discontent with a majority of the current crop of the area Members of Parliament over the Mau forest which has exposed Kenya to international focus, and singled out the Minister fo...
August 04, 2009
Dear Madam,
A lot of greetings to you first. I take this golden opportunity to wish you a happy stay in Kenya during your official visit here, where you are expected for the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) talks, between US representatives and government delegations from various African ...
August 03, 2009
A Sudanese national, Professor Muezz Omar Bakheet, has announced the discovery of a new gene that links the nervous and the immune systems.
Professor Muezz, an immunology professor and a brain and neurology specialist, currently teaching at the Arab Gulf University, has announced the discovery of...
July 27, 2009
DECISIONS MADE DURING THE CONSULTATIVE MEETINGS HELD IN NAIROBI ON 6TH JULY 2009 OF ISMAIL SONS (DAAROD AND MEHEERI)
DURING the recent and consultative Somali Members of parliament meetings held in Nairobi on July 6,2009, of Ismail Sons (Daarod and Meheeri), crucial and significant decisions were...
July 22, 2009
THE Second Forum of the Media Staff Working Abroad was recently convened in Sudan under the motto : "Towards the advanced role in service of the homeland."
The State Minister at the Council of Ministers and the Chairperson of the High Committee for Organizing Forum, Kamal Abdulatif, addressed ...
July 22, 2009
CAN THE DISMISSAL OF HEAD OF INTELLIGENCE AND HIS DEPUTY APPEASE THE FRENCH?
PRESIDENT Shariff´s government is on the verge of collapse following the disappointment of the African Union (AU) forces who have realized that the beleaguered Somali administration lacks the strength, and has no b...
July 21, 2009
A training workshop on the promotion of small finance in the Muslim countries, commenced its work in Sudan over the weekend at Burj Alfatih ,and seriously deliberated on the participation of the poor sector in the production sector.
The workshop is organized by the Sudanese Businessmen Union in c...
July 17, 2009
IT became apparent that the TFG forces cannot sustain the protection of the Somali State House, let alone anything, being the Sharif´s cabinet, and some Members of parliament including the Interior minister, and other cabinet ministers, who are attached to the Radical opposition groups.
On the ...
July 15, 2009
NEITHER AL-SHABAAB NOR THE SOMALI GOVERNMENT HAS THE STRENGTH TO CONTROL POWER, BUT AL-SHABAAB APPEARS A BIT MIGHTIER……….
THE Transitional Federal Government that has been besieged in an area not more than 1½ kilometer square, and has a problem in obtaining reinforcements from the other regions a...
July 12, 2009
AN APPEAL BY MEMBERS OF THE TRANSITIONAL FEDERAL PARLIAMENT TO END THE SOMALI CRISIS AND SAVE SOMALIA FROM BECOMING A HAVEN FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: (ADOPTING A LOCALLY OWNED AND LED POLITICAL FRAMEWORK).HERE WE GO:
CONSEQUENT to the sumptuous lunch date and engagement the Somali Prime Mini...
July 09, 2009
THE prime Minister of the Somali Transitional Federal Government H.E Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, invited the Members of Parliament (MPs) staying in Nairobi for a lunch meeting following a request from the MPs themselves.
The MPs made prior communication with the Speaker of the Parliament in Mo...
July 08, 2009
SOMALI refugees are scattered all over the world right from New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, China, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Arab Gulf States, Syria, Lebanon, Jerusalem, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, ...
June 30, 2009
THE President of Somalia, H.E. Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, called a press conference in State House on June 27, 2009.
During the press briefing, he stated that Somalia has fallen into the sphere of influence of the al-Qaeda after the Muslim party and the Al-Shabaab group had become stooges of the al-Qae...
June 30, 2009
INDEPENDENT-MINDED Mr Fredrick Rono is now leading a quite and peaceful life as a farmer at his land in Trans-Nzoia district, Western Kenya, having led an increasingly turbulent and problematic life, years back during the Daniel arap Moi's administration.
Daniel arap Moi was President of Kenya fo...
June 28, 2009
ALTHOUGH the Somali President Sheikh Sharif, Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament and the Prime Minister, sought the intervention of the IGAD group headed by Ethiopia and Kenya, both states had demonstrated sympathy and support for the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
Ethiopia pul...
June 26, 2009
THE new American administration had officially announced that it would provide Somalia arms and financial assistance to fight the Al-Shabaab group, which presently controls most of Southern Somalia, including most of the Somali capital districts of Mogadishu.
The Al-Shabaab group had manifeste...
June 25, 2009
COME on and gather together to find a way out..............for this is a..........trinitrotoluene..........!!!
Somalia is on fire. The Horn of Africa nation is troubled. For 19 years now!
Powerful explosions erupt. The staccato burst of machine gun fire shatters the air. Endless battles on the...
June 24, 2009
THE current situation of Somalia warrants a global collective address of finding a permanent solution to the crisis that will ignite an unbearable effect throughout the region of East Africa, and later on Africa and even to North America.
The most militant groups of the Al-Shabaab are mostly Soma...
June 22, 2009
HE has emerged as one of the most visionary, eloquent and articulate leaders from Africa.
Uhuru Kenyatta-son of Kenya´s founding president, the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta is definitely cut out for bigger things; the popular budget he read recently as Kenya´s Finance minister has boosted his image.
...
June 16, 2009
PRESIDENT SHARIF´S REGIME VIS-À-VIS HIS PREDECESSOR ABDULAHI YUSUF AHMED
PRIME MINISTER NOOR HASSAN HUSSEIN VIS-À-VIS HIS PREDECESSOR PROF ALI GEDI
AFTER the failure of 13 reconciliation conferences, the Nairobi reconciliation conference which took two years subsequently produced six fatally i...
June 12, 2009
ACCORDING to Islamic principles, the killing of innocent persons is so grave a sin that one is destined to fire hell come Doomsday.
The prophet Mohammed (PBU) had communicated with the Roman empire, persian empire and other rulers of his time and throughout, his communications were cordially gen...
June 11, 2009
IT is a grave situation and concern of every human being who has a conscious over what is happening to the Somali civilians, Mogadishu in particular, committed by the parties to the conflict.
The recent violence which erupted in Mogadishu on May 7 2009, generalized by the fighting between the Tra...
June 06, 2009
PRESIDENT Obama´s historic, balanced and meticulously delivered speech at Cairo University, Egypt, on June 4th 2009 was received and enthusiastically welcomed by all Somalis and some Somali lawmakers.
These legislators made notable remarks in reaction to the president´s speech, stating that USA h...
June 04, 2009
The Djibouti conference that produced Mr Sheikh Ahmed Sharif as president of Somalia was meant to pacify the troubled Horn of Africa nation through Sharif´s influence and his Islamic United Courts.
But this hope was unfortunately shattered as soon as the Sharif militia deserted him and joined ...
June 03, 2009
THE explosive Mau complex that has continued to attract national and global attention, sprang back into the limelight recently when conservationists and the cream of state official´s converged at the edge of the endangered water tower in Narok for a colorful water event.
Organizers of the event...
May 28, 2009
Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha (GNNSJ) is an organization dedicated to selfless service in the name of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, (1969 – 1930) – Founder of the Sikh Dharam (Religion). GNNSJ is thus a faith-based organization (FBO) duly registered in the UK , India and Kenya .
GNNSJ extends its hand of ...
May 27, 2009
CAUGHT between a rock and a hard place, disillusioned Somalis are positing that neither the West nor East are demonstrating sympathy or compassion for the catastrophes befalling them, the wanton destruction of Somali State resources, and the plight of Somali refugees fleeing the on-going ugly and...
May 26, 2009
HE is a committed team player.
BUT Barasa K. Nyukuri has demonstrated the ability to work alone and organize himself accordingly.
His overriding passion is to make a difference, for the more positive, to people´s lives, especially in the field of human rights, gender, governance, democracy an...
May 24, 2009
IN a straight- shooting and no-nonsense speech, President Omar Al-Bashir recently announced important decisions, top of which is the immediate unconditional ceasefire in Darfur between Sudanese Armed Forces and the warring factions, besides stopping all unnecessary and hostile media campaigns aga...
May 23, 2009
INTERNATIONALLY renown Somalia politician Awad Ahamed Ashareh seems to be the best choice for Somalia in the face of the current war that has culminated in the deaths of hundreds of civilians,destabilized the region,created hundreds of thousands of refugees,drawn in foreign armies and militants,besi...
May 18, 2009
As the 36 Kenyan post-election violence victims who were burnt to death in a church by raiders in January last year were eventually laid to rest over the weekend, a Kenya government leader Stephen Tarus immediately came out in open criticism of politicians from the expansive Rift Valley province wh...
May 16, 2009
The Somalia peace process seems to have taken a new toll which raises the concern of the whole region in particular, and global agitation.
The fighting of the newly-formed government in Djibouti headed by president Sheriff, the former chairman of the United Islamic Courts who had lost the suppor...
May 13, 2009
Groundwater, the water that flows through soil and rock beneath our feet, is the primary source of water supply to half a billion people in Africa and over 80% of Uganda´s population, according to observations made a while back by leading water experts from Uganda and others from across the world.
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May 10, 2009
HE has now deviated to the noble task of enhancing peace and reconciliation among warring ethnic communities in Kenya, torn apart by the outcome of the controversial and disputed 2007 polls.
Moses Akaranga, the ex-Kenyan public Service minister and immediate former Sabatia Member of Parliam...
May 07, 2009
SOMALIA´S sea piracy started by the vacuum of authority after the collapse of the Somalia government in January 1991. Somalia entered a civil war cycle that culminated in the loss of hundreds of lives and internal displacement of millions, and exodus of refugees to neighboring nations, Europe, Nort...
May 01, 2009
THE atmosphere is cool, relaxed. Heavy clouds, a harbinger of heavy rains gather in the skies. Then the rain comes suddenly and forcefully, beating a monotonous tattoo on the roofs. Thunder crushes, cracks and crushes again. Then the rains gradually subside and peter out into a drizzle, warm and so...
April 29, 2009
AGAINST the backdrop of a welcoming environment,friendly and accomodative citizens of Sudan, scores of enthusiastic Kenyans are savouring every moment of the joys of accelerating trading avenues in the vast African nation, buoyed by the spirit of doing so,while trying to overcome the obvious challen...