Kibera homecoming and other stories from the news

This is a speedy run through the day's news, from KTN at 7 o'clock and at 9 pm, and from some of the early papers. The major story of the day was the Prime Minister's homecoming in Kibera.

It is difficult if not downright impossible to get a true reflection from the sound-bites that the media allows through, but this is an effort to capture as much as possible what was shown on the tube.

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Sisters at Heart

On Saturday the 24th of February, 2008, I went to a meeting of women in Kibera, Nairobi. It was in the open, in the field next to the Kibera D.O.'s office. Under a tree, next to a dusty soccer pitch on which a few energetic children were playing, sat some women listening to the meeting's moderator, Ms. Jane Anyango.

Read more from Wambui Mwangi here.