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With our dynamic political map you can see the state of play in UK politics at a single glance, track the Government’s performance and follow the 2010 British General Election. Each hexagon marks a single constituency and clicks through to information on candidates, health, crime and education. via Telegraph

South Sudan President Salva Kiir (left) at a meeting with Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Kenya is mobilising international support to avert political violence in Sudan through next year’s referendum on independence for the South. File By WALTER MENYAWednesday, February 3 2010 NAIROBI Kenya denies that it was assisting the government of Southern Sudan to re-armRaila Odinga warned of a return to war if the Southerners are denied the freewill to determine their future. Kenya is mobilising international support to avert political violence in Sudan through next [...]

South Sudan President Salva Kiir (left) at a meeting with Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Kenya is mobilising international support to avert political violence in Sudan through next year’s referendum on independence for the South. File By WALTER MENYAWednesday, February 3 2010 NAIROBI Kenya denies that it was assisting the government of Southern Sudan to re-armRaila Odinga warned of a return to war if the Southerners are denied the freewill to determine their future. Kenya is mobilising international support to avert political violence in Sudan through next [...]

LONDON: Former Cabinet ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon exploded an H-bomb under Gordon Brown yesterday by demanding a ballot on his leadership of Labour. They declared the party must decide once and for all if the PM is the right person to lead it into the General Election. But a major Sun opinion poll revealed dumping Brown would not help the party”s dire prospects of a general election victory. The rebels” explosive intervention – Labour”s last chance to dump Brown before the poll – plunged the party into civil war. It made for a disastrous start to its [...]

LONDON: Former Cabinet ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon exploded an H-bomb under Gordon Brown yesterday by demanding a ballot on his leadership of Labour. They declared the party must decide once and for all if the PM is the right person to lead it into the General Election. But a major Sun opinion poll revealed dumping Brown would not help the party”s dire prospects of a general election victory. The rebels” explosive intervention – Labour”s last chance to dump Brown before the poll – plunged the party into civil war. It made for a disastrous start to its [...]

THE STANDARDBy Isaiah Lucheli Chief Mediator Kofi Annan turned up the pressure for the need to try chief suspects of the post-election violence. Annan, who was giving his parting speech at the end of six-day visit in Nairobi Tuesday said the arrest and prosecution of powerful politicians suspected to have funded and fanned post-election violence by the International Criminal Court would not frustrate reforms. His remarks are in tandem with those of ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo who has said he would like to make Kenya and example of how end impunity. “We should encourage the [...]

By Patrick Beja and Willis OketchMombasa, Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga led the ODM top brass in a well-attended public rally that played out like a show of force in the contest with his party deputy William Ruto. Coming only a day after Ruto led a group of politicians to a rally in Kapenguria where he berated the PM, saying he regrets leading Rift Valley to ODM, the Mombasa rally was billed to be the make-or-break venue for the Ruto-Raila political contest. The crowd at the Tononoka Grounds, the venue of Sunday’s rally was reminiscent of the campaign period when ODM attracted huge numbers [...]