GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
H.M Queen Elizabeth II on rememberence day
The poppy is traditionally worn on Remembrance Day in memory of service personnel who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars and subsequent conflicts like the Falklands War and the Gulf War.
The red poppies represent the poppies that grew in the cornfields of Flanders in the First World War, where many thousands of soldiers lost their lives. The paper poppies that are worn today are made by ex-service personnel and are sold by representatives of the Royal British Legion, an organisation of ex-servicemen and women.
H.M The Queen laying a wreath at the white hall cenotaph- westminister
Remembrance Day falls on the nearest Sunday to 11 November - the day peace was declared in 1918. The day is commemorated by church services around the country and a parade of ex-service personnel in London’s Whitehall.
Wreaths of poppies are left at the Cenotaph, a war memorial in Whitehall, built after the First World War. By tradition, at 11.00am on Remembrance Sunday a two minute silence is observed at the Cenotaph and elsewhere in the country to honour those who lost their lives. In recent years, a two minute silence has also been observed at 11.00am on 11 November itself.
[acknowledgement: MOD]
KENYA-KIBAKI TOSHA
Na kazi iendelee
The was a fundraising and an awareness campaign in the UK to support the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya
Diaspora 4 Kibaki (D4K), the umbrella body for President Mwai Kibaki’s re-election campaign in the UK
The Government committed itself to improving accessibility, equity, affordability and quality essential health care services for every Kenyan. To realise this objective, the 2005-2010 National Health Sector Strategic Plan was developed. The theme of this plan is, “Reversing the Trend.” This is developed under the Kenya Health Policy Framework, the Economic Recovery Strategy and the health related targets of the Millennium Goals
As a result of the systematic implementation of his strategies, real gross domestic product expanded by 5.8 per cent last year, compared to 0.4 per cent when he took over leadership in 2002.
"Kazi iendelee"
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.PLEASE GO TO http://www.swahilidiaries.blogspot.com/ 
H.M Queen Elizabeth II on rememberence day
The poppy is traditionally worn on Remembrance Day in memory of service personnel who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars and subsequent conflicts like the Falklands War and the Gulf War.
The red poppies represent the poppies that grew in the cornfields of Flanders in the First World War, where many thousands of soldiers lost their lives. The paper poppies that are worn today are made by ex-service personnel and are sold by representatives of the Royal British Legion, an organisation of ex-servicemen and women.
H.M The Queen laying a wreath at the white hall cenotaph- westminister
Remembrance Day falls on the nearest Sunday to 11 November - the day peace was declared in 1918. The day is commemorated by church services around the country and a parade of ex-service personnel in London’s Whitehall.
Wreaths of poppies are left at the Cenotaph, a war memorial in Whitehall, built after the First World War. By tradition, at 11.00am on Remembrance Sunday a two minute silence is observed at the Cenotaph and elsewhere in the country to honour those who lost their lives. In recent years, a two minute silence has also been observed at 11.00am on 11 November itself.
[acknowledgement: MOD]
KENYA-KIBAKI TOSHA
Na kazi iendelee
The was a fundraising and an awareness campaign in the UK to support the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya
Diaspora 4 Kibaki (D4K), the umbrella body for President Mwai Kibaki’s re-election campaign in the UK
The Government committed itself to improving accessibility, equity, affordability and quality essential health care services for every Kenyan. To realise this objective, the 2005-2010 National Health Sector Strategic Plan was developed. The theme of this plan is, “Reversing the Trend.” This is developed under the Kenya Health Policy Framework, the Economic Recovery Strategy and the health related targets of the Millennium Goals
As a result of the systematic implementation of his strategies, real gross domestic product expanded by 5.8 per cent last year, compared to 0.4 per cent when he took over leadership in 2002.
"Kazi iendelee"
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.PLEASE GO TO http://www.swahilidiaries.blogspot.com/
MEET THE OTHER GUY: RAILA ODINGA[opposition]
Member of Parliament for Langata
Raila Odinga has dedicated his life to public service, first as a university lecturer, then in establishing the Kenya Bureau of Standards, always as a civil rights activist, and finally as a member of parliament.
Raila became MP for the cosmopolitan constituency of Langata, Nairobi, in the general election of December 29, 1992, and retained his seat in subsequent general elections in 1997 and 2002. The first nine years were spent in opposition, first in Ford-Kenya and then in the National Democratic Party, but in 2001, Raila was appointed minister for energy in the Kanu government. Later, as member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was part of the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) that won the 2002 general election and broke Kanu’s stranglehold on power since Independence in 1963. Raila was thereafter appointed minister for roads, public works, and housing. He was replaced in the cabinet at the end of 2005, after his opposition to doctored constitutional reforms led to a referendum victory against the government.
During his four years as a cabinet minister, Raila effected extensive reforms in the ministries he served. But he is perhaps better known for his persistent and dedicated opposition to all that is corrupt, to decisions made on the basis of ethnicity, and to the accumulation of wealth by a few at the expense of the many. His opposition to successive governments that have looted his beloved Kenya has led him into three periods of detention without trial. He was detained for a total of eight years, six of them spent in solitary confinement. No matter the personal cost, Raila shuns any option that involves compromising his own or the nation’s integrity.
As the MP for a constituency that houses a large number of Nairobi’s urban poor, Raila has initiated several poverty-alleviation and education projects, including Kibera slum upgrading and the Raila Education Centre. His aim is to ensure good quality of life and education for all.
Raila is a loving family man and he and his wife Ida have four children. They are Fidel, who is a business executive, Rosemary, who is a Marketing consultant and has been married to Amos Akatsa for two years, Raila Jnr, who is a banker, and Winnie, who has just finished her secondary education in Nairobi.
Raila Amolo Odinga was born in Nyanza Province on January 7, 1945, at Maseno Church Missionary Society Hospital, the second son of Kenya’s first vice-president, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, and his wife Mary. Raila graduated from Otto von Guericke Technical University, Magdeburg, Germany, in 1970, with a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering, following which he returned to Kenya to take care of the Odinga family after his father’s detention without trial in 1969. Raila was an assistant lecturer at the University of Nairobi before joining the nascent Kenya Bureau of Standards and being asked to oversee its establishment. He had already established his family business, which manufactures liquid petroleum gas cylinders.
The increasing repression by the state in succeeding years led to Raila’s wider political participation against the evils he has seen desecrate his land. Today, Raila continues to work for the third liberation of Kenya – liberation from the corruption and ethnic favouritism that has bedevilled the nation’s social and economic progress for more than 40 years.
Raila Odinga has dedicated his life to public service, first as a university lecturer, then in establishing the Kenya Bureau of Standards, always as a civil rights activist, and finally as a member of parliament.
Raila became MP for the cosmopolitan constituency of Langata, Nairobi, in the general election of December 29, 1992, and retained his seat in subsequent general elections in 1997 and 2002. The first nine years were spent in opposition, first in Ford-Kenya and then in the National Democratic Party, but in 2001, Raila was appointed minister for energy in the Kanu government. Later, as member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he was part of the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) that won the 2002 general election and broke Kanu’s stranglehold on power since Independence in 1963. Raila was thereafter appointed minister for roads, public works, and housing. He was replaced in the cabinet at the end of 2005, after his opposition to doctored constitutional reforms led to a referendum victory against the government.
During his four years as a cabinet minister, Raila effected extensive reforms in the ministries he served. But he is perhaps better known for his persistent and dedicated opposition to all that is corrupt, to decisions made on the basis of ethnicity, and to the accumulation of wealth by a few at the expense of the many. His opposition to successive governments that have looted his beloved Kenya has led him into three periods of detention without trial. He was detained for a total of eight years, six of them spent in solitary confinement. No matter the personal cost, Raila shuns any option that involves compromising his own or the nation’s integrity.
As the MP for a constituency that houses a large number of Nairobi’s urban poor, Raila has initiated several poverty-alleviation and education projects, including Kibera slum upgrading and the Raila Education Centre. His aim is to ensure good quality of life and education for all.
Raila is a loving family man and he and his wife Ida have four children. They are Fidel, who is a business executive, Rosemary, who is a Marketing consultant and has been married to Amos Akatsa for two years, Raila Jnr, who is a banker, and Winnie, who has just finished her secondary education in Nairobi.
Raila Amolo Odinga was born in Nyanza Province on January 7, 1945, at Maseno Church Missionary Society Hospital, the second son of Kenya’s first vice-president, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, and his wife Mary. Raila graduated from Otto von Guericke Technical University, Magdeburg, Germany, in 1970, with a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering, following which he returned to Kenya to take care of the Odinga family after his father’s detention without trial in 1969. Raila was an assistant lecturer at the University of Nairobi before joining the nascent Kenya Bureau of Standards and being asked to oversee its establishment. He had already established his family business, which manufactures liquid petroleum gas cylinders.
The increasing repression by the state in succeeding years led to Raila’s wider political participation against the evils he has seen desecrate his land. Today, Raila continues to work for the third liberation of Kenya – liberation from the corruption and ethnic favouritism that has bedevilled the nation’s social and economic progress for more than 40 years.
