Medical experts have angrily denied his claim that the alcohol will kill coronavirus.

Mike Sonko, who sports  flashing clothing and wears lots of gold, is no stranger to controversy.

He say he’ll put a bottle of brandy, naming the brand of the expensive Cognac, into each food parcel for medicinal reasons.

Medical experts  say his opinion should be binned with the contaminated face masks.

Brandy does not have enough alcohol to even sanitize one’s hands.

Sonko was arrested last December for corruption.

President Uhuru Keyatta barred him from his office premises in February because of missing public money,

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President Uhuru Kenyatta has led the way by taking an 80% reduction in salary.

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Determining their own salaries, Kenyan MPs have become far and away the best-paid African legislators.

With generous allowances they pull down more than a quarter of a million rand a month.

President Uhuru Kenyatta says four fifths of his salary will be redirected to fighting COVID19,

The same goes for his deputy. His Cabinet members and their assistants are taking a 30% pay cut.

The MP’s responded to calls last year for a 35% cut public servants salaries……..by voting themselves a pay increase.

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Daniel Arap Moi’s body was brought in on a gun carriage with the military heavily to the fore in the event celebrating the life of the 95-year old who died last week.

Critics of Daniel Arap Moi’s 24-year presidency call him authoritarian.

Admirers say he brought stability at a time Kenya badly needed it.

His tenure from 1978 to 2002 saw multi-party democracy restored and the rough handling of plotters in a failed coup.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has called Moi the father of the nation and a champion of Pan Africanism.

Moi came to power after the death of Kenyatta’s father Jomo who was Kenya’s first president.

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President Peter Mutharika will stay in power until then.

The Constitutional Court found there had been widespread irregularities in Malawi’s Presidential election last year.

Peter Mutharika won a second term in that poll with a margin of 160 000 votes.

Second placed Lazarus Chakwere maintains he won.

Third placed Saulos Chilima also cried foul.

The annulment is the second in African history.

Kenya’s Supreme Court, citing irregularities,  annulled the August 2017 election won by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

It ordered the appointment of a new electoral commission.

Kenyatta won the re-run in October after his main opponent Raila Odinga withdrew.

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This is the second time in a year there’s been suspicious activity on the social media of the Kenyan leader who is the most followed head of government in Africa.

Chief of Staff Nzioka Waita says there has been unauthorized access to the Twitter and Facebook accounts of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

These have been taken down to allow the necessary remedial action to be taken.

Waita says Kenyatta’s action against corruption is evidently making an impact, although he did not elaborate.

Last year sharp-eyed surfers discovered Kenyatta had unfriended his Deputy President William Ruto.

The Presidency in Nairobi put this down to an error. 

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He told reporters that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika decision not to run again has opened a new chapter of Algerian history.

President Emmanuel Macron is the first French President to visit Djibouti since Nicolas Sarkozy was there nine years ago.

He is looking to counter the growing Chinese influence in the Horn. The People’s Liberation Army has China’s first foreign military base in Djibouti.

Macron met Ethiopia’s reformist prime minister and regional peace broker Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa.

In Kenya, he’ll talk to President Uhuru Kenyatta about infrastructural developments including the commuter rail link between the capital and the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

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She was found in a Nairobi morgue on Tuesday after going missing last week.

Caroline Mwatha rose to prominence by investigating, among other things, extra judicial killings by Kenyan police.

Her family and supporters deplore the police claiming  that she died of a botched abortion before any post mortem has been conducted.

The examination has been delayed until Monday.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, says this is a cover up and designed to as slur.

They say activists have faced additional suppression and  risk since the Jubilee coalition led by President Uhuru Kenyatta came to power six years ago.

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The African Union, which says there are serious doubts about the figures presented to support Tshisekedi’s win, has scrapped plans to send a delegation to the Congo.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Keyatta say yesterday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court in Kinshasa confirms Felix Tshisekedi’s election win requires 

all actors to respect this exercise of DRC national sovereignty.

Martin Fayulu, who claims he won 60% of the vote calls on supporters to demonstrate peacefully against what he calls a constitutional coup d’etat.

The European Union has joined the African Union, France, Belgium and the Catholic bishops in casting doubt on the figures produced by the electoral commission in the DRC.

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Five of the jihadis responsible for the shooting and bombing have been killed.

The death toll from the  onslaught is at least 21.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta vows that his security forces will bring to book any other involved in Tuesday’s terrorist attack at the Westgate  Centre.

Al Shabaab, the Somali-based terror group has claimed responsibility, saying the operation was in retaliation for US President Donald Trump recognizing  Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Previous Al Shabaab attacks on Kenyan targets have been in response to that country’s military and political support for the Somali government.

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Gbagbo called on the tribunal to drop the charges and free him.

Laurent Gbagbo’s facing charges for what his supporters did in the civil war sparked by his refusal to accept defeat in the 2010 presidential election in the Ivory Coast.

More than 3 000 people died in that conflict.

His lawyers says there are parallels with the trials of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta that collapsed four years ago …

… and Jean-Pierre Bemba who was freed on appeal last June.

I.C.C. prosecutor James Stewart rejects saying there’s a compelling case against Gbagbo demanding that the trial should proceed.

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