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    <title>New Cabinet secretaries must inculcate values of hard work and right attitude</title>
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    <description>Congratulations are in order to the 16 people appointed to serve as Cabinet Secretaries. But there is no time for celebrations; the hard work of transforming the country must start in earnest</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-19T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Outlaw pornography to restore the dignity of Kenyan women</title>
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    <description>The arrest of a former UN employee and 11 women in Mombasa on charges of engaging in acts of “bestiality” has created shockwaves across the country</description>
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    <title>Society should stop neglect of mental patients</title>
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    <description>The daring and shocking escape by 40 patients from Mathari mental and referral hospital earlier in the week is a challenge to society to spare a thought on the inconvenient subject of mental health in Kenya</description>
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    <title>Management of universities a mockery of devolution</title>
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    <description>Peter Drucker, who is referred to as the father of management, once said, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T20:30:00Z</dc:date>
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    <description>With the world gone digital, the use of computers and cell phones is no longer limited to the economically advantaged. Virtually every home has at least one cell phone</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>They seek to reap where they never sowed</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/They-seek-to-reap-where-they-never-sowed/-/440808/1856468/-/73ldm4z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>In absolute terms, France is twice as populous as Kenya</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Men take right-to-die demand to court</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Men-take-right-to-die-demand-to-court/-/440808/1856486/-/ln3ybd/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Paul Lamb wants to kill himself, but he is so badly paralysed he would be unable to raise the poison to his lips</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>We do not take public support for the Judiciary for granted</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/We-do-not-take-public-support-for-granted/-/440808/1856484/-/vla2snz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Ever since I took my oath of office on June 20, 2011, I have never been under any illusion that winning public confidence is a destination – rather, I believe that it is a continuous journey</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Vetting of Cabinet nominees was a sham exercise</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Vetting-of-Cabinet-nominees-was-a-sham-exercise/-/440808/1856408/-/rkq8rxz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>What exactly was the reason a parliamentary committee was constituted to vet the President’s nominees to various Cabinet positions?</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Kituyi must infuse UNCTAD with intellectual leadership</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kituyi-must-infuse-UNCTAD-with-intellectual-leadership/-/440808/1856462/-/hi8dyx/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The way I know Dr Mukhisa Kituyi, this is one informed voice that the international community is unlikely to ignore</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why I have a gripe with dishing out of Cabinet responsibilities</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/I-have-a-gripe-with-Cabinet/-/440808/1856480/-/hst1qmz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Though I agree with the general public endorsement of the new Cabinet team, I hold some reservations</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Vision 2030 won’t happen without mass social security</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Vision-2030-wont-happen-without-mass-social-security/-/440808/1856410/-/q21pf6z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The other day when the Cabinet secretaries were being sworn in, the President made emphatic reference to the Vision 2030</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Let us not be seduced by false consensus</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Let-us-not-be-seduced-by-false-consensus/-/440808/1856502/-/6vdn0j/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The mood was upbeat. Speaker after speaker had highlighted the fact that Kenya is on the move, that the direction is right, that the economic fundamentals are now very attractive</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Open letter to Raila: Don’t accept ‘errand boy’ job</title>
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    <description>Your departure from politics would be a betrayal to men and women of conscience who believe in you</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>For Collymore and Judge Mumbi, well-deserved praise</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Well-deserved-praise-for-Collymore-and-Judge-Mumbi/-/440808/1856414/-/12s0yjoz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>This column abhors sycophancy and senseless praises</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-18T14:00:29Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Protests can be kept peaceful without riot gear and violence</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Protests-can-be-kept-peaceful-without-riot-gear-and-violence-/-/440808/1855784/-/oa2cy8z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>I recently spent a few days in Mongolia, attending the Seventh Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, a voluntary association of governments committed to democracy.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T16:06:07Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Super cycles of goods and why they matter</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Super-cycles-of-goods-and-why-they-matter-/-/440808/1855782/-/hpycqgz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The average developing country lives off exporting commodities like oil, gas, copper, cocoa or soybeans.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T16:04:29Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Kengen case ruling pushes State agencies to open up for scrutiny</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kengen-case-ruling-pushes-State-agencies-to-open-up/-/440808/1855780/-/4qf180z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Early this week, the High Court made a decision which went further into expounding the essence and limits of the rights guaranteed in the Constitution.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T16:03:20Z</dc:date>
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    <title>When activists made a pig of themselves</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/When-activists-made-a-pig-of-themselves-/-/440808/1855756/-/jo9djuz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The Tuesday demonstration was well-oiled and well-funded. It ended with a bang and was quite a show.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T15:51:11Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Ahmednasir has the guts and brains, but not the humility for open debate</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Ahmednasir-has-the-guts-and-brains-but-not-the-humility/-/440808/1855752/-/10nqxmgz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi is one fine lawyer and he knows it. He is brilliant and, in some likeable way, overbearingly loud about it. This, for me, indicates that he is confident about who he is and what he knows.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T15:50:24Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Adjectives, in English, are never pluralised</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Adjectives-in-English-are-never-pluralised-/-/440808/1855750/-/msvgn8z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>A newspaper commentator disparaged the “coup d’etats” that have beset Africa since independence.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T15:49:43Z</dc:date>
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    <title>ICC on trial in the eyes of Kenyans</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ICC-on-trial-in-the-eyes-of-Kenyans-/-/440808/1855746/-/l9u3ez/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Every morning I am greeted by three little chaps on their way to nursery school: Raila, Obama and Ocampo. Parents love to name their children after important people and memorable moments.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T15:48:25Z</dc:date>
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    <title>A home cannot prosper if the woman is kept like a chattel by her husband</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/A-home-cannot-prosper-if-the-woman-is-kept-like-a-chattel/-/440808/1855742/-/f97jctz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The day that African men accept to liberate their women is the day the entire continent will take off like a caged bird set free.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T15:47:20Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Trouble looms in the sharing of Sh3.5bn kitty for political parties</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1855736/-/jisa9vz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>After the contested attempt by MPs to raise their own salaries, the next big dispute is likely to revolve around the implementation of the Political Parties Fund.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T15:46:03Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Give priority to crimes against pigs and dogs</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Give-priority-to-crimes-against-pigs-and-dogs-/-/440808/1855726/-/4efwx2/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Good people of Bungoma, Busia and Mandera, as well as the ones receiving threatening leaflets in Trans Nzoia County. You must understand why the police are not able to come to your rescue just now.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T15:45:28Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Letter From America</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Letter-From-America/-/440808/1855494/-/11yry66z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>A line has been crossed thee times in America this week. The country’s taxing agency, the Internal Revenue Service, said that it targeted conservative political groups over the last year without reason.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T10:43:51Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Interviews for Cabinet secretary jobs were a total bomb; whose fault was it?</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Interviews-for-Cabinet-secretary-jobs-were-a-total-bomb/-/440808/1855118/-/coy42p/-/index.html</link>
    <description>If you are hired today as the chief executive of an organisation, you go in with the intention of achieving better results.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-16T19:48:06Z</dc:date>
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    <title>To most of our political leaders, integrity and morality have become mere concepts</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1854622/-/jit0eiz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>One of the cardinal principles of the new Constitution is ‘integrity’ — an issue that is a recurrent theme in our body-politic and one that we seem to have a major difficulty responding to</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-16T16:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Civil society protest noble; mode too crude</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Civil-society-protest-noble-mode-too-crude/-/440808/1854628/-/ptdidjz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>There is no doubt that the civil society has a very strong, if irrefutable point, in objecting to demands for higher pay by MPs</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-16T16:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Forget land or ethnicity: This is all about politics and power</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Forget-land-or-ethnicity--This-is-all-about-politics-and-power-/-/440808/1854084/-/9m47hd/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Like in many other parts of Kenya, dancing with death during political campaigns in Bungoma County is common.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T20:01:49Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Pay them more, but base it on performance</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Pay-them-more-but-base-it-on-performance-/-/440808/1853862/-/140cvjcz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The clamour for a pay rise among MPs had started even before they had commenced their new job.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T16:05:50Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Not a shilling more should our MPs be paid, whatever the circumstances</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Not-a-shilling-more-should-our-MPs-be-paid/-/440808/1853858/-/3947c3/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Some MPs have floated the idea of engaging the services of a communications expert “to educate Kenyans on the role of Parliament and improve its public image.”</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T15:59:42Z</dc:date>
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    <title>MPs and the Kenya hunt; who gets the first cut – Parliament or voters?</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/MPs-and-the-Kenya-hunt-who-gets-the-first-cut/-/440808/1853852/-/132iodwz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>It will be interesting to see where the current highly-charged debate over Kenyan MPs’ push for higher salaries and the very dramatic protests against it (complete with activists carrying pigs in front of Parliament) ends.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T15:53:17Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Sub-Sahara Africa leads in infant deaths</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Sub-Sahara-Africa-leads-in-infant-deaths/-/440808/1852738/-/nioqy7/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone and Somalia have some of the highest newborn death rates in the world</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-14T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why is this lobby in such a frenzy to overturn GMOs ban that never was?</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-overturn-GMOs-ban-that-never-was/-/440808/1852742/-/gjjrroz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The supporters of biotechnology have launched a new offensive to overturn last November’s Cabinet decision purporting to ban imports of genetically engineered foods</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-14T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>How Third World  benefits from China</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1851452/-/jiv4uaz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>China’s engagement with Africa is the most momentous phenomenon over the last decade.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-13T16:48:57Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why are we still killing one another using machetes in the 21st century?</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-are-we-still-killing-one-another-using-machetes/-/440808/1851444/-/13lqnqp/-/index.html</link>
    <description>When adventurers like Amerigo Vespucci sailed away from the shores of their fatherlands, they were not just going to look for salt and other condiments that would spice the diets of their fellow countrymen.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-13T16:44:35Z</dc:date>
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    <title>House team did a shoddy job of vetting nominees to the Cabinet</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/House-team-did-a-shoddy-job-of-vetting-nominees-to-the-Cabinet-/-/440808/1851438/-/hhyps9z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Watching on live TV the vetting of Cabinet nominees, some wag commented on social media that Kamlesh Pattni would have passed scrutiny with flying colours.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-13T16:40:59Z</dc:date>
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    <title>It’s going to be a real tough balancing act</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Its-going-to-be-a-real-tough-balancing-act/-/440808/1850296/-/ysl7laz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The unveiling of the 2013/2014 budget is fast approaching and Kenyans are keenly awaiting it</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-12T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Translating the Jubilee manifesto to viable economic growth won’t be easy</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Translating-manifesto-to-viable-economic-growth/-/440808/1850308/-/137k0pz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>When the National Rainbow Coalition government came to power, it faced challenges much like the Uhuru-Ruto administration faces today</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-12T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>How American governments and corporations colonised oil-rich states</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/How-American-governments-colonised-oil-rich-states/-/440808/1850318/-/eo9yfxz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Now that Kenya is set to enter the league of oil-producing nations, the country may want to examine a little more closely its relationship with foreign governments and companies seeking to extract oil and other natural resources from our land and shores</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-12T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>WhatsApp sending important signals to telecoms</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/WhatsApp-sending-important-signals-to-telecoms-/-/440808/1849684/-/f2fxx5/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Short Messaging Service, popularly known as SMS, was introduced to make use of the spare telecom capabilities eventually turning into a major source of revenue for mobile service operators. All that is now changing.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:51:22Z</dc:date>
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    <title>A simple economic truth: performance before pay</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/A-simple-economic-truth-performance-before-pay-/-/440808/1849682/-/11fkn0/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The teaching of economics appears to have failed utterly in this country. I blame this on the teachers.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:50:31Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why Uhuru,  Ruto must not  be allowed to  kill civil society</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-Uhuru--Ruto-must-not--be-allowed-to--kill-civil-society-/-/440808/1849680/-/h5b9t2/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Uhuru Kenyatta has had a dream start to his presidency.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:49:21Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Let MPs inject decorum in their disagreements</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Let-MPs-inject-decorum-in-their-disagreements-/-/440808/1849678/-/4m64q8z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The past couple of weeks have not been particularly encouraging for those Kenyans who look up to our elected representatives for leadership.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:48:35Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Pay bills online or suffer the consequences</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Pay-bills-online-or-suffer-the-consequences-/-/440808/1849676/-/1f2x31/-/index.html</link>
    <description>I just got this letter from my telephone company: “From July 1, 2013 there’ll be a fee for BT broadband customers who get a paper bill, to cover such costs as printing and postage.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:47:36Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why UK ate humble pie after Uhuru win</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-UK-ate-humble-pie-after-Uhuru-win-/-/440808/1849674/-/h9bkab/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The recently concluded International Conference on Somalia in London on May 7 marked a radical shift in the attitude of Western powers towards Kenya’s new leaders.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:46:15Z</dc:date>
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    <title>UN won’t end Kenya’s ICC cases, and this is why</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/UN-wont-end-Kenyas-ICC-cases-and-this-is-why-/-/440808/1849672/-/ga8bcv/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Ever heard of a “Hail Mary” pass? It’s a desperation heave made by a quarterback in American football. It’s made at the end of a game – when defeat stares you in the face – and there’s virtually no chance of victory.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:44:54Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Happiness is so elusive despite being everyone’s lifetime pursuit</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Happiness-is-so-elusive-despite-being-everyones-lifetime-pursuit/-/440808/1849670/-/5vwghl/-/index.html</link>
    <description>There are some fundamental questions that go into the very core of the how and why we exist as human beings. We all live different types of lives and therefore have different experiences.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:44:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>As country moves forward, many still stuck in the past</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/As-country-moves-forward-many-still-stuck-in-the-past-/-/440808/1849668/-/vsoonhz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The election of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto in the March 4 elections was not a mere change of guard.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:43:16Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Kenya must do whatever it takes to protect wildlife</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya-must-do-whatever-it-takes-to-protect-wildlife-/-/440808/1849666/-/4b4he1/-/index.html</link>
    <description>A campaigning Jubilee Coalition promised to increase the number of tourists visiting Kenya annually to three million, up from the current one million.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:42:28Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Jailing Iranian terrorists was an error in judgment</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Jailing-Iranian-terrorists-was-an-error-in-judgment-/-/440808/1849664/-/dmbsdu/-/index.html</link>
    <description>If the judge’s decision to sentence two Iranian terrorists to life is based on the law, it proves that our justice system – swallowed unchewed from English liberalism – is an illegitimate child of the Sanhedrin, the court by which the Pharisees delivered “justice” in classical Jerusalem.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:40:56Z</dc:date>
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    <title>I’m intrigued by the never-ending drama that is Kenya’s ‘democracy’</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1849662/-/jjc2lfz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>There is some hazy logic that I’m losing somewhere. Suddenly, the Cord leadership now finds a party-parliamentary system admirable because the presidential system we have is subject to the so-called “tyranny of numbers”.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:40:18Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Time to bring in a new crop of leaders to Athletics Kenya</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Time-to-bring-in-a-new-crop-of-leaders-to-Athletics-Kenya--/-/440808/1849660/-/4ttkv4/-/index.html</link>
    <description>I always underestimated the value of our world-beating sportsmen and women until one day when I was stuck in a queue manned by an extremely hostile immigration official in New Delhi.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-11T16:39:41Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Bring back the seven Kenyans languishing in Ugandan jails</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Bring-back-the-seven-Kenyans-languishing-in-Ugandan-jails/-/440808/1848844/-/14qlxmq/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Last week’s conviction of two Iranians on charges of terrorism illustrates a maturity of Kenya’s legal system that should be lauded and supported.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T19:05:39Z</dc:date>
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    <title>The ties that bind Uhuru and Ruto in Jubilee</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-The-ties-that-bind-Uhuru-and-Ruto-in-Jubilee/-/440808/1848620/-/12dfkfo/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Kenyans were speculating about how Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto would work together even before the Jubilee Alliance won the presidential election.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T15:09:37Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why Britain chose to settle Mau Mau case out of court</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-Britain-chose-to-settle-Mau-Mau-case-out-of-court/-/440808/1848584/-/l0j4uw/-/index.html</link>
    <description>It’s a public and diplomatic relations coup. Britain was reported this week saying it is willing to negotiate an out-of-court settlement to pay compensation to the Mau Mau veterans who sued because they were tortured and mistreated during the 1952-1960 nationalist uprising.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T14:14:17Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Saving is the key to ensuring   a vibrant economy in Kenya</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Saving-is-the-key-to-ensuring-a-vibrant-economy-in-Kenya/-/440808/1848574/-/8a0xng/-/index.html</link>
    <description>How do countries and individuals become rich? Human history provides a clue</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T14:08:30Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Stripping women in public is barbaric</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Stripping-women-in-public-is-barbaric/-/440808/1848528/-/2oisouz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Last month an angry crowd in Nyeri descended on a woman they claimed was indecently dressed.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T13:53:01Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Political murders are continual, not continuous</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Political-murders-are-continual-not-continuous/-/440808/1848520/-/k96yj2z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Writing in the letters page of one daily newspaper the other day, an irate Kenyan condemned what he called “continuous political assassinations”.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T13:48:41Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Foreign policies on Kenya’s ICC indictees dictated by self-interest</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Foreign-policies-on-ICC-indictees-dictated-by-self-interest/-/440808/1848516/-/e8e1h9/-/index.html</link>
    <description>In February, the British High Commissioner to Kenya Christian Turner emphatically stated UK policy on contacts with International Criminal Court indictees</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T13:44:29Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Lessons on how not to die if you are a public figure</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Lessons-on-how-not-to-die-if-you-are-a-public-figure/-/440808/1848506/-/diwetc/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Dying under suspicious circumstances often brings bad karma to one’s family in Kenya.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T13:38:59Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Jubilee cake must yield slices, not crumbs</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Jubilee-cake-must-yield-slices-not-crumbs/-/440808/1848502/-/sphvtxz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>With a half-dozen bankers nominated as Cabinet Secretaries, the priorities of the Jubilee government are quickly emerging.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T13:35:34Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why Kenya and Israel’s friendship has remained unsullied for 25 years</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-Kenya-Israel-friendship-has-prevailed-for-25-years/-/440808/1848498/-/p1a5flz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>On Tuesday evening, I learnt something: African girls can really strut their stuff on the catwalk.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-10T13:29:22Z</dc:date>
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    <title>The international community has no option but to help Somalia grow</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/International-community-must-help-Somalia/-/440808/1847624/-/ch6f8z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>It has been two decades of mayhem, chaos and bloodletting in Somalia</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-09T17:16:54Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why we are being buffeted at every turn</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-we-are-being-buffeted-at-every-turn-/-/440808/1846476/-/ywsvxi/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Recently, Kenyans woke up to the sad news that an expectant mother had died in Garsen, Tana River County, after being marooned by floods.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-08T16:01:03Z</dc:date>
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    <title>To realise peace and prosperity, Kenya needs inclusion and bold management</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/To-realise-peace-and-prosperity--Kenya-needs-inclusion/-/440808/1846472/-/lbj038z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Hardly a month after the General Election, President Uhuru Kenyatta has received an avalanche of prescriptions on how he should run the country.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-08T16:00:20Z</dc:date>
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    <title>A month later, Kenya still has no Cabinet: Does it need one at all?</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/A-month-later-Kenya-still-has-no-Cabinet/-/440808/1846470/-/1fpm5m/-/index.html</link>
    <description>If you count back from the March 4 election, Kenya has not had a Cabinet for slightly over two months now.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-08T15:59:37Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Judicial supremacy is vital in our brave new world that upholds the rule of law</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Judicial-supremacy-is-vital/-/440808/1845370/-/3hcywm/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The Supreme Court’s decision in the presidential election petition has attracted many critics. However, a lot of the analyses of the decision have overlooked a crucial point</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-07T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Let’s help Somalia; it has come a long way</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Lets-help-Somalia/-/440808/1845362/-/ffen1r/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Ten days ago, I stood alongside the President of Somalia and watched the Union Jack fly over a British embassy in Mogadishu for the first time in 22 years</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-07T17:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>In memory of Mutula Kilonzo: A tribute</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/In-memory-of-Mutula-Kilonzo-A-tribute-/-/440808/1844134/-/fy2jcoz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>I first met Mutula Kilonzo in July 1973 when I enrolled for my Master of Laws degree at the University of Dar es Salaam.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-06T16:56:40Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Power firm should not be allowed to  dim Kenyans’ hope of brighter future</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Power-firm-should-not-be-allowed-to--dim-Kenyans-hope-/-/440808/1844118/-/ulnlp5/-/index.html</link>
    <description>The first time a blackout engulfed Nairobi, we all thought that a very important Kenyan had died in his sleep.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-06T16:53:12Z</dc:date>
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    <title>It’s time the President faced down MPs intent on robbing the public</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/It-s-time-the-President-faced-down-MPs-intent-on-robbing/-/440808/1844112/-/nlxfdqz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>When President Kenyatta delivered his inaugural address to a joint session of Parliament, the most uplifting message was his warning against legislators scheming to increase their own pay.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-06T16:48:54Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Bistros, beaches and book launches: Mogadishu revives forgotten culture</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Mogadishu-revives-forgotten-culture/-/440808/1842886/-/xqu2sf/-/index.html</link>
    <description>A few months after my first visit to Mogadishu in 2011, I met the Somali writer, Nuruddin Farah, who predicted that I would try and return there</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-05T17:22:40Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Amend Public Benefit Organisations Act immediately, for it is quite toxic</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Amend-Public-Benefit-Organisations-Act-immediately/-/440808/1842872/-/i22q2sz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Tucked somewhere in one of the schedules to the new Non-Governmental Organisations Act is the requirement that all the 8,500 NGOs currently registered in Kenya must seek re-registration within one year after it comes into force</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-05T17:19:56Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Ignoring agriculture a recipe for disaster</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Ignoring-agriculture-a-recipe-for-disaster/-/440808/1842864/-/52n21r/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Kenyans rarely agree on anything especially when it has something to do with politicians</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-05T17:16:41Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Why businesses need to tap social media skills</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-businesses-need-to-tap-social-media-skills/-/440808/1842396/-/nip0wcz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>It’s no secret that the Internet and social media can fundamentally transform the way businesses market and interact with today’s connected consumers. In the space of a decade, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and others have all exploded into the national consciousness.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-04T16:52:54Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Making a good toothpick is no simple matter</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Making-a-good-toothpick-is-no-simple-matter/-/440808/1842390/-/rtn7r6/-/index.html</link>
    <description>My friend and fellow columnist Charles Onyango-Obbo asked an interesting question on Twitter recently: why don’t Kenya (and other African countries) make toothpicks? I promised to answer, so here is a response.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-04T16:47:30Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Counties deliberately underfunding health sector</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Counties-deliberately-underfunding-health-sector-/-/440808/1842386/-/mbedf6z/-/index.html</link>
    <description>County governments across the country have in the past weeks been putting out press advertisements calling for applications and informing the public about budgeting and other policy initiatives.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-04T16:39:28Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Prison warning for Internet law-breakers</title>
    <link>http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Prison-warning-for-Internet-law-breakers-/-/440808/1842384/-/atm3qtz/-/index.html</link>
    <description>We are all publishers in the Internet age and, just like newspapers and broadcasters, if we break the law on Twitter or Facebook we face going to prison.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-04T16:33:42Z</dc:date>
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