By Chris Wamalwa, Washington DC

A school in President Barack Obama’s paternal village has received financial support to improve its infrastructure.

By ELISHA OTIENO Posted Sunday, February 1 2009 at 19:21

Political leaders and professionals from Nyanza Province are working on a plan to improve the socio - economic welfare of the people.

For a patriarchal people like the Luo, the 44th President of the United States is their own, and his feat has boosted his people’s pride to the utmost

By PHILIP OCHIENGPosted Saturday, January 17 2009

More than 400 Kenyan fishermen have been kicked out of Migingo Island by Ugandan authorities.

By John Oywa and Kepher Otieno-Eastafricanstandard

Prime Minister Raila Odinga has launched a massive campaign to rally Luo men to face the knife as part of a strategy to fight HIV/Aids, with two ministers heeding his call.

By John Oywa-eastafricanstandard

The Nyanza Provincial Hospital, popularly known as ‘Russia’ is to be renamed after Kenya’s first Vice-President, the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.

 By MAURICE K’ALUOCH and HENRY NYAROA  -Nation

Posted Sunday, October 5 2008 at 19:34

Homa Bay and Nyamira towns have been hit by an acute water shortage after the PowKenya er and Lighting Company switched off electricity at pumping plants.

By John Oywa-Eastafricanstandard

The stocky politician stands outside the huge maisonette, his eyes darting across the compound shouldered on Lake Victoria’s Utonga peninsular in Sakwa, Bondo.

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By Jane Akinyi-EASTAFRICANSTANDARD

More than 2,000 post-election violence victims in Kisumu have threatened to return to camps for the displaced.

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