Environment

Six people have been confirmed dead and five others are reported missing following flash floods as heavy rains pound parts of the country. Two of the deaths were reported in Nakuru, one person in Mogotio and three children who drowned in Dukana, Marsabit district, according to Kenya Red Cross.

Kenya's status as an innovator in the budding mobile money industry has been boosted with the shortlisting of two of the country's money transfer solutions for global awards.

The Federal Government says it has so far prosecuted 109 people over the 2009 Boko Haram crisis in Borno state.

The Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in protest against western education, rampaged in August 2009, killing indiscriminately.

THE Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola, has disclosed that an investment of over $10 billion must be made over the next ten years in the power sector if Nigeria must attain the quantity and quality of power needed for massive development of the country.

A Dutch court has said it has jurisdiction over a case of alleged oil spills brought against Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary in Nigeria by four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth, a court spokeswoman told ANP-Reuters yesterday.

"The court has decided that it is competent, so we will be handling the case," said the spokeswoman.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged world leaders to act in concert to ensure that a legally binding treaty is reached next year.

African negotiators walked out temporarily on Monday, accusing rich nations of ignoring their minimum demands at the Climate change talks in Copenhagen.

The moves came following fears that rich nations are planning to sabotage the process by abandoning the Kyoto protocol which binds them to certain levels of gas emissions.

Kenyans in the diaspora are to set up a wind power plant in the northeastern part of the country at a cost of Sh55 billion. Through their firm, Gitson Energy Ltd, the 300-megawatt facility is set to begin operating in 2011 and to attain full capacity in 2012.