Why is kenya important this african country is conducting yet another population count its outcome is expected to shift political boundaries and shape elections but in a country divided along ethnic and tribal lines what does that mean this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. Governments has been holding a historic census over the weekend more than 160000 people would you ploy to collect data from its population of about 50000000 vets process has proven to be a challenge since millions of kenyans live in slums with no official address millions more nomadic herders who cross into neighboring countries regularly. Kenyas government is conducting a census for the 6th time happens every 10 years and the result may be significant for several reasons state resources are allocated to each district according to population higher numbers of people means more money from the Central Government in the last census 10 years ago there were allegations of data rigging this time police sa
Government can formulate policy is can know how to unlock a look at resources it is not necessary and in fact it is forbidden by law for the government to use this to directly identify people or to directly target individuals that is actually would be completely illegal by the statistics law that could be mentioned before. I think its also important for us to recall that theres a context here that the government itself has in previous times collected peoples data and then utilize it for the proper sees that it has and it was not intended so for example in the run up 227000 elections when people being asked to register. To vote in citing cases that information was taken was combined with information a government already has about mobile phone users because of go to register your same kind of it only get one and then they use that to try and push up. Out. People registering for the vote. In particular regions where they wanted particular candidates to win you know and even in especially
A lucrative sport and some of those we talked to said as long as this corruption and ran as willing to risk everything to make money copping cheating on his be difficult katherine saw an aljazeera 10. Times as a take a look at the top stories here it is they are u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has announced hell suspend parliament until mid october many are saying this is a bid to ensure the u. K. Leaves the European Union by the end of october deadline the opposition has called the move a coup saying it leaves little time to debate for exit. This is a new government with a very exciting agenda to make our streets safer which very important we bring Violent Crime down we need to invest in our fantastic n. H. S. We need to level up Education Funding across the country we need to invest in the infrastructure thats going to take this country forward for the decades and we need to deal with the cost of living moving to a high wage high productivity economy which is i think what this cou
Why is kenya important this african country is conducting yet another population count its outcome is expected to sift political boundaries and shape elections but in a country divided along ethnic and tribal lines what does that mean this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. Governments has been holding a historic census over the weekend more than 160000 people would you apply to collect data from its population of about 50000000 but that process has proven to be a challenge since millions of kenyans live in slums with no official address millions more nomadic herders who cross into neighboring countries bracketing. Kenyas government is conducting a census for the 6th time happens every 10 years and the results may be significant for several reasons state resources are allocated to each district according to population and higher numbers of people means more money from the Central Government in the last census 10 years ago there were allegations of data rigging this time
As the word prepares to celebrate hof a century since astronauts 1st walked on the mall in the sailors who killed her Richard Phillips at that historic moment 1. 100 im under to achieve in somalia accused 26 people are dead after a shabaab militants stormed a hotel in the city of kiss my 0 among those killed are a politician foreign nationals and journalists Security Forces in case maya say they have ended the siege and killed the militants officials are calling it the deadliest day in the port city since insurgents were driven out in 2012 the extremists have been trying to topple the government there for more than a decade for the very latest to have genesis abilities below on the line from the somalian capital long edition of the disease what more can you tell us about this deadly attack. Well you just as you have mentioned is one of the deadliest attacks to ever walk a. Mile and if i may shed more light on this i think some of. The credit for the attack up to be to making an exclusi