Nation newspapers has a ticker on their website showing data fed in from IIEC. As of 12:59PM CST, approximately 3 million votes have been counted and the tally is as follows;

YES vote – 1,876,469  NO vote – 1,060,996

If you would like to follow the commentary and vote count live directly from Kenya – click the graphic on the right or click here .

As of 4:17PM CST, K24 is the only station transmitting LIVE.

Graphics source – Citizen TV, Kenya, K24

Kenyan voters lining up -PHOTO – AP

photo: http://www.techcentral.co.za

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24 of these young Somali men are known to have been recruited from one Somali neighborhood in Minnesota to join the militia group (see video report below);

A 25-year old graduate of Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Washington, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, plead guilty in aiding al shabab’s  recruiting efforts in Minnesota almost exactly one year ago.

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An injured man is rushed to the hospital following the explosions. Photo: Reuters

Patrons of an Ethiopian restaurant in Kampala are rushed to hospital following an explosion in the restaurant as they watched the world cup finals. Photo: AP

6:16PM CST

Two bombs went off in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda late Sunday as people sat down to watch the world cup final match between Spain and the Netherlands.

According to the Inspector General of the Ugandan Police force Major-General Kale Kaihura, one bomb went off at an Ethiopian restaurant and the other at the Kyadondo Rugby Club and he suspects that the death toll may rise higher than the official number reported so far of 20.

The police chief suspects Somalia’s most feared miltia group al shabab, a group known to have ties ties with al qaeda, is responsible for the explosions.

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UPDATES

6:23PM CST – Death toll has now risen to 23. Thirteen people died at the Ethiopian restaurant and 10 at the rugby club

6:47PM CST – Chinese news agency Xinhua reporting more than 40 now feared dead

9:49PM CST – Death toll has now risen to 64 according to the AP

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Atlanta Journal Constitution

Huffington Post

BBC

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Kudos to Spain for a wonderful game and kudos to South Africa for making Africa proud for a job well-done. Naysayers talked and doubted, are still talking and will continue to talk. South Africa you have have made Africans all over the globe proud because you pulled off what many doubted could be pulled off and did it with a lot of professioanlism and grace.

Dallas TX / US – http://futbol.univision.com/fifacopamundial/partidos-en-vivo

Brazil – globoesporte.globo.com

Canada (several streaming options but you must be in Canada)- http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifaworldcup/

Russia/Europe  – atdhe.net or livetv.ru

USA Mobile – http://proxy.espn.go.com/mobile/products/product?id=3242441

Australia Mobile – http://www.optus.com.au/

Internet TV Platform – http://www.tvunetworks.com/

BBC Sport  – http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/

UK  – iTV – http://www.itv.com/sport/football/fifaworldcup/live/

President Goodluck banned the Eagles from international competition for two years after what he considered a dismal performance by the national team. The ban, according to Goal.com, has since been rescinded.

I must confess, even though I feel their pain, the video is hilarious because it starts in such a cool and calm manner but quickly escalates to an inaudible pitch. The host seems to share my sentiments as you will see shortly.

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Please help Save The Khadambi Asalache House in London

Khadambi Asalache was a Kenyan-born poet, artist, architect and writer who settled in London after his studies that took him to North Africa and all over Europe in the 60s and early 70s.

He died four years ago and left behind a spectacular little house in Central London that is now being considered a national treasure (an international treasure really) but could be torn down if the funds are not available to preserve it.If all goes as planned, the house is set to open to the public in 2012.

This is a part of our culture as much as it is a part of British culture so there is an urgency in making sure the house is preserved for all to see.

See the pictures below. Click on any picture to see a larger version.

He remains virtually unknown or since forgotten and uncelebrated in Kenya even though some of

his Literature books are still in circulation in Kenyan schools. So, because we feel it is so important to learn about the late Asalache, we are going to break the rules today and post his obituary from the Times of London here verbatim;

Source: Times Online

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STRIKING to look at, with his almost blue-black Masai colouring and height, Khadambi Asalache hid his many talents under a gentle personality. He was a private man, an idealistic aesthete who had learnt to view life with amusement.

Born in 1935 in Kaimosi, western Kenya, the first child of the local chief, he showed his literary bent early by herding cattle with a volume of Shakespeare in his free hand. His father sent him to the best school available, the Holy Ghost Fathers’ Mangu High School, which gave him a Christian name, Nathaniel, so some friends always called him Nat. He remained free of any faith and sceptical of all forms of government — starting with the tribal.

He went to the Royal Technical College, Nairobi, to read architecture but was diverted while at a students’ conference in Tunisia and spent the next few years in Rome, Geneva and Vienna, where he studied fine art, moving to London in 1960. There he survived by teaching Swahili at the Berlitz School, working for the BBC African Service and doing some architecture and garden landscaping, while he wrote fiction and poetry.

His first novel, The Calabash of Life, came out in 1967. It is about a more practical Hamlet figure in Kenya who opposes the usurper chief. It went into ten editions worldwide and was on the syllabus of many schools in Africa, putting Asalache among the most serious writers in the burst of East African novels in English in the 1960s and 1970s.

Asalache was on the council of management of the Africa Centre in London in the 1970s. He also helped to write and produce an instalment of the BBC TV series Danger Man that was set in an African city.

His poems were published in literary journals, and in 1973 Eothen Books brought out a collection, Sunset in Naivasha. Several explore the feelings of a voluntary exile who loved his land. Perhaps the best known is Death of a Chief, which appeared in the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 1995.

He wrote a second novel, The Latecomer, using animals as characters in the way the traditional African storyteller does, so as to be able to dissect his audience without risking wrath. The plot shows a conference where the animals manoeuvre to choose a secretary- general. Recognisable are the ruthless lynx, tycoon blackbuck, impressive warthog and idealistic bushbaby who tiptoes into politics and regrets it.

Publishers turned it down, but the manuscript was read by some followers of African literature who admired it. Khadambi sold it to the BBC African Service, which ran extracts from it on two days in January 1971.

In the late 1970s Asalache took an MPhil in the philosophy of mathematics at Birkbeck College, taught by Roger Scruton and Ruby Meager. He then became a civil servant at the Treasury. His occasional lunches at the Travellers Club (Wilfred Thesiger had proposed him for membership) amused him because he was surrounded by Treasury bigwigs lunching too.

He discovered the 77A bus which could take him over the river to the long, hill-hugging Wandsworth Road. In 1981 he bought one of its worst houses, a two-up, two-down on the upper slope, last slept in by dossers and with a basement letting in water. Rescuing this house introduced him to another art, fretwork in pine, which used his architectural training, his love of Africa and travelling, and his poetic attention to little things.

In 1986 he began in earnest to turn the house into a work of art. He lined it with never symmetrical or repeated fretwork shelves, arches, architraves and friezes, delicate as cobwebs, the motifs including birds, geometrics, dancers, flowers and leaves, Africans going to market and animals (though not carnivores).

He told the first journalist to notice his work, Ena Kendall in The Observer, in February 1989: “Some Arab designs are very elegant but repetitive. Most African shapes are self-centred: to do a continuous shape with them is not easy, so for linkage I looked to Morocco and India.”

His house was in The World of Interiors, July-August 1990, and the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, February 2000, and by the turn of the millennium it was well-known to the influential architectural historians John Cornforth and Tim Knox, director of Sir John Soane’s Museum. Knox wrote about it in Nest, autumn 2003: “It is an extremely serious and carefully worked out exercise in horror vaccuii, taking its inspiration from the Mozarabic reticulations of the Moorish kingdoms of Granada.” Guided by Asalache, he pinpointed the sources: the Great Mosque at Cordoba, the Alhambra and Generalife Gardens in Granada, the doors of old houses in Zanzibar, the wedding-cake-like panelled interiors of Damascus, and the yali — wooden houses in Istanbul. Books Asalache consulted include the catalogue of the Africa exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1995, Y. H. Safadi’s Islamic Calligraphy, and Istanbul: Gateway to Splendour by Ahmet Ertug.

In 1989 he met the Scottish basket-maker Susie Thomson, who had his favourite colour of hair, red. Their dinner parties were planned weeks ahead by Asalache, who had dried tuna flown from Mombasa by a contact, vegetables and spices from Asian shops in Tooting. Guests ate with their hands, helped by chapattis, in the golden light under a pierced lampshade.

Susie was his helpmeet, looking after him when he (a non-smoker) was found to have lung cancer last year. He finished his house, and bequeathed it to the National Trust. It will not be a rival to the Brighton Pavilion — the amazingly satisfying experience of seeing Asalache’s Africa and the East in little pine rooms depends on the small and kindly scale.

Asalache is survived by Susie Thomson.

Khadambi Asalache, poet, novelist, civil servant and fretwork artist, was born on February 28, 1935. He died on May 26, 2006, aged 71.

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