Kenyan Gilbert Yegon won the Amsterdam Marathon on Sunday and set a new course record on a brilliant debut over the distance.
Health bosses are investigating after a convicted child rapist got a job as an occupational therapist. Officials said Samuel Odinga had not worked with children during the four years he was employed at the Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust in Essex. But sources said for a short spell Odinga had visited patients at home - where children might have been. Bosses said there had been no complaints made about Odinga's conduct and he had been sacked as soon as details of his past emerged. 
NAIROBI, Kenya — Little Emmanuel Aguer was one of the most recent victims.
Ater Aguek, left, and Morris Ater, the father and uncle of Emmanuel Aguer, 6, who was snatched last month on the way to his grandmother’s house. Four days later, his uncle found his corpse stuffed in a sugar sack. His head had been bludgeoned and his eyes were gouged out.
A month ago, he was snatched on the way to his grandmother’s house. Four days later, after his middle-class family received calls asking for $70 or else — calls the family was not sure were even genuine — his uncle found his corpse stuffed in a sugar sack. His head had been bludgeoned and his eyes were gouged out.
Emmanuel was 6 years old.
“These people knew what they were doing,” said his uncle, Mariak Aguek. “What they did was so traumatizing, I can’t even express it.”
Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is a teeming city of have-nots and have-lots, so notorious for violent crime that it is often called “Nai-robbery.” But there is a new problem, or at least one that is causing new fear — kidnapping, and several recent attacks have been on children and Western women.
Parents in the packed, iron-shanty slums that ring downtown Nairobi like a collar of rust are now walking hand in hand with their children, even short distances. In the frangipani-scented enclaves where the diplomats live, security is being stepped up at schools and e-mail kidnapping alerts are spreading faster than a computer virus.
More than 100 Nairobi residents have been abducted for ransom this year, security consultants say, a huge increase over years past. Big chunks of money are changing hands. And as the security experts say, the minute you start paying ransom, kidnapping goes from a crime to a business. Just ask those in Mexico City, in Baghdad or in Bogotá, Colombia.
Blindfolds, safe houses, military-grade assault rifles and complex, well-practiced maneuvers with cars to block in unsuspecting prey — they are all part of Kenya’s emerging kidnapping industry.
The kidnappings are highly organized and often ruthless. One Belgian woman who was recently held for more than a week was stripped naked, according to security consultants who worked on her case. A second foreigner, a German woman, was seized in a subsequent attack and then locked in a closet with the Belgian woman in the same squalid house, indicating that a criminal gang may now have its sights on Western women.
The Central Bank of Kenya prohibited the payment of amounts exceeding Sh1 million through cheques with effect from October 1. A cash crisis has hit civil servants’ cooperative societies after the government banned cheques with a value of more than Sh1 million. All payments of more than Sh1 million are supposed to be made using a new computer software, which many government ministries did not have.Two weeks after the ban, they continued paying sacco members’ contributions through cheques, which the saccos can’t cash in the old way.
Edward Oduor, the manager of the national team, and speaking on behalf of coach Antoine Hey, said on Tuesday the technical bench has opted to maintain the same players who faced Tunisia at the weekend. 
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