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The #Africa Concours D’Elegance 2017 judges look for originality, authenticity, attention to design, styling and elegance and unanimously declared the RapsMobile the winner of the inaugural Prams and Strollers Class. (Number of entries = 1). I suspect we narrowly missed out on the Best of Show award because we didn’t have an engine (apart from a tiny motor on the talking blue hippo). #ConcoursdElegance #CBAConcours2017 #BeautyandtheBeasts

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#TBT: 31 December 2007, #Kenya’s opposition leadership, the Orange Democratic Movement’s Pentagon, confer before a press conference. Tensions in the country had boiled over as less than 24 hours earlier the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) had controversially declared the incumbent Mwai Kibaki winner of the Presidential poll and in a coordinated move Kibaki was sworn in immediately after for his second term in what is now known as the “midnight swearing in ceremony”. From left to right with their current position in brackets Najib #Balala (Cabinet Secretary for Tourism), Charity #Ngilu (Governor, #Kitui County), #Raila Odinga (Presidential Candidate, National Super Alliance), William #Ruto (Deputy President of Kenya), Joseph #Nyagah (Presidential Candidate, independent), Musalia #Mudavadi (Summit member, National Super Alliance). 10 years ago like today Raila Odinga was at the centre of the story. Just realized I’ve been taking these photos a long time. #ElectionsKE #electionske2017 #electionKE #ElectionKE2017 #KenyaDecides

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After two decades in space, NASA’s #Cassini spacecraft ended its remarkable journey of exploration. Having expended almost every bit of the rocket propellant it carried to #Saturn, operators deliberately plunged Cassini into the planet today to ensure Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. Here is one of the more famous stunning images from Saturn that Cassini sent home. About the image: The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 750,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 140 degrees. Image scale is 43 miles (70 kilometers) per pixel on Saturn. The distance to Tethys was about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers). The image scale on Tethys is about 56 miles (90 kilometers) per pixel. http://ift.tt/2wBH3eP #ThankYouCassini Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute #nasa #space #saturn #cassini #mission #spacecraft#planet #solarsystem #rings #science #astronomy

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Every cloud has a silver lining. The reckless proliferation of fake news around Kenyan politics and politicians means that deals that would previously have been struck by power brokers, in the middle of the night, in the back boardroom of a very exclusive members’ club are now going to be negotiated in broad daylight in (hopefully) a more transparent and (hopefully) a more inclusive manner. See this from Kenya’s opposition today: “National Super Alliance (#NASA) will only engage the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (#IEBC) through an open and structured national stakeholder dialogue in which binding resolutions will be made and shared with the public. No more boardroom meetings with IEBC.” Is #fakenews the killer app we have been waiting for that will lead to more transparency and inclusivity? Hmmm. #ElectionsKE #electionske2017 #electionKE #ElectionKE2017 #KenyaDecides

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