Kenyans have much to celebrate this week.

By standing up for democratic principles, the world would truly stand on the side of the Kenyan people.

Kenya national focal point on illicit small arms and light weapons

Under the leadership of Yash Pal Ghai, a renowned Kenyan legal scholar whose international resumé includes helping countries like Afghanistan write their constitutions, the Kenyan National Constitution Conference commenced.

In the bustling city of Nairobi, Kenyan artist Wisetwo has been working in street art for more than a decade.

It is the third most successful club in Kenya with ten Kenyan league championships and three Kenyan cup wins.

Kenya Red Cross is one of the many international Red Cross societies around the world.

Estimates of the value of the Mau forest complex to the Kenyan economy, for example, are 1.5 billion a year.

With his Kenyan father, he carries the glamour once associated with Third World liberation movements.

In fact, the old Kenyan constitution underpinned legislation that, if enforced, would have addressed some of the factors that fuel violence.

Mzalendo tracks the performance of Kenya's Parliament by documenting votes, publishing records, and providing analysis and context.

Asif Sheikh (AS) I am 5th generation Kenyan, but was away for 20 years.

In The Africans Triple Heritage, the Kenyan born scholar Ali Mazrui expressed concern about what he perceived to be a Garden of Eden in decay.

It contained provisions that would have removed excessive presidential powers and given Kenyans a stronger bill of rights.

Some of the projects which are either run by or assisted by the Kenya Red Cross are Famine, blood services, first aid projects, disaster and emergency services and education services.

The first results to be counted were for Kenya s parliament, with Kibaki s government ministers roundly defeated in their local constituencies.

Since Kenya s army invaded its northeastern neighbor two years ago, the government has told Kenyans that they were going to war against al Shabaab.

I escaped mutilation, but other girls from my rural Kenyan community continue to receive the cut to this day.

And it ran for 20 nights straight on Kenyan TV, shifted the vote by 10 percent, according to a Kenyan intelligence report, which changed the result of the election.

While the Kenyan public appeared to show their high regard for legal process and participatory democracy, the run up to the referendum revealed the government s much uglier face.

Joseph Lekuton, a member of parliament in Kenya, starts with the story of his remarkable education, then offers a parable of how Africa can grow. His message of hope has never been more relevant.

The international community s challenge will be to help ensure that the political space claimed by the Kenyan public remains open.

Kenyan blogger, Abantu, feels like an American AMERICA VOTES! i have never been an American, probably never will be, but this morning i feel like an American.

Kenya s strong civil society and creative industries, especially in ICT, can play a strong role in monitoring the oil revenue flows and proposing solutions on how to spend the money well.

The Kenyan Parliament buildings, the Holy Family Cathedral, Nairobi City Hall, Nairobi Law Courts, and the Kenyatta Conference Centre all surround the square.

She holds the Kenyan record and Commonwealth record for the 5000 m with her best time of 14 20.89, which was set at the DN Galan in 2011.

Because there's actually more genetic difference between a black Kenyan and a black Ugandan than there is between a black Kenyan and, say, a white Norwegian.

Kenyans voted in vast numbers, waiting in the hot sun for several hours at crowded polling booths around the country.

In the Mutomo District in Kenya which has suffered from long term drought, the Kenya Red Cross supplied filters to 3,750 school children and 6,750 households.

There s a lot of underrepresentation. When you go to festivals they just put you on like a footnote and it ends there, says Kenyan street artist Wisetwo. If you do your research well, there s a lot of good artists in Nairobi, there s lots of good artists in Tunisia.

But ordinary people rejected Kibaki s power play, reclaiming their nation s path through the ballot box an idea that is still almost unheard of in the Kenyan context.

Radio call in shows have burgeoned and public discourse is at its most lively. While public euphoria and high hopes have been dampened, Kenyans remain resolutely engaged in the democratic process.

Kenyans should be proud of what they have accomplished in a year that has also seen the election of a man they claim as their own, Barack Obama, as America s president.

It is a tectonic shift to the East with shattering implications, says Calestous Juma, a Kenyan professor at Harvard University who advises the African Union on technology policy.

Many Kenyans suspect that these politicians names are on a secret list of guilty officials from all sides contained in a recent report by Kenyan Justice Philip Waki.

Still, the international community can play a more constructive role than it has until now by pressing both sides to accept an independent recount. By standing up for democratic principles, the world would truly stand on the side of the Kenyan people.

Gado, a renowned cartoonist for one of Kenya s leading newspapers, summed it up best, depicting a jubilant Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki leading a pack of bureaucrats and dogs in suits to Turkana to announce to the people, Rejoice!

Billing itself as a reform government that would promote respect for human rights and the rule of law, the Kibaki government promised Kenyans a new constitution within 100 days of taking office in 2003.

Since Kenya s army invaded its northeastern neighbor two years ago, the government has told Kenyans that they were going to war against al Shabaab. But, as with most official pronouncements in Kenya, that story was only partly true.

In this context, and after consultations with the Office of the Secretary General, Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for 2004 and Deputy Minister of Environment of Kenya, and Cherif Rahmani, Minister of Environment of Algeria, have been named honorary spokespersons for the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.

Kenyans have much to celebrate this week. They lined up in large numbers, peacefully cast their ballots, and resoundingly rejected a flawed constitution that had been hastily forced upon them.

And what would Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga say if Gbagbo asks him why he unlike Alassane Ouatarra, whom the AU recognizes as Côte d'Ivoire's rightful president accepted a power sharing agreement after a 2007 disputed presidential election?

The power sharing government, fostered by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Western powers, stabilized the country and gave Kenyans hope in a tough year that has seen food and fuel prices skyrocket and drought plague the north.

In implementation of the Habitat Agenda and the national plan of action at the national and local levels, his Government, in collaboration with UN Habitat and with the support of the Cities Alliance and other partners, had launched the Kenya slum upgrading programme, which was aimed at improving the situation of people living and working in slums and informal settlements through the provision of infrastructures, services, housing and income generating activities.