With just days to go before Kenya's presidential election, the two leading candidates are still neck-and-neck in opinion polls.
Neither the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, nor his rival, Raila Odinga, has been able to build up a decisive lead.
With the contest so even, the votes of the Muslim minority could prove crucial, as Mohamed Adow reports from Kenya's Mombasa.
Nyasa Times "Minister of Women and Child Development Kate Kainja-Kaluluma has passed away in United Kingdom. “Indeed Hon Kate Kainja Kaluluma has died,” confirmed family friends in London. The 57-year-old minister was admitted to a North England hospital – York Hospital. Diplomatic sources at Malawi High Commission in London have said arrangements are being made to send her remains to Malawi. Kainja who was Dedza South West Constituency parliamentarian flew to United Kingdom for medical attention after a long-illness. She is survived by a husband, Emanuel Kaluluma and three children."