July 16 - August 15, 2003

July 16: President Mwai Kibaki arrives in Uganda for a state visit.

July 21: First Lady Lucy Kibaki launches the Kenya Chapter of the organization of African First ladies Against HIV/AIDS.

July 22: Veteran journalist and thespian Wahome Mutahi dies in hospital.

July 23: World Bank President James Wolfensohn promises to resume aid to Kenya.

July 26: Vice president Kijana Wamalwa is admitted at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

August 1: Suspected terrorist detonates a hand grenade in Mombasa, killing himself and a policeman.

August 4: Fourteen NARC MPs support Raila Odinga for Prime Minister's post.

August 5: President Kibaki arrives in South Africa for a state visit

August 6: Office of the president minister Geoffrey Parpai dies in hospital.

August 7: Victims of the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy are remembered.

August 12: Police discover a cache of terrorist arms in a Mombasa flat.

August 14: Cabinet agrees on the creation of the post of a non-executive Prime Minister.