Law experts in final phase of civic education
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The Committee of Experts will next week launch the second and final phase of civic education on the proposed constitution. CEO chairman Nzamba Kitonga said his team would embark on the exercise in an effort to clarify what it terms as distortions and misinformation on the contents of the proposed constitution [...]
Sudan:Al-Bashir excludes SPLM figures from his new list of advisers
Listen Khartoum (Alshahid) – President Omar Al Bashir who was sworn in as the Sudan President about a month ago has Friday announced his top advisers leaving out members of the Sudan People Liberation Movement. Al-Bashir reduced the number of advisers from 18 to 14 dismissing Mansour Khalid, William Ajal Deng and Andrew Makour who [...]
SRSG welcomes regional support for Somali peace process
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga, today welcomed the decision taken by Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) at the summit held in Addis Ababa on 5 July 2010 to engage more forcefully in the search for the resolution of the conflict in Somalia. Special Representative Mahiga underlined the [...]
Kenya: Civil Societies Demonstrate against MP’s salary increment.
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – Civil society groups marched to parliament buildings Thursday to oppose the proposed salary increment for MPs. The NGOs presented their petition to the House Speaker Kenneth Marende asking him to reject the move, which they termed insensitive. “Kenya faces high youth unemployment, rapidly growing labour force, under-employment, the problem of working [...]
400 Eritreans to stay in Libya.
Listen Tripoli (Alshahid) – 400 Eritreans were Thursday allowed to stay in Libya human rights group warnings that refugees and asylum seekers among them risked abuse if forcibly repatriated. On Tuesday, Amnesty International called on Libya not to repatriate the Eritreans, because of fears they could face torture or other ill-treatment as punishment for “betraying” [...]
Father of Alleged Russian Spy ran “business” in Kenya.
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The father of a Russian arrested in the United States on espionage allegations ran an international tour firm in Nairobi. Anna Chapman together with other alleged members of a Russian spy ring appeared in a US court Wednesday accused of operating deep under cover for the Kremlin, amid reports that Washington [...]
Kenya Referendum:Four MP’s Defect to No Camp.
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – As the countdown to Kenya’s referendum continues, accusation and counter accusations from both proponents, with some patching holes to the proposed document and on Wednesday there was a twist in the tail with four Kenya MPs defecting to the NO camp- group opposed to the proposed constitution, which they say is [...]
Kenyan MPs accused of misconduct
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – A section of Kenyan parliamentarians want the House speaker Kenneth Marende to take action against certain legislators over public utterances distancing themselves from the decision by parliament to endorse a report that will see their pay perks increase by 50 per cent. The legislators are accusing certain MP’s of misconduct and [...]
Kenya: IIEC faces Sh2b defecit for referendum.
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The Interim Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya has said that the commission does not have enough funds to carry out the forth cominig referendum scheduduled 4th of August. The terming the deficit amounting to Sh2 billion as “a big threat to the exercise.”, members of the IIEC met the Parliamentary Committee on [...]
Israeli indicted in U.S. for smuggling arms to Somalia
Listen Florida (Alshahid) – An Israeli man was yesterday indicted in a US court for allegedly illegal arms sales to Somalia, forging documents, money laundering and violating the UN arms embargo on Somalia. Hanoch Miller, an Israeli arms merchant, brought before Florida court, alleged involvement in the sale of hundreds of AK-47s to the government [...]