ODM Minister Ngilu accused of blatant corruption
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Water board chair claims minister forced her way into three meetings A minister is alleged to have stormed a board meeting to influence award of tenders. Water minister Charity Ngilu had compromised board members, the chairman of the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation, Mr Geoffrey Mang’uriu, told a House Committee. He [...]
Kenya PM Raila’s family involved in maize scandal; US cables
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Wikileaks claim Prime Minister Raila Odinga attempted to suspend former Agriculture Minister William Ruto to divert attention from his family’s involvement in the Sh2 billion maize scam. Secret cables sent by US Ambassador, Michael Ranneberger, to Washington and now released by WikiLeaks allege Raila wanted to create confusion when he said he [...]
US secret Cables claim Kenya’s Uhuru better than PM Raila
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -If Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta decides to pursue the presidency, he has several major strengths, but these are balanced and potentially offset by important weaknesses. According to US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, Uhuru is bright, charming, even charismatic, and is enormously wealthy, and, therefore, has not had to engage in [...]
Somali President sends congratulatory message to Uganda’s Museveni
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) –Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) president Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed has congratulated his colleague, Yoweri Museveni on his resounding reelection for another term as president of Uganda. The Somali president said the people of Uganda have expressed their confidence in their new leadership of Yoweri Museveni by handing him a landslide win [...]
Analysis: Key challenges for Southern Sudan after split
Listen Juba (Alshahid) – The release of referendum results for Southern Sudan’s historic independence showing that 98.83 percent voted for secession means formal independence is scheduled for 9 July 2011, but key challenges still remain to be negotiated. These issues, observers say, must now be hammered out by the two ruling parties – the north’s [...]
AMISOM to use Somali National University and Al-Jazeera beach as a dumping site
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid)-African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is planning to use the Somali National University’s Gahayr campus and the beautiful beach of Al-Jazeera in Mogadishu as a dumping site for their waste, Alshahid Network reports here. Gahayr campus is a military base for some 1,000 Burundian troops and is also the Contingent’s Head Quarter. [...]
PM Raila disowns Kenya stand against ICC trials
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – In a move to placade the Kenyan civil society and foreign funded NGOs Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga Wednesday disowned the shuttle diplomacy spearheaded by Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka to seek the support of African Union to defer Kenya’s case at the International Criminal Court. Mr Odinga, at a news conference in [...]
Somali President, Sheikh Sharif returns home
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid)-Somali president, Sheikh Sharif Sh. Ahmed and his delegates have arrived in the capital Mogadishu after they had paid visits of Djibouti and Egyptian countries, officials said. T.F.G cabinet ministers welcomed president Sharif and his delegation at Adam Adde international airport at noon on Friday. The President who left Mogadishu early this week [...]
Justice according to Al-Shabaab
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid), When the punishment, 100 whip lashes, was postponed because she was pregnant Ms Anab Mussa thought she was the luckiest woman in the world. She had misread the Al-Shabaab-backed court. The court in Wanlaweyn town, some 100 kilometres west of Mogadishu, had convicted Anab for having sexual relations out of wedlock. Two [...]
Kenya PM Raila under siege
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -The political party that propelled him to within a heartbeat of the presidency is falling apart and his political allies-turned-rivals are helping to accelerate the fall. A tumultuous week culminated in a meeting on Saturday hosted by party deputy leader William Ruto in Mombasa which organisers said was meant to lay strategies [...]