Somali PM starts salary pay for the disabled national army troops
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -A change in tactics by Somali pirates has alarmed international maritime firms and triggered a rise in the price of insuring shipping sailing off the East African coast. Large numbers of Somali pirates are now reported to be operating from captured merchant vessels far out in the Indian Ocean, making the task [...]
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 [...]
Somali President condemns Shabab for forcing women to marry strangers
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid)-Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Somalia’s transitional federal government (TFG) president has condemned alshabab rebels for forcing women to marry foreigners running the alshabab militia group and mistreatment of women under the militia areas of control.. The President said, “Al-shabab is a menace to the Somali community in particular women who are forced to marry [...]
Al Shabab Leadership crises and the prospect for peace in Somalia
Listen The peaceful amalgamation of the two Islamist factions Al Shabab and Hisbul Islam (HZ) is seen by some as a commendable act that will have significant postive ramification in the political landscape of Somalia. Others see it as the nightmare that they always dreaded to face; but at least over one million internally displaced [...]
Pirates’ Catch Exposed Kenya Route of Arms to volatile Sudan
Listen Khartoum (Alshahid) — It was September 2008 and a band of Somali pirates made a startling discovery. The Ukrainian freighter they had just commandeered in the Gulf of Aden was packed with weapons, including 32 Soviet-era battle tanks, and the entire arsenal was headed for the regional government in southern Sudan. The Ukrainian and [...]
Somalia govt executes soldier as alShabaab trains 300 militants
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) -A soldier with Somalia’s weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was executed on Tuesday in Mogadishu after being convicted of killing another solider, while Al Shabaab insurgents announced completion of militant training for 300 insurgents in Baidoa, Radio Garowe reports. TFG Military Court chief judge, Hassan M. Hussein, and TFG senior army commander [...]
Southern Sudan extends referendum registration deadline
Listen Juba (Alshahid) -Southern Sudan has given potential voters an extra week to register for January’s referendum on possible independence. The authorities said moving the deadline to 8 December would not affect the vote, scheduled for 9 January. The referendum is a consequence of a peace deal that ended a two-decade long civil war between [...]
The President Must Lead The War Against Corruption Or It Will Never Be Won.
Listen Corruption simply means theft. Though government audits conceal theft in unclear words like “misappropriation”, these words like corruption and graft simply mean theft and corrupt people are simply thieves. In case you don’t know, it is because corrupt people steal from us that we are poor, live in slums, our industries are dead, our [...]
Kenyans ask Graft body to investigate military recruitment corruption
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) –Facts have emerged showing that the latest military recruitment had a higher bribery value than any other in the past. This was occasion by threats from Kenya Anti-corruption Commission (KACC) which never sent undercover spies as it had promised. Investigations reveal that the bribe rose to over one million with recruits’ parents/guardians [...]
Peace Keepers or Peace Killers in Mogadishu? UN/AU Continues Somali Slaughter
Listen For over a year now the United Nations/African Union troops in Mogadishu, so called “peacekeepers”, have been regularly firing mortars and artillery into Somali neighborhoods in retaliation for attacks by the Somali resistance. “Peacekeepers” firing artillery into civilian neighborhoods? “Peacekeepers” killing untold thousands of innocent women and children whose only crime was being Somali [...]