Kenyans told to shun abusive party leaders
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) wants Kenyans to shun presidential aspirants who have no regard for the rule of law. The country has been treated to a barrage of abused sparked by PM Raila’s statements that cabinet colleagues and fellow party leaders were drunkards and thieves. NCIC Chairman Mzalendo Kibunjia [...]
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 [...]
Kenya President summons AU commission boss to clarify Raila’s task
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -A senior African Union official is expected in the country to calm jitters in the coalition government caused by the appointment of Prime Minister Raila Odinga as mediator in the Cote d’Ivoire crisis, the Daily Nation Reports. Mr Jean Ping, chairman of the AU Commission, will meet President Kibaki during his visit. [...]
Kenyan minister close to PM Raila steps aside over graft
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Cabinet Minister Henry Kosgey a close ally and party chairman of Kenya’s PM Raila Odinga’s ODM on Monday offered to step aside and said he was ready to face corruption charges, Daily Nation reports The move by the Industrialisation minister came only a day after the Attorney-General Amos Wako approved his arrest [...]
Death of gravely ill Somalia
Listen The inevitable outcome of the contradictory and illusory actions of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG), of the armed Islamists, of the clan-based Regional Entities, of the neighboring and occupying countries of Somalia, of the International Community (IC), and of the “Transnational Somali Diaspora” is the quick death of gravely ill Somalia. TFG [...]
Kenya President and PM to send away US envoy
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Kenya will ask America to recall its Ambassador Michael Ranneberger, whose top-secret communiques to the US Department of State have provoked a furore in Government. This is only the second time since Independence for Kenya to demand the recall of an envoy. The first was during the old Kanu regime of former [...]
Realistic Plan to Save Somalia
Listen By Abdulrahman Idow: Congratulations on the recent approval of your new cabinet by the parliament. I am sure that with your impeccable credentials you and your cabinet team stand in a good position to lead the country on the road towards Somali to come back as nation. We Somali diaspora are proud of you. [...]
Suspected Kenyan violence sponsors to be named next week
Listen New York (Alshahid) -The names of suspected Kenyan post-election violence sponsors will be known on next week. The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will on December 14 unveil the names as he presents his case to the Pre-Trial Chamber. The prosecutor told journalists in New York that he was ready with his [...]
Sudan referendum: Voters bribed to stay away from registering
Listen Khartoum (Alshahid) -On January 9 next year, Sudan will be going to the ballot to decide whether the South should become an independent state. But even as registration goes on, different parties say there have been efforts to sabotage the exercise. Whereas President Omar al Bashir is being accused of bribing southern Sudanese in [...]
ICC Ocampo defends Kenya President and PM over election violence
Listen Nairobi (Alshaid) –The Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Mr Louis Moreno Ocampo has defended Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga over the post-election violence investigations. In a veiled defence of the two principals, Ocampo said his investigations “were not about elections or parties” “We shall forward for prosecution [...]