Alshahid Centre conducts a symposium on Humanitarian and Development aid in Somalia
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) –On 27th of June 20010, Alshahid Centre for Research and Media Studies held a one day symposium attended by 20 Somali organizations in Nairobi to discuss the Humanitarian aid in Somalia and how the local NGOs can fill the gap left by the international aid organizations who either left the country completely [...]
Somalia: President briefs Puntland Parliament on his Kenya trip
Listen Garowe (Alshahid) – The president of Somalia’s northern state of Puntland Dr Abdirahman Mohamed Farole on Tuesday led the State opening of the 24th Session of the Puntland Parliament in Garowe, the State capital. In his address to Parliament the President touched on various issues including his trip to Nairobi, Kenya capital where he [...]
Kenya to hire 1,500 nurses
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The ministry of medical services will employ 1,500 nurses in the coming financial year in a bid to address the shortage of nurses in the country’s health facilities according to the permanent secretary Professor James ole Kiyiapi. The PS said so far, the government has absorbed all the 3,000 nurses who [...]
Obama’s Presidency…Failing Somalia
Listen Somalia’s aggravating situation gets worse every passing day, there is neither hope nor change for the country’s endless crisis, an opposing sentiment to US president Obama’s pre-election promise to build a foreign policy that largely rested in the believe of hope and change. “Indeed the historic victory of President Obama has created profound prospect [...]
Darfur aid conference raised less than half its target
Listen Cairo (Alshahid) – Darfur donor conference under theme of “Development for Peace” that was held in Cairo on Sunday raised less than half of its targeted 2 billion. The conference, organized by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), aims at collecting USD two billion in the form of grants and loans to rebuild [...]
Somalia is not a failed state
Listen A little over a year ago, I was elected president of a country that many consider the most dangerous in the world. Over the last 20 years, Somalia has been synonymous with war and displacement. Now terrorism and piracy have been added to this list – and they threaten death and destruction far beyond [...]
Museveni puts himself first in the “National Cake” share.
Listen Kampala (Alshahid) -President Museveni said on Monday that it is time for the government to tarmac the road leading to his home town-in Kiruhura District and give him a share of the “national cake”. “I have prioritized and worked on different roads in the country,” President Museveni said, “I am now tired of dust [...]
U.S. says not playing politics with aid to Somalia
Listen United Nations (Alshahid) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Friday dismissed a U.N. official’s charge that the United States was withholding funds and aid to a U.N. food agency in Somalia for political reasons. This week, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden accused Washington of “politicization of serious humanitarian [...]
Somali president to meet his Kenyan counterpart
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) – Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is expected to meet his Kenyan counterpart during when he visits Kenya, said Somali ambassador to Kenya Somali President is heading a delegation and will discuss with Kenyan authorities the latest security development in Somalia and government efforts to restore security. Mohamed Ali America, Somali [...]
Puntland asks the international community for support.
Listen Garowe (Alshahid) – Leaders from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland have asked for support from the international community following the escalating insecurity in the region, officials said on Friday. The region has witnessed assassination of high profile government officials including a judge and a member of Puntland’s Parliament. In a meeting held at the [...]