What lies ahead for the new Somalia government?
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) -After weeks of political horse trading the Somali parliament managed to approve the new cabinet of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Saturday but the move marks the beginning of the government’s real challenges, say analysts. Out of the 343 lawmakers present at the meeting 251 voted in favor while 92 opposed it [...]
Kenyan MPs use tribalism to put country into a Constitutional crisis
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Thursday night parliamentary debates plunged the country into a constitutional crisis after Parliament rejected a list of nominees to two key commissions on the implementation of the new constitution that saw the Government miss Friday’s deadline for gazetting the names. MPs said the list for the implementation committee lacked regional balance and [...]
Will Somalia President Sharif’s PM choice antagonize Puntland?
Listen By Hanad Haidar: One of Somalia’s newspapers has reported that H.E. Sharif Sheikh Ahmed will appoint a new Prime Minister this week. According to Mogadishu Times, in article dated 6 October 2010, the new Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will be Mr. Saa’id Farah “Shirdon” – a relatively unknown politician from [...]
Time holds all the answers – even to Somalia and the colonial project
Listen By KALUNDI SERUMAGA: “The one who talks to you like he hates you, likes you, and the one who talks to you like he likes you, hates you.” So goes a proverb from western Uganda that the United States and Nato may do well to reflect on, as they walk with the AU even [...]
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 [...]
Somali Widows’ horrors in Nairobi after Al Shabab attacks
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – Somali widows whose husbands were killed by Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab now alone and unprotected in a safer but still hostile adopted country, work together to sell tea on Eastleigh’s busy streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi; and cling to each other like sisters, a family of women. The women who were [...]
Six Somali Govt policemen killed in Land mine blast
Listen Mogadishu-(Alshahid) – A landmine blast has killed at least six Somali government in the government controlled Hamar Jajab neighborhood in the capital Mogadishu early on Wednesday morning, officials and eyewitnesses affirm. Abdi Basid Mahmoud, the chairperson of the Hamar Jajab told reporters after the explosion that the six government policemen on a routine patrol [...]
Kenya’s controversial Truth commission begins work in Mt Elgon
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The embattled Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) has commenced the ‘statement taking phase’ of its work, in Kapsokwony, Mount Elgon. TJRC said on Monday that 39 statement takers drawn from all the divisions of Mount Elgon district will collect and document human rights violations and historical injustices in the area. [...]
Dutch trial of five Somali pirates starts
Listen Rotterdam (Alshahid) – The first European trial of suspected Somali pirates has started in the Netherlands. Five men are charged with the attempted hijacking of a Dutch cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. As the first ever European trial of suspected Somali pirates started in the Netherlands, the five accused men told the [...]
Somalia: Puntland president sacks minister and 5 judges
Listen Garowe (Alshahid) – President Dr. Abdirahman Mohammed Farole of Somalia’s Puntland state has sacked a minister and 5 judges as part of the government efforts to rejuvenate the cabinet and judiciary system. In a presidential statement, Minister for Livestock Ahmed Hassan Donyale was relieved of his duties and replaced by Said Hassan Shire. The [...]