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 [...]
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 [...]
Emirates Airline completes stalled development projects in Kenya
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -The Emirates Airline Foundation and Engineers Without Borders Orange County have completed a project to build a footbridge across the Ewaso Ng’iro River in Nanyuki in Kenya at a cost of US37,000 (Ksh2.96 million). Emirates’ Regional Manager for East Africa Essa Sulaiman Ahmad said the reconstruction of the footbridge began in July [...]
Kenya Police stop generation change rally over US envoy link
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) –A public prayer rally organized by Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa and former Mungiki sect leader Maina Njenga in Nairobi’s Kamkunji was violently dispersed by police who claimed “orders from above”. The charismatic and eloquent Eugene Wamalwa is fast becoming a preferred candidate for the now politically active massive voting block of youths [...]
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 [...]
The Somali Govt funded Shifta war in Kenya’s North secession
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -The Somali government wanted to claim North Eastern as part of its territory. Recently declassified files reveal Somalia even funded the Shifta war. The first sign that Somalia was eyeing Northern Frontier District (NFD) was in February 1962 when a delegation, led by then Minister of Education Mohammed Ibrahim Egal, went to [...]
Somalia: Establishing the Federal System and Moving the Capital City, Mogadishu
Listen The draft constitution issued by the Independent Federal Commission on July 30, 2010 is flawed but the Commission continues running advertisements through different Media outlets to promote and condition the Somalia people. The draft raises many questions without answers and it is contentious and controversial and it is the product of Sharif Hassan Sheikh [...]
Rwanda’s Elections: Strong economic growth earned Kagame clear victory
Listen Kagame’s clear victory in the recent concluded Rwanda’s elections was due to improved and sustained economic growth after 1994 genocide in which more than 800, 000 were killed in a violence which lasted for about three months. Analysts argue that since 2001, Rwanda has registered 6.4 per cent growth and this economic achievement enabled [...]
Kenya Human rights sacks chairperson as it sinks into party and religious politics
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -The leadership crisis at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) deepened on Monday when commissioners stripped chairperson Florence Jaoko of all her powers in what experts say is a tip of the iceberg of an infiltration of party and religious politics into the once respected commission. The move follows Ms [...]
Plight of Somali Refugees in the Arabian Peninsula
Listen By Mohamed O. Eyow Unfortunate Somalis destined from bad to worse, it’s over two decades now when an armed violence erupted in the home country. The world gets bewildered to mend the unabated political morass. Entire multiple bids by regional and international actors to defuse the prevalent hybrid quandary are yet to deliver. The [...]