Kenya’s new law most important reform, says President Kibaki after meeting US VP
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid)- The Grand Coalition Government is confident that Kenyans will get a new constitution during the forthcoming referendum scheduled to be held in August this year, President Kibaki has said. In this regard, President Kibaki affirmed that a new constitution would herald the most important reform initiative for the Grand Coalition Government. The [...]
Uganda’s poll puts Army as the most trusted public institution
Listen Kampala (Alshahid) – An opinion poll conducted countrywide between April 19 and May 6 by TNS/Research International, an independent global research company commissioned by Uganda’s Daily Monitor and the Deepening Democracy Programme shows that majority Ugandans say the UPDF is the best performing institution in the country over the past four years and it [...]
Kenya government mounts colourful campaign for proposed constitution
Listen Mombasa (Alshahid) – Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki on Saturday led the Grand Coalition Government in officially launching a very colourful “Yes” campaign in predominantly Muslim Mombasa town in Coast Province. The President, who was accompanied by Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and 58 Members of Parliament, urged Kenyans to vote for the [...]
Chinese party leaders visit Kenya
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – President Mwai Kibaki has held discussions with senior officials of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by the Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Wang Gang who paid him a courtesy call. During the [...]
SOMALIA: Nice Summit 2010 the Year of Peace and Security for Africa
Listen Nice (Alshahid) – The 25th Africa-France Summit is underway in Nice, France declared the year 2010 as the Year of Peace and Security for Africa. In yesterday’s session, foreign ministers including Somalia’s minister for foreign Affairs, Ali Ahmed Jama (Jengeli), produced a draft document that will be deliberated and adopted this afternoon by the [...]
Somalia’s Parliamentary committee criticize election of new speaker as deceptive
Listen Mogadishu (Ashahid) – A day after the deputy speaker of the Somalia government call on MPs to cooperate with the new speaker, members of Parliament’s Finance committee have come out to condemn the election of the new speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden as a sham, officials told Shabelle radio on Monday. Mohamed Sheik Ali [...]
Somali Minister Accuses presidential Palace For Attack.
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) – Somalia’s Minister of state has accused Somalia’s Presidential palace of being involved in a bomb blast that was targeted at his convoy. Speaking in a press conference on saturday, Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si’’ad (Inda’adde), said that “ The attack was organized from the presidential palace in Mogadsihu”. Inda’adde was accompanied by [...]
Two Somali gov’t ministers among Mogadishu roadside bomb blast survivors
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) – Three senior Somali government officials including two ministers escaped an overnight assassination attempt after roadside explosion in Mogadishu targeted a convoy, killing three people and wounding several others, a government official confirmed Friday. The remotely controlled roadside bomb attack took place in Makka Al Mukarama road in the heart of the [...]
Somalia Defence Minister survives a roadside blast that kills 3 Somalis
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) – Sheikh Yusuf Siyad Indha Adde, the Somali Defense Minister, on Thursday escaped a second assassination attempt after a roadside explosion in Mogadishu targeting his convoy wounded some of his bodyguards and killed three civilians, a government official said. A remote controlled roadside bomb targeted the car of Mr. Indha Adde and [...]
When Somalis were Rendered Stateless*
Listen On October 14th 1977, a young Somali man was arrested by the Kenya Police in what they claimed was an undercover operation. His name was Mohamed Ahmed and he was described as a former Kenya army private from Mandera. His crime was being found with a Somali passport issued to him by the Second [...]