Five hostages starved to death on ship hijacked by Somali pirates
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) -The successful apprehension of Somali pirates off Lakshadweep by Indian Navy and Coast Guard on Sunday has brought along a tragic story of hostages. At least five crew members of the three Thai trawlers hijacked by pirates have been reported to have died of hunger and sickness after the owner of the [...]
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 [...]
My stand: Proposed constitution promotes negative ethnicity
Listen My articles “Why I must oppose the proposed constitution” and “Document is in every sense a majimbo constitution” solicited fierce criticism from various articles in the media including Alshahid media and the Daily Nations of May 24th, June 2nd and June 5th 2010. Had my critics read my articles with the history of our [...]
Kenya launches compulsory SIM registration of phones’ subscribers
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – Following a Presidential directive, mobile phone subscribers have up to the end of next month to have their SIM cards registered. This was occasioned by widespread crimes perpetuated using mobile phones and of late the use of mobile phones to propagate hate speech. Information Minister Minister Samuel Poghisio says the move [...]
Kenyan police seize arms in a Nairobi bound bus near Somalia border
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – Kenya Police in Yatta district, Eastern Province have on Friday recovered a cache of firearms that police suspect were being transported to Nairobi from war-torn Somali. The weapons, three revolvers, four pistols and 26 rounds of ammunition are suspected to have entered the country from war ravaged Somali were discovered in [...]
STATUS OF SEIZED VESSELS AND CREWS IN SOMALIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN 2 June
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – MV QSM Dubai sea-jacked in Gulf of Aden – see below – MV RIM SAILS FREE AFTER SOMALI PIRATE SHOOT-OUT (ecoterra) During a serious shoot-out between two rival pirate groups surrounding the sea-jacked MV RIM, leaving 9 Somalis dead, the Syrian crew of the vessel managed to overpower six pirates on [...]
Pirates hijack Panama –flagged ship with 24 crew
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – Somali pirates have yet again hijacked a panama-flagged cargo in a patrolled stretch of waters in the gulf described as an “Internationally recommended transit corridor”. The 15,220-tonne ship was from Brazil and had 24 crew members from Bangladesh, Ghana, Egypt and Pakistan, EU naval forces said. “In the early hours of [...]
Ranking of Ministries: Higher Education Minister is vision 2030 compliant
Listen The ranking of the agricultural ministry as number two is a demonstration that Hon Ruto can be multitasking – working, politicking, accountable, delivering on promises and relevant to fulfill vision 2030. His ministry was in public domain last year alleged in scandalous deals making the country face starvation. However, the minister who at one [...]
Raila 2012: Will he be King Maker or the King?
Listen In Africa it is said that a man whose impotence or infertility you treat is the one who steals your wife. The cabinet reshuffle of last week has left many asking whether Raila or Ruto has stolen the other’s wife hence whose impotence was treated by the other. It appears ODM party deputy William Ruto [...]
S.Korea destroyer catches up with hijacked super tanker.
Listen Seoul (Alshahid) – South Korean destroyer caught up with a supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Tuesday. The 4,500-ton KDX-II destroyer was keeping its distance from the hijacked vessel for the sake of the crew’s safety, a ministry spokesman said. Pirates captured [...]