Non ICC member America against Kenya’s bid over trials
Listen New York (Alshahid) -Kenya’s Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka has apparently failed in his mission to the US. Soon after Mr Musyoka met in Washington on Wednesday with Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, a State Department official told the Africa Review that “we do not support a UN Security Council resolution to defer the ICC [...]
Kenya Raila-Ruto war in ODM explodes as dictatorship grows
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Wrangles in ODM have now spilled outside the party with plans by about 40 MPs to lodge a dispute against the leadership with the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal. Leading the charge are two MPs, Adan Duale (Dujis) who is also the party’s vice chairman and Isaac Ruto (Chepalungu) whose membership the party [...]
Kenya Raila’s ODM expels two MPs over divergent views
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Two MPs could lose their seats after ODM announced it had expelled them for holding divergent views from those held by party leader and Kenya’s PM Raila Odinga. The party has written to the Registrar of Political Parties, saying Assistant Minister Aden Duale, and Chepalungu MP Isaac Ruto have been expelled. ODM [...]
AU high Rep Rawlings Calls For Concerted Effort For Peace In Somalia
Listen Ghana (Alshahid)-Ghana’s former President and African Union (AU) High Representative for Somalia, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings says peace in Somalia can only come about only if the people of Somalia and all stakeholders would reconsider their approach and strategy to the peace process. To this end, Mr Rawlings is calling for “a more [...]
Kenya PM Raila’s family involved in maize scandal; US cables
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Wikileaks claim Prime Minister Raila Odinga attempted to suspend former Agriculture Minister William Ruto to divert attention from his family’s involvement in the Sh2 billion maize scam. Secret cables sent by US Ambassador, Michael Ranneberger, to Washington and now released by WikiLeaks allege Raila wanted to create confusion when he said he [...]
US secret Cables claim Kenya’s Uhuru better than PM Raila
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -If Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta decides to pursue the presidency, he has several major strengths, but these are balanced and potentially offset by important weaknesses. According to US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, Uhuru is bright, charming, even charismatic, and is enormously wealthy, and, therefore, has not had to engage in [...]
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 [...]
PM Raila disowns Kenya stand against ICC trials
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – In a move to placade the Kenyan civil society and foreign funded NGOs Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga Wednesday disowned the shuttle diplomacy spearheaded by Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka to seek the support of African Union to defer Kenya’s case at the International Criminal Court. Mr Odinga, at a news conference in [...]
Kenya PM Raila under siege
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -The political party that propelled him to within a heartbeat of the presidency is falling apart and his political allies-turned-rivals are helping to accelerate the fall. A tumultuous week culminated in a meeting on Saturday hosted by party deputy leader William Ruto in Mombasa which organisers said was meant to lay strategies [...]
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 [...]