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 [...]
Extension of TFP Term heralds catastrophe for Somalia
Listen Two days after IGAD’s public declaration, the Parliament approved three year term extension easily with 97 % yes (435 present). It’s interesting to witness the intense vilification of the International Community (IC) by Ethiopia and Members of the Djibouti Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP-D) after the IC objected the three-year- extension of TFP-D’s tenure from [...]
UN council OKs big increase in AU Somalia force
Listen United Nations (Alshahid) – The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday authorized a boost in the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia from 8,000 to 12,000 troops to shore up the country’s government against Islamist insurgents. The force, known as AMISOM, currently consists of soldiers from Uganda and Burundi. Uganda is expected to provide 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 [...]
Djibouti to open embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) – The Djiboutian government says on Wednesday it will open its embassy in the Somalia capital Mogadishu in the next few days. After talks with Somalia’s foreign minister in Mogadishu, the Djiboutian ambassador to Somalia Dayib Dubad Rooble said his government is ready to officially open an embassy in Somalia, Sunatimes reports. [...]
Southern Sudan extends referendum registration deadline
Listen Juba (Alshahid) -Southern Sudan has given potential voters an extra week to register for January’s referendum on possible independence. The authorities said moving the deadline to 8 December would not affect the vote, scheduled for 9 January. The referendum is a consequence of a peace deal that ended a two-decade long civil war between [...]
Wrangles that never cease in the Somali government
Listen The scramble and political quagmire within the circus of the Transitional Federal government seems unending at every appointment of cabinet. Of the three Somalia governments from 2000 to date, none was able to ameliorate the abhorring situation in Somalia. It was in 2000 when Abdikasim Salat Hassan and his premier Ali khalif Galeyr could [...]
Disunity hampers ICC process in Kenya; Study
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Wrangles among Kenya’s coalition partners risk hampering ICC interventions in resolving the post-election violence riddle, a report submitted to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned. The review report of the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation Monitoring project warns divisions in the Coalition Government have created an opportunity for impunity that [...]
The nomad’s way of doing business: A guide to Somali commerce
Listen By ABDI LATIF DAHIR: You step off the brightly-coloured matatus (minibuses); music is blaring and the touts are shouting for more passengers. Immediately you alight, a blast of hot air flashes across your face, then a wave of choking dust quickly replaces it. While you try to comprehend it all, drivers shout from their [...]
South Sudan rejects Libya’s Gaddafi warning on independence vote
Listen Juba (Alshahid) – Southern Sudan has rejected Muammar Gaddafi’s warning that a vote for independence next year could destabilise the rest of Africa. Southern Sudan Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin told the BBC that Africa had not broken up when Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993. He said the people’s choice should [...]