Uganda police battle a handful of opposition protesters
Listen Kampala (Alshahid) -Police Wednesday used teargas and live bullets to quell opposition supporters who staged a protest in Ugandan capital Kampala against the outcome of the February 18 presidential poll. The police said at least 10 people were arrested after the a gang of protestors started beating passersby dressed in yellow—the ruling party’s official [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kenya President and PM to send away US envoy
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Kenya will ask America to recall its Ambassador Michael Ranneberger, whose top-secret communiques to the US Department of State have provoked a furore in Government. This is only the second time since Independence for Kenya to demand the recall of an envoy. The first was during the old Kanu regime of former [...]
Ethiopia: HIV risk in a booming construction industry
Listen Addis Ababa (Alshahid) – Everywhere in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, modern buildings are popping up and wide roads are being built. The country’s booming construction sector is attracting thousands of labourers, and government officials are increasingly recognizing the need to target these workers with HIV prevention services. “We don’t yet have a [clear [...]
The President Must Lead The War Against Corruption Or It Will Never Be Won.
Listen Corruption simply means theft. Though government audits conceal theft in unclear words like “misappropriation”, these words like corruption and graft simply mean theft and corrupt people are simply thieves. In case you don’t know, it is because corrupt people steal from us that we are poor, live in slums, our industries are dead, our [...]
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 [...]
Peace Keepers or Peace Killers in Mogadishu? UN/AU Continues Somali Slaughter
Listen For over a year now the United Nations/African Union troops in Mogadishu, so called “peacekeepers”, have been regularly firing mortars and artillery into Somali neighborhoods in retaliation for attacks by the Somali resistance. “Peacekeepers” firing artillery into civilian neighborhoods? “Peacekeepers” killing untold thousands of innocent women and children whose only crime was being Somali [...]
Who Should Lead Us, Politicians Or Professionals?
Listen To actualize benefits of the new constitution, Kenyans must have good leaders. But what is a good leader? To develop counties, we are told to forget politicians and get professionals, our newest version of good leaders. But are politicians inherently bad and professionals good? In themselves, politics and professions are innocent, only men corrupt [...]