Kenyan arid areas to be considered in a Sh5b budget proposal
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki on Friday has accepted a Sh 5.3 billion budget proposal present by a delegation of leaders representing 32 arid and semi-arid districts of the North and Central Rift, and Upper Eastern regions. Speaking from his Harambee House office where he met a delegation of Members of Parliament [...]
More Briton youths joining Alshabab.
Listen London (Alshahid)- The British government is concerned that large numbers of Briton youths who have their origin in Somalia and Pakistan are joining the Somali rebel groups of Alshabab, sources close to the British government said. The youth who are born and brought up in Britain are leaving for the war torn country in [...]
Kenya’s Supreme Muslim Council ‘bans’ DStv in North Eastern
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The Supreme Council of Muslims in Kenya (Supkem) has on Monday banned DStv and shut down several entertainment spots that air popular video shows and football. This was announced by Supkem Mandera branch in a predominantly Muslim North Eastern Province of Kenya that borders Somalia and Ethiopia. The Council blames the video [...]
Somalia U-17 to Boycott Kenya Game over Venue Change from Nairobi
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The Under 17 football team of Somalia which is already in Kenya has boycotted their match against Kenya until they receive official communication from CAF giving the Oserian Stadium in Naivasha town a clean bill of health, says the Somalia’s head of delegation Amir Hassan. The match which is Kenya’s CAF [...]
UN – Security Council Committee on Somalia and Eritrea Issues List of Wanted Individuals
Listen Mogadishu(Alshahid) – Identified Pursuant to Paragraph 8 of Resolution 1844 (2008). The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea, today, 12 April 2010 listed the following individuals and entity pursuant to paragraph 8 of resolution 1844 (2008): (1) AL-SHABAAB AKA: AL-SHABAB; AKA: SHABAAB; AKA: THE YOUTH; [...]
Fears of Renewed Racial Wars as South African youth will not be silenced
Listen Johannesburg (Alshahid) – The firebrand youth leader of South Africa’s ruling party made clear on Thursday he will not be silenced, demanding Zimbabwe-style land seizures from white farmers and vowing to keep singing a controversial song. After the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre’blanche stoked fears of racial strife, the African National Congress Party [...]
Oromo Refugees in Kenya petition UNHCR over Insecurity
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid)- A delegation of Oromo refugees living in Kenya has asked the UNHCR to consider relocating them to a safer third country. This comes after one of them was killed in Nairobi in what is believed to be an extension of the conflict between the Oromo and Ethiopia government. Talking to Alshahid reporter, [...]
The Baganda Kingdom: President Museveni under siege
Listen Kampala (Alshahid) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is a man under siege following the inferno at the Kasubi Tombs. In what seems to be a perpetual tag of war between the government of Uganda and the influential Kabaka; the president is under public scrutiny following his forceful visit to Kasubi tombs; a burial place [...]
Kenya’s Next President: Is Eugene Wamalwa’s Bid as timely as Obama’s?
Listen Remember the saying: all that starts like a trickle is indeed what feeds the mighty ocean. Just like US President Obama, Eugene Wamalwa is a candidate every Kenyan would wish to elect president but is curtailed by the endemic status quo thought: Kenya has never had so young yet charismatic person as president, will [...]
South African sentenced to 22 years for murdering Somali business man
Listen Port Elizabeth (Alshahid) – A court in south Africa’s Port Elizabeth town has sentenced a South African Dumisani Makuleni, of Gotyiba Street for 22 years for killing a Somali shop owner three years ago . According to the court, Mr. Makuleni, went to rob the shop of Mr. Wali Ahmed on November 2007.In the [...]