tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86357581298840169542024-03-19T12:45:11.632-07:00KenyaKenya the land of contrast and beautyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-55964182228332929152017-08-09T09:11:00.001-07:002017-08-09T09:11:19.009-07:00 Kenya Raila rejects results of Election 2017<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lHCTOKGy9eY" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-10804838765704408322017-03-30T00:52:00.001-07:002017-03-30T00:52:57.389-07:00Famine: Number of Kenyans going hungry doubles to 3 million, says Red Cross - World - Pulse<div class="vspace articleHeader" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-family: OpenSansExtraBold, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></h2><div id="abstract" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 19px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Kenya is one of several East African countries suffering from food crises, along with Ethiopia, South Sudan and Somalia.</div><div class="article_menus clearfix" style="background: transparent; border-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; min-height: 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="source" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 450px;"><li class="" style="background: url("../img/at_publish.png") right 5px no-repeat; border: 0px none; float: left; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Published: <time datetime="2017-03-28" itemprop="datePublished">28.03.2017</time></li>
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border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia</strong>, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Sudan </strong>-- where famine has already been declared -- and <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Somalia</strong>, on the brink of its third famine in 25 years.</div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Outside the region, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yemen</strong> and <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nigeria</strong> are also facing famine, in what the United Nations has called the worst humanitarian crisis since the end of <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">World War II.</strong></div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Like many of its neighbours, Kenya is suffering the effects of two failed rainy seasons in a row, hugely reducing crop harvests. Food prices have soared, pushing inflation to a five-year high of nine percent in February.</div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The situation is getting worse every day. Malnutrition rates among children are steadily climbing. Children are getting sick, and livelihoods of families have been decimated following the loss of thousands of their livestock,"</em> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr Abbas Gullet, </strong>secretary general of the <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kenya Red Cross Society</strong>, said in a statement.</div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It is more and more difficult for people to access water -– people are having to travel for up to three times as long just to get water for their family."</em></div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">In Kenya the drought has also exacerbated clashes between pastoralist communities, which have left over 30 people dead, and also imperilled wildlife -- a main drawcard for tourists.</div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">The number of Kenyans going hungry could increase to four million in the coming weeks, the statement said.</div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">More than 340,000 children under the age of five are also acutely malnourished.</div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We are running out of words to describe the situation in affected parts of Kenya, and across the region,"</em> said <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fatoumata Nafo-Traore,</strong> the International Federation of Red Cross regional director for Africa.</div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Our message is simple: humanitarian organisations need resources to respond at the scale that is needed. If we don't, then thousands of people may die, and children will be affected for the rest of their lives.</em></div><div align="justify" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"And we won't be able to say 'we didn't know'."</em></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-14995155533032806522016-12-25T06:50:00.001-08:002016-12-25T06:50:58.739-08:00Documents reveal Britain made secret deal to defend Kenya in case of invasion by Somalia - Daily Nation<header style="color: #333333; font-family: ColfaxRegular, "AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069", "Nimbus Sans TW01", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="font-family: ColfaxBold, "AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731063", "Nimbus Sans TW01 Bold", Helvetica, sans-serif; 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PHOTO | COURTESY </div></div></header><article class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: ColfaxRegular, "AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069", "Nimbus Sans TW01", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 36px;"><section class="article-sidebar" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-right: 24px; width: 340px;"><section class="summary" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding-right: 24px;"><h3 style="font-family: ColfaxBold, "AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731063", "Nimbus Sans TW01 Bold", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">In Summary</h3><div><ul style="color: grey; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Without making any concrete commitment, Mr Sandys had told Kenya’s new government that in case of an attack by Somalia, it was probable that Britain would intervene.</div></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Somalia, which was then considered to have one of the region’s most powerful armies equipped with sophisticated Soviet-made weapons, had threatened to annex the north eastern part of Kenya in pursuit of its Greater Somalia policy.</div></li>
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President Jomo Kenyatta’s administration had since independence in 1963 been grappling with a secessionist conflict in the north east, known as the Shifta War, that was supported by Somalia. Indeed, Somali Prime minister Muhammad Egal had told British MPs in 1962 of the intention to unite all territories occupied by Somalis in Kenya and Ethiopia</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">When Somalia’s aggressive action seemed likely to lead to an invasion of Kenya in 1966, President Kenyatta quickly dispatched Attorney-General Charles Njonjo and Agriculture Minister Bruce Mckenzie to London to pressure the British government to not only give reassurances of protecting Kenya but also provide more sophisticated equipment.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;"><strong>DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS</strong></div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">According to the declassified documents, although the British government turned down the request for arms terming it “unrealistic”, Prime Minister Harold Wilson, in a private message to President Kenyatta, committed to consider protecting Kenya from Somalia’s aggression.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">This private message marked “secret” was what came to be known as the “Bamburi Understanding”.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">“If Kenya were the victim of outright aggression by Somalia, the British government would give the situation most urgent consideration. While the British government cannot in advance give the Kenya Government any assurance of automatic assistance, the possibility of Britain giving the Kenyans assistance in the event of organised and unprovoked armed attack by Somalia is not precluded,” the message read.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Nine months after the “Bamburi Understanding”, a key diplomatic milestone was achieved when mediation spearheaded by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda led to the signing of the Arusha Memorandum between Kenya and Somalia to end border hostilities.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">But the Somalia government, which had signed the Arusha Memorandum, was overthrown and replaced by a military junta led by General Siad Barre in 1969.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">This resulted in apprehension with senior Kenyan officials fearing that General Barre was more likely to revive and pursue the Greater Somalia ambitions actively.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;"><strong>ANOTHER BLOW</strong></div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">As if that was not enough, Kenya suffered another blow when the British Labour administration, which had made defence commitments through the “Bamburi Understanding,” was replaced by the Conservatives under Prime Minister Edward Heath in June 1970, creating further anxiety.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">This sudden turn of events forced President Kenyatta to send Mr Njonjo and Mr Mckenzie with a private letter seeking reaffirmation from the new British Prime Minister on maintaining the security understanding.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">“I have asked them (Mr Njonjo and Mr Mckenzie) to discuss with you what we now here call the Bamburi Understanding. I hope that you will kindly discuss this matter with my ministers who have my authority to do so. I am keen that the understanding should be continued with your government,” read the letter dated August 30, 1970 and signed by President Kenyatta.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Mr Mckenzie, who was on sick leave in Britain, booked the appointment with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to deliver the letter to Number 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s residence in London.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">The appointment was confirmed for September 8, 1970 at 11 am.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;"><strong>A BRIEF</strong></div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Four days before the meeting, a brief was forwarded to Prime Minister Heath by the FCO warning that President Kenyatta was going to be unhappy if Britain refused to carry on with the “Bamburi Understanding”. The brief argued that Kenyans were among the most moderate on the “Arms for South Africa” issue — in reference to Britain selling weapons to the Apartheid government despite widespread opposition from many African countries — making it crucial for the new British government not to antagonise them.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">In the brief that was written in the context of the Cold War between the Western and Eastern blocs, the Prime Minister was also advised to raise British concerns with the Kenyan emissaries about the Soviet Union’s attempts to penetrate East Africa. There was also to be the clincher that the former colonial masters were willing to co-operate on the defence problem so long as British soldiers were allowed continued access to Kenyan military facilities.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Biographical notes annexed to the brief further give insights on how the British viewed the two Kenyan ministers.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Mr Njonjo was described as one of the closest and friendliest ministers to the British High Commission in Nairobi. Although he lacked political will or the grassroots support to win the presidency, he was viewed as a leading architect in the Kenyatta succession.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;"><strong>ALSO INFORMED</strong></div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">The Prime Minister’s office was also informed that Mr Njonjo loved to have mid-morning tea with hot milk but there should also be Indian tea with cold milk and Chinese tea with lemon.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">In their brief, the British officials, however, sneered that Mr Njonjo’s undoing in the Kenyan political context was that he was “obviously presenting a very Western image politically and personally even to the extent of a black jacket and striped trousers and a rose buttonhole daily”.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">On his part, Mr Mckenzie was described as a “dynamo of the Kenya Government machine” whose influence extended far beyond his Agriculture ministry. He was also described as a member of President Kenyatta’s inner circle who had gained the respect of the Kenyan European community with whom he previously had a difficult relationship.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">“But he always puts Kenya’s interest first. Tries to be genuinely non-aligned when it serves Kenya’s interests,” added the FCO brief.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">However, Kenya had a special request to make: It wanted Mr Njonjo’s presence in London and the existence of the “Bamburi Understanding” kept secret.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Not even the Kenyan High Commissioner in London was supposed to know about the mission, according to a confidential letter from a Mr McClauney of the FCO to the Prime Minister’s office.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;"><strong>STATEMENT RELEASED</strong></div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Mr McClauney, however, advised that if Mr Njonjo’s visit leaked, a statement should be released that he had brought a personal message from President Kenyatta and that it was not the practice to disclose the contents of such messages. And if the media assumed that the subject of the meeting was selling arms to South Africa, then this assumption should be allowed to stand.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">The secrecy of the meeting was emphasised to Prime Minister Heath by the British Secretary of State: “While I understand that you wish in general for publicity to be given to your discussion with African and other Commonwealth leaders, we feel that in this case it would be right to respect the Kenyan request, in so far as we can do so without appearing disingenuous.”</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Arrangements were, therefore, made for Mr Njonjo and Mr Mckenzie to enter the British Prime Minister’s office through the Cabinet office instead of the main entrance to avoid public attention.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">During the meeting, the declassified documents indicate, Mr Mckenzie pointed out the importance of reaffirming the “Bamburi Understanding”. In return, the British forces would be free to continue using Nairobi Airport, the Mombasa port as well as military training facilities in Kenya. They also had great interest in retaining the British special forces who were training Kenya’s General Service Unit commandos and the Special Branch. The visiting ministers linked the work the British special forces were doing in Kenya to the security arrangement against Somali’s aggression.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;"><strong>NOTHING WRONG</strong></div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">In response, the British Prime Minister said that in principle he saw nothing wrong in reaffirming the “Bamburi Understanding” but promised to have the issue fully considered and a reply sent to President Kenyatta.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Prime Minister Heath also promised to consider the request to have the special forces remain in Kenya and pointed out his government did not wish to reduce the use of Kenyan military facilities by British troops. He, however, warned that British military resources were stretched at the time because of instability in Northern Ireland.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">But the discussions went beyond defence matters, according to the documents. Mr Njonjo and Mr Mckenzie also discussed development and diplomatic issues. For example, they said that while they appreciated Britain’s support, there were problems with the administration of the aid programme since conditions laid down by the previous Labour government were inflexible, projects were delayed and important payments also held up longer than necessary.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Mr Mckenzie suggested it would be helpful if Kenya’s Finance minister Mwai Kibaki, who was at an International Monetary Fund meeting in Copenhagen, passed through London to meet the British minister for Overseas Development.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;"><strong>SPECIAL INTEREST</strong></div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">The two also felt that Kenya no longer enjoyed close contacts with British government officials and urged Prime Minister Heath to ask one of his junior ministers to take a special interest in Africa and get to know the continent’s leaders personally.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Following the meeting, British officials embarked on drafting the Prime Minister’s reply. But they also secretly noted Mr Mckenzie’s and Mr Njonjo’s ignorance on the “Bamburi Understanding” for linking it to the presence of British special forces and access to Kenyan military facilities.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">While the arrangement for British forces to use Kenyan military facilities, airports and harbours was agreed upon at independence with Mr Sandys, who was the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the training of the GSU commandoes came into existence in December 1964, the “Bamburi Understanding” was in January 1967.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">But British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home did not think it was worth getting into an argument on the three issues in the Prime Minister’s letter to President Kenyatta.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;"><strong>IN EXISTENCE</strong></div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">As late as May 1981, the agreement was still in existence, according to a brief prepared for Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime minister (1979-1990), when she met Kenya’s then Foreign Minister Robert Ouko in London.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">“Kenya has our friendship/support. Kenya policy to stand on her own feet militarily is right. We will continue to help Kenya absorb new equipment,” said the brief.</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">It added that in case Somali attacked Kenya “UK would give all help it could, but it is unlikely our response could include commitment of combat troops. Nor indeed do we suppose that Kenya would wish for this.”</div></div><div><div class="DNStoryBodytext" style="color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15.6px;">Ironically, despite the fears in the 1960s, it was the Kenyan Defence Forces that would go into Somalia decades later, in October 2011, to pursue al-Shabaab terrorists. The Kenyan forces are now part of the African Union Mission in Somalia that is trying to restore security in the country that has been grappling with civil war since the collapse of the Barre regime in 1991.</div></div></section></article>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-57847507980923771822016-08-14T00:08:00.001-07:002016-08-14T00:10:05.034-07:00Kenya : Kenyans flee Ethiopian border for fear of clashes after gun attack <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><img src="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/images/saturday/cvajluba61dalkz57af5337190c3.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;" />Kenyans flee Ethiopian border for fear of clashes after gun attack By Lucas Ngasike Updated Sun, August 14th 2016 at 00:00 GMT +3 SHARE THIS ARTICLE PHOTO: COURTESY Kenyans are fleeing the Ethiopian border for fear of a clash between the Dassanach community of Ethiopia and the Turkana following the killing of an elder last month. Ethiopian elder Lobakate Lobolemai was shot dead on July 31 by a Turkana gunman during a church service in Turkana North Sub-county. The attacker stormed the church and selectively shot Lobolemai. The elder had crossed to Kenya with members of Dassanach Catholic Church from Koro and Omorate villages in South Omo, Ethiopia, to attend the 10th anniversary of Our Lady of Peace Todonyang Catholic Mission at the border point. The Ethiopian authorities gave Kenya a week, which ended last week, to produce the suspect in court. Members of the Dassanach community threatened an unspecified action if the assailant is not apprehended. This killing is likely to disrupt a peace accord between the two communities, which ended several years of bloody conflicts along the border. “We are troubled by this incident. We fear the Dassanach community will retaliate. The suspect has spoiled peace that we have been enjoying in this region. Tension is now high between the communities,” said Todonyang resident Osman Eleman. READ MORE Kiraitu tells Munya off, says PNU is in Jubilee Storm as ‘ghost’ CJ approves new code of ethics Gusii leaders face hostile crowd at MCAs burial Mr Eleman said more than 130 have been killed along the border following conflicts between the neighbouring Merille and Turkana communities. Turkana North OCS Francis Siror said they have launched a manhunt for the attacker. “We are using some Turkana elders to trace the suspect. The rough terrain and poor network in the region has frustrated our efforts to trace him, but our search is still on,” Mr Siror said. The Ethiopia Government has sent a protest letter to Kenyan authorities seeking to arrest the suspect. It threatened to take the matter to an international court. Source said the Ethiopian authorities want the suspect arrested and handed over to them for trial. “We the Government of Ethiopia are very sad about the incident, which occurred in Todonyang Mission camp.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-66244010475456750902016-01-02T11:39:00.001-08:002016-01-02T11:39:28.987-08:00 Ethiopian police raid Moyale village, abduct 2 Kenyans and steal guns, Marsabit Commissioner Kanga says<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Raleway, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Ethiopian police raid Moyale village, abduct 2 Kenyans and steal guns, Marsabit Commissioner Kanga says By Cyrus Ombati Updated Saturday, January 2nd 2016 at 20:07 GMT +3 Share this story: Share on Facebook Tweet Google Plus Linkedin 2 Comments President Uhuru Kenyatta with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn after officiating the launch of the Cross-Border Integrated Programme for Sustainable Peace and Socio-Economic Transformation on the border of the two countries in Moyale, Marsabit County. This was in December 2015. NAIROBI: Two Kenyan civilians are missing after they were abducted and two firearms stolen from police reservists by Ethiopian security personnel in Bori Village in Moyale, Marsabit County. Officials said the incident happened on Saturday morning. Marsabit County Commissioner Moffat Kanga said an unknown number of people believed to be Ethiopian police reservists struck Bori near the Kenya-Ethiopia border at around 8am and staged the attack. He said security agencies were investigating the incident with an intention of seeking audience with authorities in Ethiopia. “We don’t know why they did it but we know there is a problem between the Oromo people and the Ethiopian Government. We hope they will return the guns and release those abducted,” he said on the phone. He added there had been no provocation to warrant the attack at the village. See also: Miraa harmful to your health, scientists maintain The attack is the latest in a series that have happened in the area. In November at Sololo, three police officers were killed by Ethiopian soldiers. This forced Kenya to deploy KDF soldiers and police officers along the border. In May 2015, a group of about 50 Ethiopian security forces armed with AK47 rifles crossed the border and stopped at the Illeret Police Station in North Horr, which is about 16 kilometers in Kenya. According to initial police reports, the group disembarked and took strategic positions around the police station. They later inspected the area and took photos of the area and talked to the Officer Commanding Station before leaving. They also stared at a lake that is down hills of the police station saying it was a good scenery before leaving.</span><br /><br />
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<div class="big-size" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn promised on Monday to create jobs, reduce poverty and foster trade in their restive borderlands, where conflict has intensified in recent years.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">The Sh20 billion project aims to create a trade and investment hub along the remote 860 km (530 mile) border where human, arms and drug trafficking are rife, the head of the United Nations in Kenya, Nardos Bekele-Thomas, said.</div><div class="mid-content-also-read" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Also Read: </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://citizentv.co.ke/news/over-10-million-ethiopians-will-need-food-aid-in-2016-charity-108241/?utm_source=relatedarticles&utm_medium=deeplinking&utm_campaign=AlsoRead" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f6821f; outline: 0px !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" title="Over 10 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2016 – Charity">Over 10 million Ethiopians will need food aid in 2016 – Charity</a></i></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">“The problem here is poverty,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “It’s just hopelessness that creates insecurity.”</div><br /><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Clashes between herding communities over grazing land, water and cattle have become increasingly deadly due to an influx of guns, as well as political power struggles and fast-growing populations.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Kenya’s army was sent to restore order to the border town of Moyale, 800km (500 miles) north of the capital Nairobi, in 2013 after dozens were killed and villages were burned to the ground in a jostle for power between rival clan militias.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Around two-thirds of the population of Kenya’s Marsabit County – more than 70,000 people – fled, mostly to Ethiopia’s Borana Zone where many have relatives, the U.N. said.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">“We can exchange conflict and insecurity for peace and prosperity,” Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta told dignitaries seated in a white tent decorated with the two countries’ national colours.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">“We shall work together to ensure that Moyale becomes the Dubai of the Horn of Africa,” he added, referring to the Middle Eastern trade hub.</div><br /><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">A tarmac road linking Nairobi and the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is due to be completed by September 2016, he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Restoring peace will be a challenge. The arid region is awash with guns due to its proximity to unstable Somalia where al Qaeda-linked militants have been fighting to topple the government.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Ethiopian soldiers also make sporadic incursions into Kenya in pursuit of Oromo Liberation Front rebels.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Many homesteads have guns to deter invaders, while herders often carry firearms to protect their animals because there is little police presence.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">With the support of Western donors and the World Bank, the governments plan to diversify the livestock-dominated local economies and improve access to water, education and healthcare.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Eight in ten residents of Marsabit County live below the poverty line, government data shows.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Security officials held back large crowds who lined the road to watch the lengthy convoy of officials speed through the town.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">Among them, 18-year-old Abdi Aden Adow said governments should boost cross-border trade as frequent droughts have pushed his family, who keep goats and camels, into poverty.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: open_sansregular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 15px;">“There is no rain,” he said. “Life is very hard.”</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-33147743946187426892015-11-30T00:33:00.001-08:002015-11-30T00:33:27.327-08:00Standard Digital News - Kenya : Police arrest Iranian-trained suspects allegedly planning attack in Kenya<img src="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/images/saturday/xctgtex9jwzub56597709ce650.jpg" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "raleway" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Police arrest Iranian-trained suspects allegedly planning attack in Kenya By Standard Reporter Updated Saturday, November 28th 2015 at 17:11 GMT +3 Share this story: Share on Facebook Tweet Google Plus Linkedin 86 Comments Suspects Abubakar Sadiq Louw (left) and Yassin Sambai Juma have admitted to conspiring to mount terror attacks against western targets in Kenya. Nairobi: Police have arrested two Kenyans suspected to have been recruited into an Iranian terror ring to carry terror strikes targeting both locals and foreigners in the country. Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet said the two, Abubakar Sadiq Louw (69) and Yassin Sambai Juma (25), were instructed to recruit more Kenyans into the ring. Police are interrogating the suspects with an aim of squeezing more information from them. Abubakar is a senior figure in Nairobi Shiite community. According to police sources, he was arrested on October 29 after a long intensive police investigation. He admitted recruiting young Kenyans to spy and mount terror attacks in Nairobi. He was working on behalf of the Qods Force, the clandestine overseas military wing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which carries out the terror activities worldwide. Juma on the other hand is one of the students recruited by Sadiq. During the probe, Sadiq also divulged to the investigators that he arranged for Juma to travel to Iran and introduced him to the Qods Force contact, nicknamed "Parsa". “Parsa" subsequently gave Juma a set of tasks and Western targets for future terror attacks in Nairobi. Police arrested Juma on the November 19, upon his returned to Nairobi after having undertaken some military training in Iraq. Sadiq's and Juma's arrest came after months of secret intensive work by Kenyan Police, in cooperation with the other law enforcement agencies in Africa. The Iranian Qods Force has been trying to operate in Kenya for years to recruit young Muslims and train them to smuggle explosives in the country. However they are encountering rigorous efforts by Kenya Police and law enforcement agencies to foil terror activity in the country. See also: Pope: Trafficking in natural resources fuels 'instability', 'terrorism' The police are working closely with the local Shiite Muslim community to determine threats and locate anyone who may be working for the Iranian government against Kenyan interests. The last attempted attack by the Qods force in Kenya was foiled in January 2012, when two Iranian operatives were arrested with 15kg explosives. The two men, Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi, were tried and convicted of committing acts intended to cause serious harm, including planning attacks in Kenya.</span><br /><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "raleway" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Read more at: </span><a href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183874/police-arrest-iranian-trained-suspects-allegedly-planning-attack-in-kenya" style="font-family: Raleway, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183874/police-arrest-iranian-trained-suspects-<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MsQvGM3BZDw" width="560"></iframe>allegedly-planning-attack-in-kenya</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-81725937302297246522015-11-22T03:03:00.001-08:002015-11-22T03:03:13.663-08:00Border dispute and security tension between #Kenya and #Ethiopia : three police officers killed | Diplomat News Network<a href="http://diplomat.so/2015/11/21/border-dispute-and-security-tension-between-kenya-and-ethiopia-three-police-officers-killed/">Border dispute and security tension between #Kenya and #Ethiopia : three police officers killed | Diplomat News Network</a>: "BORDER DISPUTE AND SECURITY TENSION BETWEEN #KENYA AND #ETHIOPIA : THREE POLICE OFFICERS KILLED<br />
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Ethiopian army is currently the fifth largest force in Africa after the collapse of the Somali central government in 1991, where Algeria, Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa are more heavily armed forces in the continent .<br />
Nairobi,Kenya ( Standardmedia + DIPLOMAT.SO) – As security and media sources – The Kenya Defence Force (KDF) has moved its armoured vehicles and tanks from the Odha Military Camp in Moyale to Sololo following an invasion by Ethiopian forces who killed three police officers.<br />
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The development last evening follows a fierce gun battle earlier in the day between Kenya police and Ethiopian forces at Anona and parts of Sololo Township in Kenyan territory. Marsabit County Police Commander Bernard Kogo said three Kenyan security officers were killed but declined to reveal the casualty on the Ethiopian side. “We lost three officers at the border (Sololo) and I do not know what happened on their (Ethiopian) side,” said Mr Kogo.<br />
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On Thursday, a senior provincial administrator identified a senior chief who was gunned down by allegedly rebels from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).<br />
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Ethiopia is fighting the rag-tag OLF rebels in Ethiopia and parts of Marsabit County that it claims hosts their rivals.<br />
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OLF is opposed to Ethiopia’s ruling regime and claims it has marginalised the majority of Oromia-speaking people who include the Borana, also found in Kenya.<br />
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At dawn Friday, Ethiopian forces in full military attire invaded villages in Sololo District where locals led by area MP Roba Duba said at least 24 Kenyans were abducted.<br />
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“Eleven people were rounded up and taken away by Ethiopian soldiers. Before that they beat up everyone in their sight with gun butts, kicks and blows,’’ said Adan Jirma, a resident of Sololo South.<br />
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At around midday Friday, Ethiopians soldiers made a second invasion in the two centres while backed by armoured vehicles. This prompted administration and regular police, backed by Kenya police reservists, to engage the foreign army in a shootout.<br />
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As the gun battle between the two sides raged up to about 4pm Friday, KDF’s army multi-unit detachment from Odha in Moyale, about 100km away, rolled its armoured cars and tanks that were deployed at the border, stretching a distance of about 15km.<br />
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Sololo OCPD Benjamin Mwanzia said the military had been deployed to guard against further incursion but declined to give details.<br />
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National Hospital Insurance Fund Chairman Mohamud Ali called on the Kenya Government to protest what he called frequent invasion by Ethiopian forces into Kenyan territory. “We are a sovereign state and this (invasion) is bad because Ethiopia is considered a friendly neighbour. It is high time our government sends a strong signal to them,” said Ali. Mid this year, Ethiopian forces invaded Kenyan territory on three occasions — at Illeret, Sololo and Moyale.<br />
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line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 53.765625px 0px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BBC's Karen Allen in Nairobi says he is expected to underscore the shared values of the two countries but also touch on human rights.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Saturday, President Obama discussed security issues with his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Later on Sunday, President Obama will fly on to Ethiopia.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Kasarani stadium, where the US leader will make his speech, was last year used as a controversial detention camp for hundreds of Somalis during an operation against the Islamist group al-Shabab.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our correspondent says Mr Obama is expected to warn that such tactics risk alienating communities and stoking radicalism.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Saturday Mr Obama acknowledged the role the Kenyan government had played in the fight against militant groups such as al-Shabab.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The jihadist group has carried out a deadly campaign in Kenya including the 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre and an attack in April in Garissa that killed nearly 150 people.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; 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<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Ethiopia, he will be the first US president to visit the country. He will also become the first US leader to address the 54-member African Union (AU) on Tuesday.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AU Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma described the trip to Ethiopia as a "historic visit" that would "broaden and deepen the relationship between the AU and the US".</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Saturday, Mr Obama praised Africa's economic and business potential in a speech at a business summit.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He also visited a memorial for those killed in the 1998 US embassy bombing in Nairobi.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After holding bilateral talks, President Obama and President Kenyatta said they were "united against terrorism".</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But they differed sharply in their positions on gay rights. While Mr Obama spoke strongly against discrimination, Mr Kenyatta said Kenya did not share the same values.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-63253042452747284802015-07-25T08:00:00.001-07:002015-07-25T08:00:02.459-07:00Auma steals the show as Obama lands<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3c0Im5iVMj4" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-26091132356392185092015-07-14T01:06:00.001-07:002015-07-14T01:06:15.796-07:00President Kenyatta in Ethiopia for conference on financing women and chi...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wv2sMF_8hG4" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-52396248697453834422015-05-21T00:26:00.001-07:002015-05-21T00:26:55.106-07:00Ethiopia troops reportedly raid Kenya police station<div class="row-fluid " style="background-color: white; color: #4b4b4b; font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 21px; width: 1074px;"><div class="span12" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 31px; width: 1074px;"><br /><br />
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The Republic of Eritrea's Ambassador Beyene Russom said his country had given the Kenya government the requisite clearance for the President's jet to use its airspace on his way to Dubai, where he was scheduled to board a commercial flight to Los Angeles. "The Government of Kenya sought permission to use the Eritrean airspace and it was granted and all the relevant communication was forwarded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and aviation authorities," Russom told The Standard yesterday. But the envoy clarified that the President's Fokker 77 military aircraft never accessed Eritrean airspace. "They had the permission to fly through Eritrea. We gave all the necessary assistance to the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the aviation authorities," Russom explained. He was responding to reports that Eritrea ordered the Kenyan presidential jet to return after it was detected or risk being shot down because Kenyan media and politicians had linked the country with supporting Al Shabaab. Russom denied the claims of any dispute that could have prevented the presidential jet from accessing Eritrea airspace. He further added that media reports in Kenya of Eritrea providing safe stay and passage for Al Shabaab and other terrorists were not true and had no connection to Uhuru's flight. See also: Kenya is the best place to do business "There is a lot of misrepresentation being published in various sections of the media in Kenya. I am even being told that we chased away the presidential jet from our airspace because our country had been mentioned in connection to assisting the Al Shabaab. This is not true," he said. State House cited heightened military activity in Yemen for the return of President Kenyatta's jet last Thursday at 11.42p.m., about four hours after departure from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Russom said Eritrea had continued to offer support to Kenya in efforts to secure the country. "I am getting so many calls from other diplomats and friends from around the world who think that we apparently ordered the presidential jet out of our airspace in retaliation for the connection to Al Shabaab in local press," he said. The Eritrean government has since written to the Iran Embassy to seek a clarification on the same. The source of the information was said to be an Iranian diplomat. "They have denied providing any such information. We have further sent a complaint to the diplomatic community over the same," he added. In July 2012, the US government imposed sanctions on six people, including a senior military officer and the country's spy chief, Col Tewolde Habte Negash, over claims that they had provided weapons and financial support to Al Shabaab.</span><br /><br />
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When she saw the face of her son on the front page of a daily newspaper, she pushed it aside and began to tear up.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="127" data-total-count="350" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">He was not poor or marginalized, and did not seem especially angry. He strutted around in $200 suits, the son of a local chief.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="177" data-total-count="527" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">But now her son, Abdirahim Abdullahi, has been<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/world/africa/kenyan-authorities-say-son-of-official-was-among-gunmen-in-university-attack.html" style="color: #326891;" title="Times article">identified as one of the four gunmen</a> who killed<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/world/africa/garissa-university-college-shooting-in-kenya.html" style="color: #326891;" title="Times article">nearly 150 people at a university</a> in eastern<a class="meta-loc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/kenya/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" style="color: #326891;" title="More news and information about Kenya.">Kenya</a> last week, the authorities say.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="226" data-total-count="753" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">Once a promising student himself, Mr. Abdullahi was killed along with the other gunmen as Kenyan forces stormed the campus in Garrisa. Police officers later paraded his naked, bullet-riddled body in the back of a pickup truck.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="79" data-total-count="832" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">“He was a polite and obedient son,” his mother said. “We are in shock.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="137" data-total-count="969" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">But there were big mysteries in his life, his mother acknowledged. It was exactly one year ago, she said, that she last spoke to her son.</div><aside class="marginalia related-coverage-marginalia nocontent robots-nocontent" data-marginalia-type="sprinkled" role="complementary" style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; clear: right; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 45px 7px; padding-top: 10px; width: 300px;"><div class="nocontent robots-nocontent"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/world/africa/kenyans-try-to-trace-a-students-path-to-shabab-terrorism.html?_r=0#story-continues-2" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><header><h2 class="module-heading" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.6875rem; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED COVERAGE</h2></header><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><li style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 0.75em;"><article class="story theme-summary"><a class="story-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/world/africa/kenya-shabab-somalia.html" style="color: #326891; display: block; text-decoration: none;"><h2 class="story-heading" style="color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px;"><span class="story-heading-text" style="color: #326891; padding-right: 0.75em;">Kenyan Fighter Jets Bomb Shabab Training Camps in Somalia</span><time class="dateline" datetime="2015-04-06" style="color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625rem; line-height: 1.0625rem; white-space: nowrap;">APRIL 6, 2015</time></h2></a></article></li>
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<li style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 0px;"><article class="story theme-summary"><a class="story-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/world/middleeast/from-minneapolis-to-isis-an-americans-path-to-jihad.html" style="color: #326891; display: block; text-decoration: none;"><div class="thumb" style="clear: none; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 65px; position: relative; width: 65px;"><img alt="Abdi Nur, right, posted a photo online from Syria. A friend, Abdullahi Yusuf, left, was stopped as he tried to depart. Top, an image of Western passports put up by a Twitter user who says she is an American with the Islamic State." src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/22/world/22JIHADIST_COMBO1/22JIHADIST_COMBO1-thumbStandard.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" /><div class="media-action-overlay" style="bottom: 65.59375px; left: 5.1875px; position: absolute;"></div></div><h2 class="story-heading" style="clear: right; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; float: left; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px; width: 223.5px;"><span class="story-heading-text" style="color: #326891; padding-right: 0.75em;">From Minneapolis to ISIS: An American’s Path to Jihad</span><time class="dateline" datetime="2015-03-21" style="color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625rem; line-height: 1.0625rem; white-space: nowrap;">MARCH 21, 2015</time></h2></a></article></li>
</ul></div></aside><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="80" data-total-count="1049" id="story-continues-2" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">Mr. Abdullahi called her and said, “I’ll come home after evening prayers.”</div><figure aria-label="media" class="promo media video embedded has-adjacency layout-small-horizontal " data-autoplay="false" data-embedded="false" data-media-action="modal" data-share-options-url="" data-videoid="100000003527148" role="group" style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 6px 30px 45px 0px; position: relative; width: 315px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/world/africa/kenyans-try-to-trace-a-students-path-to-shabab-terrorism.html?_r=0#story-continues-3" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Video</span><div class="image" style="background-color: #e3e3e3; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 7px; position: relative;"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/23/world/africa/24KENYA-hp/24KENYA-hp-videoSixteenByNine600.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 315px;" /><div class="media-action-overlay" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.15s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgba(76, 76, 76, 0.85098); bottom: 15px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; left: 15px; max-width: 225px; min-height: 45px; min-width: 110px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; position: absolute; transition: background-color 0.15s; z-index: 5;"><span class="icon" style="border-color: transparent transparent transparent rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: inset inset inset solid; border-width: 12px 18px; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 10px -10px 0px 10px; vertical-align: middle; width: 0px;"></span><div class="media-meta" style="float: left; margin-top: 15px; max-width: 100%;"><h5 class="kicker" style="font-size: 0.75rem; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.075em; line-height: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="kicker-label" style="font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 0.6875rem;">PLAY VIDEO</span></h5></div></div></div><figcaption class="caption" style="bottom: 30px; color: #666666; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.0625rem;"><h4 class="headline" style="color: #333333; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Kenya’s Unemployed Face Terror’s Lure</h4><div class="summary-credit"><span class="credit video-credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem; margin-bottom: 0px;">By Matt Goldman on <span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Publish Date</span>February 23, 2015. </span><span class="credit photo-credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem; margin-bottom: 0px;">Photo by Ivan Lieman for The New York Times.</span></div></figcaption></figure><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="40" data-total-count="1089" id="story-continues-3" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">She never talked to him again, she said.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="243" data-total-count="1332" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">The Kenyan authorities are trying to piece together how Mr. Abdullahi, 26, went from the competitive University of Nairobi law school, where he impressed other students with his quick wit, to being the terrorist the authorities contend he was.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="205" data-total-count="1537" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">Though Kenya’s slums have long been fertile recruiting ground for alienated youth <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/world/africa/extremist-group-gains-foothold-among-kenyans.html" style="color: #326891;" title="Times article">lured to fight for the Shabab</a> with the promise of being paid, Mr. Abdullahi was educated, with a seemingly bright future.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="189" data-total-count="1726" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">His family said that after breaking contact, he simply disappeared. Kenyan authorities said Mr. Abdullahi was killed with the other gunmen after getting cornered in a blood-splattered dorm.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="260" data-total-count="1986" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">The <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/al-shabab/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #326891;" title="More articles about Al-Shabab.">Shabab</a>, the Somali militant group that has attacked Kenya several times, has gleefully claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retribution for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/world/africa/kenya-planned-somalia-incursion-far-in-advance.html" style="color: #326891;" title="Times article">Kenya’s military incursion</a> into Somalia and vowing to make Kenya’s cities “run red with blood.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="364" data-total-count="2350" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">On Monday, Kenyan defense officials said that their fighter jets had bombed two Shabab training camps in Somalia, the first military response to the university massacre, which was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/world/africa/kenyan-students-describe-shabab-attack-on-garissa-university-college.html" style="color: #326891;" title="Times article">the worst terrorist attack</a> in the country since the 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy here. Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, had vowed to respond “in the severest way.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="303" data-total-count="2653" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">It was difficult to assess the damage from the airstrikes, military officials said, because of heavy cloud cover. Kenya has carried out bombing raids in Somalia after terrorist assaults in the past, and the Shabab militants, knowing what was coming, have often abandoned their camps after major attacks.</div><figure class="interactive interactive-embedded limit-small layout-medium" id="shabab-attacks-in-kenya" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; margin: 15px 0px 15px 90px; min-width: 300px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 15px; position: relative; width: 720px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/world/africa/kenyans-try-to-trace-a-students-path-to-shabab-terrorism.html?_r=0#story-continues-4" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><figcaption class="interactive-caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem;"><h2 class="interactive-headline" style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">Shabab Attacks in Kenya</h2></figcaption><div class="interactive-graphic" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="ai2html" id="g-shabab-attacks-box"><div class="g-artboard g-show-medium g-show-large g-show-xlarge" id="g-shabab-attacks-Artboard_2" style="margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 720px;"><div id="g-shabab-attacks-Artboard_2-graphic"><img class="g-aiImg" data-height-multiplier="0.625" data-src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/04/02/shabab-attacks/cfcf0da4c6fad8f0d3f9b457328fdead09f04b21/shabab-attacks-Artboard_2.png" id="g-ai0-0" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/04/02/shabab-attacks/cfcf0da4c6fad8f0d3f9b457328fdead09f04b21/shabab-attacks-Artboard_2.png" style="display: block; height: 450px; max-width: 100%; width: 720px;" /><div class="g-karentext g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-1" style="left: -0.125px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 280.484375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle0" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 22px;">Since 2012, more than 600 people have been killed in Kenya by the Shabab, an extremist group based in Somalia and affiliated with Al Qaeda. The group claimed responsibility for an April 2 attack on Garissa University College that killed 147 people.</div></div><div class="g-TwnP_-_Default g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-2" style="left: 671.078125px; margin-left: -52.671875px; position: absolute; top: 76.8125px; width: 105.34375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle1" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 10px; text-align: center;">Mandera</div></div><div class="g-TwnP_-_Default g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-3" style="left: 573.40625px; margin-left: -29.1875px; position: absolute; top: 273.359375px; width: 58.390625px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle1" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 10px; text-align: center;">Wajir</div></div><div class="g-TwnP_-_Default g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-4" style="left: 464.4375px; margin-left: -75.296875px; position: absolute; top: 314.453125px; width: 150.609375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle2" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.35em; line-height: 10px; text-align: center;">KENYA</div></div><div class="g-karentext g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-5" style="left: -0.046875px; position: absolute; top: 314.453125px; width: 221.484375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle3" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 18px;">Attacks by the Shabab that resulted in one or more deaths</div></div><div class="g-karentext g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-6" style="left: 62.84375px; position: absolute; top: 394.84375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle4" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;">100 deaths</div></div><div class="g-karentext g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-7" style="left: 62.84375px; position: absolute; top: 428.796875px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle4" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;">30</div></div><div class="g-TwnP_-_Default g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-8" style="left: 556.09375px; margin-left: -46.109375px; position: absolute; top: 432.359375px; width: 92.21875px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle5" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 10px; text-align: center;">Garissa</div></div><div class="g-karentext g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-9" style="left: 63.25px; position: absolute; top: 455.59375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle4" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;">5</div></div><div class="g-TwnP_-_Default g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-10" style="left: 421.046875px; margin-left: -41.953125px; position: absolute; top: 521.703125px; width: 83.90625px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle1" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 10px; text-align: center;">Nairobi</div></div><div class="g-karentext g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-11" style="left: 237.984375px; position: absolute; top: 598.53125px; width: 148.484375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle6" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">In 2013, the Shabab mounted an attack on a Nairobi shopping mall that left at least 67 people dead.</div></div><div class="g-karentext g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-12" style="left: 1px; position: absolute; top: 602.09375px; width: 176.484375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle7" style="color: #666666; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Sources: Preliminary data from Global Terrorism Database, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism; Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project</div></div><div class="g-TwnP_-_Default g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-13" style="left: 658.453125px; margin-left: -33.109375px; position: absolute; top: 630.6875px; width: 66.234375px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle1" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 10px; text-align: center;">Lamu</div></div><div class="g-TwnP_-_Default g-aiAbs" id="g-ai0-14" style="left: 616px; margin-left: -58.5px; position: absolute; top: 748.609375px; width: 117px;"><div class="g-aiPstyle1" style="color: black; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 10px; text-align: center;">Mombasa</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="footer"><div class="interactive-credit" style="color: #999999; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 0.875rem; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="byline-dateline" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 45px;"></div>By The New York Times</div></div></figure><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="87" data-total-count="2740" id="story-continues-4" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">The Shabab issued a statement saying the bombs had missed and landed in an empty field.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="324" data-total-count="3064" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">Mr. Kenyatta was coming under intense pressure to do something. Many Kenyans are furious that it took more than eight hours after the attacks began for commandos to arrive at the university. The delay was attributed to logistical issues, but the slow response raised questions about whether more lives could have been saved.</div><div class="ad ad-placeholder nocontent robots-nocontent" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/world/africa/kenyans-try-to-trace-a-students-path-to-shabab-terrorism.html?_r=0#story-continues-5" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/world/africa/kenyans-try-to-trace-a-students-path-to-shabab-terrorism.html?_r=0#story-continues-5" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><iframe frameborder="0" height="280px" hspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://srv.dynamicyield.com/st?sec=8765344&id=Europe%20-%20April%204-10%202015" style="border-style: none; overflow: hidden;" vspace="0" width="300px"></iframe></div><div class="ad text-ad middle-right-ad nocontent robots-nocontent" id="MiddleRightN" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; position: relative;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/world/africa/kenyans-try-to-trace-a-students-path-to-shabab-terrorism.html?_r=0#story-continues-5" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><iframe class="ad-frame frame-for-article" frameborder="0" style="border-style: none; height: 252px; width: 302px;"></iframe></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="252" data-total-count="3316" id="story-continues-5" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">Students at other universities have threatened to boycott unless security at their campuses is significantly improved. Others have complained that the Kenyan government had intelligence that such an attack was in the works and did little to prevent it.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="252" data-total-count="3568" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">Kenyan officials have talked of building a 424-mile wall along the Somali border, but it is not clear how that would help. As the portrait of Mr. Abdullahi put forward by the authorities shows, the problem of deadly extremism <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/world/africa/extremist-group-gains-foothold-among-kenyans.html?_r=0" style="color: #326891;" title="Times article">is now coming from within</a>.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="250" data-total-count="3818" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">Mr. Abdullahi grew up in Mandera, a sun-soaked town where the borders of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia meet. A Kenyan of ethnic Somali background, he did so well in primary school that an uncle urged him to attend a high school in Nairobi, the capital.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="152" data-total-count="3970" id="story-continues-6" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">“He was bright, hardworking and polite,” recalled Abdisalam Birik, a former colleague. “The last time I saw him was when he went to university.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="218" data-total-count="4188" id="story-continues-7" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">After university, Mr. Abdullahi worked at a bank and managed a small business on the side. Friends said he liked expensive clothing and loved to shoot pool. Photos of him show a thin, attractive man with a strong chin.</div><figure aria-label="media" class="promo media video embedded has-adjacency layout-small-horizontal " data-autoplay="false" data-embedded="false" data-media-action="modal" data-share-options-url="" data-videoid="100000003607710" role="group" style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 6px 30px 45px 0px; position: relative; width: 315px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/world/africa/kenyans-try-to-trace-a-students-path-to-shabab-terrorism.html?_r=0#story-continues-8" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Video</span><div class="image" style="background-color: #e3e3e3; 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margin-top: 15px; max-width: 100%;"><h5 class="kicker" style="font-size: 0.75rem; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.075em; line-height: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="kicker-label" style="font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 0.6875rem;">PLAY VIDEO</span></h5></div></div></div><figcaption class="caption" style="bottom: 30px; color: #666666; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.0625rem;"><h4 class="headline" style="color: #333333; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Students Describe Attack at Kenya School</h4><div class="summary-credit"><span class="credit video-credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Publish Date</span>April 2, 2015. </span><span class="credit photo-credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem; margin-bottom: 0px;">Photo by Dai Kurokawa/European Pressphoto Agency.</span></div></figcaption></figure><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="224" data-total-count="4412" id="story-continues-8" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">According to <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Monster-who-led-Shabaab-mass-killers-is-unmasked-/-/1056/2677056/-/votp0kz/-/index.html" style="color: #326891;" title="Daily Nation article">The Daily Nation</a>, Kenya’s leading newspaper, Mr. Abdullahi wanted to join the Islamic State, but since he did not have a passport he settled on the Shabab (Kenya’s border with Somalia is notoriously porous).</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="130" data-total-count="4542" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">His mother and six siblings said that he had never showed any interest in politics and that they had no idea what radicalized him.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="120" data-total-count="4662" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">“This was the first time we heard any news of him since he disappeared,” said Mr. Abdullahi’s older sister, Ifrah.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="72" data-total-count="4734" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">She remembers him as a helpful brother, a soccer fan and an avid reader.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="90" data-total-count="4824" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">“He liked ‘The Merchant of Venice,’ ” she said. “And those literature books.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="82" data-total-count="4906" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">“I think someone brainwashed him to do something on behalf of them,” she said.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="64" data-total-count="4970" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">Another sister, Khadija, 16, appeared angry, sad and frustrated.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="73" data-total-count="5043" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">“He will not come back,” she said as she slammed her fist on a table.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="154" data-total-count="5197" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">The family house is on a dirt road, not far from the center of town. Mr. Abdullahi’s mother spent much of the day sitting on a bed in the yard, stunned.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="44" data-total-count="5241" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 532px;">“He is gone,” she said and began to cry.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-62516097998000294932015-04-10T01:07:00.001-07:002015-04-10T01:07:28.252-07:00 Kenya can't, won't be Ethiopia<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Kenya can't, won't be Ethiopia By Mwaura Samora Updated Friday, April 10th 2015 at 00:00 GMT +3 Share this story: NAIROBI: The recent attack on Garissa University College, where more than 150 lives were cut short by Al-Shabaab bullets, has evoked anger among Kenyans. This and other bloody attacks in Mandera, Lamu and Nairobi have triggered numerous debates, drawing parallels between Kenya and Ethiopia in the war against terrorism. Despite Ethiopia having troops in Somalia, sharing a wide border with the lawless country and having a huge Somali population, there have been fewer if any attacks from the terror group in that country, or so the world has been led to believe. Although Ethiopia has been praised locally for beating an enemy that Kenya is apparently grappling to contain, the former's success against terror has been largely due to its history, system of government and unique internal dynamics. Unlike in Kenya where opinion on every issue is split between the two main coalitions, Ethiopia is a federal state ruled by a single dominant political party that practices a strict brand of socialism that places the state above everything else. The ruling Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which came to power in 1991 after a guerilla war against the bloody Mengistu Haille Mariam regime, holds total political sway. The coalition, which consists of four political parties, holds 499 out of the 547 national assembly seats. See also: North Eastern leaders, Knut donate Sh17m for terror victims To illustrate the country's political intolerance, the government often refers to the opposition in derogatory terms like "chauvinists", "narrow nationalists", "secessionists" or simply "enemies". The Ethiopian government controls all spheres of life, from media to people's daily lives. The main national broadcaster, Ethiopian Television, and most of the 10 radio stations, are owned by the government. Introduced in 1992 and giving the police sweeping powers to detain journalists without trial and shut down dissenting media outlets, Ethiopian media laws make the National Security (Amendment) Bill 2014 look like a legal walk in the park. After the 2005 general elections, many journalists were jailed and tens of protesters shot dead in the streets of Addis Ababa. Politically, the country is a federate divided into nine ethnically-based regions called kililochs, which the opposition has compared to the racially clustered apartheid South Africa's bantustans, each ruled by a party created or closely associated with EPRDF. And this is where, by default rather than design, the country's war against terror is won. Ruled by tribal councils which wield totalitarian powers, the Kililochs are divided into Kebeles, similar to wards, that comprise 3,500 to 4,000 people. Most Kebele members are armed and in charge of neighbourhood security, and so terror cells stands zero chance in these regions.</span><br /><br />
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padding: 0px 4px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopian Prime Minister HaileMariam Dessalegn and Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh</div></div><div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Djibouti ( ENA + DIPLOMAT.SO) – Ethiopia and Djibouti today signed different agreements to boost ties in trade, mining, industry, transport, as well as peace and security.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The respective ministers of the two countries signed the agreement in Djibouti with the presence of Ethiopian Prime Minister HaileMariam Dessalegn and Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prime Minister HaileMariam who is in Djibouti in his first state visit in his capacity, calls the agreements “landmark” as they are expected to strengthen cooperation in various areas and enhance economic integration.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We have come to a point where the strategic partnership between our two countries has got to a high level, in the height where the commission for joint engagement has been uplifted to heads of state and government level”, he said</div><div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This shows, according to the Prime Minister, the strength of the bilateral relationship between the two countries, which is leading to economic integration.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He said the two nations are the only countries that are integrating themselves in all areas saying: “the only countries in Africa that have integrating themselves by road, railway, telecommunication, power and </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-80106742504647741392015-02-08T07:46:00.001-08:002015-02-08T07:46:52.016-08:00 Marsabit politicians and chiefs giving Ethiopian immigrants IDs, say State investigators<span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Marsabit politicians and chiefs giving Ethiopian immigrants IDs, say State investigators BY ALI ABDI Updated Sunday, February 8th 2015 at 00:00 GMT +3 Share this story: In a shocking revelation about how politicians take national security for granted, government agencies are investigating claims that some politicians in Marsabit County are ‘importing’ voters from across the border as they prepare for the 2017 polls. Investigators are zeroing in on chiefs and their assistants who are allegedly used by politicians to issue Ethiopians with Kenyan national identity cards so they can help tilt the scales in their favour in the next polls. Marsabit leaders now want the National Government to arrest those politicians involved. Intelligence sources from the vast county indicate that the chiefs and elders, who are members of their respective vetting committees, are used by politicians to help the foreigners get the document. Senior members of the vetting committees include assistant county commissioners, deputy county commissioner (DCs), an officer from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and Registrar of Persons or their representatives. Chiefs and elders vet those seeking IDs on behalf of the committee. National security The plot, according to sources, is to enroll the aliens as voters in various constituencies and wards in the 2017 elections. Most of these ‘imports’ are able-bodied men with an average age of 30 years but most do not speak either English or Kiswahili. “Foreigners from southern Ethiopia have been given Kenyan IDs. More are lined up to get Kenyan citizenship and we are probing this matter as it also touches on national security,” said Kipchumba Rutto, the deputy county commissioner. “We also know that the aliens are given IDs so they can be registered as voters in the 2017 General Election.” Mr Rutto said authorities believe rival politicians use the chiefs and village elders to recruit the foreigners. However, Governor Ukur Yattani dismissed the claims and accused Rutto of masquerading as a deputy county commissioner</span><br /><br />
<span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Read more at: </span><a href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000150946/marsabit-politicians-and-chiefs-giving-ethiopian-immigrants-ids-say-state-investigators" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000150946/marsabit-politicians-and-chiefs-giving-ethiopian-immigrants-ids-say-state-investigators</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-30007126345383639412015-01-31T11:45:00.001-08:002015-01-31T11:45:10.452-08:00Standard Digital News - Kenya : Kenya joins AU presidential flagship projects initiative<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Kenya joins AU presidential flagship projects initiative By JUMA KWAYERA Updated Friday, January 30th 2015 at 22:01 GMT +3 Share this story: First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed, (in blue) and Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru arrive at Addis Ababa Ethiopia for the Africa Union summit. [PHOTO: PSCU] Kenya: Kenya is the latest member of the African Union’s Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI). The disclosure was made by President Uhuru Kenyatta when he addressed the Nepad Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee in Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he is attending the 24th heads of state summit of the African Union. The initiative consists of 20 members. Speaking when he addressed the orientation committee, President Kenyatta expressed gratitude it had “opened up its meetings to allow member countries to participate and contribute to pertinent discussions of New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) implementation.” “It is this expanded participation that has afforded Kenya the opportunity to table its request for inclusion of the regional flagship project Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor Project (Lapsset) – in the Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative,” he said. He said Lapsset, which is the single largest project of its nature in Eastern Africa “once completed it will significantly boost the economic growth of not only Kenya but the region in general...” The project, which covers Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda is estimated to cost Sh2.7 trillion. See also: Ministry hands over 154 industrial centres to enterprise authority Kenyatta also paid tribute to his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma, for co-opting Kenya into the infrastructure initiative. “I thank my brother and colleague His Excellency President Jacob Zuma, for the consideration and announcement on the inclusion of Kenya to the Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI),” he said. Africa Union Commission’s strategic plan development revolves around five key pillars, namely peace and security, socio-economic and human development; integration, cooperation and partnership; culture; and institutions, capacity building and communication. The commission is the executive arm of the African Union. PICI was mooted in 2011 during the 16th African Union Assembly of seven regional infrastructure projects that cover the five major economic blocs on the continent to be championed by African heads of state. Nepad is the technical coordinator and secretariat that undertakes periodic status analysis of the projects. President Kenyatta also pledged to fast track implementation of the Lapsset project. “I am honoured by this recognition and confirm my Government’s commitment to accelerating implementation and completion of the Lapsset project,” he told the meeting. Against this backdrop, Kenyatta promised to honour financial obligations to Nepad and “offer any support requested in implementation of its continental agenda.” He also announced that Kenya had accepted to host the Second High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Coordination next year. The meeting to be held in February, will be the first ever to be held in Africa.</span><br /><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Read more at: </span><a href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000149937/kenya-joins-au-presidential-flagship-projects-initiative/" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000149937/kenya-joins-au-presidential-flagship-projects-initiative/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635758129884016954.post-62979456397332105802014-12-11T03:22:00.001-08:002014-12-11T03:24:42.037-08:00Kenya : Kenya-Ethiopia pact targets communities at the border -Standard Digital News - <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Kenya-Ethiopia pact targets communities at the border By PSCU Updated Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 15:28 GMT +3 Share this story: Kenya and Ethiopia have signed an agreement that aims at creating opportunities for communities at the border, President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Wednesday. This will create stability and security, he said. Speaking when bidding farewell to the Ethiopian Ambassador to Kenya Ato Shemsedin Ahmed, he assured the envoy that his Government is determined to implement the special status agreement signed between the two countries. “A busy person will have no time thinking of taking a gun to commit crime, rather he would be so committed to their businesses which he/she knows will ensure they get their daily livelihoods,” the President added. On terror, President Kenyatta said Kenya is committed to winning the war and that his Government will continue working with and borrowing best practices from Ethiopia, which also neighbours Somalia. The Ethiopian envoy condoled with the President and the people of Kenya following the recent terror massacre in Mandera saying the Ethiopian Government will work closely with Kenya to ensure they root out the Al-Shabaab menace in the region. See also: Witness in Ruto ICC case 'proven wrong' via video clips He assured the President of the Ethiopian Government commitment to the implementation of the agreement saying it will ensure security and stability within the region. Ambassador Ahmed said conflict between border communities has also contributed to border insecurity. Share this story: World</span><br /><br />
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She had a positive test on an A sample for an unnamed banned substance, according to the World Marathon Majors, which represents the world’s six most prominent marathons. But under antidoping rules, a second sample of the same test must come back positive for her to be found guilty of a doping violation by the International Association of Athletics Federations, track and field’s international governing body.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="319" data-total-count="1096" id="story-continues-2" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Jeptoo is the second high-profile female marathon runner to be entangled in a doping scandal this year. In April, Liliya Shobukhova of Russia, who has the second-fastest women’s marathon time, received a two-year ban after abnormalities were found in her biological markers that are used to detect evidence of doping.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="329" data-total-count="1425" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Along with neighboring Ethiopia, Kenya has developed the world’s richest tradition in distance running. In recent years, though, the sport has grown more complicated there, characterized by wondrous achievement and undermined by evidence of doping as money and interest have bloomed and technology has grown more sophisticated.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="288" data-total-count="1713" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">In September, Dennis Kimetto of Kenya ran 2 hours 2 minutes 57 seconds at the Berlin Marathon, making him the first person to run 26.2 miles faster than 2:03 and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/sports/kenyan-dennis-kimetto-becomes-the-first-marathoner-under-203.html" style="color: #326891;" title="NYT article on record">shattering the world record by 26 seconds</a>. His victory spurred further debate about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/upshot/forecasting-the-fall-of-the-two-hour-marathon.html" style="color: #326891;" title="Upshot article on marathon times">when a sub-two-hour marathon might be run</a>.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="169" data-total-count="1882" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">But then an antidoping task force last month criticized Kenya’s track and field federation for what it said were lax efforts to catch athletes using banned substances.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="342" data-total-count="2224" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">More than 30 athletes have tested positive for banned substances in recent years, a report by the task force said. Pharmacies, clinics and athletes’ representatives have assisted in the procurement of prohibited drugs, it said. The blood-boosting drug EPO, which enhances oxygen-carrying capacity, was one substance mentioned in the report.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="202" data-total-count="2426" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Officials with the World Anti-Doping Agency, who expressed frustration with efforts in Kenya, <a href="https://www.wada-ama.org/en/media/news/2014-10/wada-hosts-kenyan-officials-at-regional-office-meeting-in-cape-town#.VFP_Usk5qiQ" style="color: #326891;" title="Article on meeting">recently met with Kenyan officials</a> about the country’s efforts to combat the use of prohibited substances.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="292" data-total-count="2718" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">On Sunday, after the <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/new_york_city_marathon/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #326891;" title="More articles about the New York City Marathon.">New York City Marathon</a>, Jeptoo was to receive a check for $500,000 for winning the World Marathon Majors, a prize for the top male and female runners for performances at races in Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York in a two-year cycle. That <a href="https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com/news/wmm/show/world-marathon-majors-statement-on-rita-jeptoo/" style="color: #326891;" title="World Marathon Majors announcement">was postponed</a>.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="320" data-total-count="3038" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">“The stakes are so high,” said George Hirsch, chairman of the board of New York Road Runners, which organizes the city’s marathon, speaking in general about the temptation to use banned substances in a country such as Kenya. “It’s far more money than almost anybody in that country could earn in a lifetime.”</div><div class="ad ad-placeholder nocontent robots-nocontent" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/sports/marathon-champion-rita-jeptoo-fails-doping-test.html?_r=0#story-continues-3" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><iframe class="ad-frame frame-for-article" frameborder="0" style="border-style: none; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></iframe></div><div class="ad text-ad middle-right-ad nocontent robots-nocontent" id="SponLinkA" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; position: relative;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/sports/marathon-champion-rita-jeptoo-fails-doping-test.html?_r=0#story-continues-3" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a><iframe class="ad-frame frame-for-article" frameborder="0" style="border-style: none; height: 252px; width: 302px;"></iframe></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="137" data-total-count="3175" id="story-continues-3" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Any formal sanctions against Jeptoo would be levied by the I.A.A.F., which has not yet announced a doping violation or any potential ban.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="342" data-total-count="3517" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">The World Marathon Majors has joined the I.A.A.F. in helping to provide more out-of-competition testing, considered the only reliable way to catch those using banned substances. Nick Bitel, general counsel of the marathon group, said Friday, “Cheats need to understand that they are not welcome in our sport and that they will be caught.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="275" data-total-count="3792" id="story-continues-4" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Although Jeptoo was not competing in Sunday’s race, the news of her positive test was a distraction for the final major marathon of the year. Many elite runners heard about Jeptoo’s positive doping test on their way to, or at, a scheduled news conference Friday morning.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="312" data-total-count="4104" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Instead of talking about his attempt to become the first man to win three New York City Marathons in a row since Alberto Salazar in 1982, Geoffrey Mutai, another Kenyan standout, was confronted with questions about how often he had been drug-tested and whether he thought he was running on a level playing field.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="206" data-total-count="4310" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">For years, it has been said that many Kenyan distance runners refuse to take even an aspirin for a headache. And some international experts cautioned against painting all Kenyans with a brush of skepticism.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="134" data-total-count="4444" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">“I don’t know that you can extrapolate or make any general findings or conclusions until we know the circumstances,” Bitel said.</div><br /><br />
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<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="143" data-total-count="4587" id="story-continues-5" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Yet the number of positive tests in Kenya has risen sharply in recent years, which could reflect increased testing as much as growing drug use.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="248" data-total-count="4835" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Jeptoo is the third runner to test positive among one of Kenya’s most successful training groups, which has Federico Rosa as its manager and Claudio Beradelli as its coach. Rosa and Beradelli, who are from Italy, denied any involvement in doping.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="233" data-total-count="5068" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">The Rosa group, founded by Federico Rosa’s father, Gabriele, a highly respected marathon coach, has produced such top stars as Paul Tergat, a former world-record holder in the marathon, and Sammy Wanjiru, the 2008 Olympic champion.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="272" data-total-count="5340" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">But the training group — and by extension, Kenyan distance running — has come under increased examination. Mathew Kisorio, a former member of the group, received a two-year ban in 2012 and later told the German television network ARD that doping was not rare in Kenya.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="319" data-total-count="5659" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">“I went with it because everyone told me I wasn’t the only one — and none of the others got caught for doping,” he said. “I know that a lot of medical substances are used, which are injected straight to the blood for the body to have more oxygen. And when you run, you run so smooth. You have more stamina.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="363" data-total-count="6022" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Jemima Sumgong, another Rosa group runner, also received a two-year ban after a failed doping test in 2012, but it was later reversed. Sumgong, who is scheduled to compete in Sunday’s marathon, declined to comment on Jeptoo’s case but said that in general, when it came to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, “we athletes, we are not happy about it.”</div><button class="button comments-button theme-speech-bubble" data-skip-to-para-id="story-continues-6" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.3s; background-color: white; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: none; color: white; cursor: pointer; float: left; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.8125rem; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 15px 22px 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; transition: background-color 0.3s; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="visually-hidden" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/sports/marathon-champion-rita-jeptoo-fails-doping-test.html?_r=0#story-continues-6" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; width: 1px;">CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY</a><span class="icon" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.3s; background: rgb(135, 156, 180); border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; display: inline-block; height: 55px; line-height: 0; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.3s; vertical-align: middle; width: 90px;"></span><span class="button-text" style="display: inline-block; left: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 15px 2px 7px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 86px;"><span class="count" style="display: block; font-size: 1.375rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1rem;">7</span><span class="units" style="display: block; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.6875rem; margin-top: 6px;">COMMENTS</span></span></button><br /><br />
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="133" data-total-count="6155" id="story-continues-6" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Rosa said Friday that he had been cooperating with the I.A.A.F. in investigating the rising number of positive doping tests in Kenya.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="135" data-total-count="6290" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">“It’s surprising on one side, not surprising on the other because of a lot of problems in Kenya about this,” Rosa said of Jeptoo.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="236" data-total-count="6526" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 135px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;">Rosa said “there’s a fear” doping was becoming commonplace in Kenya, adding, “For sure, we will go legally after the people that put Rita in this situation, and probably also Rita if we found out she is cooperating with them.”</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0