Heavy fighting continued to rock Somalia capital of Mogadishu for the third day running, the fighting is between the Somalia insurgent group of Al-Shabab and the transitional federal government troops allied to sheikh sheriff sheikh Ahmed administration. The total number of deaths reported as at now stand at 50 and the casualties has reached 100 [...]
Nairobi,Kenya 12th March 2010 … Kenyan government has released Kidney ailment statistics in the country which indicated that an estimated one million people suffer from kidney ailments, 600,000 of whom being the youths. With the higher number of Kidney ailment in the country, Kenya also suffers from acute shortage of kidney specialists with one nephrologist [...]
Japan has extended Sh288 million grant assistance to underprivileged farmers in Kenya in support of government’s initiatives to increase food security through procurement of essential inputs including fertilizer, agricultural chemicals and machinery. Within the framework of TICAD IV, Kenya has benefited from many projects including expansion of teacher training in Mathematics and Science through the [...]
The mayor of the Somali capital Mogadishu has issued a warning to resident’s to vacate the city amidst fierce battles between government forces and insurgents. According to reports coming out of the country, more than 50 people have been killed in three days of Islamist insurgent attacks. The Mayor, Abdurisaq Mohamed Nor said the long-anticipated [...]
Nairobi, Kenya 11th March,2010 … World Food Programme (WFP) has said it would welcome an independent investigation into its food assistance operations in Somalia. At the same time, the agency said it would not engage in any new work with three transport contractors named in a report from the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia, [...]
Somali government forces and al Shabaab rebels in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu have been engaged in intense fighting that has left 17 people dead and 65 wounded. This is according to a Somali human rights group. It has also been reported that Al-Shabaab beheaded two employees of a telecoms company who they [...]
IGAD’s 14th Extra Ordinary Summit Meeting held in Nairobi today has resolved to ensure democracy prevails In Sudan ‘s elections and referendum scheduled to take place In April and January 2011 respectively. During The Meeting IGAD members states pressurised Sudanese people to ensure they conduct a free and fair elections during its first democratic polls [...]
Nairobi,Kenya 8th March … President Mwai Kibaki has barred Cabinet Ministers and their assistants from travelling outside Kenya to ensure they attend parliamentary debates on the draft Constitution. In a move to ensure the country attain the constitution after two decades of waiting the president issued the directive to ensure Ministers attend parliament Session. Parliament [...]
In the East African state of Tanzania, unidentified gunmen raided a wedding party at a village in the north of the country killing five people according to the country’s police. About seven people were also injured in the incident that happened in Tarime district, in the Mara region, on Thursday night. According to Tarime police [...]
In response to the request by ICC Judges of 18 February 2010, the Prosecutor clarified today that senior political and business leaders associated with the main political parties, the PNU which was in the government at the time of the violence and the ODM which was the main opposition party at the time, organized, [...]
Pirates in Somalia have captured a small Saudi tanker and its crew. The announcement came from the EU naval force in the Gulf of Aden. It is alleged that the tanker was travelling from Japan to Jeddah, and was empty of its cargo when pirates hijacked the vessel and took its crew captive.. The tanker, [...]
