Category: Kenya
Kenya: Somali kenyans Available for Genocidal Imaginations
Nairobi (HAN) April 25, 2014, Story Opinion Contributed by Patrick Gathara – Speaking last week during the commemoration of two decades since the genocide in his country, Rwandan strongman, Paul Kagame, argued that the catastrophe had been decades in the making. “The most devastating legacy of European control of Rwanda was the transformation of social…
Kenya: Security Forces Captured Saudi Citizen, Terror Financier
Nairobi (HAN) April 26, 2014 – Weekly Security Alert Report Note By, Joy Nabukewa. The Kenyan police said Thursday they are holding a Somalia Al-Shabaab militant suspect believed to be financing and recruiting youths in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Great Lakes to joint the Al-Qaida allied network in Africa. One source told Geeska Afrika Online…
The Solution of Current Security Situation Crisis In Kenya
Nairobi (HAN) April 22, 2014 – Former national assembly deputy speaker Farah Maalim and outspoken former Lagdera MP told Geeska Afrika Online that, Last weeks’s crackdown on Somali diaspora in Kenyan refugees reads like a show of force by a Uhuru government that desperately wants to hide the case they accused with the highest profile…
Kenyan Lawmaker Strategically supported President Uhuru's Ongoing security operation
Nairobi (HAN) April 22, 2014 – The Somali Kenyan Lawmaker and the Leader of the Kenyan Majority in the National assembly, Aden Duale, has changed his stand on the ongoing security operation in the country, stating that he is now fully behind the government in flushing out criminal elements. Speaking for the first time after…
INTERVIEW: Kenyan Leadership Crisis, Somali terrorism Scapegoat and Regional Security
Nairobi (HAN) April 20, 2014 – The failure of Somalia has had a significant impact upon its neighbors, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Yemen. Kenyan Somali MP Duale said “I will not allow my people to be blacklisted as a Muslim terrorists.,” Because of this political statement, Kenyan TNA MPs accused leader of Majority Aden Duale of being…
Kenya: Security Raids targeted Kenyan Somali Ethnic Race
Nairobi (HAN) April 20, 2014 – By Gregory Warner is NPR’s East Africa Correspondent. Mohammed Ali Isaac’s hands shook as he showed his Kenyan ID to the police officers. They let him pass, but his cousins weren’t so lucky. The two women had forgotten their IDs at home, and the police were threatening to load them…
Kenyan Somali’s are not second-class citizens: Ministry of Interior
Nairobi (HAN) April 18, 2014 – In this section of Opinion By MWENDA NJOKA – Security agencies in IGAD countries are on alert for possible terror attacks from Somali Militats Al-Shabaab who have vowed to avenge the presence of African Union troops in Somalia. Kenyan Security has been increased following that alert, said Kenya’s Internal Security…
SOMALI AMERICAN PETITION: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO STOP THE MISTREATMENT OF SOMALIS IN KENYA
Washington (HAN) April 19, 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR expressed concern for Somali refugees and called on Kenyan law enforcement to treat them humanely. The agency reports nearly 551,000 refugees and asylum seekers reside in the country and 50,800 of them are Somalis living in Nairobi. SOMALIS IN KENYA ARE…
Kenya’s Uchumi expansion across the region
Nairobi (HAN) April 18, 2014– Kenyan supermarket chain, Uchumi Supermarkets is inking final touches to an inaugural launch of an outlet in Kigali, Rwanda, as it seeks to consolidate a regional presence in East Africa. “We are seeking more growth and expansion across the region,” said Chief Executive, Jonathan Ciano, who spoke to Business Daily. “We…
Kenya: Orange Mobile not searching for potential buyers
Nairobi (HAN) April 18, 2014 –Mobile phone operator, Orange Kenya, this week rejected claims that it is searching for potential buyers. Orange Kenya said instead it is looking for “strategic partners” so that money could be injected into the business to support it in the long term. This rejection comes after former workers of the telco…