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Kenyan govt secretly importing tanks, fighter jets & other military weapons
AllAfrica: A total of 77 tanks and 15 jet fighters were secretly imported by Kenya last year alone, according to official documents. Two rocket launchers and more than 40,000 automatic rifles and machine guns were also brought in, the United Nations says. Yet the government has not reported its arms purchases to the United Nations, as required by international agreements, the Sunday Nation can reveal.
Instead, Kenya told the UN it had not imported any arms at all.
Andrew Mwangura arrested in Kenya for revealing MV Faina true destination
AllAfrica: East Africa Seafarers Association programme coordinator Andrew Mwangura was also accused of being found in possession of four rolls of bhang, a charge that elicited cynical laughter among those in court.
Mr Mwangura, who appeared before Mombasa principal magistrate Richard Kirui, is alleged to have published a false statement which claimed the military hardware on the hijacked ship mv Faina was destined for Southern Sudan.
MV Faina sailing in a shroud of mystery
The Faina is a Ukrainian cargo ship that sails under the flag of Belize.[1] The Faina is owned by either Tomex Team or Kaalbye Shipping Ukraine.[2] The ship was captured by Somalis on September 25, 2008, becoming the 62nd attack by pirates on ships near Somalia.[3] The Faina’s crew consisted of 17 Ukrainians, 3 Russians, and 1 Latvian, and among them was a 14-year-old boy.[4][3] On September 28, Viktor Nikolsky, who identified himself as the ship’s captain, said that one of the crew had died from hypertension.[5][6] Read the rest of this entry »
MV Faina weapons were headed to South Sudan through Kenya!
NAIROBI, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — Controversy is looming over seized Ukrainian vessel carrying military equipment with fresh reports indicating that the arsenal was destined for south Sudan and not the Kenyan military.
Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Program said on Sunday the Somali pirates claim to be in possession of confidential documents showing that the arms were actually destined for southern Sudan and not Kenya. Read the rest of this entry »
Kenya: Joy as Kibaki, Raila Sign Power Sharing Deal
By Patrick Wachira (The Standard)
Finally, the much-awaited power sharing deal that has been shrouded in controversy, but which held the only key to a peaceful and agreeable settlement of the post-election impasse has been signed.Both President Kibaki and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader, Mr Raila Odinga, appended their signatures on the historic deal that saw the return of the Office of the Prime Minister scrapped by Jomo Kenyatta in 1964.
Happy Valentines Day from bloody Kenya
NAIVASHA, Kenya - In a country strangled by anger and fear, it is taking armed escorts and emergency airlifts to make sure that Kenya’s most warmhearted export — the rose — arrives in time for Valentine’s Day.
Kenyan flowers — mostly roses — account for a quarter of Europe’s cut flower imports, and Kenyan growers have been pushing to keep exports up for the holiday despite ethnic violence that has paralyzed the East African country.
gotta make sure big.whitey gets his flowers, like his minerals in the Congo [house negroes of the world unite!]
David Too, Orange Democratic Movement lawmaker killed in Kenya
AP: National police chief Hussein Ali said the police officer, who has been arrested, shot David Too in a dispute over the officer’s girlfriend. The opposition said it was an assassination plot.
Kenya: Six Faces That Hold Key to the Country’s Future
AllAfrica: The fate of the country appeared to lie with the ‘Big Six’ picked by bitter rivals PNU and ODM to sit around former UN chief Kofi Annan’s mediation table.
Raila Odinga’s blog
Raila is bloggin y’all. check him out here and blog for…ahem…peace…also check out the latest from the ground section
Mugabe Were of the Orange Democratic Movement killed
Embakasi MP Mugabe Were of the Orange Democratic Movement has been shot dead in cold blood. Police and witnesses said that the MP arrived at his Woodley Estate home shortly after midnight and was shot as he waited for his gate to be opened.
19 Burned to Death in Violence in Naivasha, Kenya
Grace Kakai, a police commander in Naivasha, said a large crowd of Kikuyus chased a group of Luos through a slum, trapped them in a house, blocked the doors and set the house afire. Police found 19 bodies huddled in one room, and Ms. Kakai said some of the children’s bodies were so badly burned that they could not be identified.
The killing fields of Kenya
One old man, panga in hand, told us they would seek revenge on the police. “They are killing our people,” he said, “today we will kill them. You will see.”
But it was the police who had the fire power, and they used it.
