Reuters
Wed 5 Nov 2008
Noor Ali
NAIROBI - Kenya said on Wednesday it had arrested 155 militiamen from Somalia and Ethiopia during a security operation in its remote northeast, and promised to investigate accusations of army torture and rape.
The government sent hundreds of soldiers into Mandera district last week to try to end clan conflict over grazing [...]
Category Archives: Kenya
Kenya arrests 155 Somali, Ethiopian fighters in north
November 6, 2008 – 8:56 pm
Igad to meet over instability in Somalia as Yusuf’s term ends
October 27, 2008 – 8:07 pm
The Standard, Nairobi
October 27, 2008
Isaac Ongiri
IGAD heads of states and governments converge in Nairobi on Wednesday to consult with Somalia MPs over the country’s stability.
Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula said there was concern over the future of Somalia, with only six months to the expiry of the term for the Transitional Federal Government headed by [...]
African free trade zone is agreed
October 22, 2008 – 8:51 pm
BBC
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
FREE TRADE BLOC MEMBERS
The 26 African countries involved in the deal are:
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Swaziland, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The leaders of three African trading blocs [...]
Somali Islamists threaten Kenya
October 17, 2008 – 7:00 am
BBC
October 16, 2008
Somali Islamists say they will attack Kenya if it goes ahead with plans to train 10,000 government troops.
“We will order all our holy warriors to start the jihadi war inside Kenya,” said spokesman Sheikh Muktar Robow.
Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula has been quoted recently offering the training to beleaguered government forces. [...]
Sudan summons Kenyan, Ethiopian envoys over arms
October 14, 2008 – 6:49 am
Reuters
October 13, 2008
Andrew Heavens
KHARTOUM - Sudan summoned the Kenyan and Ethiopian ambassadors on Monday to protest against what it said were illegal shipments of arms to its semi-autonomous south, state media reported.
Khartoum was protesting over “violations” linked to an arms shipment seized by pirates off Somalia’s coast that Western diplomats said was bound for south [...]
Kenya dismisses tanks ‘evidence’
October 10, 2008 – 9:38 am
BBC
October 8, 2008
Contract numbers include the initials GOSS, thought to be government of South Sudan.
A Kenyan minister has denied BBC reports that the tanks seized by Somali pirates were bound for South Sudan.
According to the cargo’s manifest, obtained by the BBC, the contract included the phrase “GOSS”, widely used to mean the Government [...]
Ethiopia says Kenya suspects were caught in Somalia
October 9, 2008 – 9:44 am
Reuters
Tue 7 Oct 2008
Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia denied on Tuesday that eight Kenyans who were flown home at the weekend had been arrested in Kenya early last year as suspected Somali Islamists, saying they had been captured during fighting in Somalia.
Rights activists and Muslim groups accuse Kenyan authorities of covertly sending the eight men [...]
Rendition victims threaten to sue Kenya government
October 6, 2008 – 5:53 pm
Reuters
Mon 6 Oct 2008
Wangui Kanina
NAIROBI Eight Kenyans who were arrested as suspected Somali Islamist fighters and covertly flown to Ethiopia threatened to sue the government on Monday if the officials they blame for their rendition are not charged.
The eight men were among suspected Islamists detained by Kenyan troops early last year when members of a [...]
Ethiopia returns suspected militants to Kenya
October 5, 2008 – 9:29 pm
Reuters
Sat 4 Oct 2008
NAIROBI - Eight Kenyan suspected Islamist fighters who were held in Ethiopia after being sent there in secret in early 2007 were returned home on Saturday, Kenya said.
After the Islamists who controlled large parts of neighbouring Somalia were driven out by Somali and Ethiopian forces, activists and Muslim groups say Kenya covertly [...]
Ethiopia denies torture allegations
October 5, 2008 – 7:16 am
Sapa-AFP
Oct 04, 2008
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia denied claims by Human Rights Watch that it tortured terror suspects held in prisons since 2006 when Addis Ababa dispatched troops to neighbouring Somalia to quell Islamist rebels.
The New York-based rights watchdog said Wednesday that at least 90 people were rendered from Kenya to Somalia and [...]
