Kenya wants UN to drop crime charges against President
Kenya has asked the U.N. Security Council to end International Criminal Court proceedings against President Uhuru Kenyatta and others, but council diplomats who discussed the request on Thursday said the 15-member body could not stop the case. The Security Council is only able to defer International Criminal Court proceedings for one year under article 16 … Read more
AfDB, World Bank to provide $1bln for Ethio-Kenya power lines
“The financing for the project breaks down as follows: African Development Bank, US $338 million; World Bank US $684 million; Government of Ethiopia, US $32 million; Government of Kenya, US $88 million; and the expected financing from the French Development Agency, US $118 million.” ********** The African Development Bank today launched the 1,068-kilometre high-voltage electricity … Read more
US State Dept | 2012 Human Rights Reports: Kenya
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kenya is a republic with an institutionally strong president and a prime minister with unclearly defined executive powers. There is a unicameral national assembly. In 2010 citizens approved a new constitution in a national referendum, widely considered to be free and fair. The new constitution includes significant institutional and structural changes to the … Read more
Map| Obama budgets more for Kenya, Ethiopia – less for the Sudans
Last week, the Obama administration released its international affairs budget request for fiscal 2014. Amid fiscal constraints in Washington, the budget request’s topline figure of $52 billion would maintain U.S. international affairs spending at roughly the same levels as in fiscal 2013 after sequestration. The administration’s proposed 2014 international affairs budget, which also calls for … Read more
Gibe III dam | Group warns of ‘catastrophe’ in Omo Valley
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE April 15, 2013 * Aid agencies turn blind eye to ‘catastrophe’ in Ethiopia * Three new reports predict disaster in Lower Omo Valley Three independent reports have warned that the controversial Gibe III dam, and land grabs for plantations, risk imminent ‘catastrophe’ in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley. Half a million tribal people in Ethiopia and Kenya stand to be overwhelmed by … Read more
Kenyata’s election-win in Ethiopian eyes
Last week saw the election of Dep. PM Uhuru Kenyatta as President of Kenya, the 2nd biggest economy in Eastern Africa. Most Ethiopians, however, are more familiar with his rival PM Raila Odinga, as part of the 2007 Kenyan presidential elections and the ensuing violence that saw him instated as Prime Minister. Arguably, Odinga became … Read more
Kenya: 1.2 mln dead people “voted” in Presidential polls
National elections were held in Kenya on March 4th putting into place a new biometric voter registration technology, aiming to prevent falsification of ballots. The country’s last election falsification of voter registration led to 1.2 million votes cast by people actually deceased. The technology, which uses photographs and fingerprinting to identify voters, was created and … Read more
ICC indictee Kenyata elected, Odinga’s aid claims “fraudulent process”
Here are three informative news reports in the past hour regarding the Kenyan election result. The nation reported, IEBC declares Uhuru Kenya’s fourth president: Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared the duly elected President of Kenya by the electoral commission. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Isaack Hassan made the announcement at the Bomas of Kenya … Read more
Nile: Ethiopia to ratify framework agreement – CFA
Ethiopia begins a process to ratify the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) into legislation by the House of Peoples Representatives. The CFA, which is signed in May 2011 by six of the Nile Basin counties including Ethiopia, seeks to establish a permanent River Nile Basin Commission through which member countries of the basin will … Read more
Kenya election: Raila Odinga camp says vote ‘doctored’
The ballot count in Kenya’s presidential elections has been rigged, says the running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who is trailing behind his rival, Uhuru Kenyatta. "We have evidence the results we have received have been doctored," said Mr Odinga’s running mate Kalonzo Musyoka. He said the vote count should be stopped but added … Read more
