KENYAN Police are holding a lorry driver after he was found transporting 135 bales of bhang from Ethiopia.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the narcotics were hidden inside the fuel tanker. Officers were tipped and trailed the lorry before intercepting it. “The Petroleum Tanker had been trailed for hundreds of kilometres before it was intercepted within Pipeline area by @DCI_Kenya Detectives. Detectives had to call a welder to cut open […]
Read More →Kenyan court strikes down media restriction
Kenyan court strikes down media restrictions President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the bill into law in December 2014 [Reuters] The High Court of Kenya has made a major ruling against the country’s proposed anti-terror laws, overturning the state restrictions on the media to report on security operations. The court first suspended parts of the anti-terror […]
Read More →statements by the press secretary on the dath of Ahmad Godane
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release Today, the Department of Defense confirmed that Ahmed Godane, the leader of al-Shabaab, is dead as a result of a U.S. military targeted airstrike in Somalia undertaken over the weekend. Godane’s removal is a major symbolic and operational loss to the largest al-Qaida affiliate […]
Read More →Azeb Mesfin will continue serving as board president for the Ethiopian
Azeb Mesfin will continue serving as board president for the Ethiopian Coalition for Women against HIV/AIDS. The widow of former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was re-elected on February 26, 2014. Besides Azeb, Aster Mamo, chief government whip was among those elected to fill the seven board positions. The Coalition, which was formed in 2003, consists […]
Read More →South Sudan: IGAD Leaders in Nairobi for South Sudan Talks
Photo: Hailemichael Gebrekrstos/UN Nairobi — Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) member states were on Friday morning expected to meet for an extraordinary session to discuss the situation in South Sudan and Somalia. Heads of State from Djibouti, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia were to converge at State House Nairobi at 11am to discuss the security […]
Read More →Three killed along Kenya-Ethiopia border in attack linked to militiamen
By Cyrus Ombati MANDERA, KENYA: Three people were Thursday night killed after militiamen believed to be from Ethiopia attacked a village at the main border. Officials said tension was high along the Kenya-Ethiopia border after the militiamen killed three women in Malkamau area and escaped back to their country. Sources said all the killed women were Degodia and […]
Read More →Ethiopian blogger Eskinder Nega jailed for 18 years
BBC Â Eskinder Nega was arrested after publishing a column questioning the arrests of some journalists Continue reading the main story Related Stories Ethiopia profile Donor darling: What Ethiopian poll can teach Africa ‘Why I took up arms against Ethiopia’ A prominent Ethiopian journalist and blogger has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for […]
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