Briefs: “kenya is back in business”, says Branson

Virgin Group chairman, Sir Richard Branson, is in Kenya to promote the country’s tourism offerings to British citizens.

Briefs: Ted Kennedy rushed to hospital

A person close to the family speaking on condition of anonymity said the senator suffered stroke-like symptoms and has been transferred by air from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Cape Cod to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Verizon signs deal to unify Department of Homeland Security IP networks

Verizon Business has signed a USD$ 678 million deal with the Department of Homeland Security to unify the 22 separate networks within the agency into a single common IP network in an initiative known as the OneNet program. Verizon will also implement an emergency communication service to enable the agency to better respond to man-made and natural disasters.

AT&T Government Solutions also signed on as a secondary network service provider and their deal is valued at USD$ 292 million dollars.

Reuters

100 feared dead in Lagos oil pipeline explosion

39 people are confirmed dead after an oil pipeline was ruptured by earth-moving equipment in the Lagos suburb of Ijegun-Ikotun village. The death toll is expected to reach as high as 100.

FULL STORY - NIGERIA TRIBUNE

picture source: AFP

Leader of Sabaot Land Defence Force gunned down

The leader of the military wing of the Sabaot Land Defence Force has been gunned down by the Kenyan military. According to the Nation newspaper, Wycliffe Matakwei, came down under a hail of bullets Friday afternoon. Also killed were 12 other members of the SLDF FULL STORY

Wycliffe Komon Kirui Matakwei Photo source: Nation Newspapers

Islamic banking is making headway into Africa

Flush with oil money, gulf states are eyeing the rapidly growing African economy in an effort to establish Islamic banking all over the continent.

Barclays Bank of Kenya already offers a product targeting Islamic banking customers known as La Riba (no interest).

Gulf News

Hateful Obama email making the rounds

bruceontheloose posted this email he received that is making it’s rounds on the internet right now;

(Posters Note: This came to me as an e-mail. I think we should all see what is said on the internet by some groups)

BARACK OBAMA CAMPAIGNING FOR HIS MURDEROUS, RADICAL ISLAMOFACSIST LOU COUSIN, RAILA ODINGA.

This was researched by a person who is very passionate about this election as we all should be no matter what candidate we choose. Research them and then research them again.

When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by his Luo Cousin Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi… Obama’s bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila’s “stooge.

Raila Odinga who speaks frequently to his cousin Barack Hussein Obama, vowed, if elected as Kenya’s President, to change the Constitution into a Tailiban example of Islamic Law (Saria Law).

When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election (12/27) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged.

…Raila has now made a deal for support from the Soviets’ successors as world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Muslim fundamentalists… The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of , dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya…

It pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila’s election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two.

Read them all!! Here’s a sample:

b)Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regiong) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters.

Obama’s Cousin’s followers went on murderous rampages, encouraged by Raila!! Dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire… ThroughoutKenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered and over 600,000 people displaced.

This caused the elected President to agree on a shared leadership role with Raila as the Prime Minister.

President Mwai Kibaki’s administration has been facing violent street demonstrations over its refusal to enact a new constitution, from Odinga!!

Mungiki, an outlawed gang, in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, continued the violence. This will pose a challenge to Kenya’s new power-sharing government, which was formed after more than 1,000 people were killed following the disputed presidential election of Obama’s cousin.

RAILA’S CAMPAIGN SLOGAN: “CHANGE”!!!!!!

If new bill passes, passports or IDs will be required to purchase SIM cards in Kenya

After a rash of hate-propagating SMS messages were sent via cell phones in Kenya following the aftermath of last year’s hotly contested elections in kenya, a new bill in parliament could require all users of cell phones in Kenya register their SIM card purchases with proof a valid ID or passport. Currently, no ID is required to purchase a SIM card in Kenya and parliament is trying to close this loophole through this bill.

IDG story

Kenya Airways lays off 23 workers - rising fuel costs blamed

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation is  reporting that Kenya Airways has laid off 23 white-collar workers. Rising fuel costs was cited as the reason.

General Elections: We have a long season coming ahead

I can already tell that we are not going to have a smooth general election. The low jabs that George Bush threw yesterday are an indication of this. America’s right-wing radio is busy at work disparaging anything or anyone that supports Barack Obama. Now the President has jumped into attack mode and has started firing jabs. The jabs are illegal not only because they are low-brow, but because they were thrown from out of the ring. If the President wants to attack Barack Obama, why not do it here in the US?

The answer to that question is simple - nobody likes him anymore here, not even his republican base. American politicians have an unwritten code that you do not wash your dirty linen in a foreign country. Jimmy Carter knows all about that.

George Bush has created a mess in this country that will take a long time to clean up. In his two terms in office, he did nothing substantial to stem the long-standing feud in that part of the world even though he had the power to influence politics and outcomes there, so as a parting shot he went to plant doubts about Barack Obama in Israel, somehow believing that he was helping Israel and John McCain.

Israeli lawmaker Yossi Beilin, a member of the dovish Meretz party and one of the prime architects of the Oslo peace accords said, “It was an embarrassing speech, a collection of slogans that somebody wrote for him in order to be nice to Israel, or what he thinks is Israel, and to steer well clear of anything concrete.” He added, “It’s a shame and a scandal, in my opinion.”