BREAKING: We have a deal in Kenya - It’s called the “National Accord and Reconciliation Act”

February 28, 2008 11:15AM CST  Dallas, TX

Picture: Reuters
Koffi Annan met with President Kibaki and Raila Odinga in Nairobi on Thursday
VIDEO: Annan announces the deal

 
 
Former UN Secretary-General and current mediator in the Kenyan talks, Koffi Annan has brought the two sides to agree on the post of Prime Minister. Here are the key points according to [...]

International Day of Action for Kenya - February 27, 2008

In a coordinated and moving show of support for the people of Kenya, Amnesty International today held vigils, marches, and expressions of solidarity from Ottawa in Canada to Kiribati, the USA and all the way to Belgium. The “Reach Out for Kenya” campaign brought activists from all over the world with vigils in front of [...]

Amnesty International pleads for Kenyans facing deportation in Canada

source: Edmonton Sun
Tue, February 26, 2008
By GLENN KAUTH, SUN MEDIA 
Local Kenyans facing deportation should get another chance to plead their case that they’ll face violence if sent home, an Amnesty International official said yesterday.
“They should have an opportunity to have their risk reassessed based on the change of conditions in the country itself,” said [...]

Washington’s View on the Kenyan Crisis: Resolve it Peacefully

by Scott A Morgan

Ever since the Post-Electoral Violence erupted in Kenya last December, the United States has not only been caught flat-footed but has had to change its position on more than one occasion. We saw the Positions that were put forward by the State Department. After Initially Congratulating President Kibaki on his apparent Re-Election [...]

Prairieview A&M students walk 7.2 miles to cast their vote

About 1,000 students from Prairieview A&M, a historically black university also known as an HBCU, got together, angered and annoyed by lack of support by local officials to properly accomodate their right to vote, organized themselves and on the first day of early voting, February 19th, marched to the courthouse to make their grievance [...]

Kenyan killed in fatal crash in DC area

Beatrice A. Omoro, 32, was heading home from work in Gaithersburg, MD when she was struck by a car with it’s headlights off, running away from a police stop, crossed a red light and hit her head-on. Here is the story by the Washington Post.
Here is the report by the local FOX TV station

Beatrice [...]

Barack Obama: pics from Reunion arena, Dallas TX

You can only take so many pictures of Barack Obama, so we concentrated on the drama around his visit just to try and give a little feel of what it was really like to be there.
Thanks to Duncan Nyatenya for the photos:
Traffic to Reunion off the mixmaster ( I30-35-75)

Old Red Courthouse - now a [...]

Kenyan Passport renewal woes

A family member applied for a passport renewal 6 or 7 months ago and it just came back.
It used to be easy to just send the passport to a relative back home, get a stamp on it and have it “Fedexed” back. This time though, we sent it through the embassy.
The embassies are so disorganized [...]

Obama is in Dallas but……………

Dallas TX Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:09AM CST 
I’m getting reports that it is a mess down at Reunion arena. People started lining up at 6am this morning. Thought I’d take a couple of hours from work and go mingle with like-minded people but I just got a call and was told unless I plan on [...]

CNN projects Obama will win Wisconsin….Clinton giving “concession” speech

Dallas, TX Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 8:37PM
Not sure if it was Bill Schneider or Anderson Cooper on CNN a few minutes ago who said that Barrack Obama’s speech that ended a few minutes ago took “too long”. That is what scares me. If it can come from these “harmless” white males, I can only picture [...]