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Kenyan youth rebellion against imperialist super-exploitation

11Aug

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Africa, Kenya

Kenyan youth rebellion against imperialist super-exploitation

Posted by: John Phoenix During June and July this year Kenya suffered major unrest, as thousands took to the street day after day, not only in Nairobi, the capital, but also in other towns throughout the country, to protest against a Finance Bill designed to further impoverish a population that was already suffering serious deprivation. With “MPs due to take a final vote on the legislation on 25 June, protesters called for countrywide street action to urge legislators to rethink. Tens of thousands heeded the call. The scale and geographic spread of the protests was striking, with marches taking place in major cities that are traditional opposition bastions but also in small towns that have rarely ever witnessed protests and even in some of the ruling party’s biggest strongholds...

12Oct

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Africa

Kenyan Opposition Leader Withdraws From Scheduled Rerun of Presidential elections

NOVANEWS NASA coalition seeks to foster political instability after Supreme Court orders another election set for October 26 By Abayomi Azikiwe Featured image: Raila Odinga (Source: @RailaOdinga / Twitter) Kenyan opposition leader of the National Super Alliance (NASA), Raila Odinga, 72, announced on October 10 that he would not participate in the Supreme Court ordered rerun of the national presidential elections initially held on August 8. Raila Odingda cited the purported lack of reforms within the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) as his reason for sitting out the upcoming poll slated for October 26. The revote was mandated by a 4-2 Supreme Court decision based upon unsubstantiated claims made by NASA that the internationally-supervised elections held in...

22Jul

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Africa

Kenya: Why I will not mourn Joseph Nkaissery

NOVANEWS The Star Simba Hasheem Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Interior Maj. Gen. (rtd) Joseph Nkaissery died suddenly on Saturday, 8 July 2017. Nkaissery is certainly a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and his death brings to an end one of the saddest chapters in Kenyan history. On 8 December 2014, the body of Isnina Musa Sheikh, a 48 year-old mother of five, was found in a shallow grave after she was brutally murdered. Hoping for investigations and justice for the mother, northern Kenya residents were perturbed when the now dead Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery called for a press conference and told Kenyans that the woman was a cook for the Somali-based terror group Al-Shabaab. On the same day, Nkaissery accused northern Kenya leaders (specif...

29Jun

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Africa

The Kenya I want for my daughter

Thoughts on the Day of the African Child Universal Images Group via Getty Images Flavia Mwangovya I want her to live in freedom and safety not in fear and confusion and not surely in a sanitized bubble where everything is rosy. What I want for her is a future where she will not be violated or put down simply because she is a girl. I am seated by the living room window reading a book, more like staring into it. My mind wanders, occasionally glancing outside to catch a glimpse of my daughter riding her bike. Those who know me can hazard a guess as to the author who makes me ‘tick’ with her affirmation of girls and women - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - but not even her poignant words draw me away from the many thoughts running through my mind as I watch my daughte...

21Apr

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South Africa

Why I pulled out of Kenya’s 2017 presidential race

NOVANEWS Philip Kamakya Philip Murgor Elections in Kenya have become a ritual performed periodically to legitimise the control of power by a few, while the majority remain silent, but enraged, waiting for the opportunity to vent their frustrations. Just a few months before the August 8 poll, all indications are that the type of leadership the country needs to end corruption and tribalism has no chance of rising. Kenya has a long way to go. In December 2016, I announced my decision to run for election as President of the Republic of Kenya. The pronouncement came after almost a long reflection on the terrible state of the circus that characterizes our country’s politics, which is today driven by the scourges of corruption and tribalism. Over time, l...