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A mob in central Kenya has beheaded two suspected members of the Mungiki, a gang itself famous for decapitating its victims, police say. The two young men were beheaded and had their fingers chopped off... Twenty-one men who had been charged over the April violence were freed on Friday alongside former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga. Once a pseudo-religious group of dreadlocked youths who worshipped spirits in Mount Kenya and embraced rituals such as female circumcision, the Mungiki has evolved into an extortionist gang notorious for beheading its victims.

The US has imposed a travel ban on a senior Kenyan government official for obstructing efforts to rid the country of corruption. Johnnie Carson, the US state department Africa chief, said he was considering bans on three other officials - but declined to release any names. Kenya agreed to carry through reforms after 1,300 people died in post-election violence last year. But the US believes some officials have deliberately been blocking the reforms.

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga arrived in the United States of America on Saturday night to news of cancellation of a luncheon with US President Barack Obama which had earlier been scheduled for later this week. The news followed a round of confusion over whether he would attend the luncheon, hosted by the White House for selected leaders from sub-Saharan Africa on the sidelines of the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. New York-based Kenyan ambassador to the UN Zachary Muburi-Muita told the Nation on Saturday night that the State Department contacted him on Friday to...

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga arrived in the United States of America on Saturday night to news of cancellation of a luncheon with US President Barack Obama which had earlier been scheduled for later this week. The news followed a round of confusion over whether he would attend the luncheon, hosted by the White House for selected leaders from sub-Saharan Africa on the sidelines of the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. New York-based Kenyan ambassador to the UN Zachary Muburi-Muita told the Nation on Saturday night that the State Department contacted him on Friday to...

WASHINGTON – In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan. SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm that translated the address, said bin Laden, whose al-Qaida organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, blamed the war on the "pro-Israel lobby" and corporate interests. IntelCenter, another company that monitors terrorist propaganda, said the 11-minute video shows a still picture of bin Laden while audio of the address plays. Bin Laden's address to the American people comes two days after the eighth anniversary of the...

The president’s chief economic adviser warned Friday that the nation’s unemployment rate could stay “unacceptably high” for years to come — a situation that would seriously complicate Barack Obama’s ability to convince Americans that he’s beating back the recession. “The level of unemployment is unacceptably high,” National Economic Council Director Larry Summers said Friday. “And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years.” Summers’ comments came in a briefing with reporters ahead of Obama’s speech in New York City on Monday, marking the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event widely regarded as...

President Barack Obama's plans for a televised back-to-school address to students next week are drawing fire from some conservatives, who say he's just trying to indoctrinate them to his political beliefs. In the Sept. 8 speech, Obama will challenge students to work hard, set goals for their education and take responsibility for their learning, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a letter to principals. The Education Department is encouraging teachers to create lesson plans around the speech, using materials provided on the department website, that urge students to learn about Obama and other presidents.

"This used to be America," argued a protester outside a health-care town hall meeting in Reston, Va., after a police officer threatened him with arrest for holding up a sign with a picture critical of Barack Obama. The officer's response? "It ain't no more, OK?" A video of the town hall held earlier this week by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., shows an unnamed protester standing on school grounds carrying a sign that read "Organizing for National Socialist Health Care – The Final Solution" and depicted Barack Obama in the Joker's makeup. Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. then told the protester that...

Though overshadowed by hubby Bill’s rescue mission to Pyongyang, Hillary Clinton is in Africa speaking some useful truths. The Secretary of State’s seven-country jaunt began yesterday in Kenya, where she took aim at political corruption and graft. A disputed 2007 election resulted in a power sharing deal between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, but not before related violence claimed more than 1,000 lives. “The absence of strong, effective democratic institutions has permitted ongoing corruption, impunity, politically motivated violence, human-rights abuses and a lack of respect for the rule of law,” Mrs. Clinton said at a press conference....

"We don't need lectures on how to govern ourselves. Lecturing us on issues that deal with governance and transparency is in bad taste," Mr Odinga said. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state said that she, and President Barack Obama, "are convinced that the leaders of this nation have the capacity" to reconcile Kenya's dangerous divisions. More than 1,300 people died and 300,000 were forced from their homes as Kenya erupted into politically-charged clashes after the disputed December 2007 presidential elections. Despite strong pressure from western powers, Kenya's government has refused to allow an international tribunal, insisting on using existing...

NAIROBI, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is among the high profile personalities expected to attend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum which formally kicks off in Nairobi on Tuesday. The forum is an annual event mandated by the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which was signed into law by former President Bill Clinton in May 2000 to expand U.S. trade and investment with Sub-Saharan Africa. The forum allows participating officials to review the implementation of AGOA, as well as chart new ways forward in building closer ties between the United States and...

Kenya should set up a special tribunal to try those behind last year's post-election bloodshed or let the International Criminal Court step in to restore public confidence, Western diplomats said on Thursday. Kenya's coalition government is under pressure from Kenyans and foreign donors alike to punish those behind the violence, which was the worst in the nation's post-independence history, killing at least 1,300 people and displacing 300,000. In a statement, 25 diplomatic missions said that if the government was unwilling or unable to set up a special tribunal, it should let the International Criminal Court (ICC) take over. "A special...

THE HAGUE (AFP) — The International Criminal Court will bring to book perpetrators of Kenya's worst election violence which claimed some 1,500 lives if they are not punished in their country, the court's prosecutor said Friday. "If there are no national proceedings, we'll do it," Luis Moreno-Ocampo told AFP after meeting with Kenya's Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo. "The crimes allegedly committed in Kenya after the 2007 elections may fall within the jurisdiction of the ICC and warrant investigations and prosecutions," he said. "There are serious allegations of crimes against humanity committed during the post-electoral" period, he added. Some 1,500 people...

Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa. Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western...

Kenya and Iran have agreed to establish Specialised Working Groups to accelerate the implementation of signed agreements and memoranda of understanding between the two countries. These include Economic, Trade and Banking Co-operation, Agricultural and Educational Cooperation, Energy, Oil and Industry Cooperation; and Political, Cultural, Health and Housing Cooperation. The two countries also underscored the importance of expanding economic, political, cultural and international ties and welcomed the exchange of high-ranking delegations. The resolutions are part of a joint communiqué signed by Kenya and Iran to further consolidate and strengthen relations between the two countries. The first vice-president Dr Parviz Davoudi signed...

An axis of evil. Obama's corrupt pal, Raila Odinga of Kenya, is winging over to Iran while members of his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) are meeting with leaders in Southern Sudan. This bears watching. He is aligning with the most malevolent forces of power in the world. Does Obama cozy up to any good people? Back in December 2007 and January 2008 I exposed the disturbing alliance of Obama and Kenyan agitator, inciter and Islamist Raila Odinga. It was a seditious alliance, as Odinga was brutally attempting to overthrow the duly elected Kibuki government - democratically elected and allied with...

US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandmother, Sara Obama, will perform haj this year along with her son Syed Obama, a private TV channel reported on Saturday. According to the channel, Sara and Syed will also visit Dubai before going to Saudi Arabia for performing haj

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said fresh elections may be needed if the rift in the power-sharing government cannot be solved. He is demanding that he be put in charge of government business in parliament, to replace Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka. Mr Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki agreed to share power last year to end months of post-election violence. But relations have soured and the two parties have held crisis talks. Over the weekend, President Kibaki's Party of National Unity accused Mr Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement of "fomenting a coup". The president's allies say he has the power to decide...

During his first 100 days as president of the United States, Barack Obama revealed how different he is from all the white men who preceded him in the Oval Office, and the differences run deeper — in substance and style — than the color of his skin. Barack Hussein Obama is the nation’s first hip president. This, of course, is subject to debate. But watch him walk. Listen to him talk. See the body language, the expressions, the clothes. He’s got attitude, rhythm, a sense of humor, contemporary tastes. This much is clear: Whether dealing with the Wall Street mess,...

Barack Hussein Obama Grand Mother says Obama was Born in Kenya

Ok, I rarely watch 60 Minutes, but I was at my parents tonight, and this came on. Hey, I do not like it that lions are being deliberately poisoned, in Kenya, as a way to protect livestock. However, as usual, the liberal MSM attacks the manufacturer of the chemical. I will admit, they also had some harsh words for the government of Kenya --- But Raila Odinga now runs Kenya, remember? Raila Odinga, the guy that Barack Obama supported in the last election. Raila Odinga, the guy that lost the election, in Kenya, then forced his way into power by...

[See embedded video of Obama when teleprompter fails] Say what? Turns out President Obama, a man whose soaring oratory won him an election, is hapless and helpless without his Teleprompter. He refuses to give a speech without one (see accompanying video to see why). The ol’ teleprompter broke down a few times on the campaign trail last summer and Obama responded by delivering some “less than ordinary” speeches.

Ann Coulter made the comments on Thursday night's "Larry King Live." The Huffington Post describes the exchange: Joy [Behar] read an excerpt from Ann's book which alleged that members of the media wanted to have sex with Barack Obama during the campaign. "Did you want to have sex with George Bush? What are you talking about?" Joy asked. "Does Morley Safer want to have sex with Barack Obama? "Probably! And I know Chris Matthews does," Ann responded.

Chief Kenya mediator Kofi Annan has suggested that he might send a list of suspected election violence ringleaders to the International Criminal Court. He said he would obey the "spirit, letter and intent" of a commission of inquiry into the violence. The commission delivered a sealed list of suspects to Mr Annan and said it should be sent to the ICC if a local tribunal was not set up by 1 March. Parliament on Thursday rejected a bill to establish the special court. Some 1,500 people were killed after political and ethnic rivalries caused clashes around the country following the...

For three days in December 2007, Kenya slid into chaos as ballot counters steadily took what appeared to be a presidential election victory for the challenger and delivered it to the incumbent. As tensions mounted, Kenneth Flottman sat in Nairobi and grew increasingly frustrated. He had in his hands the results of an exit poll, paid for by the United States government, that supported the initial returns favoring the challenger, Raila Odinga. Mr. Flottman, East Africa director for the International Republican Institute, the pro-democracy group that administered the poll, said he had believed that the results would promptly be made...

MOLO, Kenya, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Rescuers combed a tanker crash site in Kenya on Sunday where around 100 people were killed when oil they were scrabbling for caught fire in one of the east African nation's worst accidents of recent times. Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the disaster, in which 178 people were burned and injured, showed the desperation of poor Kenyans and the nation's lack of preparedness for accidents. "Poverty is pushing our people into doing desperate things just to get through one more day," Odinga said during a visit to victims of the blaze, which took place...

INTRODUCTION The Office of Public Liaison & Intergovernmental Affairs (OPL-IGA) is the front door to the White House through which everyone can participate and inform the work of the President. OPL-IGA takes the Administration out of Washington and into communities across America, stimulating honest dialogue and ensuring that America's citizens and their elected officials have a government that works effectively for them and with them. OPL-IGA will bring new voices to the table, build relationships with constituents and seeks to embody the essence of the President's movement for change through the meaningful engagement of citizens and their elected officials by...

At least five bodies were found hacked up in a Nairobi shantytown over the weekend, the latest victims of a series of grisly ritual murders that have rocked Kenya. The mutilated corpses all had similar cuts on their backs, and at least one victim was missing both his hands. Two women had their breasts cut off and the remaining victims, all male, had their genitals removed. Riots broke out in the notoriously lawless Mukuru kwa Njenga neighborhood Saturday morning, soon after the bodies were discovered. Residents of the sprawling slum marched to a local police station to protest insecurity in...

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has signed into law a media Bill that journalists say will curtail press freedom. According to a BBC News report, the law gives the Kenyan authorities the power to raid media offices, tap phones and control broadcast content on grounds of national security. Kibaki said he had carefully considered the concerns but added that press freedom 'must go hand in hand with responsibility'. He said the Bill was crucial for Kenya's economic development. Kibaki added that regulating the electronic media would promote and 'safeguard our culture, moral values and nationhood'. The Standard reports that condemnation of...

As euphoria over his election begins to fade, young people are reminded that in Africa, money, ethnicity and family connections count more toward success than does hard work. Reporting from Kobama, Kenya -- He's from the same family that produced President-elect Barack Obama. He shares many of the same hopes and dreams. He's even got the same name. This Barack Obama, 26, a cousin who was named after the president-elect's Kenyan father, was elated when someone with African roots rose to the world's most powerful job. "I felt I could do anything," said the lanky student, whose buddies now call...

If there is anyone out there who still doubts US president-elect Barack Obama's roots, who still wonders if his father was a Kenyan, still questions his love for the land of his ancestors, January 20 will be the answer. For at that defining moment, after Mr Obama takes the oath office to lead the world superpower, Kenyan musicians will be there to entertain him. And Kenyans will be the most beholden since the new US President has roots at Kogelo in Nyanza - now a vibrant village that has been awakened from slumber by the Obama magic. Kenya's Obama fans...

In a World Net Daily article by Richard Cummings, concerning Jonathan Pollard who was convicted under the Espionage Acts in passing information along to a foreign government, namely the Israeli state, WND has stumbled upon something they have not put together in Barack Obama is guilty in two espionage acts equal to Jonathan Pollard who now sits in federal prison. Mr. Obama has been noted in WND articles of negotiating and assisting the "Palestinians" before the election. Articles online report that the Colombians were being dealt with by Obama operatives in negotiating policy before he was elected. Mr. Obama though...

One of Obama's associates, for whom Obama campaigned, had Corsi detained during the last time Corsi went to Kenya to investigate Obama's relationship with Odinga. Both Odinga and Obama had 'change' as the main theme of their campaigns. There was a video (9+ mins) on Youtube that showed Obama campaigning for Odinga. Odinga had churches burned in Kenya. Here is a World Net Daily article posted Dec. 22, 2008. The mainstream media did not tell us much, if anything, about Odinga and Obama's relationship OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL Corsi detention orchestrated by Obama's political friend Investigative reporter held in Kenya while...

On Jamhuri Day, citizens attempting to protest the current cost of living and link it to the refusal of parliamentarians to pay tax on their allowances, were rounded up in numbers in several cities and towns. While many of those detained were released without charge, three remained in detention without charge beyond the legal limit of 24 hours in Nairobi. One of them, who had been badly beaten up by the police, was hospitalised under guard. A further four remained in detention in Garissa until the following Monday, when they were finally taken to court to be charged with creating...

Several journalists and civil society activists in Kenya were arrested last week while protesting the passage of a new communications bill that would give the authorities sweeping powers, reports the Media Institute (MI). The morning crew for Kiss FM radio station, co-anchors Larry Asego and Mzee Jalang'o, and Kenya's top female presenter, Caroline Mutoko, were arrested as they demonstrated against the bill, as well as the high cost of food and the refusal of MPs to pay taxes, on 12 December at Independence Day celebrations in Nairobi. Former Transparency International (Kenya) director Mwalimu Mati and many other civil society activists...

The Kenyan government has blocked members of President-elect Barack Obama's extended family from talking to the media. Www.allafrica.com reports that the Kenyan government told family members that they would have to ask for official permission before issuing any statement concerning Obama. It said the government would also vet all those seeking information about the family. "We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information. The government has decided that you should inform its officers who will be based here if you want to address the media," Athman Said, an Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Heritage, told...

The Kenyan government has barred unapproved contacts between the media and President-elect Barack Obama's extended family. Family members will be required to receive permission from the government before making any public statements about their famous relative, according to the Nairobi Star. "We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information," Athman Said, an under-secretary in the Ministry of Heritage, told the Obama family in Kogelo. "The government has decided that you should inform its officers who will be based here if you want to address the media." Journalists wishing to speak with the family must first...

Nairobi — Persons suspected of planning and executing Kenya's worst political violence early this year - including Cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament, civil servants and businessmen - will be tried here by a special tribunal. President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday signed an agreement to set up the tribunal which was recommended by a commission of inquiry into the chaos. The signing of the agreement has, at least for now, saved the suspects from being tried for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court at The Hague. A secret list of ten high profile suspects...

Top Government officials have declined to meet representatives of a US poll body caught in controversy over the 2007 General Election. The Standard On Sunday has exclusively learnt that key officials of the International Republican Institute (IRI) are in the country and have been pleading with Government authorities to "put in a good word" for them. The group is chaired by Arizona Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in the November election against Barack Obama, and it is fighting to salvage its credibility. The IRI team pitched tent at Prime Minister Raila Odinga's office at Treasury House last Wednesday...

The Kenyan official who reportedly orchestrated the detention of WND senior staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi when he visited Kenya to investigate President-elect Barack Obama's close ties to the nation's prime minister, Raila Odinga, was Odinga himself, according to WND sources inside Kenya. Corsi, whose recent book, "The Obama Nation," raised questions about the Democrat when he was a candidate for president, had scheduled a news conference in Nairobi to discuss his discoveries during his visit this fall. However, he was detained by immigration officials and held without food for much of a day until he was escorted onto his...

In the strongest indication yet that African leaders are finally turning their backs on Robert Mugabe and his murderous regime, Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Thursday said it was time for African governments to oust the ageing dictator. Mugabe's steel grip on power has seen the once prosperous country deteriorate into chaos. Zimbabwe's economy and social systems have collapsed, and it is becoming daily more clear that serious and immediate intervention is needed to spare thousands more lives in a country ravaged by crises.

The decision on granting a hearing challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship is still pending. The "Washington Times" reports that the U.S. Supreme Court held a private conference Friday morning to discuss whether to take up a lawsuit but it was not on the list of court orders for the day. According to the "Times" a Supreme Court spokesman said the decision to hear the case will most likely be announced next week.

A black-tie dinner and ball are scheduled to take place on the night of the inauguration at posh Marriott Gateway Hotel. It is said to be a pan-African gala in honour of the first US president of African descent. Kenya's ambassador in Washington Peter Ogego said he hopes the new president and the First Lady will include the event in their round of inaugural balls. Invitations are also being sent to incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN ambassador Susan Rice, Mr Ogego added. Mr Odinga is expected to attend both of the Kenya-sponsored inauguration celebrations. The National Democratic...

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According to The Schnitt Show, a radio program available in several Florida markets and XM radio, a birth announcement for Barack Obama was discovered in a 1961 Honolulu newspaper. See link for a PDF image of this announcement.

Frustration builds at corrupt government Barack Obama's late father grew up in this region of western Kenya, so when his son swept to the U.S. presidency earlier this month, townspeople erupted in joy, waving American flags. It could easily have been a riot instead. Last December, another popular native son, Raila Odinga, lost his bid for the Kenyan presidency to incumbent President Mwai Kibaki in voting widely seen as rigged. Frustrated Kenyans erupted in an unprecedented spasm of ethnic violence that left more than 1,000 people dead and 350,000 homeless, many of them members of Kibaki's dominant Kikuyu tribe. Now,...

The California secretary of state should refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until President-elect Barack Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office, alleges a California court petition filed on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others. The legal action today is just the latest is a series of challenges, some of which have gone as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, over the issue of Obama's status as a "natural-born citizen," a requirement set by the U.S. Constitution. WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi even traveled to...

On 11 June, 2008, Al-Jazeera TV (of Qatar) broadcast an address by Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi to the Libyan people in which Qadhafi stated the following: "Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency. But we were taken...

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000. The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier. By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities...

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