Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, has on Monday (October 29) urged Eritrea to support regional peace initiatives before it re-joins the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD).
Kibaki made the statement following a special message he received from the Eritrean President via the Eritrean Ambassador to Kenya, Beyene Russom. While expressing Kenya's readiness to work closely with neighboring countries committed to promote regional peace and security, Kibaki underlined the importance for Eritrea to work to ensure peace and security in the Horn of Africa Region. A statement from Kibaki's office said: "President Kibaki welcomed Eritrea's decision to rejoin IGAD subject to the Government of Eritrea's support for regional peace initiatives". Eritrea has a proven track-record of disruption in the region. It stopped its membership to IGAD in 2007 willingly in an attempt to cover its disruptive behaviour, and due to its desire to continue on its anti-peace activities. Member states have proved that the regime in Asmara has failed to work for regional peace, and resort to support destabilizing forces in the region such as Al-Shabaab. The regime had also been opposing IGAD's peace keeping policies in Somalia aiming to bring stability to the war-torn country. Following Eritrea's official request last year to rejoin IGAD, the IGAD ministerial meeting has decided that it would be the IGAD Summit which will decide on Eritrea's request for re-admission, and the Summit is yet to decide. The United Nations Monitoring Group report last year said it has found credible evidences attesting Eritrea's continued support to anti-peace elements in Somalia and other areas of the region, and imposed sanctions two times. Recent reports from credible sources also indicated that Eritrea, despite a report of reduced support, has continued on its disruptive activities in the region in different ways carefully designed to escape possible examination.
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How clean is President Kibaki from being influenced and backed by Western Medias and USA? His own Parliament speaker witnessed that Kenyan Gov't is dancing to the Ethiopian tune? Al Shabab can not be a scapegoat issue while Kibaki himself is messed with the innocent blood of Kenyans? Regional Insability begins at him where you govern not outside.Kibaki and his corrupted eastafrican leaders are terrfied the way the Eritrean Gov't is resisting the USA and the west for Kenya and Uganda et al are under total Corrupted custody of the USA.First of all African Issue should be handled by the Africans themselves whether state governments or institutions, while the hypocracy is rolling around within African Union itself. where is the reality and the logic here? Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda,are the most repressive and genocidal states and the most close allies of the USA. Does President Kibaki really have a mandate to tell us who should do what while he is responsible and accountable for what is going on in Kenya? If there is a wish for a true stability in the Horn first and most crucially , the Corrupt Presidents like Kibaki, Musoveni and above all , The Ethiopian sectoral and Ethnical government should reverse their Africanism and think for Africa. Although Diplomacy and foreign relations are vital but we can not live forever under American and Western influences. we are sick and tired of Gov'ts who are the tools of the West like KIbaki and others and i urge all the Kenyan Media outlets not to bias facts and realities.
Dear Readers,
How clean is President Kibaki from being influenced and backed by Western Medias and USA? His own Parliament speaker witnessed that Kenyan Gov't is dancing to the Ethiopian tune? Al Shabab can not be a scapegoat issue while Kibaki himself is messed with the innocent blood of Kenyans? Regional Insability begins at home where you govern not outside.Kibaki and his corrupted eastafrican leaders are terrfied the way the Eritrean Gov't is resisting the USA and the west for Kenya and Uganda et al are under total Corrupted custody of the USA.First of all African Issue should be handled by the Africans themselves whether state governments or institutions, while the hypocracy is rolling around within African Union itself. where is the reality and the logic here? Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda,are the most repressive and genocidal states and the most close allies of the USA. Does President Kibaki really have a mandate to tell us who should do what while he is responsible and accountable for what is going on in Kenya? If there is a wish for a true stability in the Horn first and most crucially , the Corrupt Presidents like Kibaki, Musoveni and above all , The Ethiopian sectoral and Ethnical government should reverse their Africanism and think for Africa. Although Diplomacy and foreign relations are vital but we can not live forever under American and Western influences. we are sick and tired of Gov'ts who are the tools of the West like KIbaki and others and i urge all the Kenyan Media outlets not to bias facts and realities.
Dear Readers, We should be very wise, by asking Is IGAD free to implement the below its' objectives? Who dominate IGAG? Can we really say IGAD members make decisions on the set objectives? As people what are we benefiting from IGAD? Objectives are as follows:
The objectives of IGAD are as follows below. Promote joint development strategies and gradually harmonize macro-economic policies and programmes in the social, technological and scientific fields; Harmonize policies with regard to trade, customs, transport, communications, agriculture, and natural resources, and promote free movement of goods, services, and people within the region. Create an enabling environment for foreign, cross-border and domestic trade and investment; Achieve regional food security and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disatsters and their natural consequences; Initiate and promote programmes and projects to achieve regional food security and sustainable development of natural resources and environment protection, and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disasters and their consequences; Develop and improve a coordinated and complementary infrastructure, in the areas of transport, telecommunications and energy in the region; Promote peace and stability in the region and create mechanisms within the region for the prevention, management and resolution of inter-State and intra-State conflicts through dialogue; Mobilize resources for the implementation of emergency, short-term, medium-term and long-term programmes within the framework of regional cooperation; Promote and realize the objectives of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the African Economic Community; Facilitate, promote and strengthen cooperation in research development and application in science and technology.
Dear Readers, We should be very wise, by asking Is IGAD free to implement the below its' objectives? Who dominate IGAD? Can we really say IGAD members make decisions on the set objectives? As people what are we benefiting from IGAD?
The objectives of IGAD are as follows below. Promote joint development strategies and gradually harmonize macro-economic policies and programmes in the social, technological and scientific fields; Harmonize policies with regard to trade, customs, transport, communications, agriculture, and natural resources, and promote free movement of goods, services, and people within the region.
Create an enabling environment for foreign, cross-border and domestic trade and investment;
Achieve regional food security and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disatsters and their natural consequences;
Initiate and promote programmes and projects to achieve regional food security and sustainable development of natural resources and environment protection, and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disasters and their consequences;
Develop and improve a coordinated and complementary infrastructure, in the areas of transport, telecommunications and energy in the region;
Promote peace and stability in the region and create mechanisms within the region for the prevention,
management and resolution of inter-State and intra-State conflicts through dialogue;
Mobilize resources for the implementation of emergency, short-term, medium-term and long-term programmes within the framework of regional cooperation;
Promote and realize the objectives of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the African Economic Community;
Facilitate, promote and strengthen cooperation in research development and application in science and technology.
Dear Readers, We should be very wise, by asking Is IGAD free to implement the below its' objectives? Who dominate IGAD? Can we really say IGAD members make decisions on the set objectives? As people what are we benefiting from IGAD?
The objectives of IGAD are as follows below.
Promote joint development strategies and gradually harmonize macro-economic policies and programmes in the social, technological and scientific fields; Harmonize policies with regard to trade, customs, transport, communications, agriculture, and natural resources, and promote free movement of goods, services, and people within the region.
Create an enabling environment for foreign, cross-border and domestic trade and investment;
Achieve regional food security and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disatsters and their natural consequences;
Initiate and promote programmes and projects to achieve regional food security and sustainable development of natural resources and environment protection, and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disasters and their consequences;
Develop and improve a coordinated and complementary infrastructure, in the areas of transport, telecommunications and energy in the region;
Promote peace and stability in the region and create mechanisms within the region for the prevention,
management and resolution of inter-State and intra-State conflicts through dialogue;
Mobilize resources for the implementation of emergency, short-term, medium-term and long-term programmes within the framework of regional cooperation;
Promote and realize the objectives of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the African Economic Community;
Facilitate, promote and strengthen cooperation in research development and application in science and technology.
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