Another IEBC killing: This time the murder of IEBC Deputy RO Caroline Odinga of Siaya County!

Caroline Odinga, an Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Deputy Reporting Officer (RO) was found dead yesterday. Another strike of murder in the midst of the election quarrels that are in Kenya. This is not a sound regime, when yet another life is taken. In midst of hours after Election petition of National Super Alliance (NASA) to the Supreme Court, and the questioning of the legitimacy of the election. Since this question the incumbent and current President Uhuru Kenyatta.

There has already been people dead who were important in the days ahead of 8th August, as now the votes and counting are in question. This doesn’t help the Jubilee, as another murder and another questionable life ends. She was found in Sega town in Siaya County. This is a serious story, as it is another life taken to early, because of the general election in 2017. She was the Deputy Returning Officer for the County, so this an RO that has been killed. There been reports that she was mutilated and left in the bush.

The reckless violence, the killings are clear sign of the electoral malpractices, since the state has to cover-up their mismanagement and doing so by taking away witnesses. It is insane, but seems most likely. Caroline Odinga, is yet another victim and another family who has lost their loved one.

We can wonder why she was murdered, did she not want to sign of on fake 34(a) or 34(b), that is fitting with the IEBC bots of the Presidential Election? Was she not complicit to the forged results of the polling stations in her county? Is that the reason, what else it is? Since she would be there when the counting was happening and would verify the results. That is the only thing making sense at this point.

We cannot really know why or who did the killings, if the National Police Service will solve it. Since the connections to killings might be up high. This being said, since the IEBC killings are continuing and escalating. This should be evidence of the fraud that has to be covered up. The innocents are dying and the ones working for justice gets taken away, while the thieves and killers are lingering. This isn’t a healthy sign, but another sudden death without answers. The reasons might be plenty, but connections to forged forms and questionable electoral practices seems likely. That is worrying, that yet another life is taken away, so the Jubilee can continue their looting. Peace.

RDC: Province du Kwilu – “Objet: Accuse de Reception” (16.08.2017)

NASA: Statement on the filing of a Petition by Rt. Hon Raila O. Odinga and H.E. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka at the Supreme Court, Nairobi (18.08.2017)

Burundi: CNARED-GIRITEKA – Communique de Presse (17.08.2017)

Burundi: Communique de Presse No. 18/Olucome/08/2017 – Portant Sur la Priere Interconfessionelle Organisee par le Parti au Pouvoir CNDD-FDD (17.08.2017)

WFP Begins Food Distributions for Thousands Displaced by Conflict in Kasai Region of DRC (16.08.2017)

ABUJA, Nigeria, August 16, 2017 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partner World Vision have launched an emergency operation to provide food assistance to 42,000 food insecure people in the Kasai and Kasai Central provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Food assistance will be provided to people who have fled their villages due to conflict in the region.
Where safe access is possible, WFP plans to assist 25,000 displaced persons in Kasai Central and 17,000 people in the Kasai province in the coming days. However, WFP urgently requires US$17.3 million to support scale up of its operations to assist 250,000 vulnerable persons in Kasai and Kasai Central provinces from September to December 2017.

Food distributions have started in the town of Tshilumba with further distributions scheduled this month. As part of this effort and where safe access is possible, WFP and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) continue to identify the most vulnerable displaced people in areas identified with high levels of food insecurity, as determined in a recent food security study.

The results of this recent food security assessment showed that in the last year, the number of people in need of urgent humanitarian food assistance in the DRC rose by 1.8 million, from 5.9 million to 7.7 million. In conflict-ridden areas, more than 1.5 million people are facing “emergency” levels of food insecurity, leaving many with no option but to sell everything they have while skipping or reducing their meals.

In addition to food distributions, WFP is leading the Logistics Cluster, which provides technical and logistical support to humanitarian organizations and has been operational in the Kasai region since June. Mobile warehouses have been built to store food and non-food items, while several trucks have been sent to Kasai and Kasai Central to transport food and supplies.

In order to meet the huge needs of the displaced people in hard-to-reach areas, the WFP-led United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has expanded its support since June, positioning an aircraft in Kananga in Kasai Central on a permanent basis and starting three weekly flights to Tshikapa, Kasai. As a result, those most in need are more accessible to humanitarian organizations.

“We launched this emergency response as soon as funds became available,” said Claude Jibidar, WFP Representative and Country Director in DRC. “We targeted the most vulnerable among the vulnerable, and our access to these displaced people also depend on security conditions. However, with nearly one and a half million displaced people in the Kasai region, additional donor support is essential for WFP to scale up our operations and reach more vulnerable displaced people.”

Scores of people have fled their villages due to the conflict that broke out in the Kasai region in August 2016. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), there are some 1.4 million internally displaced people across the Kasai provinces. In addition, more than 31,000 people have fled the region into neighboring Angola. With up to 3.8 million people displaced in total, the DRC is home to the largest population of internally displaced people in Africa.

The sharp deterioration in people’s food security is mainly attributable to displacement caused by an upsurge in conflict and pest infestation in crops across the country. WFP continues to coordinate with FAO and other partners to serve the most vulnerable people in the Kasai region, as well as in other parts of the country.

CS Matiang’i letter to Fazul Mahamed of NGO’s Coordination Board on “Status of AFRICOG and Kenya Human Rights Commission” (16.08.2017)

IEBC: “Access to Form 34As and 34Bs” (15.08.2017)

Law Society of Kenya Statement says the NGO Co-Ordination Board cannot de-register KHRC or AFRICOG without following certain legal provisions! (15.08.2017)

NGO Co-Ordination Board letter to AFRICOG – “Re: Operating a Non-Governmental Organization without Registration Contrary to Section 22(1) of the NGOs Coordination Act 1990 by African Centre for Open Governance (AFRICOG) – (15.08.2017)