Ali Daud

Ultimate tragedy, not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. #02/11/24#

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BREAKING: Israel’s ⁠President Isaac Herzog has ⁠chosen Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of the opposition alliance and the Yashar party, to try to form a new government following ⁠a deadlocked election.

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[Ali Daud @Alidaud_008]

Netanyahu far-right allies have called 4 the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and expansion of settlements.
ultra-Orthodox partners wana preserve a decades-old exemption from conscription and subsidies 4 religious study.
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Who’s he?
Meet Ahmed Mohammed Khalif. He was the shortest-serving minister in the Kibaki Cabinet — and perhaps in Kenya’s history.
But in person, the Wajir West legislator was a tall man that stood out in any crowd while a bold white patch across his afro and his trademark goatee made him unforgettable.
Then, in 2002 he broke ranks with his region. While all of North Eastern rallied behind KANU’s Uhuru Kenyatta, Khalif ran for Wajir West seat on Kibaki’s NARC ticket — the only one from the region — and won.
President Kibaki then appointed him Minister for Labour and Manpower Development in early 2003 becoming the first Cabinet minister from Wajir and only the second from the wider North Eastern region.
But fate can be cruel. On January 24th, 2003, just 20 days into his ministerial career, Khalif was leaving a celebratory tour in Busia but the 24-seater Gulfstream aircraft he boarded failed to gain altitude from the short local airstrip. It struck power lines and crashed into a residential estate. Khalif died shortly after reaching hospital along with two pilots.
Three other ministers — Martha Karua, Raphael Tuju, and Jebii Kilimo — were injured but survived. Ironically, several colleagues who had also flown in from Nairobi chose to spend the night in Busia, a decision that spared them the ill-fated return flight.