Bangla-Pesa is now being used to pay school fees and funeral expenses, in harambees and as church offerings. The currency comes in denomination notes of five, 10, 20, 40 and 50. A member is given a maximum of 400 Bangla-Pesa, of which 200 goes back to the community and is used in cleaning up the area. The initiative enables them to …
Read MoreLed by Raila Odinga, who received 48.8% of the presidential vote in Kenya's 2022 election, the politicians want the country split into two republics to create a new state for Kenyans unhappy ...
Read MoreA CASE STUDY OF THE MOMBASA REPUBLICAN COUNCIL IN KENYA. BY MUNYEMBO MWACHALA R50/69706/2013 SUPERVISOR: PROF. MARIA NZOMO A ThesisSubmitted in Partial Fulfillment for the Award of the Master's Degree in International Studies APRIL, 2014
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Read MoreD uring 2010 and 2011, the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) became a prominent presence in the politics of coastal Kenya, articulating multiple, longstanding grievances and setting out a defiant agenda that poses an existential threat to the Kenyan state by demanding independence for the coast. 1 Continuing disputes over land …
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Read MoreNyali Member of Parliament, Mohamed Ali, on Friday, November 17, came out guns blazing condemning National Super Alliance (NASA) leaders from the coast region
Read MoreMombasa gets 40,000 cubic metres of water daily from Mzima Springs in Taita Taveta, Tiwi Boreholes in Kwale and Baricho waterworks in Kilifi, against a demand of more than 100,000 cubic metres.
Read MoreA group in Kenya's Coast Province known as the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) is causing controversy because of its demands for secession and its campaign to mobilise inhabitants of the coastal region …
Read MoreThe Nation (Nairobi) By Winnie Atieno. Security agencies want members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) to surrender as the National Cohesion and …
Read MoreSecurity agencies want members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) to surrender as the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) seeks a dialogue with the separatist group to maintain peace. The Mombasa security committee has urged holdouts of the group to surrender. The committee, led by Mombasa County …
Read MoreA member of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) died after being hit on the head by a stone thrown by a fellow protester, police say. Police fired tear gas to prevent about 100 MRC members from ...
Read MoreThe Mombasa Republican Council might really have had genuine reasons go for their right to secession, the law availed to them a lot of challenges in their course to realize their aspirations. This scenario might …
Read MoreAt the coast, the run-up to Kenya's 2013 elections was dominated by fears of violence and the calls for a boycott by the secessionist Mombasa Republican Council. However, the …
Read MoreMombasa Republican Council (MRC) is a separatist organisation based in the coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya. The group claims areas around Mombasa and the coastal area. It has both Muslim and Christian supporters. The leader of the group is Omar Mwamnuadzi and he was charged in 2014 along with 11 othe
Read MoreDownload scientific diagram | Reason why respondents joined al-Shabaab and the MRC from publication: Radicalisation in Kenya: Recruitment to al-Shabaab and the Mombasa Republican Council | Despite ...
Read MoreThe Nation (Nairobi) By Winnie Atieno. Security agencies want members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) to surrender as the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) seeks a ...
Read MorePolice have arrested 81 suspected members of the outlawed Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) in Kilifi County while undertaking oaths to take over the leadership of the country.. According to an OB report 44/29/06/2022, members of the public reported to the Mtwapa police station that there was a group of people holding an illegal …
Read MoreHigh court says decision to ban secessionist Mombasa Republican Council was unconstitutional
Read MoreMombasa Republican Council Al-Shabaab: Abstract: Despite a history of extremism and unconventional political developments in Kenya, relatively little empirical research has …
Read MoreMombasa Republican Council: Abstract: Following the elections of 2007, there was a significant increase in public expressions of secessionist feeling on the Kenya coast. During 2010 and 2011, one manifestation of this was the emergence of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), which demands independence for the coastal region. The language of ...
Read MoreIn its manifesto, the Mombasa Republican Council laments that "This country (Coast) has become a field of Kenyans looting our wealth," and demands the removal of Kenya's administration and, ultimately, independence. Here is the Mombasa Republican Council Manifesto…. "THE MOMBASA REPUBLICAN COUNCIL. INTRODUCTION
Read MoreBased on interviews with Kenyan and Somali-Kenyan individuals associated with al-Shabaab and the Mombasa Republican Council, this paper analyses how and why people join these groups. Despite a history …
Read MoreMOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's presidential election drew millions of eager voters who endured long lines to cast ballots Monday, but the vote was marred by violence that left 19 people dead, including four policemen hacked to death by machete-wielding separatists. Officials urged voters not to be intimidated by the violence amid …
Read MoreMombasa Republican Council was formed in 1999 to address perceived political and economic discrimination against the people of the coast province. The group agrues that the 1963 agreements transferring the ten-mile strip of land along the coast to the Government of Kenya by the British is invalid. MRC remained dormant until 2008, when it first raised …
Read MoreKenya's decision to launch a military intervention in Somalia to eliminate the threat posed by the Islamist al-Shabaab movement has resulted in battlefield successes but has also led to terrorist attacks and riots in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa and even the formation of a Kenyan chapter of al-Shabaab. Simultaneous with these events are a …
Read MoreMombasa Republican Council Al-Shabaab: Abstract: Despite a history of extremism and unconventional political developments in Kenya, relatively little empirical research has been done to determine why and how individuals join al-Shabaab and the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC). This paper is based on interviews with Kenyan and Somali-Kenyan ...
Read MoreMRC is an outlawed group that seeks to secede the Coastal region from Kenya. Their basis is that the region has been neglected for several years by the National government. This dissertation sought to determine whether this secession bid is founded
Read MoreBut the discussion cannot take place as long as the press continues to follow the state's lead in demonising the MRC. I conducted research on the Mombasa Republican Council last year and have continued to follow the issues, events and actors after submitting my final report. Like the court that tried and acquitted 20 defendants …
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