Kenya: Cable Cites Potential Local Link With U.S. Firm

A black water MD-530F Helicopter on-site of a car bomb explosion

Kevin J Kelley
2 December 2010

New York — The whistle- blowing website wikileaks Tuesday released a US diplomatic document, marked "confidential," that makes specific references to Kenya.

The mentions on Kenya are contained in a February 12, 2009, cable to the State Department from James Swan, the American ambassador to Djibouti, concerning a controversial US security firm's proposed anti-piracy activities in the Horn's waters.

Nigeria: U.S. Diplomats Talking of Yar Adus Death in June 2009

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar and Habeeb I. Pindiga

1 December 2010

London and Abuja — Commonwealth officials were in June 2009 anticipating that a "constitutional crisis" would befall Nigeria because of President Umaru Yar'adua's "sudden death", according to secret US diplomatic cables posted by whistle blower Wikileaks yesterday.

The website released 251,287 documents detailing what it calls US 'spying' activities around the world.

One of the correspondences from the US embassy in London dated June 11, 2009, eleven months before Yar'adua died, quoted a Commonwealth official as saying that the group was "keeping a watchful eye on Nigeria because of the constitutional crisis that could ensue if President Yar'adua dies."