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The story of the Kenyan woman under torture by the Norwegian husband in Norway re-visited!

Posted by African Press International on December 20, 2006

After we brought to the readers the story below, many outlets have taken up the issue. We have decided to bring to you some of the comments from other outlets on the story.

It is amazing how people are seriously occupied with the issue of mistreating women.

This should make us take this seriously and give the necessary support to women in situations like the one we described.

Here below is our story of 11.November with comments from different countries:

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Norway: “I have a new African boyfriend,” says Kenyan woman married to a Norwegian man!

Posted by africanpress on December 11th, 2006

APN was recently approached by a Kenyan woman married to a Norwegian man. She wanted to tell her story and to warn other women married to some cruel Norwegian men or men in general who treat them as less human.

The woman who does not want to make her name public, before she has qualified for permanent residence permit says, the man started beating her from day one.

Asked whether she is still being beaten by the man, she says the beating has become normal to her because as she puts it, “I know nothing better in this country, but I keep praying that God helps me through my ordeal, until I get my permanent residence stamp from the Norwegian Immigration – UDI,” she says with tears in her eyes.

While APN interviewed her in one Oslo restaurant recently, she become less concentrated in the middle of the interview, kept looking around as if she was waiting for someone to come.

One could see fear in her eyes. When asked what was wrong, she told APN that she is scared talking to any man anywhere, because if discovered by the husband, she gets thoroughly beaten and humiliated.

Saying she has got used to the beating, for a number of years now, she told APN that the worst humiliation she faces, now and then, is when the husband thinks the food she has made does not taste to his standard. As punishment, the husband forces her to wash him all over the body with warm water mixed with oil.

She is later told to bath in the same water as a punishment and reminded that Africa does not have clean water.

On sex, the woman says, that is nothing to talk about. Because for her, sex she has with him is disgusting. According to her, she has had sex  5 times in two years, sex that she enjoyed. The other sexual contact she says amounts to rape, because it happens anytime and anywhere when he decides it is time to have it. I accept to do it, but immediately after that I feel dirty and cry inside me the whole day.

“If I complain, he tells me that he will ask for separation, and I will be send back to Kenya. I live a painful life in this country. I thought I had found a man. When he met me, he made me feel I was everything for him, but after we got married  things changed dramatically. In fact, I am not allowed to greet any African men in Norway. If he discovers that, he makes me suffer without food for 2 to 3 days. It is a nightmare,” she says.

Q: Why do you not report him to the police?

A: “That will be like committing suicide. If the police fail to do something then I will suffer. He is cruel when we are alone, but he acts like a super man when we are out having a drink in public. He will make a fool of me if the police were to question him. He know how to smooth talk his way on almost everything. One day I decided to tell my mother when we were together in Kenya on holidays, but she just told me to treat him well. I know why. He likes playing the good guy in front of my mother, giving her money, and manages to win her to his side. When I get my permanent permit, I will sit my mother down and make her understand how much I have suffered in this marriage, a marriage that I now call slave-marriage.”

Q: Can we help you to take it up with the UDI (Immigration authorities) so that you may get the help that you need and live a decent life?

A: No! And I hope you will not do that secretly, because things will be worse than it is now. Please do not do it. My new African boyfriend makes me feel great and that makes me to forget the suffering at times.”

We do not have words to express the fear we saw in her eyes. It is like somebody who is waiting to be executed for a crime not committed.

After having a beer and a cocktail drink offered to her by APN, she looked out to the street and said listen, “there are two Norwegian men I want you to know about. One of them was married to a Kenyan woman years ago, while the other one lived with a Kenyan woman without getting married to her. The two men were cruel to the women and lost them eventually. Now the women are very happy in Norway. They can do what they want with their lives. The problem is that one of them got a child, and that makes it difficult to cut off the man completely.”

She continues to narrate her story. “The two men boast a lot that African women are cheap, and that they can get as many as they want on a daily basis. They promise them dinners, and free trips abroad for holidays. The strange thing with them is that when they were left by the two women who came from Kenya, they decided to get women from the neighbouring countries, Uganda and Tanzania. I have no contact with the two women so I cannot tell you how they were treated before they left the men too,” says with anger in her voice.

This is a sad story. APN has used five days to research the facts, and we can now reveal that her story is true. She has been seen with a new African man out dancing, and having lunch. The two Norwegian men she talks about are reported to be constantly  seen within the African community still fooling the women and mistreating them.

She tells APN that she does not understand why women continue to allow these kind of men in their lives.

The interesting thing with this story is that the men she is talking about have not been seen dating Norwegian woman after they started getting involved with African women. It is probably because they are not able to dictate a Norwegian women to do things against their will. The Norwegian women will simply leave them because they do not need to wait in a dangerous marriage. They do not require 3 years to get any permit!

Problems like this must be addressed by the Norwegian authorities. The laws and regulations that govern marriage should be looked into in order to save African woman from being treated like less human beings, by their Norwegian spouses, or any other men no matter where they come from.

Our interview object is now in a process of forming an action group that she calls “Stop battering African woman.” She tell APN that immediately she gets her permanent stamp, she will go public and lead the action group that now comprises of 15 African women as members.

She says their aim is fight for the rights of African women who live under torture and fear to be send out of the country for breaking up with their men. She calls upon the Norwegian women to help their fellow African sisters, to get out of the mental torture they undergo.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN.

africanpress@chello.no

23 Responses to “Norway: “I have a new African boyfriend,” says Kenyan woman married to a Norwegian man!”

  1. Andre Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 2:01 pm eThis story is all too common, it is also an old story of exploitation. For years, centuries even, the dominant man has controlled his woman with money and power.I admire this woman for wanting to wait and get her residency and then leaving this cruel man. She is right that no one will help her also. People will act all pious and concerned, but she will for sure be stabbed in the back for reporting, and returned home, both humiliated and having to start over again.Right now she just has to accept the abuse and look for a brighter day in the future when she has her papers. Lets hope that he and others do not treat these women too badly, with the whippings and sexual violence (rapes). Lets face it, the police and others often are concern, but are able to do little to prevent/stop it.

    Again, this is nothing new, it has been going on for perhaps since the beginning of time. The old saying, “The sun never sets on British soil” lays testament to the fact that money, people and things are were just taken and taken advantage of for a long time. None of these relationships were truly consensual, but were primarily for survival, so these women have always been whipped, raped and humiliated, by the dominant group of men with power. In this case, its the power to immigrate.

    I wish this woman well, and the thousands others like her. I admire that she wants to start a group to address this issue also. Perhaps if enough information becomes public, the immigration requirements may change where a woman does not have to be debased and abused to obtain residency in another country,

    Anyone with a similar story, please e-mail to redbottom4y@yahoo.com.

  2. africanpress Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 2:35 pm eTo Andre,This is a very sad story. We only hope people understand what this woman is going through.
    She has sisters and brothers, she is a human being who deserves respect but is being molested far away from home.She should really be encouraged to fight it out.
    Your commentary is very touching and we hope many see the point as you do.
    We thank you for such a serious commentary on this very serious issue affecting our daughters as well as sisters who have no ways to break out from this white mans grip!

    By Korir, APN.

  3. ira Says:
    December 12th, 2006 at 9:21 am ewhat? Admire her for her courage and etc…
    Now imagine if she is your sister?
  4. esther Says:
    December 14th, 2006 at 5:31 pm eIt is really a sad story. But I do not think resident papers should make one suffer like that. Why mix with so evil people, or racists who think colour means anything.I wish her the best.Esther
  5. Gachungua Says:
    December 16th, 2006 at 6:18 pm eAuthor Reply
    GachunguaRe: Our Kenyan sister is suffering a lot in Norway December 14 2006, 7:46 PMShe is willing to put up with all that humiliation because of papers? If she was to be killed what good would be those papers. Surely Kenya is not that bad that she should be willing to put her life in such danger. Sorry, my dear, I fail to have any sympathy for you. You need to get your self esteem up and fast.

    By
    Gachungua

  6. Dr. Gutberlet Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:47 pm eToday, 03:17 PM
    Dr. Gutberlet
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    Country:——————Hmmm, I don’t know whom I dislike more; the savage “woman”, who should be sent back to her place of origin, or the disgusting race traitor, who would have sexual contact with her. Regardless, I do not feel sorry for her because she does not belong north of the equator.
  7. Sandman Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:48 pm eToday, 03:20 PM
    SANDMAN
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    Country:——————————————————————————–Both of them should be forcibly sent to Africa. Even if you disregard the race mixing aspect and if only half of what she claims is true, this is not a sane mind that you want in your society.
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    If blacks want to eat rats or jews want to suck the blood of yidlet cock it’s really none of the state’s business.

    WFHermans

  8. हिन्दुस्तान Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:50 pm eToday, 03:21 PM
    हिन्दुस्तान
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    Country:——————————————————————————–Heard plenty of stories like this in regards to mail order Thai brides but…

    Norwegians and Kenyans This is a first.
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  9. Fitz Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:51 pm eToday, 03:23 PM
    Fitz
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    Posts: 16——————————————————————————–My God, what a tragedy . If the climate of Norway supported the growth of cotton, I don’t doubt that her cruel Norwegian husband would have her out picking cotton as well, lol.
  10. dannymu Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:52 pm eToday, 03:41 PM
    dannymu
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    I don’t know whom I dislike more; the savage “woman”, who should be sent back to her place of origin, or the disgusting race traitor, who would have sexual contact with her. Regardless, I do not feel sorry for her because she does not belong north of the equator.

    Race traitor! I love when people cry this old ranting!
    And the fact the woman is from the southern hemisphere is a motive for him not to feel sorry for her.
    BTW what is your view of Australians and New Zealanders? After all they are both countries with white majorities in the southern hemisphere…

  11. Dr. Gutberlet Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:53 pm eToday, 04:04 PM
    Dr. Gutberlet
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    Country:——————————————————————————–Quote:
    Originally Posted by dannymu
    Race traitor! I love when people cry this old ranting!
    And the fact the woman is from the southern hemisphere is a motive for him not to feel sorry for her.
    BTW what is your view of Australians and New Zealanders? After all they are both countries with white majorities in the southern hemisphere…

    I hold white Aussies and New Zealanders in extremely high regard. Too bad they are far too tolerant with regard to aborigine and maori savages.

  12. dannymu Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:53 pm eToday, 04:11 PM
    dannymu
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    Too bad they are far too tolerant with regard to aborigine and maori savages.

    So would you want the real indigenous to be mistreated? Would you want them to be segregated?

  13. ScottishStalinist1 Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:54 pm eToday, 04:54 PM
    ScottishStalinist1
    Gang of Four Join Date: Sep 2006
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    Country:——————————————————————————–No surprise, really. Most Western and Central Europeans are filthy degenerates that go to poor countries like these to rape little children. I believe the Western White Man needs to adapt to the world, or be sterilized.
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  14. Count Sudoku Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:55 pm eToday, 05:19 PM
    Count Sudoku
    Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006
    Posts: 263——————————————————————————–Quote:
    Originally Posted by ScottishStalinist1
    No surprise, really. Most Western and Central Europeans are filthy degenerates that go to poor countries like these to rape little children. I believe the Western White Man needs to adapt to the world, or be sterilized.

    “Most Western and Central Europeans go to poor countries to rape little children”.

    Are you some sort of double agent that is trying to discredit communism by stating such blatantly ridiculous things?

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  15. ScottishStalinist1 Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:57 pm eToday, 05:37 PM
    ScottishStalinist1
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    Country:——————————————————————————–There is nothing blatantly ridiculous about what I wrote. Although it can never be proven I am certain that the majority of British people that go to Thailand or Romania are there for the lady-boys.

    I remember reading quotes from child prostitutes on the tabloid The Sun where they say similar things.
    __________________
    “Trust the fact that history will judge events honestly and you will never have to be embarrassed for what your father did. On no account ever be one of those people who criticise but do not follow through their actions. Such people are hypocrites – weak, worthless people who do not have the power to reconcile their beliefs with their actions. I wish you courage, my dear. Be strong in the belief that life is wonderful. Be positive and believe that the Revolution will always win.”
    – Comrade-Captain Valery Sablin

  16. Hachiko Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:58 pm eToday, 05:49 PM
    Hachiko
    Me sooo Hawny! Me Ruv you rong time! Join Date: Jun 2006
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    Country:——————————————————————————–Just to make sure, where did it say that the Norwegian man was some Aryan specimen with Blondie hair and blue eyes? Isn’t Norway home to a decent amount of Muslims and Africans who have achieved a legal status?
    I won’t discount that this was a white man abusing his newly purchased property, but there is still a chance of this being mud on mud violence, right?
    __________________
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  17. Sandman Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:58 pm eToday, 06:00 PM
    SANDMAN
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    Country:——————————————————————————–Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hachiko
    Just to make sure, where did it say that the Norwegian man was some Aryan specimen with blonde hair and blue eyes? Isn’t Norway home to a decent amount of Muslims and Africans who have achieved a legal status?
    I won’t discount that this was a white man abusing his newly purchased property, but there is still a chance of this being mud on mud violence, right?

    True, you can’t discount that possibility.
    __________________

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    If blacks want to eat rats or jews want to suck the blood of yidlet cock it’s really none of the state’s business.

    WFHermans

  18. Count Sudoku Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 9:59 pm eToday, 06:09 PM
    Count Sudoku
    Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006
    Posts: 263——————————————————————————–Quote:
    Originally Posted by ScottishStalinist1
    There is nothing blatantly ridiculous about what I wrote. Although it can never be proven I am certain that the majority of British people that go to Thailand or Romania are there for the lady-boys.

    I remember reading quotes from child prostitutes on the tabloid The Sun where they say similar things.

    That’s a little different than saying that the majority of Europeans go to the third world for child prostitution.

  19. Hachiko Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 10:00 pm eToday, 06:12 PM
    Hachiko
    Me sooo Hawny! Me Ruv you rong time! Join Date: Jun 2006
    Location: Astoria, NY, between the burkas & the beaners
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    Country:——————————————————————————–Quote:
    Originally Posted by ScottishStalinist1
    There is nothing blatantly ridiculous about what I wrote. Although it can never be proven I am certain that the majority of British people that go to Thailand or Romania are there for the lady-boys.

    I remember reading quotes from child prostitutes on the tabloid The Sun where they say similar things.

    And prostitutes are attributed a sense of credibility since exactly when?

  20. Sandman Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 10:01 pm eToday, 06:21 PM
    SANDMAN
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    Originally Posted by dannymu
    So would you want the real indigenous to be mistreated? Would you want them to be segregated?

    Segregate the populations, give them a part of the land for themselves, and make that part independant. They can live in their mudhuts doing whatever it is they want to do, and noone gets in eachother’s way. There would be no talk of anyone mistreating the other.

  21. Hachiko Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 10:01 pm eToday, 06:24 PM
    Hachiko
    Me sooo Hawny! Me Ruv you rong time! Join Date: Jun 2006
    Location: Astoria, NY, between the burkas & the beaners
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    Country:——————————————————————————–Quote:
    Originally Posted by SANDMAN
    Segregate the populations, give them a part of the land for themselves, and make that part independant. They can live in their mudhuts doing whatever it is they want to do, and noone gets in eachother’s way. There would be no talk of anyone mistreating the other.

    No, in two day’s time you’d have them jumping the borders onto your land to try and seek “asylum”.

  22. Sandman Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 10:02 pm eToday, 06:30 PM
    SANDMAN
    STAN
    Join Date: Aug 2005
    Location: off to Neverneverland
    Age: 27
    Posts: 11,157
    Country:——————————————————————————–Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hachiko
    No, in two day’s time you’d have them jumping the borders onto your land to try and seek “asylum”.

    Some modicum of a spine will be needed to deal with such situations when they arrive.

  23. Hachiko Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 10:03 pm eToday, 06:36 PMHachiko
    Me sooo Hawny! Me Ruv you rong time! Join Date: Jun 2006
    Location: Astoria, NY, between the burkas & the beaners
    Age: 32
    Posts: 2,105
    Country:——————————————————————————–

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SANDMAN
    Some modicum of a spine will be needed to deal with such situations when they arrive.

    If the land redistribution plan you proposed includes allowances for, ummm, “border control”, I doubt that’ll be a problem.

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Norway to criminalise meeting children with intent to sexually molest!

Posted by African Press International on December 20, 2006

The Norwegian government wants to make it a crime for grown up people who make appointments with children with intent to sexually molest them.

The Government has now come up with a proposal to that effect in order to protect children from molestation.

In the same proposal, the police are given the powers to step in when there is suspicion directed to an individual who has intentions to meet children without reasonable cause.

The problem with the proposal is that the police may misuse it to harass the public, because they will only need to get word that an adult is suspected to be interested in meeting children.

The politicians should analyse the proposal by the government, before it is allowed to be put into practice.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN

africanpress@chello.no

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Ivorians in crisis! The president wants peace with the rebels.

Posted by African Press International on December 20, 2006

The is crisis in Ivory Coast! Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivorian president in his efforts to end the crisis, has come out with a wide-ranging proposals.

“Ivory Coast has been divided in two since rebels known as the New Forces seized the north four years ago. The peace process is stalling and the international community in general believes the president is to blame.”

The president believes that his five proposals would enable the country to progress and get the stability required in order to have elections in July 2007.

Mr Gbagbo is looking for solutions that can bring him and his rivals on the table to talk peace.

His intentions are noble. He wants to persuade the rebels that control the north of the country to disarm and participate in the coming elections. 

Efforts like this one should be given a backing by the African Union, so that peace is achieved between the parties, in order that the people of Ivory Coast may have the long awaited peace.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN

africanpress@chello.no

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NORAD corruption allegation of 50.000kr turns to 500.000kr!

Posted by African Press International on December 20, 2006

A few days ago, we brought a story to our readers on money supposedly paid to a prominent Kenyan opposition politician who was in Norway in the year 2002.

The amount we quoted as paid out to him was Kr 50.000 which amounts to about 480.000 Kenya shillings.

Now we have been corrected by our sources in NORAD that the money given was not 50.000kr(480.000kenyashillings), but that the amount was 500.000 kroner(about 4.800.000kenyashillings – four million, eight hundred thousand).

According to the information from the same sources, the money never reached the people it was intended for in Kenya.

NORAD has a duty internationally to support serious transparent projects. Norwegian parliament entrusts millions of tax-payers money to NORAD management and expect that the money will be used as expected in accordance with the procedures for supporting the needy.

If NORAD deals with individuals visiting Norway in private capacities to promote their own political interests, and dishes out money to them, such an act amounts to promotion of corruption.

What is serious with this issue is the fact that tax payers money seems to have been misused, if money was really paid out in millions by the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation without accountability as our source has informed us.

This raises many questions now about how the money could be given directly to an individual, if so happened, to carry with him to Nairobi from Oslo.

Was NORAD giving the money, if it did, to the individual in question to use for his own gain in order to destabilise the Kenya government?

Today APN contacted the Norwegian parliament seeking a meeting to discus the matter in an effort to get clarification on conditions they give to NORAD on how to dish out money to visiting errand opposition politicians from developing countries.

The money the politician received was meant for 3 different projects. APN has been informed that none of the projects benefited.

In our next article on the same subject, we will detail the projects the money was intended for, which politician benefited from the money, and what his ambitions in Kenya are at present and in the future.

Related stories:

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN

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Somalia at war with Ethiopia!

Posted by African Press International on December 20, 2006

Somali government troops<Somalia’s interim government getting help from Ethiopia!

It is now reported that fighting has broken out in  Somalia. The interim government is loosing the battle already.

According to BBC, “a deadline from Islamists for Ethiopia to withdraw troops from Somalia or face “major attacks” expired on Tuesday. Residents say pro-government forces and the Islamic militia exchanged mortar shells at Burhakaba, 25km from Baidoa.”

EU is interesed to see lasting peace in the region. “A European Union envoy is in Baidoa meeting officials. There are fears an all-out war would plunge the entire Horn of Africa region into crisis.”

The Ethiopians under-estimated the seriousness of the ultimatum given to them by the Islamic Courts leadership in Somalia.

BBC reports, “I can confirm to you that heavy fighting has already started around several front line areas,” Islamic commander Sheikh Mohamed Ibrahim Bilal told AFP news agency.

By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN

africanpress@chello.no

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