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  • Somali President Joins Troops On Front Lines
  • 索马利亚总统亲临战场视察
  •   Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed joined his troops on the front lines Wednesday night as they fought Islamist militants in the capital.
  • 索马利亚总统谢赫‧谢里夫‧谢赫‧艾哈迈德星期叁在军队对抗伊斯兰激进分子的战斗中在首都亲临战场视察。

  •   Witnesses and officials say the president, dressed in military fatigues, was stationed with Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers.
  • 目击者和官员称,谢里夫总统身着军队迷彩服,同索马利亚政府军和非洲联盟维和人员在一起。

  •   One presidential aide said Mr. Sharif was armed with an AK-47 rifle.
  • 一名总统助理说,谢里夫随身佩戴着 AK-47 步枪。

  •   At least seven people were killed in Mogadishu late Wednesday as government forces traded shell and gunfire with al-Shabab insurgents.
  • 星期叁晚上,政府军与青年党反叛分子在摩加迪沙交火,至少七人丧生。

  •   Mr. Sharif was unhurt in the fighting, but a journalist told VOA's Somali Service that a mortar shell landed about a third of a kilometer away from the president.
  • 谢里夫没有在战斗中受伤,但一名记者对美国之音索马利亚语组说,一枚迫击炮弹落在距离总统大约叁百米的地方。

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  • Kenya MPs Hike Salary
  • 肯亚国会议员加薪
  •   Lawmakers in Kenya have unanimously approved a motion to give themselves a hefty pay raise, only a month before the country votes on a new constitution that would make it illegal for them to set their own salaries.
  • 肯亚国会议员一致通过一项為他们自己大幅加薪的动议;一个月之后,肯亚将对新宪法进行表决,如果新宪法通过,国会议员為自己加薪将成為非法行為。

  •   Starting Thursday, members of parliament will be paid nearly $13,500 a month, up from about $10,500.
  • 从星期四开始,国会议员的月薪将由 1 万零 5 百美元上涨到接近 1 万 3 千 5 百美元。

  •   The per capita GDP in Kenya is just $783 a year.
  • 肯亚的年人均国内生產总值只有 783 美元。

  •   One politician argued in favor of the pay hike, saying no amount of money would be enough to adequately compensate a member of parliament for the "heavy responsibility" he shoulders.
  • 一名政治家為加薪辩护,称再多钱也无法补偿国会议员肩负的“重大责任”。

  •   But Kenyans are protesting the decision.
  • 然而,肯亚民眾抗议这项决定。

  •   The head of a political pressure group told VOA his group will take the lawmakers to court for the pay hike, and threatened mass action if the court refused to hear his case.
  • 一名政治压力组织的领导人对美国之音说,他的团队将把国会议员告上法庭,并威胁说,如果法庭拒绝审理此案,将採取大规模的行动。

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