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News, East Africa, Djibouti, News, East Africa, News, East Africa, Eritrea, News, East Africa, Ethiopia, Article, Pan African News Eritrea still collecting money in Canada for military regime

The Eritrean government is still collecting taxes from expatriates in Canada to bankroll its military regime, despite being warned by the Department of Foreign Affairs to stop, a human rights group alleges. New documents appear to show the Consulate General of Eritrea in Toronto has been imposing a 2 per cent income tax and a national defence fee of up to $500 on Eritrean-Canadians as...

Article, News, West Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, News, East Africa, Djibouti, News, East Africa, Eritrea, News, East Africa, Ethiopia, News, West Africa, Ghana, News, East Africa, Kenya, News, North Africa, Libya, News, West Africa, Nigeria, Article, Op-ed, News, West Africa, Sierra Leone, News, East Africa, Somali, News, Southern Africa, South Africa, News, East Africa, South Sudan, News, East Africa, Sudan, News, North Africa, Tunisia, News, Southern Africa, Zambia, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe Is the African Union equipped to serve Africa's people for a

Article, News, East Africa, Eritrea, News, East Africa, Ethiopia, News, West Africa, Ghana, News, North Africa, Libya, News, West Africa, Nigeria, Article, Op-ed, News, East Africa, Somali, News, Southern Africa, South Africa, News, East Africa, South Sudan, News, East Africa, Sudan, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe Africa at 50: Redefining African Solidarity

On May 25, Africa celebrates its Golden Jubilee! The mortar which has been binding the several countries’ slates on the political map of the African continent has been the solidarity established by founding fathers against colonialism. It is the solidarity which joined together the African states into the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) whose Liberation Committee was vital in bringing con...

Article, Columnist, Columnist, Messay Kebede, Article, Op-ed Which Way Ethiopia: Revolution, Civil War, or National Recon

By Messay Kebede Since the death of Prime Minister Meles, the political situation of Ethiopia has entered a phase of uncertainty with no clear momentum toward stabilization. Despite predictions of the imminent collapse of the EPRDF, either under the pressure of a popular uprising or splits within its ranks, the political situation shows no sign of heightened challenge to the regime. In fact, it...

Article, News, East Africa, Djibouti, News, East Africa, News, East Africa, Eritrea, News, East Africa, Ethiopia, Article, Op-ed Eritrea: little to smile about, 20 years from freedom

Twenty years since Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia after one of Africa's longest wars, people are bowed down by a repressive government and increasingly frustrated at the lack of rights they fought for. Opposition parties are banned and anyone who challenges the president -- a former rebel commander who led the war against Ethiopia -- is jailed without trial, often in the harshest of con...

Miscellaneous, African Union (AU), Article, News, Central Africa, Cameroon, News, Central Africa, Congo, News, East Africa, Eritrea, News, East Africa, Ethiopia, News, West Africa, Ghana, News, East Africa, Kenya, News, North Africa, Morocco, News, West Africa, Nigeria, Article, Op-ed, News, East Africa, Somali, News, Southern Africa, South Africa, News, East Africa, South Sudan, News, East Africa, Sudan, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe Africa: The Birth of the OAU

column Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was a passionate believer in African unity, and a living link with the historic Pan-African movement which had promoted solidarity among people of African descent everywhere against colonialism and racism. Earlier Pan-Africanists had identified with Ethiopia as a historic African state that remained independent except for the Italian occupation ...

News, East Africa, Ethiopia, News, West Africa, Ghana, News, West Africa, Nigeria, Article, Pan African News, News, Southern Africa, News, Southern Africa, Swaziland Woman Seeks Asylum: King of Swaziland want to make me his 14

Article, News, East Africa, Djibouti, News, East Africa, News, East Africa, Eritrea, News, East Africa, Ethiopia, Article, Op-ed Ethiopia: Off Political Taboos and Woos

By Teklu Abate The regime in Ethiopia and the opposition in the Diaspora and at home appear to live in totally different ‘worlds’. Each is a typical alien to the other. The governing party sees the opposition as powerless, incompetent, disorganized, delusional, visionless, and remnants of the past regime. The opposition, on the other hand, tend to characterize the reign of the current regim...

Article, News, West Africa, Nigeria, Article, Op-ed, News, West Africa Chinua Achebe as Metaphor

When I was coming of age in my part of the African continent, I was oriented to four major metaphors for what my environment considered most important in our social discuss. The first was Zik, which I later learnt was short for the name of Nigeria’s founding nationalist and Africa’s foremost Pan-Africanist, Nnamdi Azikiwe. Zik was a metaphor for the kind of leadership that espoused liberty an...

Article, News, West Africa, Nigeria, Article, Op-ed, News, West Africa Chinua Achebe (Ugonabo Ogidi ) Goes Home

Article, News, West Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, News, East Africa, Eritrea, News, East Africa, Ethiopia, News, West Africa, Ghana, News, East Africa, Kenya, News, West Africa, Nigeria, Article, Op-ed, News, East Africa, Somali, News, Southern Africa, South Africa, News, East Africa, South Sudan, News, East Africa, Sudan, News, Southern Africa, Swaziland, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe The curious case of Africa’s Progress and the missing Mill

By Susana Edjang The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that have driven the global development agenda, since September 2000, when Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 191 member states surprised the world by unanimously agreeing and making, the Millennium Declaration. The Millennium Declaration was both a surprising and encouraging outcome for global progress...

Article, News, East Africa, Article, Op-ed, News, East Africa, Somali Somalia And The Slippery Slope Of ‘Jubbaland’

By Abukar Arman If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone—somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed—you are not alone. Due to the array of competing internal and external interest groups and the federal government’s lack of clear grand strategy or capacity to assert its authority, the formation of “Jubbaland State”...

Article, Article, Op-ed, News, Southern Africa, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe The Legacy of Queen Victoria and Zimbabwean Culture

Canada recently just celebrated Victoria Day on the 20th of May, remembering a woman who is regarded as the longest serving monarch in British History and very well regarded as an embodiment of what the British Empire represented at its zenith.  Queen Victoria’s name is usually associated with many values such as integrity, morality, feminism, and benevolence. Nevertheless from a Zimbabwean p...

Article, News, West Africa, Nigeria, Article, Op-ed, News, West Africa The Parable Of The Cockroach And Nigeria

by Prince Charles Dickson The Edos say “Ehemwen wÿÿ iren te gua so ihuan, ren te vbe gua ku, sokpan ukpÿ iye-ÿkhÿkhÿ ÿre ÿ ma gie iren ku iku iren vbe avan”.  A cockroach knows how to sing and dance, but it is the hen who prevents it from performing its art during the day. (English). When my son was a baby one of his scary moments was seeing a roach, he would scream, wail, and cry u...