Daily Archives: September 4, 2012
In a bet there is a fool and a thief. Proverb If there is one Boondoggle that everybody knows about it’s the Real Estate Boondoggle. It’s in all the papers, on TV and internet bloggers blog away day and night … read more »
Over 80 000 imbali who attended this year umhlanga ceremony yesterday danced before His Majesty King Mswati III and the Queen Mother as well as their guests. The maidens ignored the wind, which blew up a dust storm and was … read more »
Posted in Hottest News, News, Southern Africa, Spotlight, Swaziland
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Tagged Eastern Cape, IndepthAfrica, KwaZulu-Natal, Mswati III, South Africa, Swazi people, Swaziland, Umhlanga, Umhlanga KwaZulu-Natal
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strategypage A major reason for the support Islamic terror group Boko Haram receives in the north is the widespread belief that the Moslem north is not getting its fair share of the oil income. This has always been a contentious … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Christian, Gulf of Guinea, IndepthAfrica, MAIDUGURI, Moslem, Nigeria, State Security Service, Yobe State
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By HARVEY MORRIS,/rendezvous.blogs LONDON — In the early hours of Tuesday, units of Spain’s paramilitary Civil Guard rounded up a group of would-be African immigrants on an otherwise uninhabited Spanish rock off the North African coast and shipped them back … read more »
Spanish authorities say police have evicted more than 80 illegal migrants that had occupied a tiny island off Africa’s Mediterranean coast. Abdelmalik El Barkani, the Interior Ministry’s representative on Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla, said the eviction, which began … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, North Africa
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, Mediterranean Sea, Melilla, Morocco, North Africa, spain, Spanish language
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The Somaliland authorities should immediately stop deporting Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers to Ethiopia. On August 31, 2012, dozens of Ethiopians, mostly women and children, were forcibly returned to Ethiopia in violation of international legal prohibitions against sending people to … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Somali
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Tagged Central Police Station, Ethiopia, Ethiopians, Hargeisa, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Refugee, Somaliland, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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by Sonala Olumhense In an article last week, President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media & Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, went after his boss’ critics. By his definition, they included “all the cynics, the pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting, self-appointed activists, … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abati, Anyim Pius Anyim, Diezani Alison-Madueke, GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Nigeria, Patience Jonathan, Reuben Abati
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The presidency yesterday declined further comment on reports that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan was undergoing medical treatment abroad, following food poisoning even as on-line media reports said the ailment struck eleven days ago in Dubai where she had … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Dubai, First Lady, Foodborne illness, Germany, Hospital, IndepthAfrica, Patience Jonathan, Wiesbaden
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/mg.co.za Immigrants and refugees living in Mayfair in Johannesburg are living in fear after threatening, xenophobic letters began circulating in the area. A group calling itself the South African Blacks Association (Saba) has made graphic threats of violence against foreigners … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Greece, Human rights, immigration, IndepthAfrica, Mayfair, Non-governmental organization, Somalia, South Africa, South African Human Rights Commission
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By Messay Kebede Beyond the pathetic and at times ridiculous theatrics of Ethiopians ordered not only to mourn but also to show visible signs of a boundless grief over the death of Meles Zenawi, henceforth advertised as a great and … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, IndepthAfrica, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. He is dead on target, when Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom admonishes residents of the Central Region not to vote for Transitional-President John “Paradigm-Shift” Dramani Mahama, merely because the latter is the accidental successor of the … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mill, Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem, Kwame Nkrumah, Nduom, New Patriotic Party
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Gulliver, economist AFRICA’S booming aviation industry reached another landmark in August when Ethiopian Airlines became the first carrier outside Japan to operate the Boeing 787 Dreamliner (pictured), a state-of-the-art passenger jet. The introduction of the 787 to African skies could … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Arik Air, ASKY Airlines, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Bole International Airport, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Airlines, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica
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By Toby Collins (LONDON) – Egyptian authorities fearful of a monopoly on Nile waters received agreement from Khartoum to build an airbase in Sudan, to launch attacks on Ethiopian damming facilities, claims the anonymous media outlet; Wikileaks. Wikileaks has leaked … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, News, North Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Nile, Sudan, Wikileaks
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed that there are no new cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever reported in Kibaale district, Uganda, since 3 August 2012, indicating that the outbreak is coming to an end. A total of 24 probable … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Spotlight, Uganda
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Tagged Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola, Entebbe, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kibaale, Philippines, Uganda, Uganda Virus Research Institute
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opinion His Excellency Ato Meles Zenawi: He was here, living here with us, vivid here with us and he is unforgettable: It has been at least two weeks since the death of His Excellency PM. Meles and I have only … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa news, Africa news report, August 20 2012, Belgium, East Africa, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, United Nations, Zenawi
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By Alex Lantier,wsws Four gold miners were hospitalized after being shot at Gold One’s Modder East operation yesterday, as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break a picket line. The police shooting followed a stand-off at Modder East … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Africa news report, African National Congress, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Lonmin, Marikana, National Union of Mineworkers, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, South Africa news, South African Police Service
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By Abdullahi Osman El-Tom I read with tremendous outrage the Op-ed article published by Andrew Natsios, ex-US Envoy for Sudan, in the New York Times, August 24th, 2012. To say the least, the article is insulting to the intelligence of … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, News, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Africa news, Africa news report, Al-Bashir, Andrew Natsios, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Natsios, New York Times, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, United States
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>By Jean Shaoul,wsws The state funeral of Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi on Sunday in the capital, Addis Ababa, underscores the highly unstable character of political relations in Africa. Meles’s death was shrouded in mystery. Absent from public life since … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Africa news, Africa news report, African Union, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Hailemariam, South Sudan, United States
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New Ethiopian leader Hailemariam Desalegn, relatively little-known and long overshadowed by his late mentor Meles Zenawi, faces tough challenges at home and in the volatile Horn of Africa. In a rare peaceful handover of power for Ethiopia, former water engineer … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, News, Spotlight
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa news, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Hailemariam
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The police massacre of striking miners at Marikana is a watershed for post-apartheid South Africa and for the international class struggle. It demonstrates in the starkest form imaginable that the perspective of “black empowerment” and the “National Democratic Revolution” providing … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African National Congress, ANC, Congress of South African Trade Unions, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Lonmin, NUM, South Africa, South African Communist Party
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