Daily Archives: September 6, 2012
Jose Mourinho said the chance to challenge Barcelona was a driving force in him joining Real Madrid in 2010. The flamboyant coach feels that La Liga is arguably the best competition in the world when it comes to the top … read more »
PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti believes Barcelona and Real Madrid are the favourites to win this season’s Champions League. But the Ligue 1 tactician has also backed some of his fellow Italians to get the best out of their respective sides. … read more »
Now that Abdullah al-Senussi has been extradited back to Libya, Scottish prosecutors are expected to try and question him about the 1988 bombing of PanAm Flight 103, which killed 270 people. By Duncan Gardham The notorious head of Libyan intelligence … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Abdullah Senussi, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Libya, Lockerbie, Mauritania, Muammar Gaddafi, Senussi
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by GRAHAM PEEBLES London. The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, announced on 22nd August after his mysterious two-month disappearance, presents a tremendous opportunity to Ethiopia. Let a new day dawn for the people, one filled with hope and fundamental … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, IndepthAfrica, International Crisis Group, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Hailemariam, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Barack Obama, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, United States, White House, Zenawi
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The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on August 20, 2012 at such a young age is a loss in many aspects; first to his family – wife, children, relatives and close friends, a loss to a country he set … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, African Union, Emperor Haile Selassie, Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, IndepthAfrica, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Hailemariam
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By Tibebe Samuel Ferenji Some Ethiopians have expressed their disappointment in the way that the people of Ethiopia mourned the death of Mr. Meles Zenawi. In the absence of free press, it is hard to tell who is mourning his … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Meles Zenawi, North Korea, Soviet Union, Zenawi
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By Teodros Kiros The recent death of Meles Zenawi, the architect of Ethiopian modernity has sent tremors of moral shock to the Ethiopian state and other African states, engaged in the murky business of capitalist modernity. I too am deeply … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Developmental State, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Ohio University Press, Susan Rice
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By Jeremy R. Hammond The U.S. media is, unsurprisingly, making their best effort to paint Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in a negative light, the general accusation being that he is attempting to usurp power and crackdown on dissent … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, News, North Africa
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Tagged Egypt, Foreign Policy Journal, Google, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Morsi, New York Times, United States, Washington Post
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In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Sola Odunfa in Lagos wonders about the fate of $15m (£12m) deposited in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2007. Somewhere in the vaults of the CBN a bag containing $15m … read more »
Posted in Analysis, News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Central Bank Nigeria, Delta State, Economic and Financial Crime Commission, IndepthAfrica, James Ibori, Nigeria, Nuhu Ribadu, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ribadu
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By Keith Somerville I’ve just returned from a couple of weeks in South Africa. It was supposed to be a holiday dominated by the Big Five on the safari circuit. But owing to the current news coming out of the … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Congress of South African Trade Unions, IndepthAfrica, Julius Malema, National Union of Mineworkers, NUM, South Africa, South African Communist Party
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Once upon a time racism used to be relatively easy to pin down. It was segregated lunch counters and slave ships, it was nooses and chains, it was the legal oppression of a group of people on account of the … read more »
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s ex-lover Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo has dragged the PM to court claiming US$15 000 monthly maintenance for her upkeep as she has been accustomed to. Ms Tembo also claims that the PM could have left her because she … read more »
Posted in News, Southern Africa, Spotlight, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Harare, IndepthAfrica, Johannesburg, Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, South Africa, Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe
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by Tope Fasua My ‘childhood’ friend, Richard Ogunmodede, now a ‘big man’ at First Bank, used to invite me to the banks’ Annual General Meeting parties at the Hilton, Abuja (I must ask him why he stopped!). The invites provided … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Central bank, Central Bank Nigeria, IndepthAfrica, Islamic Bank of Britain, Islamic banking, London, Nigeria, Sanusi, Sanusi Lamido
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Dmitriy SEDOV Recent developments in the Middle East had a considerable impact on the standing of Turkey, a country deeply involved in the unfolding Syrian tragedy. It currently appears that Turkey’s neighbors – Iran and Iraq – are growing allergic … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Dmitriy SEDOV, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Ankara, Assad, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Iraq, Kurd, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey
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Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The 2012 Democratic Platform, the 40-page document released on Monday, can be regarded as United States President Barack Obama’s election manifesto in the November election. There is a lengthy portion set aside in it outlining the foreign-policy orientations … read more »
Posted in America, Columnist, Global Issues, Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
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Tagged Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, India, Mitt Romney, obama, Pakistan, United States
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By: Robert Reich The biggest political news this week won’t be the Democratic convention. It will be Friday’s unemployment report. If the trend is good — if the rate of unemployment drops and the number of payroll jobs is as … read more »
By: Jim Kouri Under pressure from the Obama White House, officials at the Pentagon are contemplating possible retaliation against a former member of U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six who wrote a tell-all book about the operation to locate and kill … read more »
By: New Civilisation By Reza Pankhurst The Egyptian government, led by President Mohammad Morsi, is currently preparing for war. While a few (naïve) analysts may have assumed that the first war declared would be against Israel, given the Muslim Brotherhood’s apparent support … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, News, North Africa
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Tagged Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Jordan, Lebanon, Non-Aligned Movement, Palestinian people, Palestinian refugee, Syria, UNRWA
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By Andrei Ilyashenko n the eyes of the US electorate, Barack Obama looks cuter than his opponent at the forthcoming presidential election Mitt Romney, according to the results of the Reuters public opinion poll published today. However, 75% of respondents … read more »
By: Jim Kouri During a Labor Day campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, Vice President Joe Biden gave his own answer to the question “are you better off today than four years ago?” Biden yelled: “I’ve got a little bumper sticker … read more »
By: VOA By Anne Look Mali’s interim leader Dioncounda Traore requested thatthe West African regional bloc ECOWAS provide “military assistance” to recover occupied territory in the north and fight terrorism. The reported request was made in a letter delivered to … read more »
Posted in Mali, News, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Alassane Ouattara, Bamako, Burkina Faso, Douentza, Economic Community of West African States, IndepthAfrica, Mali, United Nations Security Council, West Africa
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