Daily Archives: October 5, 2012
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho believes his side’s El Clasico fixture with Barcelona is the biggest game in the world. The Spanish champions have not enjoyed the best start to their campaign and enter the first Clasico of the league … read more »
Posted in Soccer
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Tagged Barcelona, el clasico, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Sports, José Mourinho, La Liga, madrid, madrid barcelona, real madrid, Real Madrid C.F, Uefa Champions League
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Newcastle could be boosted for their clash with Manchester United as Hatem Ben Arfa appears likely to take his place in Sunday’s game. Coming off an impressive 3-0 victory over Bordeaux in Thursday night’s Europa League clash, Newcastle manager Alan … read more »
Amid a barrage of hostile international headlines and donor indication that funding is going to be tied to how events play out in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda is fighting back; and this time hard. This counter-onslaught is being … read more »
By Ademola Adeyemo,Thisday Except he is a preternatural creature and does the extra-ordinary, an average Nigerian President can hardly impress his people, writes Ademola Adeyemo Having successfully waltzed through the challenges that piled up his ascension to the presidency in … read more »
The embattled Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell gave a personal promise to Rwanda’s controversial leader that Britain would continue its multi-million-pound aid payments to the regime despite growing concerns within his department, according to documents obtained by The Independent. The former … read more »
(CPJ) Ethiopian authorities should halt their harassment of journalists covering the country’s Muslim community and their intimidation of citizens who have tried to speak to reporters about sensitive religious, ethnic, and political issues, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. … read more »
Marthe Van Der Wolf (VOA) Young members of the Ethiopian diaspora are returning in large numbers to their country of birth. The Ethiopian government welcomes the impact these returnees could have on the economy. There are about 3 million Ethiopians … read more »
Three Kenyans once tortured by British colonial authorities are to learn if they can proceed with their legal claims against the British government. The High Court in London is to decide whether the case should be dropped because of the … read more »
A deputy attorney general in Pennsylvania and his wife have been charged with abuse and neglect of two children adopted from Ethiopia earlier this year. Douglas Barbour, 33, has been suspended without pay from his job with the attorney general’s … read more »
As the last utterances of Friday prayers faded from the loudspeakers of the Al-Anawar Mosque, more than a thousand Muslim men and women rose to their feet and marched through the Mercato open market in the Ethiopian capital. “Let our … read more »
By Yilma Bekele President Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney had their first debate this evening. Watching this debate for the highest office in the land was a learning moment. This is not the first debate I have viewed or … read more »
An explosion shook an area around an outdoor bar in the city of Jalingo in eastern Nigeria, police said Friday, with local media reporting up to three people killed. “There was an explosion at a beer garden in the Dorawa … read more »
Kola Ibrahim While the Asian Tigers, many of whom started out on the journey of development at the same time as Nigeria, are busy taming the moon and befriending Mars, Nigeria tramps on in poverty, disease and illiteracy. It has … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Academic Staff Union of Universities, Asian Tigers, GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, United Nations Development Programme, WAEC
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Martin Ewi, Senior Researcher, Transnational Threats and International Crime, ISS Pretoria As Malians and West Africans, as well as the international community at large, anxiously await the outcome of the meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, 4 … read more »
By James Gustave Speth This election season, both Republicans and Democrats are repeatedly reassuring us that our country is the best. In many ways, America surely is. But it’s important to be honest with ourselves. The plain truth is that … read more »
Jeremy H. Keenan The Tuareg are Berbers, not Arabs, and are the indigenous population of much of the Central Sahara and Sahel. Their population is estimated at 2-3 millions. Their largest numbers, some 800,000, live in Mali, followed by Niger, … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, International Criminal Court, Islamism, Mali, MNLA
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By Tapiwa Kapurura, zimeye.org The continually reported signs and predictions of looming violence statistics at grassroots level in Zimbabwe remain unsettling on the mind of any ordinary but concerned citizen. Many will recall 2008 as the most violent year in … read more »
Posted in Article, Zimbabwe
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Tagged GPA, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Morgan Tsvangirai, Political party, Politics, Robert Mugabe, Violence, Violence and Abuse, Zimbabwe
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By Mirjam van Reisen A new report titled ‘Human Trafficking in the Sinai. Refugees between Life and Death’ sheds new light on the devastation caused by the trafficking in the Sinai. Hostages are killed unless they collect exorbitant ransoms from … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged CNN, Egypt, Eritrea, Human trafficking, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Israel, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Tilburg University
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THE main reason why the two MDC factions cannot reunite is because Morgan Tsvangirai has already shown tendicies that he is as bad as Robert Mugabe himself, Professor Welshman Ncube has said. He spoke when he ruled out any prospects … read more »
by Ran HaCohen If Ahmadinejad didn’t exist, Israel would invent him. Thanks to Israel’s gangster rhetoric of “hold me or I shoot,” international attention is focused on the brutal Muslim dictatorship in Iran, allowing Israel to quietly transform itself into … read more »
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