Daily Archives: October 10, 2012
By Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA In the aftermath of the release of Chinua Achebe’s book titled There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra and his article published in the Guardian on 2 October 2012, there have been many debates about … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Biafra, CHINUA ACHEBE, Igbo, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Obafemi Awolowo, Yakubu Gowon
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By Sandy Tidwell,washingtonpost Sandy Tidwell and her children. (Courtesy of Sandy Tidwell) It was in January 2002 when my adoption adventure began. As I was praying about my focus for the upcoming year, I got a mental picture of placing … read more »
Zimbabwe’s energy minister was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of insulting President Robert Mugabe, a move likely to strain relations in the southern African country’s fragile coalition government. Elton Mangoma, a senior official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for … read more »
Abuja – According to latest report, the wife of Nigerian President is expected home this week. According to the report, a presidential jet has already left the capital Abuja and will bring the First Lady home on Thursday. Patience Jonathan has … read more »
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for being here today and thank you in particular to the Institute for Security Studies for so very kindly organising this important seminar. It is a great pleasure for me to talk to … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa
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Tagged African Union, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa news, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, International Criminal Court, prosecutor, Rome Statute, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, States, United Nations Security Council
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David Bullard David Bullard says South Africans need to catch a wake-up, before we go over the cliff Last week the rand dropped to a twelve month low against both the dollar and sterling. This is not a train smash … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Anglo Platinum, David Bullard, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Julius Malema, South Africa, United States
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Ethiopia may well deserve the title Cradle of Humankind. Some of the most famous, most iconic hominid fossils have been discovered within the country’s borders. Ethiopia can claim many “firsts” in the hominid record book, including first stone tools and … read more »
Abidjan – A new report from UN experts accuses exiled allies of Ivory Coast’s former president of trying to recruit Islamist rebels who took control of the northern half of neighbouring Mali in a campaign to destabilise the volatile West … read more »
Paris – Three-quarters of African countries and several “Arab Spring” nations are at high or extreme risk of a food crisis, according to an analysis published on Wednesday. In a survey of 197 countries, 59 are most at risk of … read more »
Posted in Burundi, Chad, Comoros, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Somali, South Sudan, Special Reports
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Tagged Arab Spring, Democratic Republic Congo, Ethiopia, Food Security, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, North Korea, Sierra Leone, sub-Saharan Africa
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By Jemal Oumar Algerian Maghreb and African Affairs Minister Abdelkader Messahel paid a visit to Nouakchott Sunday (October 7th) to co-ordinate a unified position on Islamist-controlled northern Mali. After a lengthy meeting with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Messahel said … read more »
By Alex Thurston, On Oct. 1, Niger launched its “Strategy for Development and Security” (SDS), a $2.5 billion, five-year initiative targeting six of the country’s eight regions. The project is part of Niger’s ongoing efforts to prevent the kind of … read more »
By Paul Amina, The Star As Uganda marks its golden jubilee today, Paul Amina argues that the country is a shadow of its former self and that a balanced overview of Uganda’s 50 years of independence shows that (de)colonisation is … read more »
by M. Joe Omeokwe, Ph.D. I have come to love Nigeria. I was born a Nigerian, grew up a Nigerian and later became a Biafran even serving the new nation as a soldier in the 2nd Battalion of the ‘S’ … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Biafra, Ibadan, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Port Harcourt, yoruba, Yoruba people
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by PATRICK BOND Durban, South Africa. Would Barack Obama’s re-election advance African democracy and prosperity? Evidence suggests not, though the alternative in the November 6 election would probably be worse. Obama’s most important important policy speech on Africa, in Ghana … read more »
by JAMES ROTHENBERG The just finished Banned Books Week serves as a vivid reminder that we must be vigilant about freedom of expression and freedom from censorship. Absent this vigilance, we could wake up in a society that not only … read more »
Posted in America, Europe
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Tagged Assange, Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, Cuba, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Julian Assange, obama, United States, wikileak
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The Libyans clearly indicated in July what kind of government they wanted, and who should be in it. But things are not working out that way and the security situation is deteriorating by Patrick Haimzadeh Nothing is going to plan … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya
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Tagged Benghazi, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, July, Libya, Mahmoud Jibril, Muammar Gaddafi, National Transitional Council, Salafist, United States
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Libya can guarantee the son of its former dictator a fair trial, Libyan government lawyers said on Tuesday at a hearing on whether Saif al-Islam Gaddafi should face justice at home or at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the … read more »
Former leaders of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NCT), which fought as a NATO proxy in last year’s war against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, have accused then French President Nicolas Sarkozy of ordering the assassination of the Libyan … read more »
by Teshome Debalke The ruling regime of Ethiopia is in a rush to the bottom and taking the people of Ethiopia down with its emptyThe ruling regime of Ethiopia is in a rush propaganda. If anything, Woyane should officially declare … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indept Africa, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Meles Zenawi, People of Ethiopia, Regime, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, United States, Woyane
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