Daily Archives: October 30, 2012
Presidential Candidates of the four political parties with representation in Parliament slugged it out on Tuesday evening at the first of two Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) organized presidential debates ahead of the 2012 elections. The debate began with the … read more »
HARARE – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday called for peace and tolerance among Zimbabweans as the southern African country heads for general elections next year. Opening the fifth session of the seventh Parliament, he said Zimbabweans must remain focused … read more »
Posted in Election, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Harare, IndepthAfrica, Joice Mujuru, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe, Robert Mugabe, United States, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front, zimbabwe election
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By Johannes Stern The misnamed Revolutionary Socialists (RS) in Egypt are working out a political alliance with billionaire tycoons, ex-Mubarak-regime officials, operatives of the United Nations, Nasserites and various liberal and pseudo-left parties. On October 18 they published a joint … read more »
By Sybille Fuchs The US is increasingly using private security forces to wage its wars and maintain its occupation of countries after the withdrawal of regular troops. Both in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of mercenaries and dozens of private security … read more »
Posted in Article, Uganda
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Tagged Afghanistan, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Joseph Kony, Uganda, Ugandan, ugandan news, United States, World Socialist Web Site, Yoweri Museveni
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By Charles Mtetwa A SUDDEN plunge of an Ethiopian Airlines flight triggers confusion and murmurs of uncertainty as the Airbus charts through the Addis Ababa to Harare flight trail. But no message comes through from the flight deck to … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Air Zimbabwe, Bole International Airport, Ethiopian Airlines, Harare, IndepthAfrica, London, United States, Zimbabwe
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By Jerome Mwanda, IDN Some 19 million people in West Africa’s Sahel region are living with the threat of hunger and malnutrition, though the potential to increase agricultural production in Africa is enormous. Poor people in the slums of Nairobi … read more »
By Danny Glover, FPIF I had the privilege of traveling to Venezuela and witnessing the country’s October 7 presidential election and watching the South American country’s extraordinarily active and engaged citizenry in action. An impressive 81 percent of the electorate … read more »
By: Said Temsamani ‘Morocco is like a tree whose roots go deep into the nourishing soil of Africa and breathes through its leaves rustling in the winds of Europe”! The image was suggested by the late Hassan II, in his … read more »
Lagos – The Lagos state government has warned residents to prepare for the ripple effect of Hurricane Sandy. An official of the state said experience has shown that when hurricanes hit the US, the ripple effect was felt in Lagos … read more »
“We as principals are the ones with the final say. “Ivo vatatu vamuri kuona ava tisu takanyora Global Political Agreement”. These were the statements from an octogenarian perceived by many as a dictator. His current tenure of office has only … read more »
Abay will be built by any means. We will not stop by biased untrue baseless and old information from the opposition group radical/extremists/vocal or ruthless individuals. In fact nowadays you cannot fool us three times. You have to stop from … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Diaspora, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Nile, Sudan, Wikileaks
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Mamo Berhan (berhanmamo@rocketmail.com) I recently read an article titled, “why I will not vote for Obama again’ in one of the so- called opposition web sites. I feel guilty for visiting such web sites. I feel the same guilt whenever … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, erhiopian news, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Nelson Mandela, Republicans, United States, Washington DC
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by Max Fisher An Israeli F-15 fighter takes off during an air show near Beersheva. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images) A military factory in Sudan was destroyed in a mysterious explosion last week, killing two, which the Sudanese government quickly blamed on … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Max Fisher, Sudan, Times, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor The proposal by Dr. David Percy, a leading member of the National Reform Party (NRP), that all Presidents refrain from directing national security during every election is unacceptable. In sum, it is not only absurd … read more »
By Remember P.D Miamingi There are disturbing signs of anti-‘foreigners’ sentiments littered across South Sudan:from the unfriendly receptions fellow Africans from neighboring countries experience at our different border posts, to some serious allegations of exploitation and abuse in Juba. It … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African people, Arabs, Desmond Tutu, IndepthAfrica, John Garang, Juba, Martin Luther King, SouthSudan, Sudan
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Military intervention in foreign countries always leads to unintended consequences. These often occur in neighbor countries of the original target. One example is the Vietnam war which lead to the destabilization of and military intervention in Laos and Cambodia. The … read more »
Abuja — Following the directive by President Goodluck Jonathan that the investigative report into the $180 million Halliburton bribery scandal be re-opened and the major culprits re-arrested, Vanguard gathered that this has resulted in a fall out between two former … read more »
By Kissy Agyeman-Togobo Mining is probably Ghana’s most established industry. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the as yet un-formed country was the world’s biggest producer of gold, constituting over one third of global output. The West African nation is … read more »
By Angelo Izama When Beatrice Atim Anywar received a call from a reporter to ask if her daughter had applied for a scholarship with an oil company, she laughed: “I had no idea,” she said. At over six feet, Anywar … read more »
By Hama Tuma Sometimes we Ethiopians like to boast. The first in everything! The cradle of mankind. The first bare foot runner to win the marathon… … The first to claim an annual economic growth of 12% whilst begging for … read more »
Four Presidential candidates of the PNC, CPP, NPP and NDC will outline their policies this evening at the IEA encounter in Tamale. President John Mahama of the NDC, NPP’s Nana Akufo Addo, the CPP’s Dr Abu Sakara and the PNC’s … read more »
Posted in Ghana
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Tagged ghana election 2012, ghana elections, ghanaian news, IndepthAfrica, International Energy Agency, John Dramani Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Tamale
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I am elected to lead, not to read.”- President Schwarzenegger, The Simpsons, US cartoon The ANC succession battles this year in the run-up to the party’s elective conference in Mangaung are making an objective and impassioned assessment of President Jacob … read more »
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has been found guilty at her treason trial and sentenced to eight years in jail. The prosecution had requested a life sentence for the charges of threatening state security. The court also found her guilty … read more »
What is the greatest need of the people of Ethiopia? It helps a great deal and makes things clear, if we state clearly and know what we are trying to solve, and the issues we are concerned about and trying … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Azeb Mesfin, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian people, IndepthAfrica, Meles, Meles Zenawi, People of Ethiopia
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Nairobi, Kenya – Eritrean President Isaias Aferwerki has requested Kenya to lift a visa referral demand slapped on its nationals after the expiry of a visa abolition agreement between the two countries. In a special message delivered to President Mwai … read more »
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