Daily Archives: November 1, 2012
JUDIE KABERIA The government of Eritrea on Thursday blamed Ethiopia for its delay in being accepted to rejoin the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Eritrean Ambassador to Kenya Beyene Russom told a press conference in Nairobi that Ethiopia was fighting … read more »
by Danjuma Azemobo Musa Nigeria’s ever boisterous grapevine would never lack in interesting stories. However, the popular maxim “there is no smoke without fire” however readily comes to mind when one digests any information so received. The newest story around … read more »
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor It is refreshing that three out of the Presidential Candidates to contest the December 7 elections are of Northern Ghana extraction. This is the first time in Ghana’s history that we have such an array … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Michael Bokor
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Tagged CPP, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahamudu Bawumia, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Paa Kwesi Nduom
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By Abdi Aynte If insecurity was the thorniest problem that plagued Somalia’s previous governments, the new one will be dogged by multiple political challenges. Chief among those is the status of Kismaayo, Somalia’s third largest city. At the center of … read more »
Posted in Article, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kismayo, Mogadishu, Ogaden National Liberation Front, somali government, somali news, Somalia
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By Sadik B Abdullahi My recent piece on Kismayu was mostly as a response to an article that I thought had two derogatory words that should not be used by any sane person in the 21st century. More importantly, I … read more »
Posted in Article, Somali
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kismayo, Kismayu, Mohamed Yusuf Haji, Somali, Somali people, Somalia, somalii news
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gulelepost – A Conversation between Jenny Vaughan of AFP & Alemayehu Fenatw of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas Jenny Vaughan: What does the government’s response to the Muslim protests tell you about religious tolerance among … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Al Ahbash, Arab Spring, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Jenny Vaughan, Muslim, Ummah
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor He is all over the place, promising everything that comes to his mind as if that’s all politicking for the December elections is about. Indeed, giving him the politically motivated name “FREEMAN” won’t be out … read more »
By Abdirizak Adam Hassan Most observers of Somalia would readily tell you that – with the coming of the new government – Somalia has now taken the road towards a new era of governance, continuity and renaissance. Similarly Somalis everywhere … read more »
There is no way out of the stalemate but, for Woyane to surrender peacefully for the people’s government. The Woyane Apartheid regime is as dead as the man that created it. Only fools and the corrupt think it is still … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, mass media, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF, Woyane
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Jailed: Ruth Nabuguzi was the ringleader of a ‘family firm’ that carried out a £4million benefits scam A Ugandan woman who headed a ‘family firm’ which created identities for up to 100 fictitious children to carry out a £4million … read more »
Is it because of multiple personality? by MeKonnen H. Birru, PhD* Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. Colossians 3:9 Mr. Hailemarim Desalegn, 48, has been prime minister … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Bible, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, God, Hailemariam, IndepthAfrica, jesus, Meles Zenawi, Mental Health, Southern Nations Nationalities and People's Region
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Dr. Bereket Berhane Woldeab In the venerable practice of medicine, it has always been easy to treat a disease in its early and initial stages. But the symptoms and signs are very few, and the damage so subtle, rendering its … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Adi-Quala, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean news, Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front, Ethiopia, Global Hunger Index, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mendefera
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At least 72 Ethiopian migrants are reported to have drowned last week while attempting to cross from Bossaso, Somalia to Yemen, authorities there reported. The migrants were traveling in two boats which were hit by strong winds and waves that … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Bosaso, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, ethiopian refugees, Gulf of Aden, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Qahtanite, Somalia, United Nation, Yemen
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INTRODUCTION Nations rise and fall due to a myriad of factors. The trouble with Cameroon is simply a failure of leadership. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the Cameroonian character. There is nothing amiss with the land or climate of … read more »
Comrades from Cairo Dear friends, In the coming period we will again be facing a familiar enemy that many of you have and continue to battle. International financial institutions like the IMF have long had a hand in plundering the … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, IMF
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Tagged Egypt, Egyptian, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Hosni Mubarak, IMF, IndepthAfrica, International Financial Institutions, International Monetary Fund
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Peter Kenworthy ‘The people in the refugee camps are starving,’ Minister of Public Health in the government of the Western Saharan government in exile, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Lamin Dadi, told Danish NGO Africa Contact on Tuesday. Dadi … read more »
Lindela S Figlan In the old days the people in this country were so united. Even those who were not interested in politics ended up in politics. This unity came from the fact that they were crying for the land … read more »
It is almost predictable. Soon, angry, red-eyed Arab youths will be on the move again. Not that the great trek for them has ended anyway, but this time they will fill squares in the Arab world to commemorate the second … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, DR Congo, Egypt, Libya
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Tagged Agostinho Neto, Arab, Arab Spring, Arab World, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, IndepthAfrica, Laurent Gbagbo, Libya
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A cultural policy is a public policy designed by the state to protect, promote and guide the cultural foundations of the nation. It is a logical component of the general policy on which it depends. Cultural activities (fine arts, painting, … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article
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Tagged Algeria, Algeria news, Algiers, France, French Algeria, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Ministry of National Education, Mohamed Boudia
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Economist VICTOIRE INGABIRE returned to her native country in 2010 to compete in presidential elections after 16 years in exile in the Netherlands. She became the leader of an opposition party, United Democratic Forces, challenging the incumbent, President Paul Kagame. … read more »
Kojo Tamakloe The NPP generally has made it that some people have a “ herd mentality” . It also accuses anyone not supporting it to be an Anti Akan ., a tribalist or a hater of Akans. .In my own … read more »
British border officials got a Halloween surprise when they found three people trying to sneak into the country by hiding in a truck packed with coffins. The Border Force said three citizens of the African country Eritrea were found among … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Bulgaria, Coffin, Detection dog, Dunkirk, Dunkirk evacuation, Eritrea, eritrean, eritrean illegal migrants, France, London
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The ANC’s pact to stop singing the song with words ‘Dubula i’bhunu’ is a failure – it should have been used to question the definition of hate speech. There was a moment at the end of the press conference to … read more »
The Senator representing Borno Central Senatorial Zone, Ahmed Zanna on Wednesday filed a N5 billion suit against the Minister of Defence, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Spokesman of the military Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt. Col. Sagir … read more »
By Dr A. B. C Nwosu PROF. CHINUA Achebe’s latest book titled: There was a country: A personal history of Biafra”, has expectedly stirred up an important but desirable controversy, notably from the disciples of late Pa Obafemi Awolowo. This … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Achebe, Albert Schweitzer, Biafra, CHINUA ACHEBE, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian Civil War, Obafemi Awolowo, Yakubu Gowon
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