Daily Archives: November 4, 2012
Habibou Kouyate/Getty Images People hold banners on top of a truck during a protest called by the Coordination of Patriotic Organizations in Mali (COPAM) against a foreign military intervention in Mali to reclaim the Islamist-controlled north. By Aron Heller / The … read more »
nature.com An impoverished African nation was making promising strides in medicine — before the government clamped down on its foreign partnerships. Shanta Barley Isaias Afwerki (centre) in 1992, a year before he became Eritrea’s first president. He has recently … read more »
SOMALI Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Said has announced the members of his new government, noting that a woman has been named as foreign minister for the first time in the country’s history. “After long discussions and consultations, I have … read more »
As West Africa’s military intervention looms to end the crisis in Mali, Burkina Faso yesterday led efforts to persuade Ansar Dine, one of the armed Islamist groups controlling northern part of the country, to cut ties with Al-Qaeda. Ansar Dine … read more »
Kano – Gunmen with explosives attacked a police station, a primary school and two cellphone towers in a town in Nigeria’s restive northeast early on Sunday and set them ablaze, the military and residents said. “We heard that there were … read more »
As the Nigerian geopolitical remains riled up, post the provocative publication of ‘There Was a Country’, by one of Nigeria’s most popular writers, Chinua Achebe. A revisiting of Nigeria’s history becomes pertinent. We decided to provide an address made … read more »
Premier tells cabinet that 54 migrants crossed border in October and were all taken into custody- a steep decline from the some 2,000 migrants who came through monthly in mid-2012. Israel has stopped the unapproved influx of African migrants across … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African people, Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, South Sudan, Sudan
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Babalwa Shota When President Jacob Zuma deviated from his prepared speech at the National House of Traditional Leaders this week, two responses came to mind: he’s right … and he’s wrong. While parts of his unscripted monologue verged on vitriol, … read more »
President Mugabe has castigated people who lie using his name saying Zanu-PF does not follow what the “President wants” but follows what the people want. The President made the remarks yesterday at the Zanu-PF Headquarters as he was unveiling an … read more »
by Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza ZANU PF South Africa Secretary for Information and Publicity At last we hear a settlement has been reached between Morgan Tsvangirai and his first wife Locardia Karimatsenga on the maintenance issue which had been brought before … read more »
Zimbabwe’s Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma has branded President Robert Mugabe as “cruel” for the “incessant arrests and beatings [of opposition supporters] under the pretext of maintaining order and applying the rule of law” in the country. Mangoma … read more »
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ivory Coast officials say that fighters who backed former president Laurent Gbagbo have infiltrated refugee camps in Ghana and are accused of attacking security bases back in Ivory Coast. Human rights groups say the presence of … read more »
An Administration Police officer succumbed to injuries following Sunday morning’s grenade attack at a church in Garissa. “We have lost an officer who was also the chaplain at the church,” a police officer in the region said. 14 other people … read more »
By: Mike Whitney Sagging prices and droopy home sales in Vancouver have set off alarms across Canada. These are the first signs that the country’s overheated real estate market has begun to cool. Homes sales have plunged 33 percent year-over-year, … read more »
For many American voters Barack Obama has lost his air of can-do heroism,says Andrew Marr So Sandy arrived right in the last act, smashing and thrashing, killing and ripping. Has this latest tempestuous eruption, following the storms Beryl, Florence, Joyce … read more »
By: Selywn Duke Imagine you go to the polls and choose Mitt Romney on an electronic machine, but your vote comes up Barack Obama. So you re-enter your choice, but the president’s name still stubbornly appears. Then a third try. … read more »
By: Uri Avnery TO A foreigner, like myself, the US election system looks cockeyed. The president is elected by an “electoral college”, which does not necessarily reflect the will of the people. This system, rooted in the realities of the … read more »
By: Said Temsamani The international community have for some time ignored Morocco’s persistent warning that sub Saharan Africa is starting to transfom into a safe haven for terrorist groups. Plagued by systematic state failure, sub-Saharan Africa’s failed states have helped … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Algeria, Economic Community of West African States, European Union, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Mali, mali news, United States
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By Yasir Arman I was asked by the organisers of this august institution to speak about ’Darfur, South Kordofan, Blue Nile, Khartoum… prospects for a peaceful solution’. I come from a school of thought that believes Darfur, South Kordofan/Nuba Mountain, … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Nuba Mountain, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan news, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrea ahs accused rival Ethiopia, of being an obstacle to its efforts to reactivate its membership in the regional grouping of East African nations, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Eritrea’s accusation came on … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Asmara, Deng Alor, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopians news, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Mwai Kibaki, South Sudan
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By Amanuel Biedemariam The ethnic cleansing of Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin was indication of the propensity to how low the apartheid regime of the TPLF can stoop to hold on to power. What they did then was try … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged erirean news, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Medrek, Meles Zenawi, Tigray, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF, United States
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By Hassen Hussein Bekele Garba On November 1, 2012, Ethiopia’s kangaroo court convicted nine Oromo nationals, including opposition leader Bekele Gerba, who was nabbed right after meeting a delegation of Amnesty International, under that country’s sweeping anti-terrorism law. Their sentencing … read more »
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