Daily Archives: November 5, 2012
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong Campaigns for elections in the impending December 2012 general elections are deeply heating up. Issues, policies and programmes are increasingly dominating the campaigns. As Ghana`s democracy develops, the years of politics of insults, tribalism, and acrimony … read more »
Posted in Article, Election, Ghana, Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
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Tagged Ghana, Ghana news, ghana politics, Hilla Limann, IndepthAfrica, Institute of Economic Affairs, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Progressive People's Party
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Ibrahim Babangida has become the most criticized former leader of the Nigerian State specifically on account of corruption and recently alleged suspicion of being a Boko Haram sponsor. This Minna born General, said to have married his late wife Maryam … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe
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Tagged Babangida, bokoharam, Buhari, Chief of General Staff, Dele Giwa, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Olu Falae, Olusegun Obasanjo
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By Mohamud Uluso Somalia adopted a UN drafted Provisional Constitution, formed new national parliament representing the entire population of the country and elected a national leadership for ending 12 years of chaotic transition period and establishing a permanent, representative and … read more »
A tribeswoman wears traditional clothes during preparations for the independence day ceremony, scheduled for July 9, in Juba July 1, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic By Alex Whiting LONDON (TrustLaw) – From elderly ladies terrifying enemy fighters to Igbo women “sitting on” … read more »
Most Americans have yet to cast their ballot for tomorrow’s election but a witch doctor in President Barack Obama’s ancestral village already knows who’ll be victorious. ‘Obama is very far ahead and is definitely going to win,’ John Dimo declared … read more »
Posted in Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Somali, Sudan
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Tagged Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kogelo, Mitt Romney, Nyang’oma Kogelo, obama, United States, Witch doctor
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Harare – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has laid into the United States and its ally Britain for perpetuating lies to impose and maintain illegal sanctions imposed on his country at the turn of the century. President Mugabe said this at … read more »
Two countries fell out in 2008 when Doha was accused of destabilising Horn of Africa. Image Credit: AFP Addis Ababa: Ethiopia and Qatar have resumed diplomatic and economic ties, the prime ministers of both countries said on Monday, ending a … read more »
Laws on the books in Malawi that ban homosexual relationships have been suspended pending further debate in parliament. Human rights groups welcomed the decision and called on the country to go a step further. Malawi’s justice minister, Ralph Kasambara, said … read more »
Samuel Negusse “The church must be the guide and the critic of the State and never its tool.” writes Dr Martin Luther King Jr, outraged by the silence of many churches regarding racial injustice of his time. The church, or … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Christian, Christianity, Egypt, Eritrea, Eritrean Government, IndepthAfrica, Martin Luther King, People's Front for Democracy and Justice, Politics of Eritrea
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The one and only time I attended a meeting chaired by the former Prime Minster of Ethiopia, Ato Meles Zenawi, was in August 2007, when Ethiopia was hosting the World Technology Information Forum in Addis Ababa. One of the speakers … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, Tablet computer, Technology Review
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The Biafran flag was displayed earlier this year at Chukwuemeka Ojukwu’s funeral At least 100 people have been charged with treason in south-eastern Nigeria after a march supporting independence for Biafra, their lawyer says. Members of the Biafran Zionist Movement … read more »
ADDIS ABABA — The Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Council has presented their newly elected executive members. Many Ethiopian Muslims demonstrated against the election process of the Islamic Council for the past 10 months. The Islamic Affairs Council presented 11 newly elected … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amnesty International, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Islamic Affairs Council, Muslim, Ummah, Voice of America
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opinion Photo: White House:Pete Souza President Barack Obama speaks to the crowd at the departure ceremony at Accra airport in Ghana, July 11, 2009. I could not turn down the invitation to comment on this subject and express my personal … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Barack Obama, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Republicans, Tuesday, United States, United States presidential election
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By Sam Nda-Isaiah, Leadership opinion Last week, a certain Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulaziz, who claims to be second in command of Boko Haram, held a radio conference with journalists in Maiduguri in which he declared his sect’s readiness for a … read more »
by Martin Plaut Jagama Kelo was just fifteen years old when he went to fight the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, which began on the 3rd of October 1935. In an interview with the BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt (now in the Imperial … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, bbc, Emperor Haile Selassie, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Haile Selassie I, Imperial War Museum, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Pietro Badoglio
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Yemen’s proximity to the eastern coast of Africa has led to the influx of refugees from embattled African countries. A new report released by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) found that approximately 51,000 Ethiopian refugees entered Yemen since the end … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Danish Refugee Council, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, International Organization for Migration, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Yemen Times, Yemeni
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Overpowering Gratitude Vs Vexing Misgivings By Ahmed I. Hassan Author’s Note: This is the chapter on Somaliland-Ethiopia Relationship in a book titled “Somaliland: The Legacies of Non-Recognition” which is still in the works. I thought a preview of this chapter … read more »
Posted in Ahmed I. Hassan, Analysis, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somali
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Siad Barre, Somali, Somali people, Somalia, Somaliland, Somalilander
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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 the late Pa Obafemi Awolowo. This was predictable. Achebe, true to … read more »
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor I am splitting my sides with much scornful laughter at how evasive Akufo-Addo and his campaign team have become in relationship to their promise of free Senior High School education. Contrary to the line of … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Michael Bokor
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ghana, Ghana news, High school, IndepthAfrica, Kufuor government, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Rawlings government, SHS
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Anxious to cover up its illicit involvement in neighbouring DRC’s on-going rebellion, Uganda has played its trump card: threatening to pull its troops from Somalia and derail that country’s slight but fragile progress. By SIMON ALLISON, dailymaverick. It’s fair to … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Somali, Uganda
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Tagged African Union Mission to Somalia, Al-Shabaab, Democratic Republic of Congo, IndepthAfrica, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Uganda, ugandan news, United Nations, United States
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It was an overwhelming outpouring of grief for a woman no one really knew. Hundreds of members of the Eritrean community crammed into St. Michael’s Eritrean Orthodox church, near Jane St. and St. Clair Ave. W., to pray for Nighisti … read more »
Posted in Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Cabbagetown Toronto, Delta Chelsea, Eritrea, eritrean news, Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Michael, Semret, toronto
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By Jama Mohamed Askar The composition of the newly appointed cabinet ministers of Somalia was received with a sense of jubilation by the secessionist administration in the north of Somalia. The vigorous diplomatic pressure they exerted on President Hassan and … read more »
Posted in Article, Somali
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Tagged Ahmed Ismail Samatar, Hargeisa, IndepthAfrica, Mogadishu, Politics of Somalia, somali government, somali news, Somali people, Somalia, somalian news, Somaliland
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It’s Not Just About an Election In September, I expressed my support for President Barack Obama’s re-election. I told my readers that I enthusiastically supported candidate Obama in 2008 but was disappointed by his Administration’s policy in Ethiopia and … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged American Civil War, Barack Obama, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian American, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mitch McConnell, obama, United States
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Zelalem Eshete, Ph.D. The new PM Hailemariam Desalegn has already been accused of several things in his brief time in Office. It is fair to hold him accountable for the things he has done, but failing to understand him is … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Doctor of Philosophy, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam Desalegn, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Prime minister
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