Daily Archives: November 16, 2012
Sierra Leone 2012 Presidential Election Live [View the story "Sierra Leone 2012 Presidential Election Live " on Storify]
Posted in Election, Sierra Leone, West Africa
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Tagged All People's Congress, Ernest Bai Koroma, Freetown, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Julius Maada Bio, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone People's Party, West Africa
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Ethiopia is one of the last countries in Africa to permit mobile banking. Mobile banking has proved to be profitable in the developing world, where many people still do not use banks. Earlier this year, the World Bank reported that … read more »
Ken Saro-Wiwa Early in this long-awaited memoir of the Nigerian Civil War, Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s most famous and respected writer, recalls a conversation between himself, his future father-in-law, T.C. Okoli, and Christie, his future bride. “In the course of the … read more »
By Carol J. Williams Obo: Despite brutality committed over 25 years, Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony continues to elude betrayal even by his victims. He is hunted by thousands of African Union troops guided by US special forces, yet … read more »
By: Mohamed A. Abdullahi As seemingly eternal conflicts and unrelenting insecurity engulfed central and southern regions of Somalia for more than 2 decades, Somaliland has been enjoying relative peace and stability since 1998. Despite the deeply clan-segmented nature of its … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Election, IndepthAfrica, Kulmiye, Mogadishu, NEC, Somali people, Somalia, Somaliland, Somaliland government
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Nigeria’s military has killed a top commander of militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, an army spokesman has said. Ibn Saleh Ibrahim was killed in an exchange of fire with six of his lieutenants, the … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Amnesty International, bbc, bokoharam, Ibrahim, IndepthAfrica, MAIDUGURI, Mohammed Yusuf, Nigeria, Nigerian news, Thursday
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by Dimetros Birku The late Meles Zenawi made, it seems, more appearance in international print and electronic media and became a preferred topic for think thanks and researchers alike after his demise than he did in his 21 years of … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Amnesty International, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Prime minister, Susan Rice, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
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(Reuters) – Islamist gunmen and rival separatist rebels fought a gunbattle in the east of Mali on Friday, both groups said, the first clash between them for months. The exchange of fire between al Qaeda-linked MUJWA and secular independence-seeking MNLA … read more »
GOMA, DR Congo — The M23 rebel group fighting the army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday rejected claims of mass casualties and said it had killed nine soliders. Violence flared this week in the country’s restive east, … read more »
IRIN Addis Ababa — As Ethiopia’s massive dam-building plans continue to cause disquiet in downstream Egypt, new research suggests there is sufficient water in the Nile for all 10 countries it flows through, and that poverty there could be significantly … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, North Africa, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Water Management Institute, Nile, Sudan
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By Alemayehu Fentaw, analysis Photo: Nobert Allan/The Star Young Muslim boy waits for a prayer session to commence (file photo). The Ethiopian constitution provides for freedom of religion and requires the separation of state and religion. However, the Muslim community … read more »
Posted in Analysis, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Al Ahbash, Al-Qaeda, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian government, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Politics of Ethiopia, World Muslim League
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By Ali Galib, Ethiopian Press Agency (Addis Ababa) The Horn of Africa and its people had long inexorable ethnic historical contention and the international conspiracy under the umbrella of the various western colonial powers. The latter have employed different forms caused … read more »
By H. Ali-Horad Among all other things, it is undisputed that Somalia’s new constitution recognizes the country as a Muslim nation with every citizen having their rights to practice his/her Islamic religion. After its adoption last August, many intellectuals applauded, … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Ahmed Osman, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Kenya, kenyan news, Nairobi, Somali, Somali people, Somalia, United States
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President Goodluck Jonathan has established three committees to prepare draft White Papers on the report of the Nuhu Ribadu led Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, including two others, the National Refineries Special Task Force and the Governance and Controls Special … read more »
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN,New york Times NAIROBI, Kenya — John Kioko Muthini, a high school student, was playing pool with his friends a little more than two weeks ago in a slum on this city’s fringe when two police officers walked … read more »
By economist POSTERS plaster Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. With an election on November 17th, candidates are vying for votes. President Ernest Bai Koroma is bidding for re-election with snappy slogans such as “When Music is Nice We Play … read more »
Posted in Article, Election, Sierra Leone, West Africa
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Tagged All People's Congress, China, Ernest Bai Koroma, Freetown, IndepthAfrica, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone People's Party, SLPP
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by Bamidele Salam ,Tribune Mr Nuhu Ribadu, the enigmatic police officer who later became the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under former president Olusegun Obasanjo is not new to controversies. Right from his appointment into the anti graft … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Abuja, Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Nigeria, Nigerian news, NuhuRibadu, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ribadu
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By Adeeb Yousif The Darfur conflict and genocide of nine years has been was widely publicized: the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, widespread sexual assaults, and the displacement of millions from their homes to camps with limited … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Darfur, Internally displaced person, Khartoum, Politics of Sudan, Sudan, World Health Organization, Yellow fever, Zalingei
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By Ezana Sehay What is it about Isayas Afeworki [the Eritrean dictator], that reminds me of the Black Knight?— In the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, the Black Knight keeps challenging King Arthur, even after he loses arms … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Black Knight, Eritrea, eritrean news, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Kalashnikov, King Arthur, Meles, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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A commentary on Kassa Kebede’s ESAT interview By Dilwenberu Nega Derg’s preeminent champagne socialist, Comrade Kassa Kebede, is on a publicity stunt, after a six year hiatus from active politicking. He is, perhaps, testing the waters before he becomes the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Hassan al-Turabi, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Kassa, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mossad, Osama bin Laden
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