Daily Archives: December 7, 2012
At least three people have been killed and eight wounded after a large explosion in Nairobi. It’s the third deadly blast in two months popularly attributed to militant group al-Shabaab. Emergency teams have been sent after the explosion, near a … read more »
Unidentified: The man is believed to be African and aged between 20 and 30 years old Detectives are releasing images of a man they wish to identify after his body fell from the under carriage of an incoming flight … read more »
Posted in Angola, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, North Africa, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Angola, Cape Town, IndepthAfrica, London, London Heathrow Airport, Luanda, Mortlake, National aviation authority, Stowaway
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The 490-page study lays bare the scale of Mr Zuma’s reliance on numerous benefactors – including Nelson Mandela who sent him R1m (£72,000) – in the period when he was deputy president until 2005. Chief among the donors was Schabir … read more »
Posted in South Africa, Southern Africa, Special Reports
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Tagged African National Congress, Daily Telegraph, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, KwaZulu-Natal, Mac Maharaj, Nelson Mandela, Schabir Shaik, Zuma
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By: Omar Ashour CAIRO – Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first-ever elected civilian president, recently granted himself sweeping temporary powers in order, he claims, to attain the objectives of the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship. But the decrees incited strong opposition … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Cairo, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mohamed ElBaradei, Morsi, mubarak, Omar Ashour
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Successive leaders of Israel have been running out of workable ideas and sustainable policy objectives for more than half a century since the forceful creation in 1948 of their would-be the only Jewish State of Israel in the middle of … read more »
By: Allin Nuh HARGEISA – Looking back at Somalia in the 1960′s tribes was influential but no way near as influential as it is today. The big tribes, Hawiye and Darod, were always going for Presidency in Somalia simply because … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Darod, Hawiye, IndepthAfrica, Puntland, Siad Barre, Somali, Somali people, Somalia, Somaliland
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By Franklin Cudjoe, Bright Simons, Selorm Branttie and Kofi Bentil. Ghanaians are voting for the next president of the longest-lived republic in their country’s history. Despite nostalgia in some quarters for the country’s first republic, under the charismatic Pan-Africanist leader, … read more »
Posted in Article, Election, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Election, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NPP
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Mounira Chaieb Last week, both the Tunisian caretaker President Dr Moncef Marzouki and the president of the ruling Islamist Movement, Rachid Gannouchi , were in London to receive the ‘2012 Chatham House Prize’. Chatham House is a leading London based … read more »
Adewale Stephen Millions of workers in Nigeria look up to their union leaders to organise them to protect their rights. But recent events show that unionists are fast losing the confidence of the masses When the controversial Central Bank Governor … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Central bank, Congress for Progressive Change, Delta State, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Sanusi Lamido, Trade Union Congress
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I was in my late teens when I first read Reuben Abati’s piece in the Newspaper. Then, my father was able to afford newspaper delivered to him on weekends. After reading, he would pass the newspaper to me and tell … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abati, CHINUA ACHEBE, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Michael Aondoakaa, Nigeria, Reuben Abati, Wole Soyinka
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By Simon Allison, Eritrea, if its vocal praise-singers are to be believed, is a wonderful place, where everyone is happy and the government works tirelessly to improve the lives of its people. Their national football team didn’t agree. After a … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean news, Indepth Africa Magazine, Isaias Afewerki, Red Sea FC, SIMON ALLISON, Uganda, United Nations
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The case of Moses Mukisa Vincent Nuwagaba Moses Mukisa is a 27 year old young man from Wakiso District. He was beaten by graduated tax collectors and had his testicles kicked on March 22, 2003 at a place called Manyangwa … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Uganda
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Tagged Government, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Kampala, LGBT, Mulago Hospital, Uganda, Uganda Human Rights Commission, Wakiso District
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The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 345th meeting held on 6 December 2012, adopted the following decision on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR): Council, 1. Takes note of the Report of … read more »
With the re-election of Barack Obama as president of the leading imperialist state in the world, the foreign policy orientation of the second administration will continue along the same trajectory of exploitation of the labour and resources of oppressed peoples … read more »
by Mail & Guardian Online Former ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s political career may be at an end as the potential for him to be reinstated at Mangaung diminishes. Malema’s political career looks just about finished as the potential … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, ANC, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Kgalema Motlanthe, Malema, western cape
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Stop Modern-Day Slavery: Peaceful Demonstration Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on December 10th. This year, concerned Winnipeggers from various backgrounds will be heading to the Legislative Building on Monday, December 10th at noon, in a peaceful … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Bedouin, Canada, Egypt, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai, Sudan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Abraham G. Ghiorgis Pasted below is an article from the “Democracy Web” that succinctly elucidates the principles of majority rule and the respect of minority rights in a liberal democratic society. Considering what is transpiring at the ENCDC meeting, this … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Barack Obama, Democracy, eritrean news, IndepthAfrica, James Madison, Majority rule, Minority rights, Tyranny of the Majority, United States
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