Daily Archives: December 13, 2012
France and African countries are eager to receive soon the green light from the UN for of an international internvention force in northern Mali that is under total control of Islamist insurgents. However, this urgent call is facing skepticism from Washington, … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Mali, Said Temsamani, West Africa
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Tagged Bamako, Ban Ki-moon, European Union, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, United States
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HARARE – Sharp differences among the main parties over whether or not to invite western election observers have set GNU partners on a collision course. The squabbles are set to place more potholes on the road towards elections as the … read more »
By Sitinga Kachipande The heated debate on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Malawi has resurfaced, which is not surprising as one can’t simply legalize homosexuality and then expect a nation to conform. On November 5 the Malawian government … read more »
A RUNDOWN booth in Accra, Ghana’s capital, houses the Kwame Nkrumah bookshop, where Cubist pictures of the country’s first president lean against a dusty window pane. A photograph of Nkrumah’s socialist and pan-African books stands on an otherwise empty shelf. … read more »
Every 30 minutes a woman or girl is raped in Kenya. That’s nearly 50 woman or girls every day, over 300 every week, over 1,200 every month and over 15,000 each year. While laws exist in Kenya to prevent such … read more »
By Khadra Abdille, Minnesota Literacy Council I’m from Somalia in East Africa; I grew up in North Somalia. I was born able to hear, and throughout most of my life I could hear. When I was 14 years old I … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Argentine Sign Language, ASL, East Africa, Education, Hearing impairment, IndepthAfrica, Lip reading, Sign language, Somalia
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Civilians say the M23 fighters committed horrific crimes during their occupation of Goma. William Lloyd George reports. On the evening of the M23’s departure from Goma, Congo, the city’s civilians were secretly excited to finally see the rebels leave. “We’re … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, Congo, DR Congo
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Tagged Amnesty International, Congo, Congolese government, Goma, Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda
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Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe for 32 years running, will 2013 break the chain? Background In 1980 Robert Mugabe was voted into power as a hero of the liberation struggle, the war campaign which overthrew the white minority government in … read more »
Posted in Article, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged IndepthAfrica, Morgan Tsvangirai, Movement for Democratic Change, Mugabe, Robert Mugabe, Southern African Development Community, Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
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By William Davison Ethiopia’s Federal High Court sentenced two senior Oromo politicians to as much as 13 years in prison after their convictions on charges of inciting a secessionist rebellion. Bekele Gerba, deputy chairman of the opposition Oromo Federalist Democratic … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Amnesty International, Derg, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement, Oromo Liberation Front, Oromo people, William Davison
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Just some quick thoughts – the ‘Rich’ class think and side with the politics of businesswhile poor people are consumed by the business of politics. The poor unbeknownst to them do so believing in politics religiously while they are left with … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, OKPA, West Africa
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Tagged Bob Woodward, Eliot Spitzer, Glenn Beck, IndepthAfrica, James Hadley Chase, Nigeria, Republican, Rush Limbaugh, United States
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BY Justine John DYIKUK As a TELL reader, I enjoy Tundun Adeyemo’s reflections. Her piece on ‘Religion, Pastors and their Jets’ dated December 3, 2012 was on point and timely too. Despite its revolutionary stance, I feel that it has … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Justine John DYIKUK, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, Boko Haram, Christ, Christianity, God, IndepthAfrica, jesus, MasterCard, Pastor
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From a strictly Darwinian viewpoint, homosexuality shouldn’t still be around. It isn’t the best way to pass along one’s genes, and to complicate the picture further, no “gay genes” have even been identified. According to a newly released hypothesis, the … read more »
Queries on how to procure an abortion were among the most persistent searches by Kenyans, according to a Google report that analylised search trends this year. The Google Zeitgeist 2012 report, released Wednesday, shows the number one trending search in … read more »
Bruce Thornton The hope that democracy would bloom in Egypt following our collusion in removing Hosni Mubarak looks more and more delusional every day. Even our foreign policy wishful thinkers are no longer peddling the canard that the Islamist Muslim … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia, United States
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By David Horowitz and John Perazzo When a Neighborhood Watch guard shot Trayvon Martin in February 2012, a chorus of civil rights activists concluded that he had been killed because of his race. Michael Skolnick, the political director for hip-hop … read more »
Dennis Laumann, africasacountry Ghana held its sixth consecutive elections since its democratic transition in 1992 this past weekend and once again has earned its reputation as a stable and thriving democracy, in spite of predictable cries of fraud by the … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP
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Frankly speaking I have been motivated by a pretender and a fallacious writer who as a result of his uncontrollable libido, gone astray by following his hearth desires, by simply forgetting the quranic verse in a close translation: that our … read more »
It is insulting to Madiba and everything he has worked for to suggest that the country will fall apart when he dies Madiba is in hospital. Spokespeople assure us he is doing well. That he is old, sick and likely … read more »
According to Stratfor report, Israel has a listening station on the secluded Mt. Amba Sawara, as well as, docks in the Dahlak Archipelago. By Anshel Pfeffer Israel and Iran are both holding military bases in Eritrea on the shore of … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea, eritrean news, Ethiopia, Gaza Strip, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Red Sea, STRATFOR
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Two renowned Africa experts called for an immediate international intervention in Mali Wednesday at a roundtable discussion in Ottawa. Robert Fowler, former deputy minister of national defense and ambassador to the United Nations, and Robert Rotberg, of Harvard University’s Kennedy … read more »
A controversial referendum on a new constitution in Egypt due to start on Saturday looks set to further split the country, after the opposition called for a ‘no’ vote and imposed conditions that could yet result in its boycott. Egypt’s … read more »
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