Daily Archives: December 26, 2012
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Even though the NPP is yet to file its case at the Supreme Court to fight the EC (the NDC and the media too) over the outcome of the Presidential elections, I am quite certain … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission, Ghana news, ghanaian news, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, NPP, Supreme Court
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Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will call an election if there is no progress in resolving a dispute over constitutional reforms this month, a negotiator for his party said. An agreement brokered by the 15-nation Southern African Development Community in … read more »
The year 2012 witnessed the powerful bilateral relations between France and Morocco and confirmed the continuity of their agreement on major world issues. The quality of the dialogue maintained at the highest level and the shared desire to put their … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Morocco, North Africa, Said Temsamani
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Tagged France, François Hollande, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jean-Marc Ayrault, King Mohammed, Mali, Mohammed VI of Morocco, Morocco
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Government of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) Ethiopia’s Ambassador to China, Seyoum Mesfin, said Ethiopia has huge bamboo potential which can create significant opportunities of investment to interested foreign companies. He said Ethiopia’s bamboo resource potential is the biggest in the continent, … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Bamboo, Beijing, China, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, Liu Qibao, Liu Yandong, Seyoum Mesfin
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A government minister in the Central African Republic on Wednesday called for French soldiers stationed there to intervene as rebels closed in on the capital having passed the last major town to the north. The appeal for help came as … read more »
After spending Christmas in hospital, former South African president Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital. The anti-apartheid hero and Nobel Peace laureate was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on December 8 with a lung infection. Since then he has … read more »
Atse Tewodros Ethiopia is still not ready to open up its market for foreign banks, Hailemariam Desalegn has said throwing into disarray plans by Kenyan lenders to venture into the country. The TPLF (Tigrean People Liberation Front )serving Ethiopian ruler … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Equity Bank, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Meles Zenawi, Nairobi, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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By Herbert Mugwagwa, zimeye.org In the last instalment, we gave Obert Mpofu, Mines Minister, an E grade for the lack of clear leadership that he is demonstrating in his ministry. Can Mpofu clearly tell us what the Zimbos (within and … read more »
Posted in Article, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged IndepthAfrica, Morgan Tsvangirai, Obert Mpofu, Robert Mugabe, Third World, William Shakespeare, ZANU, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
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Super Eagles’ manager, Stephen Keshi has said right-back, Chibuzor Okonkwo will not make Afcon 2013 Nations Cup in South Africa. Keshi revealed the new Warri Wolves acquisition, Okonkwo, scheduled to head to the Faro, Portugal camp may have missed the … read more »
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has admitted he could have problems ensuring Newcastle release Shola Ameobi for the Africa Cup of Nations finals. Magpies boss Alan Pardew insists his striker will not go to South Africa. “Apparently, there is a clause … read more »
Posted in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Nigeria, Soccer, Sports, West Africa
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Tagged 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Africa Nations Cup, Alan Pardew, Danny Shittu, FIFA, Nigeria, Nigeria Football Federation, Shola Ameobi, Stephen Keshi
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Want your hockey fix this holiday season amid the NHL lockout? If you watch the 2013 IIHF Under-20 World Championship, you can check out some potential future stars and Washington Capitals prospects. The tournament features the two most recent No. … read more »
Eight Ethiopians have been apprehended by the immigration department in Tanga region for allegedly entering the country without relevant permits. In an interview with The Guardian yesterday, Tanga regional immigration officer, Sixtus Nyaki said the undocumented Ethiopians were nabbed on … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Dodoma Region, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Guardian, IndepthAfrica, Indian Ocean, Kilimanjaro Region, South Africa, Tanzania
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Ethiopians living in Berlin, Germany bought 1.8 million Birr worht bond for the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam, the ministry of foreign affairs said. At an event organized for public gathering and bond sale program in the premises of … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Berlin, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, Germany, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi
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By Mohammed Ademo, FP Ethiopia’s late dictator antagonized his country’s Muslims for years. His successors may pay for it. When Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s leader for more than two decades, died this week, he was mourned by many as a “stable” … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Al Ahbash, David Cameron, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Haramaya University, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Meles Zenawi, Muslim
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Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia‘s prime minister for 17 years from 1995-2012 has taken the short lived power held by him and by his comrades from Adwa for good to the grave when he died in August of 2012.Currently no Adwa Tigrian … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Azeb Mesfin, Chief executive officer, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Knowledge, Meles Zenawi, Sibhat Nega, Tigray Province, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
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DEBRE MARKOS, Northern Ethiopia – Rebels on December 22 killed 17 prison guards, wounded at least 13 members of the security personnel and freed five of their comrades who have been languishing behind bars for several months, according to Ethiomedia. … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Adigrat, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, EUFF, Freedom Force, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Metema, Metemma, Prison officer
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Ethiopia (AP) — The kids in this volcano-rim village wear filthy, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They don’t go to school. Yet they all can chant the English alphabet, and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Ethiopia
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Tagged English alphabet, Ethiopia, ethiopian kids, ethiopian news, Maryanne Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Motorola Xoom, Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child, poor ethiopian jids, Wenchi
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Chuks Okocha in Abuja
THisday Former Kebbi State Governor, Senator Adamu Aleiro, has denied that himself and former associates of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, are plotting to stop President Goodluck Jonathan from securing a second term ticket in 2015. A … read more »
Witnesses said fireworks were stored in the warehouse in the busy market area of Lagos Island, and the blaze quickly spread to other buildings. The blast reportedly shook windows of homes several miles away and a thick cloud of smoke … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, bbc, explosion, Firecracker, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Lagos Island, lagos news, Nigeria
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said the apparent slowness of his administration in deciding on major national issues was to avoid costly mistakes. Jonathan, at a Christmas Service held at the Cathedral Church of The Advent, Life Camp, Gwarinpa, Abuja, … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Anglican Communion, GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Namadi Sambo, Nicholas Okoh, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news
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OTTAWA – A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird strongly condemned terrorist attacks in Nigeria that killed 12 people attending Christmas services. “We strongly condemn such despicable and cowardly attacks,” Baird’s press secretary, Rick Roth, told QMI Agency on … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Christmas, christmas mass attack, John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada), Nigeria, Nigerian news, Potiskum, Quebecor Media, Yobe State
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Exiled Somali journalists living in Nairobi were struck with disbelief this week when daily newspapers published a statement by the Department of Refugee Affairs ordering all Somali refugees to move to refugee camps. “The refugees, particularly those living in urban … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Kenya, Refugees/Migrants, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Holocaust, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Kenya, kenyan news, Nairobi, somali news, Somali people, Somalia, somalis in kenya, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Bau — The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) is accusing the Sudanese popular defense forces of raping 10 women and killing nine of them in Bau locality, Blue Nile, Radio Dabanga has learned. Arnu Ngutulu Lodi, the movement’s spokesman, said … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, IndepthAfrica, National Congress, Radio Dabanga, South Kordofan, SouthSudan, SPLM-N, Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement
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If separatists holding hostage to parts of North Somalia needed a credible election to help justify that their hell-bent agenda of dividing Somalia was a good idea, they sure didn’t get it. In the wake of the recent seriously flawed, … read more »
Posted in Abdisamad Mooge, Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged British Somaliland, IndepthAfrica, Isaaq, Mogadishu, Siad Barre, Somali, Somali people, Somalia, Somaliland
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On December 25 Moroccan Ministry of Interior issued a communique announcing that Moroccan security services have broken up a six-member cell that recruited young Moroccans embracing with jihadist thought. According to the statement, the new recruits were sent to the … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Morocco, North Africa, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Moroccan people, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, United States
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An Ethiopian housemaid murdered her Saudi employer by stabbing him in the neck and other parts of his body before attacking his little son and inflicting serious injuries on him, a newspaper in the Gulf kingdom reported on Wednesday. The … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Apartment, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Jeddah, Maid, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Stabbing, Travel and Tourism, Tuesday
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KHARTOUM: Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn arrived in Khartoum on Wednesday to bolster peace efforts between Sudan and South Sudan, official media said. “The Ethiopian prime minister’s visit comes in the context of the Ethiopian endeavours to push ahead the … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Abyei, Addis Ababa, African Union, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, South Kordofan, SouthSudan, Sudan, Thabo Mbeki
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By Vered Lee, haaretz They fled their homeland only to face a new threat in Israel: domestic violence. Now some are fighting back, from a small center in Tel Aviv. A little after 6 P.M., when the last of the … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Amnesty International, erirean news, Eritrea, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Israel, London, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan, tel aviv
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