Daily Archives: December 30, 2012
By EMMANUEL UDOM Operatives of the State Security Service, SSS and under-cover police officers have been placed on red alert at airports in major states and cities across Nigeria in the in the build-up to the Christmas and new year … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, bokoharam, Frederick Fasehun, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Nigeria, Nigerian news, Oodua Peoples Congress, Port Harcourt, State Security Service
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by Mathew Nash, @MathewNash89 Angola, Cape Verde, Morocco and hosts South Africa are in Group A of the African Cup of Nations and their involvement has either directly or indirectly affected teams such as Everton, Crystal Palace, Oldham Athletic, Norwich … read more »
Posted in CAR, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Zambia
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Tagged 2013 Africa Nations Cup, Africa Nations Cup, Andrew Surman, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Joslain Mayebi, Kagisho Dikgacoi, Premier League, South Africa
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by Comrade Daniel Aremu Do or die politics! Below is a list of high profile political assassinations in Nigeria in modern Nigeria. Must politics be a do or die affair in Nigeria? cry cry cry! In 2003, Dr. Ayo Daramola, a PDP gubernatorial aspirant … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Action Congress of Nigeria, Ekiti State, Ibadan, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Nigeria, nigerin news, Ogun State, Osun State, Oyo State
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In the last two decades, there were much chaos, suffering and little room for substantial and constructive dialogue in Somalia. However, Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon’s recent bold move to call for a national dialogue no doubt deserves a national … read more »
Posted in Abdisamad Mooge, Article, Columnist, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, British Somaliland, IndepthAfrica, Mogadishu, Somali, Somali Civil War, somali news, Somali people, Somalia, Somalia News, Somaliland
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For a generation, Ethiopia brings to mind grim news footage of hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies – the kind that spurred Bob Geldof to mastermind the Live Aid appeal. But for youngsters at a Norfolk village school the exotic country, … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Bob Geldof, British Council, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, live aid, Ormesby
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Now that the NPP leaders have submitted their petition to the Supreme Court to demand the declaration of their defeated flagbearer, Akufo-Addo, as winner of Election 2012, they seem to have made good their threat … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Electoral Commission, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, New Patriotic Party, NPP, President, Supreme Court
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By Pedzisai Ruhanya S Zanu PF approaches its usually choreographed annual conference next week, familiar signs of President Robert Mugabe’s undemocratic leadership are being further exhibited, with the party’s 10 provinces stampeding to endorse him through an opaque and sham … read more »
Posted in Article, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe, Ndabaningi Sithole, Robert Mugabe, Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
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President Goodluck Jonathan claimed today that Nigeria’s biggest challenge to good governance is not corruption, but the attitude of Nigerians. Jonathan submitted this theory today in Yenagoa during a flowery tribute that he paid his former national security adviser, General … read more »
The Somali government has given the local Al-Shabaab fighter group a 100 days ultimatum to end fighting and lay down its arms. The country’s Interior and National Security Minister issued the ultimatum and called on the people to join hands … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Burundi, IndepthAfrica, Jowhar, Kenya, Mogadishu, Somali, somali government, somali news, Somalia
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By Michal Shmulovich,timesofisrael JENDA, Ethiopia — In a secluded village in northern Ethiopia, near the foot of the Blue Nile, Zahava Aregito Zagaya, 16, and a group of other Israeli-Ethiopian teens were walking through expansive green and yellow pastures of … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Special Reports
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amharic language, Blue Nile, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish Agency for Israel, Yedioth Ahronoth, Zahava
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By Sidibe, Abdul Nana Akofu-Addo’s political career is dead and over. Instead of allowing his political family to say good bye and bury the body, he is forcing them to keep and worship the body, and get contaminated in process. … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Election, Electoral Commission, Ghana, Ghana news, IndepthAfrica, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP
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By Habtamu Abay Recently I came across one commentary by an Egyptian management consultant by the name Ms. Rania Al-Maghraby (PM World Journal, Vol. I, Issue III-October 2012). With a candid English and pleasant conceptual flow, she mentioned some of … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, Nile, Sahara, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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