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At 13 years old, Youssouf embodies all the ills that have plagued the Central African Republic in recent years. On 24 March, he helped capture Bangui, the capital, as he fought in the ranks of the Séléka rebel coalition. By … read more »
Posted in CAR, Central Africa, Pan African News
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Tagged Bangui, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, Michel Djotodia
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The Ugandan Army’s hunt for the LRA chief is on hold after rebels seized the capital of the Central African Republic last month. The US has offered a $5m (£3.3m) reward for information leading to the arrest, transfer or conviction … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Barack Obama, Central African Republic, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, Okot Odhiambo, Uganda, United States
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Ola Johnson The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and American Special Forces have suspended operations against Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in the Central African Republic following a directive from Seleka military junta. Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army … read more »
President Zuma described the loss of South African troops in the Central African Republic as a “tragedy” on Monday. He praised the members of the South African National Defence Force who had fought rebel forces despite being outgunned, outnumbered and … read more »
Posted in Article, CAR, Central Africa
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Tagged Bangui, Central African Republic, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Solly Shoke, South Africa, South African National Defence Force, Zuma
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President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address this year will be the first to be delivered in the context of the National Development Plan (NDP), the Presidency said on Sunday. “In Sona 2013, the president will provide an update … read more »
Posted in South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Cape Town, Cyril Ramaphosa, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Kgalema Motlanthe, Mabopane, National Development Plan, Rural Development, state of the nation, Zuma
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By Keith Somerville Africa inherited its borders – they were not created by those who live within them, are divided by them or who cannot easily trade across them. The many straight lines on the map (or even the wiggly … read more »
By Keith Somerville There are no final or totally verifiable figures for the numbers of elephants slaughtered for their ivory in 2012. However, reports from Cameroon, DR Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic suggest a massive and continuing … read more »
Posted in Article, Cameroon, DR Congo, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged CITES, Darfur, Garamba National Park, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, LRA, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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By Steven Wöndu I am recycling and article I posted in the middle of the year 2012 complaining about the health and security or rather, the lack of health and security in Juba. Today, we are beginning the year 2013 … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Chukudum, Episcopal Church, IndepthAfrica, J-Street, John Garang, Juba, Second Street, SouthSudan, Yambio
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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 Michael Keating There is an old saying, ‘if you’re a hammer, you will see everything else as a nail.’ Today there is no bigger hammer in the world than the U.S. military, and in one of its newest interests, … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Paul Kagame, Somalia, United States, United States Africa Command, Yoweri Museveni
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They have been cornered by financial crisis By Antoine Roger Lokongo INTRODUCTION All the signs are written on the wall that after the split of Sudan, the United States of America is targeting the Democratic Republic of Congo to re-enact … read more »
Posted in Central Africa, DR Congo, East Africa, Rwanda, Uganda
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Tagged Congo, Congolese, Democratic Republic Congo, Goma, IndepthAfrica, Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, United Nations
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Simon Tisdall, guardian.co.uk, With all eyes on other troublespots, the world knows little, and seems to care even less, about the cycle of violence in the DRC Part of the problem … the M23 rebels now threaten Goma. Photograph: Phil … read more »
Posted in Central Africa, DR Congo
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Tagged Congo, Congo news, Democratic Republic Congo, Goma, IndepthAfrica, Kivu, Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, North Kivu, Rwanda, United Nation
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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 ALEMAYEHU G MARIAM It is proper to congratulate President Obama on his re-election to a second term. He put up a masterful campaign to earn the votes of the majority of American voters. Mitt Romney also deserves commendation for … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Barack Obama, Burma, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Global Financial Integrity, Indepth Africa Magazine, Mitt Romney, obama, United States
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By: Eurasia Review The Presidency of South Africa has referred the matter of reported racism incidents in Boksburg (Gauteng) school and subsequent demand of investigation into prevalence of racism in South Africa schools to Ministry of Basic Education. In an … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa
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Tagged Boksburg, Cape Town, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, ethioipa news, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Konrad Giering, Minister of Basic Education, President of South Africa, South Africa
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By Jeremy Weate The development sector has for the past few years been criticised for being ineffectual. This has come both from ex-insiders, such as Owen Barder and William Easterly, as well as those outside the sector, most notably by … read more »
The international battle against the al-Qaeda-allied militant group al-Shabaab is under threat after Uganda said it would withdraw its 5,700 troops from Somalia in a row over a controversial United Nations report. Mr Mbabazi said the report was written by … read more »
By Sybille Fuchs The US is increasingly using private security forces to wage its wars and maintain its occupation of countries after the withdrawal of regular troops. Both in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of mercenaries and dozens of private security … read more »
Posted in Article, Uganda
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Tagged Afghanistan, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Joseph Kony, Uganda, Ugandan, ugandan news, United States, World Socialist Web Site, Yoweri Museveni
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By Hama Tuma Sometimes we Ethiopians like to boast. The first in everything! The cradle of mankind. The first bare foot runner to win the marathon… … The first to claim an annual economic growth of 12% whilst begging for … read more »
by Kelley B. Vlahos, Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, head of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), stood at a podium in Algeria and addressed the deteriorating security conditions in the neighboring country of Mali. (For those geographically-challenged, remember when you … read more »
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for being here today and thank you in particular to the Institute for Security Studies for so very kindly organising this important seminar. It is a great pleasure for me to talk to … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa
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Tagged African Union, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa news, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, International Criminal Court, prosecutor, Rome Statute, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, States, United Nations Security Council
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by John Burnett,npr Rebel leader Joesphy Kony, head of the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army, has achieved greater notoriety than any other Ugandan in the world today. Idi Amin, who ruled the country through most of the 1970s, still stands as … read more »
Posted in Article, Uganda
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Tagged Idi Amin, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Lord's Resistance Army, Milton Obote, Museveni, Paul Kagame, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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Mogomotsi Mogodiri Malema’s charges will really usher in a hilarious soap opera The seriousness of charges levelled against Julius Malema has robbed me of an opportunity to proclaim the arrival in town of “Juju’s Circus”. This does not by any … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Lonmin, Malema, Politics, Public Protector
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KAMPALA — The African Union has taken control of a regional force hunting brutal rebel chief Joseph Kony across the central African jungles, an AU force commander said Wednesday. “The AU now is in charge of the operations against the … read more »
Posted in African Union (AU), East Africa, News, Uganda
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Tagged African Union, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Joseph Kony, Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, South Sudan, Uganda
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By Jean-Simon Rioux On 25th and 26th August, headlines revealed a newly reached agreement between the Conventions of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) and the government of the Central African Republic (CAR). As part of the accord, the rebel … read more »
Posted in Article, CAR, Central Africa, News
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Tagged Bangui, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, François Bozizé, IndepthAfrica, Lord Resistance Army, LRA, Union of Democratic Forces for Unity, United Nations
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Former president Nelson Mandela’s sculpture was unveiled in Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on Saturday. “The front of the sculpture is a portrait of Mandela, it has vertical bars which represent his imprisonment,” designer Marco Cianfanelli said. He came up … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Apartheid Museum, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Mandela, Nelson Mandela, reuters africa news, Rivonia Trial, Robben Island, South Africa
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in South Sudan, where she is expected to press for action to end to the country’s differences with Sudan. Mrs Clinton is the highest-ranking US official to visit South Sudan since it … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, South Sudan, Spotlight, Sudan
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Kony, reuters africa news, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton took off Thursday for the next stops in her seven-nation tour of Africa, flying across the continent from Senegal to Uganda and South Sudan for security talks with those countries’ leaders. Clinton left … read more »
Posted in News, Senegal, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, African Union, Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Kony, reuters africa news, Senegal, South Sudan, Uganda
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton landed in Senegal late on Tuesday where she began an 11-day tour of the continent that will largely focus on development and economic growth, as well as the US security ties with different countries. … read more »
Posted in Hottest News, News, Senegal, West Africa
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, African Union, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, reuters africa news, Uganda, United States
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Nick Turse They call it the New Spice Route, an homage to the medieval trade network that connected Europe, Africa and Asia, even if today’s “spice road” has nothing to do with cinnamon, cloves, or silks. Instead, it’s a superpower’s … read more »
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, breaking news, Camp Lemonnier, Central African Republic, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, nothafrica, United States Africa Command, West Africa
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