Tag Archives: Africa news
Refugees who once fled to Kenya for safety claim extortion and threats rife since government ordered them to move to camps. Clar Ni Chonghaile in Eastleigh,guardian.co.uk, A police officer disperses rioters in the Eastleigh district of Nairobi in November. Skirmishes … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya
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Tagged Africa news, Al-Shabaab, Dadaab, Eastleigh, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenyan, Nairobi, Somali, Somali people
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BY MORTEN JERVEN It’s been fascinating to watch FP’s recent debate on economic growth in Africa. Some commentators argue that African economies are destined to remain trapped in the bottom billion unless some sort of fundamental change occurs. Others beg … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malawi, Nigeria, World Bank
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By Sandy Tidwell,washingtonpost Sandy Tidwell and her children. (Courtesy of Sandy Tidwell) It was in January 2002 when my adoption adventure began. As I was praying about my focus for the upcoming year, I got a mental picture of placing … read more »
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday wed Elizabeth Macheka in a traditional ceremony after a church ceremony was halted by a court, state- controlled Herald reported, citing Tsvangirai. The traditional wedding, under what is known as customary law in Zimbabwe, … read more »
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. He is dead on target, when Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom admonishes residents of the Central Region not to vote for Transitional-President John “Paradigm-Shift” Dramani Mahama, merely because the latter is the accidental successor of the … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mill, Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem, Kwame Nkrumah, Nduom, New Patriotic Party
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opinion His Excellency Ato Meles Zenawi: He was here, living here with us, vivid here with us and he is unforgettable: It has been at least two weeks since the death of His Excellency PM. Meles and I have only … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa news, Africa news report, August 20 2012, Belgium, East Africa, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, United Nations, Zenawi
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By Alex Lantier,wsws Four gold miners were hospitalized after being shot at Gold One’s Modder East operation yesterday, as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break a picket line. The police shooting followed a stand-off at Modder East … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Africa news report, African National Congress, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Lonmin, Marikana, National Union of Mineworkers, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, South Africa news, South African Police Service
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By Abdullahi Osman El-Tom I read with tremendous outrage the Op-ed article published by Andrew Natsios, ex-US Envoy for Sudan, in the New York Times, August 24th, 2012. To say the least, the article is insulting to the intelligence of … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, News, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Africa news, Africa news report, Al-Bashir, Andrew Natsios, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Natsios, New York Times, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, United States
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>By Jean Shaoul,wsws The state funeral of Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi on Sunday in the capital, Addis Ababa, underscores the highly unstable character of political relations in Africa. Meles’s death was shrouded in mystery. Absent from public life since … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Africa news, Africa news report, African Union, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Hailemariam, South Sudan, United States
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New Ethiopian leader Hailemariam Desalegn, relatively little-known and long overshadowed by his late mentor Meles Zenawi, faces tough challenges at home and in the volatile Horn of Africa. In a rare peaceful handover of power for Ethiopia, former water engineer … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, News, Spotlight
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa news, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Hailemariam, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Hailemariam
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The police massacre of striking miners at Marikana is a watershed for post-apartheid South Africa and for the international class struggle. It demonstrates in the starkest form imaginable that the perspective of “black empowerment” and the “National Democratic Revolution” providing … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African National Congress, ANC, Congress of South African Trade Unions, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Lonmin, NUM, South Africa, South African Communist Party
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By Jacey Fortin, ibtimes Analysis One of Africa’s quietest dictators will be put to the test when the country of Angola goes to the polls on Friday. There is little dispute about the expected outcome — for President Jose Eduardo … read more »
Posted in Angola, Article, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Africa news, Angola, Angola 2012 Elections, Dos Santos, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, MPLA, President of Angola, Santos, Unita
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Retired South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has cancelled his plans to speak at a Discovery Invest Leadership Summit in Johannesburg because former British Premier Tony Blair will be there. Blair’s “morally indefensible” alliance with the U.S. in overthrowing Iraqi … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Blair, Desmond Tutu, George W. Bush, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, South Africa, Tony Blair, Tutu
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Detentions would begin on October 15 Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yishai ordered immigration police yesterday to round up African migrants. The operation would begin on October 15. Many of the migrants are refugees from Darfur and face persecution or even … read more »
Posted in News, Spotlight
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Tagged Africa news, Darfur, Eli Yishai, Haaretz, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, Israel, October 15, Refugee, Yishai
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LAGOS—Personnel records of former and current members of Nigeria’s top domestic spy agency, including home addresses and names of immediate family members, were posted on the Internet in a threatening message that claimed to come from a radical Islamist sect … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Associated Press, Bank account, bokoharam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Lagos, Nigeria, State Security Service
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Addis Ababa — The Presidents of Sudan and South Sudan will attend the funeral ceremony of the late Ethiopian Prime Minister whose death was announced by Addis Ababa on 21 August, without specifying the cause. Ethiopia has readied a state … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, News, South Sudan, Spotlight, Sudan
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa news, Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, Juba, Meles Zenawi, Omar al-Bashir, South Sudan, Sudan
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The death of Meles Zenawi, under whom Ethiopia made strides despite repression, highlights the need for strong democratic institutions to maintain stability. By Kenneth Roth, latimes Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, who died last week after a long illness, … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, Hottest News, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa news, Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegne, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenneth Roth, Meles Zenawi, Somalia
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The recent cruel murder of the daughter of a retired Nigerian general, Cynthia Osokogu, by persons she allegedly met on Facebook has once again brought to the fore, the pervasive risks and threats affiliated with the usage of social media. … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Business, David Mark, Facebook, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Online Communities, Pinterest, social media, Twitter
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Lukhona-Mnguni A while back, I penned a letter titled, “Dear White People in South Africa” and it raised mixed discussions, some marred by bigoted racism of the worst kind from the white community and a patch of disorganized apologetic voices … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa, Ferial Haffajee, IndepthAfrica, Lonmin, Mamphela Ramphele, South Africa, South Africa under apartheid, Sunday Independent
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By Karen Williams opinion South Africa has celebrated Women’s Month this year in a political climate that is lurching increasingly rightward and threatening to become repressive and authoritarian. The month commemorates the 1956 march on the Union Buildings against the … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African National Congress, Delmas Treason Trial, IndepthAfrica, Ivan Toms, Jacob Zuma, LGBT social movements, Simon Nkoli, South Africa, United Democratic Front
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HESE are indeed precarious times, for Reuben Abati has resorted to desperate measures. The flurry of articles from him in recent times speaks volumes about his desperation. For a man who hid under the umbrella of social activism for many … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abati, Africa news, Facebook, GoodluckJonathan, Ijaw, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Nigeria, Onitsha, Reuben Abati
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It has emerged that police have resurrected old apartheid legislation to hold the 270 Lonmin miners responsible for the murder of their fellow workers. The men’s case has been postponed to 6 September while police investigate further. They face a … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African National Congress Youth League, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Lonmin, Murder, National Prosecuting Authority, Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa
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Johannesburg – Ululation, whistles and jubilation marked expelled ANCYL leader Julius Malema’s arrival at the Aurora mine in Grootvlei, Springs on Thursday. Workers sang “Ngisebenzela izingane zami emgodini” (I’m working for my kids in the mine). Malema arrived in a … read more »
Posted in Hottest News, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, Grootvlei Power Station, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Mercedes-Benz Viano, Nelson Mandela, South Africa
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Anni Dewani was murdered in Khayelitsha because the hitmen in the case did not have transport back to their homes in that area. “As we were driving near Mew Way [we got near] to C Section, where we stay, that’s … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Africa news, Anni, Gugulethu, Indepth Africa, Khayelitsha, Mngeni, Murder, Murder of Anni Dewani, Qwabe, Western Cape High Court
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The majority of the dead in the 16 August massacre at Marikana appear to have been shot at close range or crushed by police vehicles. They were not caught in a fusillade of gunfire from police defending themselves, as the … read more »
Posted in Article, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, IndepthAfrica, Marikana, Nyala, Peter Alexander, Police, South Africa, SWAT, Tsepo, University of Johannesburg
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WHAT NOW? Meles Zenawi ruled his famine-stricken country for 21 years and tried to make authoritarianism acceptable THE death of Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s prime minister, on Aug 20 reveals much about the country he created. Details of his ill health … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Abay Tsehaye, 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, Ethiopia, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Haile Mariam, reuters africa news
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By Prof. Liban A. Egal Somalia’s upcoming permanent government is feted as a model for national reconciliation and good governance. The signatories are largely former militia members, intellectual Diasporans, and members of Puntland and Galmudug states. These corrupt leaders have … read more »
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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 Mission to Somalia, Al-Shabaab, George Mason University, IndepthAfrica, Military of Somalia, Mogadishu, reuters africa news, Somalia, TFG, Transitional Federal Government
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Togo’s security minister said yesterday authorities have released 119 people who were detained during this week’s rallies organised by an opposition coalition that led to clashes between police and demonstrators. At the same time eight people were held in custody, … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Togo, 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, Demonstrations, Faure Gnassingbé, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, IndepthAfrica, Lome, reuters africa news, Save Togo, Tear gas, Togo
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Joachim Buwembo I have been a loud, unapologetic admirer of Meles Zenawi’s approach to national economic development, so I am in mourning. Ethiopia’s democracy is not my business because I am not a voter there but as someone living in … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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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, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya Airways, Mayuge District, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Haile Mariam, reuters africa news, Uganda, Uganda Airlines
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For over two hundred seventy five weeks, without missing a single week, I have written long expository commentaries on the deeds and misdeeds of the man who has been at the helm of power in Ethiopia for over two decades. … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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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, Ethiopia, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Donne, Meles, Meles Zenawi, Nelson Mandela, reuters africa news, South Africa
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