- Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria
- Nigeria: A Space at the Mortuary...By Olusegun Adeniyi
- Oedipus Recommends Self-Blinding for Eritrean Elite
- Ethiopia Film Initiative Pitch Selection - Drama 'Nishan'
- Tithes and Offerings and the Pauperization of Village Pastors
- Symbolic Resistance and Marriage: Ethiopian Muslim Activists’ Reclaiming of Hope in the Face of Regime Brutality
- Why I am naming and shaming African Media Initiative (AMI)
- Ethiopian government minister, businessmen to face corruption charges after 2-year probe
- Nigeria: Insecurity - Don't Declare Emergency Rule, Govs' Forum Tells Jonathan
- Disrespect for human rights in Eritrea is unacceptable - UN expert
- Nigeria: Ngige and Obi: the debate begins
- Nigeria: Boko haram staging bolder, deadlier comeback
- Ethiopia: Abune Petros in our heart
- Can Britain fix Somalia?
- Sudan: Breaking silence on Abyei
- Israel and the Arab Gulf States: An Undeclared Alliance
- The United Nations’ Hezbollah Protection Force
- Sustain Gains. Invest in Malaria. Save Three Million Children's Lives in the Next 1000 Days
- World Malaria Day: highlighting awareness of a preventable disease that still kills thousands
- Excusing Jihad In Boston
- Lessons from Boston and Chechnya
- Oedipus Recommends Self-Blinding for Eritrean Elite
- Ethiopia Film Initiative Pitch Selection - Drama 'Nishan'
- Why I am naming and shaming African Media Initiative (AMI)
- Ethiopian government minister, businessmen to face corruption charges after 2-year probe
- Disrespect for human rights in Eritrea is unacceptable - UN expert
- 50 year old Uganda and Ethiopia host of OAU/AU for 50 years
- Conference Sharing on OAU/AU 50th Anniversary with “Land Grabbing in Africa”
- Africa is riskiest place to be born; 1 million babies die on day of birth globally: new report
- WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: JETTISONING JUNK JOURNALISM FOR A JUST NIGERIAN SOCIETY!
- Why Zambia’s Vice-President doesn’t like South Africa – and why he might have a point
- Analysis: How do you solve a problem like Apartheid?
- Somalia: Frail Leadership, Federalism Frenzy, and the Fragile Peace
- Factors of Change and Transformation in Ethiopia
- How the West is seeking to usurp Africa’s struggle for freedom and democracy
- Ethiopia: A Critical Appraisal of the Diaspora Organized Groups Opposed to the Regime in Ethiopia
- Congo-Kinshasa: Malaria Remains Endemic in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Zambia: Malaria and Acquired Immunity
- African plans for Mali’s future in trouble after Chad’s shock withdrawal
- "Beauty" brings confidence and hope to Congolese refugee woman
- Congo: We did whatever we wanted, says soldier who raped 53 women
Tag Archives: Bashar Al-Assad
Looking for Way Out of Syrian Crisis
Boris DOLGOV On March 11 a delegation of the Syrian National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change led by its Coordinator Heysam Manaa, visited Moscow to hold talks with top officials of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the negotiations and … read more
Israel Threatened by Syria and Iran
The presumed Israeli airstrike within Syrian territory on Wednesday has elicited threats of retaliation from both Syria and Iran. Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul-Karim Ali, quoted at al-Ahd, a Hezbollah-run news website, contended that his nation could make “a surprise decision to respond … read more
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
Tagged Bashar Al-Assad, Damascus, Golan Heights, Hezbollah, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Syria
Leave a comment
Syria rebels ‘beheaded a Christian and fed him to the dogs’ as fears grow over Islamist atrocities
Syrian rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to dogs, according to a nun who says the West is ignoring atrocities committed by Islamic extremists. The nun said taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother … read more
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bashar Al-Assad, Christian, Free Syrian Army, Homs, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Sunni Islam, Syria
Leave a comment
Syria: The Use of Chemical Weapons Would be a “suicide” for Assad
The use of chemical weapons would be a “political suicide” for the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview released Monday by the channel Russia Today. “I do not think that Syria … read more
Assad: ‘If I Go, None of Syria Remains’
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has privately pledged to “fight to his last bullet” in his ancestral hometown of Qardaha, vowing, “If I go, none of Syria remains.” The daily pools of blood spilled by his madmen cause hearts to be … read more
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
Tagged AlQaeda, Assad, Bashar Al-Assad, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Michel Kilo, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, Syria
Leave a comment
Living up to the Nobel: EU must act on Syria
By Lotte Leicht BRUSSELS – Catherine Ashton’s mandate is to provide leadership on foreign policy and human rights. She has failed, however, to ensure a collective EU voice for bringing the crimes in Syria before the International Criminal Court (ICC). … read more
Tolerance or War
WASHINGTON, DC – Throughout history, mistreatment of minorities – whether ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural, regional, ideological, sexual, or other – has fueled violence and devastated societies worldwide. Egregious cases in the last century include the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, the … read more
The Real Reason Behind Benghazigate?
by Frank Gaffney, Jr. President Obama’s once-seemingly-unstoppable march towards reelection hit what he might call “bumps in the road” in Benghazi, Libya late on September 11, 2012. It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and … read more
Posted in Article, Libya
Tagged Abdelhakim Belhadj, Al-Qaeda, Bashar Al-Assad, Benghazi, drone, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Mali, Middle East, Syria, Tumor
Leave a comment
Are Assad and Hezbollah Terrorizing Lebanon Again?
by FaridGhadry A car bomb exploded in Beirut today killing a key intelligence figure who was investigating the terror of Assad and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan died in the blast with eight other people. Some eighty innocent … read more
Posted in America, Middle East
Tagged Assad, Bashar Al-Assad, Beirut, Hezbollah, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, United States
Leave a comment
French government accused of ordering Libyan leader Gaddafi’s assassination
Former leaders of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NCT), which fought as a NATO proxy in last year’s war against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, have accused then French President Nicolas Sarkozy of ordering the assassination of the Libyan … read more
Posted in Libya
Tagged Bashar Al-Assad, France, Gaddafi, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sirte
Leave a comment
Libya: How Many Dirty Hands?
By Felicity Arbuthnot, Palestine Chronicle ‘Oh what a tangled web they weave When first they practice to invade A sovereign nation and deceive The world about their dark crusade.’– (Michael Leunig, Poet, Cartoonist, 1945:) This weekend a detailed article in the … read more
Posted in Article, Libya
Tagged Bashar Al-Assad, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Qaddafi, Syria, United States
2 Comments
In death as in life, Colonel Gaddafi wins the crazy prize
By dailymaverick Always a larger-than-life character, it’s no surprise that even in death Muammar Gaddafi continues to make outrageous headlines. This time round the late Libyan leader is at the centre of a first-class political thriller starring a corrupt president, … read more
Posted in Article, Libya
Tagged Bashar Al-Assad, Gaddafi, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Mahmoud Jibril, Middle East, Muammar Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sirte
Leave a comment
French Nicolas Sarkozy ordered Gaddafi killed,Latest reports
A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was sensationally claimed today. He is said to have infiltrated a violent mob mutilating the captured Libyan dictator last year … read more
Posted in Libya
Tagged Bashar Al-Assad, France, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sirte, Tony Blair
Leave a comment
Anti-American Autumn Follows Arab Spring
By: Oriental Review The brutal assassination of the American Ambassador Chris Stevens and three US diplomats in Benghazi, the cradle of anti-Qaddafi uprising in Libya, suggests an extremely improvident foreign policy of the United States in recent years. The commentators … read more
Posted in America, Global Issues
Tagged Anti-Americanism, Arab, Bashar Al-Assad, Benghazi, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Middle East, Muammar Gaddafi, United States
Leave a comment
President Ikililou Dhoinine of the Comoros addresses 67th UN General Assembly
Comoros voices climate change concerns while Cape Verde flags development needs The leader of the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, President Ikililou Dhoinine, took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly today to appeal for international aid to help … read more
President Mohamed Morsy of Egypt addresses 67th UN General Assembly
Egypt President highlights Palestine issue as key concern Addressing the United Nations General Assembly for the first time since becoming his country’s first democratically and freely elected civilian President, Egypt’s Mohamed Morsy today highlighted his nation’s progress over the past … read more
Syrian Conundrum and Evolution of World System
Andrei VOLODIN We are witnessing the shaping of polycentric, «post-American» world that is «broadcast» live. The process is non-linear. In the middle of the 1990s Charles Kindleberger, a world- renowned economist, suggested in his «World Economic Primacy» that the coming … read more
Posted in Andrei VOLODIN, Global Issues, Middle East
Tagged Bashar Al-Assad, China, Egypt, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, Muammar Gaddafi, persian gulf, Syria, United States
Leave a comment
Syrian refugees in Turkey tops 50,000
More than 2,000 people fled violence in Syria to reach neighbouring Turkey in the past two days, bringing the total number of Syrians who have sought refuge there to more than 50,000, Turkish authorities said on Thursday. The rate of … read more
Posted in World News
Tagged Aleppo, Assad, Bashar Al-Assad, IndepthAfrica, Refugee, Syria, Syrian people, Thursday, Turkey
Leave a comment
Syria: Iran tries to hijack international diplomacy to defend Assad
Tehran will today host a summit of Iran-friendly foreign ministers in an attempt to wrest the international focus away from calls for Bashar al-Assad to step down. Iran accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of arming the opposition in Syria, … read more
Posted in World News
Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Bashar Al-Assad, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Nobel Peace Prize, United Nations, United States, Vladimir Putin
Leave a comment
New Video shows Gaddafi’s body ‘being used by rebels as ventriloquist’s doll’
A gruesome new video which appears to show Muammar Gaddafi’s dead body being abused by rebels has surfaced online. In the shocking clip, which was posted to YouTube on Monday, high-spirited demonstrators apparently use the Libyan dictator’s corpse as a … read more
Calendar 




