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Egypt: Pride to determine Mubarak’s departure
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak might not step down immediately because he has to salvage his reputation after a 30 year police state regime,...
What about farting to protest?
Vicious and cruel as they are, most of our dictators take time out from their sadist tendencies to entertain us in one way or...
Egypt: Live Updates – Video
Human Rights Watch researcher Daniel Williams was detained by Egyptian security forces in Cairo today.
Williams was one of several international and Egyptian human rights...
Nigeria: Threats of north Africa-like revolt skewed
The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) alerted Nigeria's leaders to urgently address unemployment and poverty otherwise face a Tunisia-like or Egyptian-like revolution revolt. Nigeria, however,...
Egypt: Mubarak ‘will torture us’
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would relinquish power after elections are held in the police state in September, but protesters insist he...
Uganda: Museveni supporters protesting for money
A group of President Museveni's supporters, mostly youths, yesterday stormed his campaign headquarters in Kampala asking for money.
According to one of the police officers...
Obama: Can he live up to the promises made in his Cairo speech?
In his 2009 Cairo speech President Obama acknowledged that tensions between the Western and Muslim worlds have “been fed by colonialism that denied rights...
Egypt political crisis: Washington-Mubarak relationship mulled
Leader of the Egyptian revolution has called for the United States to end its “life support for the dictator” President Hosni Mubarak, demanding that...
Tunisian PM succumbs to pressure, names new ministers
Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi Thursday night reshuffled the country's week-old transitional government. Senior ministers who served under the deposed president, Zine El Abidine...
Egypt: U.S. treads on carpet of raw eggs
The United States is trapped in a political web in Egypt given its desire for stability in a regional ally, its support for democratic...
A domino effect in the Arab world after Tunisia?
The Tunisian revolt has created high hopes in the Arab world, which has long since been weaned from freedom and democracy. Will Arab countries...
Egypt: The Arab democratic revolution hits Egypt
The wave of democratic revolution blowing across northern Africa has recently swept Egypt, as pro-democracy groups in the tens of thousands took to the...
Zimbabwe officials plan pro-Mugabe and ZANU-PF campaign
One of Robert Mugabe’s trusted spin-doctors has rubbished off possibilities of Tunisian-type street protests in the country to topple the veteran ruler. Meanwhile, massive...
New President makes promises: Tunisians want more
Acting Tunisian president, Fouad Mebazaa, has agreed to fulfill promises to break with the past, including a complete withdrawal of Ben Ali's party, Rassemblement...
Zimbabwe workers set to cripple fragile economy
Zimbabwean civil servants who number more than 200 000 have issued a seven day ultimatum to the crisis ridden inclusive administration over salaries.
Zimbabwean civil...
Tunisia: Power to the people
The expression “Power to the People” has sounded true in Tunisia after thousands of protesters, barring police and army firearms forced autocratic ruler President...
Tunisia: End of an era as President flees
A Tunisian era has come to an end. "The end of repression, freedom of expression and fight against corruption"; Promises made Thursday by President...
Tunisia’s unemployment suicides and protests
Police forces dispersed hundreds of students demonstrating Tuesday in the streets of Thala, a town located in west central Tunisia, with tear gas. The...
Morocco’s militant hackers
They are militant hackers who have attacked sites in Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Israel... Their screen messages have been likened to messages on banners hoisted...
‘Funny money’ from China a cause of Zambian mineworkers’ shootings?
Mineworkers unions in Zambia have condemned the shooting of 11 Collum Coal Mine workers in Sinazongwe by Chinese managers after they allegedly protested over...
Nigeria: Group to take Rivers State to court for Police crackdown
The Nigerian Joint Task Force operating in the troubled Niger Delta region opened fires on protesters without provocation, reports have claimed. The demonstrators were...
Algeria-Morocco: Violent clash averted in Western Sahara stand-off
“I have just lived through one of the most terrifying experiences of my life” renowned Spanish actor Willy Toledo, tells me over the phone...
A Spanish flottila to call for Western Sahara independence from Morocco
Morocco and Spain, who have in recent times been involved in numerous diplomatic incidents, are to face their toughest test yet as Spanish and...
Mugabe gets pay rise as Zimbabwe struggles with salary related strikes
Zimbabwe's all time ruler, Robert Mugabe has been granted a pay rise of almost 400 per cent at a time when civil servants are...
Ethiopians to protest “biased” election report
Ethiopians are expected to hold a public demonstration tomorrow, Tuesday, against the US based Human Rights Watch. The protest comes in the backdrop of...
Zimbabwe: Simba Makoni calls for Thailand-like Red Shirt protest
A losing presidential candidate in Zimbabwe 2008 bloody elections Simba Makoni, has urged Zimbabweans to take a leaf from Thailand’s Reds Shirts to effect...
15,000 British women strip for a cause
There was a lot of cleavage on display on Saturday night as 15,000 women, most wearing decorated bra's, gathered in Hyde park for the...
Series of chaos cripple South Africa’s transport services
South Africa's public broadcaster, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has coined a catchy phrase for the World Cup - “FEEL IT, it is here”,...
Western Saharan hunger strikers and Morocco’s human rights violations
Worldwide appeals have been launched in support of thirty-six Saharawi hunger strikers reaching their 29th day of protests. The wave of hunger strikes, which...