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Egypt: Pride to determine Mubarak’s departure

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?

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...
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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

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’

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

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?

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

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 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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

‘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

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

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

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

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 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

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...
Mary Yeates

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

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

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...