Governance

North Mali Islamist rape and brutality badly increases

North Mali Islamist rape and brutality badly increases

Islamists group who have take over the deserted North of Mali and imposing the Sharia in the region are becoming more and more brutal. ...
Kenya: bloody battle between Orma and Pokomo

Kenya: bloody battle between Orma and Pokomo

A mass grave was discovered Tuesday in the district of Tena River in southeastern Kenya, where Orma and Pokomo two rival ethnic groups in...
Prices, profits and planning – the teaching of Hayek

Prices, profits and planning – the teaching of Hayek

The insights of Frederick Hayek concerning thedevelopment of modern human society have contributed greatly to our understanding of the relationshipbetween law, economics and politics. They...
Inch’Allah Opposition delivers Cameroon to Biya on a Platter of silver

Inch’Allah Opposition delivers Cameroon to Biya on a Platter of silver

Nothing about Biya came as a surprise prior or during this year’s presidential election – Last minute announcement of election date, constitution of the...
End game in Côte d’Ivoire marks a new beginning

End game in Côte d’Ivoire marks a new beginning

The arrest of former Côte d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo on 11 April after a bloody weeklong battle in the heart of Abidjan has been...
US-Nigeria: ‘Trajectory of bad elections’ should be checked

US-Nigeria: ‘Trajectory of bad elections’ should be checked

The top U.S. diplomat to Africa urged Nigerians to demonstrate their ability to hold fair and democratic elections as the country prepares for legislative,...
Libya: Uganda offers Muammar Gaddafi refuge

Libya: Uganda offers Muammar Gaddafi refuge

Uganda has freely offered embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi refuge in Uganda as diplomats attempt to persuade the defiant leader to leave office without...
Morocco’s constitutional reform process begins

Morocco’s constitutional reform process begins

Morocco's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taib Fassi Fihri, Monday night in Paris, highlighted a range of constitutional reforms initiated by King Mohammed VI as...
Sudan: Darfur renews tensions between north and south Sudan

Sudan: Darfur renews tensions between north and south Sudan

Tensions have risen between Northern Sudan and Southern Sudan over Darfur. Northern Sudan charges southern leaders of supporting Darfur rebels against the north, while...
Pro-Gaddafi Africans protest as Coalition forces gain momentum

Pro-Gaddafi Africans protest as Coalition forces gain momentum

As world leaders met Tuesday in London to discuss the Libyan situation, hundreds of members of a group called Pan Africanists from Uganda and...
Namibia: Baby-dumping rates soar among school girls

Namibia: Baby-dumping rates soar among school girls

Female college students across Namibia have caused a stir by holding a mini summit to discuss infanticide and baby dumping amid reports that figures...
Libya: The dangers of leaving Gaddafi in power

Libya: The dangers of leaving Gaddafi in power

The dangers of a post- 2011 revolution Libya with Muammar Gaddafi still in charge, the influence that Gaddafi’s violent resistance may have on other...
Libya: Gaddafi and his Mali-Chad Tuareg mercenaries

Libya: Gaddafi and his Mali-Chad Tuareg mercenaries

As an international intervention to stop Colonel Muammar Gaddafi from committing further atrocities against Libyans continue, the north African country's leader remains impassive and...
Zimbabwe: Legalise Political Euthanasia!

Zimbabwe: Legalise Political Euthanasia!

I’m a Liberal Democrat with unwavering affinity to both life and choice. On a clear day, this is a metaphysical paradigm where co-existence tends...
Ivory Coast civil war could destabilize region

Ivory Coast civil war could destabilize region

A few days after Mr. Alassane Ouattara announced the formation of a new army, the Republican Forces of Côte d’Ivoire, elements close to Mr....
Zambia: President accused of bill amendment to get money

Zambia: President accused of bill amendment to get money

President Rupiah Banda of Zambia is concerned with his bank balance and has embarked on a campaign that would ensure a comfortable pension as...
Arab League discusses Libyan situation as strikes hit Gaddafi compound

Arab League discusses Libyan situation as strikes hit Gaddafi compound

The Arab League has met in Egypt to discuss the situation in Libya and a possible collaborative approach with the West over the ongoing...
U.S-Egypt to pursue ‘strategic interests’ together

U.S-Egypt to pursue ‘strategic interests’ together

The new Egypt says it would preserve its 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and work closely with the United States on counter-terrorism. This eases...
Turmoil hits Zimbabwe political scene

Turmoil hits Zimbabwe political scene

Thursday March 11, would be recorded as one of the busiest days in Zimbabwean politics after rulings by country's Supreme Court affected two MDC ministers....
Gaddafi’s “grave secret” threat triggers French internet craze

Gaddafi’s “grave secret” threat triggers French internet craze

Following Nicolas Sarkozy's acknowledgment of the leadership of the Libyan rebel movement, the National Libyan Council, as the country’s legitimate government, Gaddafi's regime has...
Morocco: A King’s revolution

Morocco: A King’s revolution

Though Libyans are yet to achieve a democratic revolution, the wave of pro-democracy ideologies blowing across the Arab world has forced Morocco to revise...
Libya: International community to arm Libya opposition

Libya: International community to arm Libya opposition

The international community headed by Washington has considered arming the Libyan opposition to defend themselves against the Indifferent Muammar Gaddafi who continues to utilize...
Egypt’s anti-democracy militias raise concern

Egypt’s anti-democracy militias raise concern

As Egypt’s pro-democracy activists protested for reform of the security services, men in plain clothes armed with swords and petrol bombs attacked the rally...
Algeria’s of state of emergency: The more things change…

Algeria’s of state of emergency: The more things change…

Long demanded by the opposition, the abrogation of the 19-year old emergency decree in Algeria was published on February 24 in the north African...
Ethiopia: A new law for horticulture producing and exporting enterprises

Ethiopia: A new law for horticulture producing and exporting enterprises

Ethiopian lawmakers have approved a new law to impose a mandatory Environmental and Social Friendly regulation on the country's horticulture producing and exporting enterprises. Ethiopia's...
African Renaissance: Rethinking Political Leadership on the Continent

African Renaissance: Rethinking Political Leadership on the Continent

‘Gently in manner, strong in deed’ were the inscriptions sitting atop the Presidential Desk at the oval office when Dwight Eisenhower occupied the White...
Ivory Coast heading towards civil war?

Ivory Coast heading towards civil war?

While the United Nations suspects Laurent Gbagbo of flouting an arms embargo in an effort to rebuild his air force, suspicions of weapons acquisition...
Libya: The Gaddafis between the devil and the deep blue sea

Libya: The Gaddafis between the devil and the deep blue sea

Following reports that the death toll may have climbed to nearly 2000 since the beginning of anti-government protests in Libya, France has embarked on...
Unlikely backers legitimize Black History Month observance

Unlikely backers legitimize Black History Month observance

Black History Month observances seek to correct factual inaccuracies that continue oozing across America perpetuating a litany of misunderstandings that fuel racial discord in...
Libya: Gaddafi turns to son’s special forces and foreign mercenaries

Libya: Gaddafi turns to son’s special forces and foreign mercenaries

Col Muammar Gaddafi has turned to a special military unit controlled by his son and mercenaries allegedly from Zimbabwe to aid his battle against...