Governance - Page 12
In Africa ‘the real challenge is governance’
In this special interview, one of the UN’s ablest and most experienced diplomats, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for West Africa and the head of...
Rwanda: Political and linguistic change under a prominent leader?
The horrors of the 1994 Rwanda genocide came ended when the RPF- led by U.S. trained Officer Paul Kagame defeated the genocide perpetrators and...
Zimbabwe: Roy Bennett treason charge dismissed by court
A Zimbabwe judge on Monday morning threw out a treason charge against Robert Mugabe’s longstanding enemy Roy Bennett as the court failed...
Nigeria: Militants to strike again
Militant group of the Niger Delta in Nigeria are pressing newly sworn-in President Goodluck Jonathan to kick-start talks on their demands for local communities...
“The Forsaken – from the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia”
This remarkable book unearths the untold story of thousands of American
citizens who travelled to the Soviet Union at the height of the Great
Depression only...
Guinea’s military leader refuses postponement of elections
The head of the joint AU-UN-ECOWAS mission, General Lamine Cissé has presented his first evaluation report of the restructuring of the defense and security...
Africa’s war on coup d’etats
Africa is getting tougher on tyrants, as the African Union responses to the upheavals in Guinea, Niger and Madagascar show. But according to many...
Zimbabwe: War veterans warn finance Minister
Militant veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation have laid sedge on Finance minister Tendai Biti demanding more money from a bankrupt government.
The veterans, who are in...
Yar’Adua a man of peace
United States President, Barack Obama has showered praise on the late Nigerian President, Umaru Yar’Adua for his efforts towards peace. Yar’Adua was pronounced dead...
Nigeria: Ex-whistleblower vindicated of corruption charges
Former head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been cleared of all charges labeled against him...
Nigeria: Former minister braces up for corruption charges
The former minister in charge of Nigeria's federal capital of Abuja has returned from a self-imposed exile to face charges of financial misappropriation and...
EU backed Somali forces begin training in Uganda
Arrangements for European Union (EU) to train some 2000 Somali troops in Uganda have been finalized.
Tuesday, a plane started ferrying some of the Somali...
Being gay in Morocco
Samir Bergachi is unstoppable. Barely 23 years old, the young Moroccan is simply not content to live his homosexuality openly in a country where...
DR Congo: New rebel groups spring up as UN Peacekeeping forces prepare to leave
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which goes to the polls in September 2011 to elect its president, is now faced with a new rebel...
“Mo” Ibrahim: Governments need to foster, not frustrate, business
Africans and the developing world can learn from the United States’ experience with entrepreneurship, according to Mohamed “Mo” Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born telecommunications magnate.
The United...
Cabinet approves the South African Reserve Bank Amendment Bill
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is a crucial national institution which is required by the Constitution to serve the economic interests of all...
Zambian President Banda warned of imminent ‘war’
Zambian president Rupiah Banda has been accused of “driving the country to the brink of civil war” as he is allegedly allowing policeman to...
Ugandan government officials blast U.S. Secretary of State
Uganda government officials have requested the United States of America to respect it's sovereignty and stop treating it as if it were a U.S....
Tanzania: A success story in the fight against malaria
To optimize the management of anti-malaria drug stocks, the Tanzanian government, in partnership with IBM, Novartis, Vodafone, RBM, established an innovative project in 2009....
Zuma vows not to apply Zimbabwe style land reform in South Africa
South African President Jacob Zuma says radical changes need to be effected to the nation’s “willing buyer, willing seller” model for land transactions but...
South Africa reaffirms solidarity with Western Sahara
South African ambassador to Algeria today reaffirmed South Africa's solidarity with the struggle of the Saharawi people for self determination. Speaking at the opening...
Swaziland: Swazi government approves Media Commission Bill
On 22 April 2010 the government of Swaziland announced that it had approved the contentious Media Commission Bill, 2007 which seeks to regulate the...
East African Community (EAC) adopts one laptop per child initiative
The East African Community today partnered with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to help provide every child...
Sierra Leone: An ambitious health reform and a weak state capacity
Free health care initiative for pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers and children under five years old has begun in Sierra Leone; a government attempt to...
Kenya ratifies Common Market Protocol
The Cabinet of the Republic of Kenya under the chairmanship of His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki today ratified the EAC Common Market Protocol in...
Mixed feelings on South Africa’s freedom day
South Africa on Tuesday marked 16 years since the first democratic elections which ushered in black majority rule but opposition parties say "economic bondage"...
Ethiopia sounds alarm over new malaria prone areas
The Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) has sounded concerns over outbreaks of malaria in areas where the disease was previously not found.
A replacement program...
Sudan: Confusion over bloody North South clash
Southern Sudan army have attacked and killed 55 people in Darfur over cattle grazing land rights. The fighting between cattle men from Rezeigat tribe...
UK: Leaked letters expose differences between political parties over Western Sahara policy
Letters disclosed today show that the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have a different policy to the Labour government in relation to resolving the...
The Struggle for a Free Zimbabwe: Whose freedom is it, anyway?
It is the morning after Robert Mugabe's wasteful pomp and ceremony disguised as 'independence celebration' when the music has died down, euphoria subsided and...