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Botswana warns Libya amid suspected Zimbabwe mercenaries
Botswana, a small Southern African nation has threatened to cut all diplomatic ties with strife-torn Libya while its neighbour, Zimbabwe, is
suspected of having mercenaries...
Libya: Independence for the east?
There are indications that Eastern Libya is now independent of Libya. Reports emanating from the city of Benghazi suggest that every element of Col...
Libya: Gaddafi’s national address marks his end
It is difficult to exactly comprehend the logic in Muammar Gaddafi’s defiant speech on Tuesday Februar 22- his first major speech since unrest began...
Libya: Violent plans by military alerted as death toll rises
The United Nations and the United States have condemned plans by the Libyan military to cleanse Libya of anti-government elements. The military has described...
Libya: The Gaddafis in panic mode?
The political ‘revolution’ that changed Egypt and Tunisia continue to sweep through the rest of North Africa and the Middle East as Libyan protesters...
Zimbabwe: Activists arrested to prevent Egypt-Tunisian style protests
Security forces in Zimbabwe claim to have foiled Egyptian-style uprisings after arresting 46 rights activists in the capital Harare for allegedly “plotting to oust...
Ivory Coast: 40% of world’s cocoa under threat of destruction
Coffee and cocoa producers in the Ivory Coast Thursday morning torched several bags of cocoa in front of the European Union headquarters at Plateau,...
Can the US allow democracy to take root in Egypt’s shifting sands?
According to Noam Chomsky, President Obama’s reaction to the Egyptian revolution conforms to the normal US response when one of their “favoured dictators” loses...
United States of Africa: Just a nice dream?
The idea of creating a single state out of the African continent is well touted by numerous scholars and political autocrats such as Gaddafi....
Zimbabwe: Wives of officials off EU sanctions list
Thirty five Zimbabweans, mainly wives of President Robert Mugabe's close associates, who where on European Union travel sanctions have been let off the...
Uganda: Museveni rejects winds of change
As Ugandans prepare to cast their votes in the presidential and parliamentary elections on Friday, their president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has assured them that...
Ethiopia: Four NGOs get government ban
Ethiopian authorities have revoked the licenses of four Non-Governmental Organizations (two local and two foreign). The government of the Horn of Africa country claims...
After clampdown Algeria protesters vow to return
As the much doubted domino effect of the popular Arab revolt takes root, President Bouteflika of Algeria is seemingly the next to face the...
Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, who’s Arab world’s next?
The successful revolt in Tunisia under the autocratic regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who had ruled for 23 years inspired confidence in...
Algeria protests take place amid 30,000 police deployment
A real tussle between the government and the opposition is gaining momentum as the wind of revolt that is currently shaking the Arab world...
Egypt: President Hosni Mubarak resigns
It was 18 days of sometimes violent demonstrations that forced the man who ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years to step down. Friday...
Egypt: Bloody day of rage warned
The revolution in Egypt is expected to get vicious as Egyptians vow to raid the presidential palace to forcefully oust President Hosni Mubarak who...
Why are democracies contagious?
‘……man is created free but everywhere he goes he lives in chains….’ Rousseau’s remark about the pitfalls of modernization also serves as an adequate...
Salva Kiir wants CPA respected after release of Sudan referendum results
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday accepted the existence of a South Sudan state, as he validated the results of the referendum on self-determination...
More protests expected in Egypt
The alleged mistreatment of an Egyptian Google executive whose Facebook group may have triggered the Egyptian revolution is set to inspire more protests against...
Ivory Coast: Both Gbagbo and Ouattarra isolated?
Laurent Gbagbo and his supporters have grown increasingly isolated in Côte d’Ivoire, says the U.S. ambassador to the west African country, Phillip Carter.
There is...
Senegal: Presidents rally to change the world at World Social Forum
The rally to change the world has kicked off in Senegal as activists gathered in the capital city of Dakar to communicate the message:...
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...
Zimbabwe: Youth votes blocked ahead of polls
Youths in Zimbabwe who form the backbone of the country’s political parties are being systematically barred from registering as voters, for the country's impending...
Africa’s Political Tsunami and a few bad men
I recall sitting in a West-African classroom in the coastal town of Cape-Coast, Ghana, transfixed by the revelations trickling out of the mouth of...
The end of dynastic presidential politics in Africa?
The political ambitions of Gamal Mubarak who is widely tipped to succeed his father Hosni, president of Egypt, is looking particularly grim following recent...
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: Why Washington must not worry about Mubarak’s ouster
Some political analyst have said that the removal of Egyptian dictator President Hosni Mubarak would lead to the fall of the police state and...
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...