Governance - Page 6
“Obama’s Failure: Not Flaunting His Record Of Achievements”
US President Barack Obama grudgingly gets credit for bringing the America economy back from brink of total collapse yet he’s slammed from the left...
Homosexual attacks rise a year after Uganda’s anti gay bill
Uganda's homosexual community say that their situation is worsening. Today marks one year since the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda's parliament that...
Zimbabwe asked to strike death penalty as African death row statistics fall
Amnesty International (AI) is appealing to rival Zimbabwe’s political leaders to abolish the death penalty as the southern African nation is attempting to craft...
Sudan highly polarized ahead of referendum
As the referendum that could see Sudan split into two nations nears, the governments of north and south Sudan continue to accuse each other...
Egypt: A foretaste of secularism through the Baha’is?
In March 2009, the Supreme Court in Egypt dismissed an appeal that sought to prevent implementation of a lower court ruling the year before...
Ethiopia: Release of opposition leader welcomed
Amnesty International welcomes today's release of opposition leader and prisoner of conscience Birtukan Mideksa by the Ethiopian government.
The leader of the Unity for Democracy...
Ethiopia: Release of opposition leader Birtukan Midekssa Just a First Step
The Ethiopian government's release on October 6, 2010, of detained opposition leader Birtukan Midekssa should pave the way for freeing dozens of other political...
Jacob Zuma, No more a South African hero
South Africa President Jacob Zuma's approval rating has dropped to a new low of 42 percent in the last three months, according to...
Sudan: George Clooney takes NBC to Sudan, fearing war
Hollywood star George Clooney has joined Delegates from the United Nations Security Council to emphasize the need to avoid war in Sudan as the...
Mo Ibrahim: “Africa is progressing”
The 2010 Ibrahim Index, released Monday, shows both progress and setbacks in the quality of governance in Africa between 2004-2005 and 2008-2009. While governance...
Senegal: The President’s “Super Minister” son
Senegalese Energy Minister, Samuel Sarr who struggled to solve the country's recurring power cut headaches, was fired Monday by President Abdoulaye Wade. He has...
Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai to step down from MDC
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to step down as leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) next year in line with...
Sudan: Foreign diplomats arrive to enforce stability
Diplomats from Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States have arrived in Sudan to oversee the referendum that may lead to the secession...
Nigeria : FIFA suspends Nigeria Football Federation
The FIFA Emergency Committee decided today, 4 October 2010, to suspend the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) with immediate effect on account of government interference.
This...
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan’s Facebook statement on independence day attacks and security in South East
My dear friends and fellow citizens, first let me thank God that we have been able to mark 50 years as a united nation...
Nigeria at 50: A celebration of brute life, penury and disillusion
As Nigerians celebrate 50 years of nationhood today, the promise of
independence- a nation of free people living at peace with itself and
neighbours, undergirded by...
Zambia: History to remember president over legalised corruption
Zambian President Rupiah Banda will forever be haunted for removing the abuse of office offence clause from the revised Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Act,...
Sierre Leone: No more sanctions as diamond trade picks up
The United Nations has ended an arms embargo and travel ban on Sierra Leone rebels who engineered the decade long conflict in the West...
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...
Burundi: Fear of civil war looms
Fear of looming rebellion is gripping Burundi following the discovery of fourteen bodies, some of them mutilated with machetes, in a river west of...
Sudan: U.N. and U.S. step up effort on Sudan referendum
U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to attend a special summit on Sudan on Friday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting....
Malawi leader under fire for planned Cuba trip
A planned trip to Cuba this week by Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika has come under attack from the opposition who claim that his...
Somalia: Islamist militia takes over Horn Afrik and GBC radios
Islamist militants in Somalia have taken control of major independent radio stations in their bid to infiltrate the Somali public with extreme Islamic propaganda...
Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan, the facebook addict!
The 53 year old Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is a serious Facebooker! And if you are trying to guess where he chose to announce...
Guinea: The longest wait for second round presidential polls
The burning down of the warehouse at Camp Samory military barracks in Guinea where voting materials for the upcoming second round presidential elections were...
Beneath the Islamic beards and burqas
The most striking scene in Nick Broomfield's powerful 2007 film Battle for Haditha is not one of violence but a simple love scene. A...
U.S. “not choosing sides” in Sudan’s “make or break” period
The current period leading up to the January 9, 2011, referendum on Southern Sudanese independence presents “a make-or-break period for Sudan,” U.S. Special Envoy...
The crescent: Islam’s accidental symbol
A self-proclaimed fundamentalist movement gave Moroccan pharmacists one month to dismantle the bright green crosses representative of the pharmaceutical industry in many countries around...
Ethiopia: Nowhere to hide for insurgent forces
At least 123 militiamen of the Ogaden National Liberation Front- the rebel forces fighting the Ethiopian government have been killed by Ethiopian army....
Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla inexorably Moroccan?
The aging population of Ceuta and Melilla and the exceptional fertility rates of its inhabitants of Moroccan descent are reversing the demographic trends in...