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Sudan: Obama steps up efforts ahead of independence referendum
The Obama administration has assured it is working to ensure a peaceful Sudan after 2011, or an orderly path toward two separate and viable...
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...
Africa’s unfinished independence
Standing before an assemblage of local and international dignitaries in Cameroon’s capital at a mid-May conference marking the 50th year of independence for many...
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi speaks very good english
An intelligent dictator in my view point is as incandescently oxymoronic as an idiot savant, a fine mess, a little pregnant, or accurate rumors....
Morocco’s Al Adl wal Ihsan: The King’s Islamist canker
The families of seven members of the Islamist movement Al Adl wal Ihsan (Justice and Spirituality) announced on September 1 that they had filed...
Sudan: North guilty of using LRA rebels to destabilize south?
Northern Sudan has been accused of employing rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to unsettle southern Sudan and the Darfur region ahead of...
Nigeria President’s security reshuffle politically motivated?
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has replaced the heads of the Nigerian military, the police force and the intelligence service, four months before presidential elections-...
Clinton: Obama Foreign Policy Yielding Dividends
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration's foreign policy strategy of rebuilding alliances and applying so-called soft power is beginning to yield...
Uganda’s anti-pornography law to fight homosexual vice
Uganda is soon to introduce a tough anti pornography law to fight the use of pornography in its local media. The country's Minister for...
The historic retreat of African autocrats
Never before had pictures of endless lines of enthusiastic voters in front of polling stations defined Guinea’s international image. But on 27 June —...
Nigeria: Extreme Islamists preparing to strike again?
Extreme Islamist group Boko Haram has re-emerged in northern Nigeria, where members have attacked a police station in the state of Bauchi, in an...
Zimbabwe to adopt Chinese currency?
Zimbabwe’s Vice President Joice Mujuru on Monday suggested that the southern African country, which currently has no currency of its own, should adopt the...
South African President Jacob Zuma faces ultimatum
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has is left with only three weeks to mend fences with powerful labour movement Cosatu and the ANC...
African media: 50 year journey from hell to the voice of democracy
When on 18 March this year the Daily Nation, one of Africa’s biggest and most successful independent newspapers, celebrated its 50th anniversary, Charles Onyango...
Sudan: Referendum commission makes progress
South Sudan has agreed to allow a northern Sudanese to head the special referendum commission giving room for progress on plans for the January...
Ramadan and crime: What Algerian authorities tried to hide
The holy month of Islamic fasting, Ramadan as an important element in the control of vice is being scrutinized after a study, published in...
Darfur – south Sudan: Confusion over conflict resolution approach
Debates over which approach (incentive or balanced) to implement in resolving the unrest in Darfur and ensuring a peaceful referendum on southern Sudan independence...
Kenya’s rapid population growth and over-stretched resources
The Kenyan population has grown exponentially over the past 10 years reaching 38.6 million, up from the 28.7 million recorded in 1999, according to...
Uganda wants support against al-Shabab as soldiers’remains arrive
The government of Uganda has today afternoon received the bodies of four
Ugandan Peace-keepers who were killed by Al Shabab militants in Somalia on Monday.
Uganda...
How not to rebrand Nigeria
Nigeria’s information minister Dora Akunyili’s rebranding Nigeria project is one with good intents. Better branding with a little more rigorous positive marketing effectively positions...
Kenya: Celebrating a ‘renewed optimism’
Thousands of Kenyans braved the early Friday morning chill in Nairobi as they thronged to Uhuru Park to witness the promulgation of the new...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe lambasts Black farmers
Zimbabwe's long-time ruler, President Robert Mugabe on Sunday stunned black farmers as he questioned their agriculture skills saying the current new crop of farmers...
Schooling: Trapped in a web of special interests
Governments world-wide are struggling to solve the problem of deficiencies in their schooling systems. Politicians, teachers, educationists, administrators, employers, parents, politicians, policy analysts...
South Africa: ANC to split?
Former South African president in the aparthied era- FW De Klerk has claimed that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is heading for a...
New genocide report may rock the Rwandan government
A leaked United Nations report which claims that the Rwandan army may have carried out genocide in Congo, between 1993 and 2003 is to...
Ethiopia: Fear expressed over India’s massive land grabs in Gambela
Gambela, one of the nine regional states of Ethiopia is fast growing into what the local media has described as “a land grabbing” hub...
U.S. offers help in Sudan and Congo
The Obama administration has deployed U.S experts to buffer the tensions in Sudan ahead of the referendum for south Sudan's independence, and offer assistance...
Zimbabwe: Vices and virtues of a multi-currency economy
The first learning point I have encountered is that adopting the use of ‘foreign’ currency as legal tender in one’s country has very little...
Africa’s “wind of change” and a 50 year struggle
When UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan addressed the whites-only South African parliament in February 1960, he could not have known that his remarks would...
South Africa: Zuma warned of doom as strike continues
Thousands of striking civil servants in South Africa have issued their strongest warning to President Jacob Zuma over the strike saying they would not...