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Airtel introduces world’s first cross network money transfer service in Tanzania

August 25, 2014 Global Authorafrica investments, Airtel, kenya, Tanzania

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, August 2014: Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced the introduction of a service that will allow customers send and receive between Airtel’s mobile money service and that of Tigo in Tanzania. Read More

Breaking News: Panic engulfs Kagame regime as Brig Gen. Tom Byabagamba is also arrested.

August 24, 2014 Global AuthorBarack Obama, David Kabuye, Frang RUsagara, Gen Tom Byagamba, John Kerry, Oxfam International, Paul Kagame, Rose Kabuye, RPF, Rwanda, Torture

Brig Gen Tom Byabagamba with one of his sisters sometime back Brig Gen. Tom Byabagamba from the Rwanda Defence Forces and a former commander of the Kagame’s Security has been arrested. Inyenyeri news has learnt from the reliable sources that Kagame had sent him to command the notorious Kami Barracks which has not only a death field but a torturing ground… Read More

Ebola outbreak: DR Congo confirms first cases

August 24, 2014 Global AuthorCenter for Disease control, central africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Ebola, Kabila, Outbreak

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have identified cases of Ebola in the country’s north-west. They are the first reported cases outside West Africa since the outbreak there began. So far 1,427 people have died from the virus – more than in any other Ebola outbreak. The number of cases now stands at 2,615. The speed and… Read More

Joyce Banda lost elections because she took people’s goodwill for granted

August 20, 2014 Global AuthorJimmy Kainja, Joyce Banda, Malawi Elections, Mutharika, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki

William Gumede, author of Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC Recently wrote a piece for The Guardian’s “Comment is Free” on why he thinks “ Obama has let Africa down.” Unfortunately, there is still a section of Africans who think Obama owes the continent something simply because his father was from Kenya. Yet, Obama is... Read More

Malawi’s Mutharika rules out war with Tanzania over disputed lake but insists ‘lake issue is non-negotiable’

August 12, 2014 Global AuthorJoyce Banda, Kikwete, Lake Malawi, Malawi, Peter Mutharika, Tanzania, United nations

Blantyre, Malawi, Aug. 12 (Raphael Tenthani/AGV) _ Malawi President Peter Mutharika Tuesday ruled out going to war with neighbouring Tanzania over the disputed border over Lake Malawi but insisted the issue of the lake, Africa's third largest fresh-water lake, is non-negotiable. Read More

Rwanda

The duty of the protector, the chagrin of the perpetrator

August 12, 2014March 25, 2021 Global AuthorCessation clause, Kagame, kigali, refugees, Rwanda, Uganda, UNHCR

By: Mutuyimana Manzi Rwanda pretends that it would like its refugees to return. But many of these citizens are scared of the Kigali regime, which is known to target refugees for assassination or abduction. Meanwhile, Rwanda continues to create new refugees as the tyrannical state cracks down on critics and Hutus back home Since 2009, Rwandan rulers have pressured for… Read More

A young Rwandan orphaned by RPF reacts to Ange Kagame’s ” I can’t live without my parents”

August 12, 2014 Global AuthorAnge Kagame, Genocide, Kagame, Orphan, Rwanda, Socialite, Washington DC

Paul Kagame, instead of taking his wife with him like other African presidents during their recent visit to the white house, took his daughter Ange Kagame. Afterwards, Ange Kagame was interviewed by one local online newline IGIHE.COM. One of the questions was to name one thing she can never live without. The president’s daughter answered innocently: “my family”. This angered… Read More

The Rwandan Opposition Still Own Worst Enemy

August 8, 2014 Global AuthorDeo Lukyimuzi, FDU, Kagame, Opposition, politics, RNC, RPF, Rwanda

For two years in a row, the government of Rwanda the President in particular, has been a lot in the news for the wrong reasons. His visit to Chicago on 11th June, 2011, did not go as planned –it was interrupted with deafening protests by Rwandan, Congolese and other African nationals living across North America and others who came from… Read More

US Police Idly Watch As Congo President’s Security Force Beats Protesters In American Streets

August 8, 2014 Global Author1st amendment, AFrica Summit, DC Police, DRC, Joseph Kabila, Obama, police, Protesters, Washington DC

As the US empire scrambles to secure access to the bountiful resources of the continent of Africa no principle is too sacred to overlook, including the right to peacefully assemble. The White House is hosting an Africa Leaders Summit where various African leaders have been invited to talk with American officials about how they can serve the empire in exchange for silver… Read More

The African Leader Obama Shouldn’t Invite

August 4, 2014 Global AuthorAfrican Leaders SUmmit, David Himbara, DC, Obama, Paul Kagame

When President Obama holds an historic meeting with African leaders this week, one guest will be especially awkward: Rwanda’s increasingly authoritarian president, Paul Kagame. Unless the United States wants to wink at assassinating adversaries, stifling opposition and subverting neighboring nations, Kagame should be stricken from the guest list. Since Kagame won a second seven-year term in 2010 with a reported… Read More