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FDLR condemns the arrest of singer and pianist Kizito Muhigo, his colleagues and other innocent Rwandans

April 20, 2014 Global Authorarrest, FDLR, human rights, Kizito Muhigo, Rwanda, Singer

To condemn the arrest of singer and pianist Kizito Muhigo, his colleagues and other innocent Rwandans being arrested on daily basis The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) is deeply concern by the Rwandan government led by Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) totalitarian behaviours, stripping it’s people of their basic rights, using terrorism tactics and arbitration for anyone… Read More

Western firms ‘overcharging for cash transfers to Africa’

April 18, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Moneygram, Western Union

British and American money transfer companies -- Western Union and Moneygram -- have been accused of charging clients too much for remittances to Malawi and other African countries and thankfully now the UK government’s consumer watchdog wants their conduct investigated. The allegation comes amid reports that the excessive charges have resulted into the loss of about $1.8bn a year to... Read More

Malawi President Banda pleads with Pastors to pray for peace to avoid Rwanda like Genocide

April 10, 2014 Global AuthorJoyce Banda, Kamuzu Palace, lilongwe, Malawi, Paul Kagame, Rwanda

BLANTYRE (AGV)--Malawi President Joyce Banda has urged Pastors fraternal to pray for peace of the nation as political parties are busy campaigning for tripartite election. President Banda also said there is need to pray for the media in the country to only present stories not containing hate speeches to avoid inciting violence. The Malawi leader spoke Wednesday evening at Kamuzu... Read More

Rwandan Genocide: Not the first nor last in Africa

April 9, 2014 Global AuthorAfrican Union, Belgium, Bill Clinton, German, hutu, Malawi, Rwanda, Tutsi, US

Exactly 20 years ago today, things had fallen apart in Rwanda, for the next 100 days after 7 April, 300 people, mostly Tutsi’s, died per hour. The final tally: about a million dead, rape ruled so did the Machetes. To sum it quickly, The Hutus came to Rwanda before the Tutsis, The Hutus are darker and shorter while the Tutsis are taller... Read More

Revelations about U.S. operations in Cuba corroborate President Raúl Castro’s assertions

April 7, 2014October 20, 2016 Global AuthorBarack Obama, Cuba, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Raul Castro, US, US Politics, USAID

President Raul Castro's denunciations of the United States government's attempts to destabilize Cuba were corroborated by the April 3 revelation of a plan to draw Cuban youth toward counter-revolution, with the participation of a U.S. government agency. To undermine Cuban authorities, Washington planned the creation of a "Cuban Twitter," promoted by USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), through a network... Read More

Poverty Is a Moral Problem

April 3, 2014 Global AuthorBill Easterly, Kagame, poverty, Rick Warren, Rwanda

William Easterly, professor of economics at New York University, is one of the most prominent iconoclasts in the field of international aid. In 2006 he published White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. Kent Annan (Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle; After Shock) talked with him on… Read More

50 Years of Conservation Success in Swaziland

April 3, 2014 Global AuthorAfrica Wild Life, South Africa, Swaziland, Ted Reilly, Zambia

2014 marks 50 years from the day a young Ted Reilly took it upon himself to turn his back garden into what is now one of Africa’s most accessible wildlife reserves. On the 12th July 1964, Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary opened to the public. This day marked the beginning of formal conservation in the Kingdom of Swaziland. At the time Swaziland was still a... Read More

Cuban Parliament Passes New Foreign Investment Law

April 3, 2014 Global AuthorCuba, Fernando Gonzalez, Marino Murillo, President Raul Castro, Rafael Ramon Santiesteban, Rodrigo Malmierca

CUBA, April 1st, 2014. The Cuban Parliament unanimously adopted last March 29 a new Foreign Investment Law, crucial to updating the country’s economic model and building a prosperous and sustainable socialist system. The law was adopted with modifications submitted by the parliamentary commissions on Economic, and Constitutional and Legal Issues. . Read More

The US Blockade against Cuba is Aggressively Extraterritorial and a Violation of International Law

April 1, 2014 Global AuthorBruno Rodríguez, Cuba, Fidel Castro, United nations, UNITED STATED

Genesis of the U.S. Blockade against Cuba On January 1st, 1959, the revolutionary struggle against the Cuban dictatorial regime ended victoriously. The revolutionary movement lead by Fidel Castro acceded to power. The measures adopted by the Revolutionary Government to recover the Cuban wealth and destine it to the people constituted a mortal blow to the interests of the biggest North... Read More

Patrick Karegeya: Mysterious death of a Rwandan exile

March 30, 2014 Global AuthorKayumba Nyamwasa, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, South Africa

Col Patrick Karegeya’s death served as a stark warning to exiled Rwandan dissidents. PHOTO | FILE A murdered former Rwandan intelligence chief was advising South African and Tanzanian intelligence as they prepared to send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo to battle the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23, BBC has learned. On New Year’s Eve, Rwanda’s former chief of external… Read More