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UN says South Sudan civilians tied and shot in war

January 17, 2014 Global AuthorBentiu, President Kiir, Riek Machar, South Sudan, UN

A UN rights envoy in South Sudan said Thursday he had seen bodies in the streets that had been tied before being shot as the global body stepped up warnings over rights abuses. The UN has accused both sides of carrying out atrocities in the conflict that started on December 25 between President Salva Kiir and deposed vice president Riek... Read More

Zimbabwe tops Africa’s literacy rate as Malawi trails at position 28

January 17, 2014 Global AuthorAfrica News, kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, Zimbabwe

BLANTYRE--Malawi has been ranked 28 on the literacy rate record in Africa whereas Zimbabwe has for the third consecutive time been ranked at the apex of the list, the latest list by the African Economist Magazine reveals. Malawi is on position 28 with 62.7 percent, 30 percent behind Zimbabwe which has 90.7 percent. Education activists in the country have attributed... Read More

Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa: Alvarez and Ranger storm the sand

January 16, 2014 Global AuthorDakar Rally, Ford Racing, Lucio Alvarez, Ronnie Graue, South Africa

ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE, 15 January 2014 – Lucio Alvarez and Ronnie Graue powered their Ford Ranger to ninth place in today’s 10th stage of the Dakar Rally from Iquique to Antofagasta in Chile.The Team Ford Racing duo were as high as fifth this morning as the test twisted and turned through their favoured sand dunes near the Pacific Ocean coastline. It provided... Read More

Beware the Rotten Fruit of AFRICOM Training

January 16, 2014 Global AuthorAfrican Union, AFRICOM, Amadou Sanogo, AU, Mali, US

The U.S. may talk the talk of ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights,’ but in Africa, it has never walked the walk.” If a tree is judged by its fruit, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) is undeniably diseased from its roots to its branches. One of AFRICOM’s fruits, Amadou Sanogo, who is a captain in Mali’s armed forces, and a former AFRICOM trainee,... Read More

Nigerian President Overhauls Military Leadership

January 16, 2014 Global AuthorAfrica News, Goodluck Jonathan, Major General Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Mimimah, Marshal Adesola Nunayon Amosu, Nigeria

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has replaced his chief of defense and the heads of the country's army, navy and air force.A statement Thursday gave no reason for the sweeping overhaul.The move comes as Nigeria struggles with a four-and-a-half-year insurgency by the militant group Boko Haram. A bombing Tuesday in the group's home city of Maiduguri killed at least 43 people. Read More

South Sudan, Central African Republic Targeted for US Political and Military Intervention

January 15, 2014 Global AuthorCentral Africa Republic, Obama, Salva Kiir, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Vice-President Riek Machar

U.S. admits that military advisers are functioning in Somalia Fierce battles have taken place in two states in South Sudan. Unity state, an oil-producing area, was retaken by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). Other gains in Jonglei state by Juba around the capital of Bor have occurred with the assistance of the Ugandan military during the first full week... Read More

Why America and Europe will work behind the scene to have Joyce Banda elected

January 15, 2014 Global AuthorApartheid South Africa, Cashgate, FRELIMO, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Mozambique, Muluzi, Renamo, USA, Zimbabwe

Soon after independence in 1975, the country of Mozambique was plunged into a protracted civil war pitting the ruling FRELIMO party against the RENAMO rebels. RENAMO fighters will always be remembered as some of the most brutal fighters Africa has ever seen. In the later 1980s a woman refugee crossed into Mulanje district. Her story was particularly distressing. Read More

UN Says Congo’s Defeated M23 Rebels Active Again

January 13, 2014 Global Authorcongo, DRC, M23

UNITED NATIONS — The top U.N. envoy in Congo said Monday there are "credible reports" that the M23 rebel group is recruiting fighters and resuming activities despite last month's peace agreement with the Congolese government following its military defeat. Martin Kobler told the U.N. Security Council that the M23 must not be allowed to re-emerge as a military force, which... Read More

Rwanda dismisses Kagame death rumours

January 10, 2014 Global AuthorDeath rumors, Paul Kagame, Rwanda

Rwandan President Paul Kagame (Picture: AFP) Kigali – Rwanda’s presidency on Friday dismissed rumours that the country’s leader Paul Kagame was dead. The denial came amid reports of street celebrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma, situated on the border with Rwanda, although it was not immediately clear what sparked the celebrations. “That is completely wrong,” an… Read More

Feds Tell Veteran He Will Lose 2nd Amendment Rights Because of PTSD

January 10, 2014October 20, 2016 Global AuthorBarack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pat Kirby, US, US Politics, Veteran

(MYRTLE CREEK, OR) - If Pat Kirby has his guns taken away by the federal government, then everyone else is probably going to eventually face the same thing. The clock is ticking. Pat Kirby is a decorated Oregon Vietnam Veteran with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). He never imagined he would receive a letter telling him he will have to turn over... Read More