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Ghana to send peacekeepers to South Sudan

January 7, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Ghana, Hannah Tetteh, South Sudan

Ghana will be contributing troops for peacekeeping operations in South Sudan, Miss Hannah Tetteh, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has said.Miss Tetteh, who spoke at a public forum in Accra dubbed “Advancing the better Ghana agenda: Prospects for 2014” as part of activities marking the first anniversary of President John Dramani Mahama’s government, said Ghana was committed... Read More

Zero Dark Mali

January 7, 2014 Global Authorafrica, France, Mali, North africa

by Pepe Escobar The imperialial juggernaut is once again on a roll in North Africa, with France in the lead. Secular-run Algeria had “better get its US$50 billion in reserves out of Western banks as soon as possible.” But overwhelming arms do not guarantee victory. “The French are on their way to meet the American fate in both Iraq and... Read More

Britains Tony Blair Ends Political Advisory Mission in Malawi

January 5, 2014 Global AuthorJoyce Banda, Malawi Cashgate, TOny Blair

Lilongwe, January 5, 2014 (MaraPost) A group of British political advisers, led by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, will leave Malawi later this month after concluding their advisory sessions to the government of this African country. The collaboration of the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) with President Joyce Banda comes to an end in January after an agreement between the parties,... Read More

South Arica’s Team Ford Racing’s Dakar adventure begins!

January 5, 2014 Global AuthorDakar Rally, Team Ford

ROSARIO, ARGENTINA, 4 January 2014 – Team Ford Racing’s Dakar Rally adventure is finally under way after an estimated 1-million people packed the centre of the Argentine city of Rosario this evening to watch a spectacular and colourful riverside start ceremony. Fans lined the roads many deep alongside the Paraná River to cheer the 439 competing vehicles on their way at... Read More

Children are new targets in Central Africa’s conflict

January 4, 2014 Global Author

IN THE latest violence to rock the crisis-prone and poor Central African Republic, children have become deliberate targets of armed gangs, mainly because of their family’s faith, aid workers say. “Before now, children were collateral victims, but today some of them are targeted directly,” said Ombretta Pasotti, who coordinates work by the Italian NGO Emergency at the paediatric hospital in... Read More

Petition to Development Aid Partners of Rwanda and President of the United States

January 4, 2014 Global AuthorObama, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, RNC, Rwanda National Congress, Theogene Rudasingwa

On January 1st 2014, the body of a Rwandan opposition leader Patrick Karegeya, was found in Michelangelo Towers Hotel (Johannesburg, South Africa), strangled to death with a rope and towels. The prime suspect is a known Rwandan national believed to be in collaboration with senior officers of the Rwandan National Intelligence and Security Services. On 13 July 2010, the beheaded… Read More

Washington’s Puppet Regime in Libya Teeters on the Brink

January 4, 2014 Global AuthorAli Zeidan, Gaddafi, Libya, Obama, Tripoli, US

Libya’s capital city Tripoli was at a virtual standstill yesterday. Most of Tripoli’s businesses, schools and public sector workers went out on strike, demanding that militias leave the city. A 48-hour state of emergency was declared Saturday. Tripoli saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, with at least 45 people killed in... Read More

Team Ford Racing set for Dakar Rally 2014

January 4, 2014 Global AuthorDakar Rally, Ford Racing, Michelin

ROSARIO, ARGENTINA, 3 January 2014 – With just one day to go before the official opening of Dakar Rally 2014 in the host city of Rosario, Team Ford Racing is ready and geared up for its debut on this legendary event.The crew from Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) in South Africa and South Racing in Europe arrived in Argentina on 29 December... Read More

Patrick Karegeya’s wife: ‘I always worried about his safety’

January 4, 2014 Global AuthorKayumba Nyamwasa, Leah Karegeya, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan opposition, Rwnda EX-SPY Chief

Johannesburg - By the time the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, Leah Karegeya knew something was wrong. There was no message from her husband to welcome in 2014 and her increasingly frantic calls to him remained unanswered. “We skyped and talked every single day,” said the US-based Leah of her relationship with her husband, Colonel Patrick Karegeya, Rwanda’s... Read More

SA Police seeking Rwandan man in the death of Patrick Kareg

January 4, 2014 Global AuthorDavid Batenga, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan National Congress coalition, SA

JOHANNESBURG - According to an AP report, a Rwandan man was reportedly being sought Friday by South African police in the death of former Rwandan spymaster Patrick Karegeya, whose body was discovered in a plush Johannesburg hotel on New Year's Day. According to the opposition Rwandan National Congress coalition and the local New Age newspaper, the man was the last... Read More