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Mandela, Godfather of Neo-Apartheid South Africa

December 24, 2013 Global AuthorMandela, South Africa

As Nelson Mandela lies on his death bed, his legacy as the godfather of neo-Apartheid South Africa has been firmly established. Today in South Africa, life for many if not most is nearly as precarious and undignified as when Mandela was first inaugurated as president some 20 years ago. So the best way to describe “modern” South Africa is it... Read More

U.S. Marines poised to enter South Sudan

December 23, 2013 Global AuthorRebels, South Sudan, US Marines, war

About 150 U.S. Marines are poised to enter turbulent South Sudan to help evacuate Americans and provide security for the U.S. Embassy, two U.S. military officials said Monday. The troops are moving from Spain to Africa, probably to the nation of Djibouti, the officials told CNN’s Barbara Starr on Monday. An estimated 100 U.S. citizens are believed to be… Read More

Malawi Pres Joyce Banda: ‘Competitive primary elections must not divide us’

December 23, 2013 Global AuthorBlantyre, Cassim Chilumpha, Fahad Assani, Joyce Banda, Kachale, Malawi, Malawi 2014 Elections, Malawi Peples party, Sosten Gwengwe

BLANTYRE—With only few months to 2014 May tripartite elections, Malawi’s President Joyce Banda says her governing People’s Party (PP) will allow its members to elect candidates considered the best to propel the party’s ideologies of togetherness, equity and fairness, among others. Read More

Profile of South Sudan’s Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

December 23, 2013 Global Authorafrica, John Garang, Kong Chuo, South Sudan, SPDF, Sudan People's Liberation, USA

Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (born 1953) is a South Sudanese politician who had been Vice President of South Sudan from its independence in 2011 until his dismissal in 2013. Machar obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering in 1984 and then joined the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005). Riek fell out with the... Read More

Burkina Faso Admitted into Forest Carbon Partnership Facility

December 21, 2013October 21, 2016 Global Authorwest africa

TUNIS, Tunisia, December 20, 2013/ -- Burkina Faso, benefitting from the close support of the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) and the World Bank, has successfully become a member of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). This now qualifies Burkina Faso as a REDD+* country and, with the award of a US $3.8-million grant, allows the country to put in place the necessary... Read More

Truly hostile environment

December 20, 2013 Global AuthorAcademics, Phil Clark, Research, Rwanda

Phil Clark’s recent article in Times Higher Education strongly implies that foreign scholars – like us – who claim that it is difficult to do careful field research in post-genocide Rwanda do not know how to do so properly (“The price of admission”, 28 November). He writes that those researchers who have fallen out with the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the country’s ruling… Read More

Numsa cuts political ties with ANC

December 20, 2013 Global AuthorANC, Numsa, South Africa, Zuma

(Photo: file, Sapa) Johannesburg – Numsa, South Africa’s biggest union, will not support the ruling ANC in elections next year, its general secretary, Irvin Jim said on Friday, in a blow to President Jacob Zuma, whose political support with the working class is fast eroding. The salvo from the 330 000-member National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is also another sign… Read More

Freedom in the world: Rwanda

December 20, 2013 Global AuthorFreedom House, Kagame, Oppression, Rwanda

Rwanda’s civil liberties rating declined from 5 to 6 due to numerous documented cases of unlawful detention, torture, and ill-treatment of civilians by military intelligence agents in secret locations. OVERVIEW: The Rwandan Patriotic Front under President Paul Kagame continued to prosecute journalists and opposition politicians in 2012, with harsh sentences delivered in several cases. An… Read More

State House compares Malawi pres. Joyce Banda with Barack Obama

December 18, 2013 Global Author#Joycebanda, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Mandela, Obama, Twitter, Twitter Trends

BLANTYRE(MaraPost)_ Kamuzu Palace, the official home of Malawi president Joyce Banda, says according to twitter analytics tool, Tweetreach, tweets which contained the hashtag #joycebanda alone gained over 1,649,702 impressions or opportunities to see during Banda's speech at former South African president Nelson Mandela’s state funeral on Saturday in Qunu. More than 2 million people were directly involved in the conversation... Read More

Looting, killing of Christians, churches set on fire in CAR – UN

December 18, 2013 Global Authorafrica, CAR, Christians, refugees, war

People are pictured at a refugee camp set in the garden of Notre Dame de Fatima church, in Bangui, Central African Republic on December 16, 2013. Picture: FRED DUFOUR / AFP GENEVA – Some 210,000 people have been uprooted from their homes by violence in the Central African Republic capital in the past two weeks alone, the United Nations… Read More