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ICT Training Academy, meant to furnish the needs of a rapidly growing ICT sector in Mauritius

September 3, 2012October 21, 2016 Global Author

An ICT Training Academy, meant to furnish the needs of a rapidly growing ICT sector, is expected to be operational in the town of Ebene in early September 2012, Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Tassarajen Chedumbrum, said during a press conference in Port Louis.A new ICT training academy is to be opened to stem the ICT expertise shortage in the country, with government planning... Read More

Ethiopia’s ‘Visionary’ Leader Meles Zenawi Laid to Rest

September 2, 2012 Global AuthorMeles Zenawi dead, Paul Kagame, Rice, Thambo Mbeki, US

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia has laid to rest Prime Minister Meles Zenawi who led the country for more than 20 years before his death, announced last month. Heads of state from around the continent praised Meles' intellect and his vision for his country and Africa. Ethiopian soldiers stood in formation as the flag-draped casket carrying the body of Meles was... Read More

Civil War Brews in Kenya

August 31, 2012October 21, 2016 Global Authorkenya, Kikuyu, Luo, Mwai Kibaki

Faced with a combination of body blows ranging from spiking prices for maize, import dependent Kenya’s staple food, IMF mandated food subsidy cuts, a foolhardy USA instigated invasion of Somalia, election triggered ethnic warfare and a simmering independence movement by the Muslims in the Mombasa coastal region Kenya is in trouble, serious trouble. Hunger speculators lead by financial terrorists such... Read More

My list of great men every African should know about

August 28, 2012 Global AuthorAfrica News, Barrack Obama, Boniface Mwangi, Great African Leaders, Malcom X, Nelson Mandela, Patrice Lumumba, Paul Kagame

That’s bein’ a man,” Socco said. “Pain in your heart and your dreams – that’s the test of a man. If you can live life day after day with men treatin’ you like a dog but you never bark or howl, cower or beg – if you can be a human being when they want you to be an animal... Read More

Lesotho Constitutional Court hears landmark chieftainship case

August 28, 2012 Global Author

Johannesburg, 27 August – The Lesotho Constitutional Court will hear arguments today and tomorrow in a landmark discrimination case challenging legislation that only permits men to become chiefs. “The time has come to end discrimination against women in Lesotho. A number of courts in the region have struck down laws that explicitly deny women the right to succeed to chieftainship... Read More

Africa:Although it is a hard road to travel, but do so we must

August 27, 2012 Global Author

Dar es Salaam. The concept of politics without power is as difficult to understand as the notion of an ocean without water, according to some academics. Whenever the subject of excessive presidential powers is raised, therefore, it has to be seen in light of that perspective. In many democracies around the world, there is usually some concern that too much... Read More

Former Ivorian Officials Arrested in Ivory Coast, Ghana

August 27, 2012 Global Author

Two high-ranking officials close to the former president of Ivory Coast have been arrested. Ivorian officials say Laurent Akoun, the second-ranking official in former president Laurent Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivorien party, was arrested Sunday in Adzope, 100 kilometers east of the capital, Abidjan. He is believed to be implicated in a series of recent attacks on government targets, aimed at destabilizing... Read More

Malawi, Tanzania fail to Resolve Lake Malawi Oil exploring dispute

August 27, 2012October 21, 2016 Global AuthorBurundi, east africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Joyce Banda, kenya, Kikwete, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Membe, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda

MZUZU--Malawi and Tanzania on Saturday announced that they had failed to resolve their dispute on the border of Lake Malawi and agreed to continue to push for a diplomatic and negotiated solution. "After frank and spirited discussions between the two countries, we have concluded that our differences still remain," Tanzanian Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe said at the end of a... Read More

Marikana and the limits of the new Afro-enthusiasm

August 26, 2012 Global AuthorSouth Africa

As a Malawian, the August 16th Marikana Mine massacre in South Africa invokes the kinds of questions that Malawians asked on 20th July in 2011. Why did the police shoot to kill demonstrators? Was there absolutely no non-violent action the police could have taken, other than killing so many protesters? Were the demonstrators so violent that the police had no... Read More

Accomplice in Genocide; UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay

August 23, 2012 Global Author

The UN’s Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has spent her entire time in office as an active accomplice in the genocide being conducted by the western funded Ethiopian regime against the people of the Ogaden. A report on the genocide in the Ogaden remains under lock and key in Navi Pillay’s office under her direct order. The investigations this... Read More