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President Kagame uses internet media to harass Rwandan Opposition

July 21, 2012 Global AuthorJack Nziza, Kagame, Rwanda, Rwanda Ministry of Defense, The Exposer

Umuvugizi investigation has established that Rwanda president Paul Kagame himself has ordered the creation of internet social media intense scrutiny on anyone who may differ with him on Rwandan policies. General Karenzi Karake, the head of NSS has created a lot of social media, to neutralize so many individual and organizations’ social media, which are gaining momentum in exposing the… Read More

Honor July 20 Heroes, Malawi’s Joyce Banda Urged

July 21, 2012 Global AuthorJoyce Banda, July 20th 2011, Malawi, Malawi news, Richard Banda

BLANTYRE--Family members and civil society leaders have asked Malawi President Joyce Banda to consider compensating dependants of victims of the infamous July 20 anti-government demonstrations and consider making July 20 a national holiday. "We, members of the bereaved and victims’ families, would to make a few requests...20th July of every year be commemorated under the theme 'A Rebirth of Democracy," said... Read More

Save Darfur’s mi$$ing million$: The Israeli connection

July 20, 2012 Global AuthorIsrael, NGO, Sudan, Thomas C. Mountain

The so called “Save Dafur Coalition” raised tens of millions of dollars, some say a hundred million or more to help the people of Dafur, yet an investigation by this writer can find no evidence of any of this money reaching Dafur refugees on the ground in Sudan. I first wrote about Dafur back in 2003 and since then have... Read More

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on ‘Sick Leave’

July 20, 2012 Global AuthorAU, Ethiopia, Meles, Meles sick

Ethiopia says Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is taking "sick leave" but will remain in power while he dealswith an unspecified illness. Government spokesman Bereket Simon briefed reporters Thursday in Addis Ababa, following media reports that the Ethiopian leader was critically ill at Saint Luc Hospital in Brussels, Belgium. . Read More

UN Envoy Says Libya Faces Challenges

July 19, 2012 Global AuthorGaddaffi, Libya

NEW YORK — The senior United Nations official in Libya says the organization of the July 7 Libyan election was an extraordinary accomplishment, but the country's new government will face major challenges. The Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General in Libya, Ian Martin, told the U.N. Security Council that when Libya's new National Congress convenes, it will be the country's... Read More

Is Libya the Next Somalia? an African Perspective

July 18, 2012 Global AuthorEritrea, Ethiopia, Gaddafi, Italy, Libya, Panafrica, Somalia, Thomas C. Mountain, Tripoli

Libya seems well on its way to becoming the next Somalia, with much of the country already ruled by tribal/clan based armed militias. As was the case in Somalia, Libya is in the process of separation, with the eastern, oil rich, Cyrenica region having issued a de facto declaration of independence. . Read More

Ethiopian Regime Crumbles: Enter CIA

July 17, 2012 Global AuthorDictator Meles, Ethiopia, Meles, OAU

With its foundations irreparably cracked and its edifices of power crumbling the Ethiopian regime headed by Meles Zenawi is turning more and more to the CIA to make the critical decisions in the ministries of power in the capital Addis Ababa. Faced with growing nationalist insurgencies, an ongoing economic crisis and calls for regime change from the heights of the... Read More

UNODC awareness campaign highlights transnational organized crime as an US$ 870 billion a year business

July 17, 2012 Global AuthorUNODC, Vienna

Vienna. 16 July 2012. UNODC today launched a new global awareness-raising campaign emphasizing the size and cost of transnational organized crime. Profiling this multibillion dollar a year threat to peace, human security and prosperity, the campaign illustrates the key financial and social costs of this international problem through a new public service announcement video and dedicated fact sheets for journalists.... Read More

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to lead the African Union

July 17, 2012 Global AuthorJACOB ZUMA, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, OAU, Paul Kagame, SouthAfrica

ADDIS ABABA--South Africa's home affairs minister was elected Sunday to lead the African Union, capping a months-long campaign that aimed to expand the government's diplomatic role on the continent but risked sowing divisions among other African countries.Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, an experienced diplomat and President Jacob Zuma's former wife, was chosen Sunday by the pan-African bloc's 54 member countries to serve a... Read More

Al Bashir Takes Part in African Summit Today in Addis Ababa

July 17, 2012 Global AuthorAl-Bashir, Hassan Eisa, OAU, South Sudan, Sudan

ADDIS ABABA--President Omer Al Bashir takes part in the 19th heads of state and prime ministers African Summit in Addis Ababa today after it has been transferred from Malawi as per the Sudanese request.The conference is going to focus on reinforcing intra-regional and cross lateral trade in light of the last summit's recommendations focusing on the same issue and singling... Read More