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Analysis: Rocky start for Uganda’s oil sector

October 16, 2011 Global AuthorPrime Minister Amama Mbabazi

KAMPALA, 14 October 2011 (IRIN) - Uganda has yet to produce a single barrel of oil, but with three senior ministers accused of accepting bribes from oil companies and the government seemingly ill-prepared for imminent large-scale oil production, the phrase “resource curse” is already being bandied about. . Read More

Libya’s Rebels torturing pro Gaddafi prisoners

October 16, 2011 Global Author

As the battle for control of LIbya especially in Sirte and Ben Walid continues, the U.N. human rights office expressed concern on the number of prisoners in Libya and their treatment. It could be up to 7,000,” said Mona Rishmawi, a senior official with the group in Geneva, Switzerland. “At this stage, there is no police infrastructure, there is no… Read More

Zambia’s new Vice President is white

October 16, 2011 Global Author

Dr Guy Scott (born 1 June 1944) is a Zambian politician. He is currently the Vice President of Zambia and a member of the Patriotic Front (PF). After graduating from Cambridge University in 1965, Scott joined the government of the Republic of Zambia where he served in the Ministry of Finance as a planner. He was also the deputy editor... Read More

US Military Welcomed in Uganda to track down Joseph Kony

October 15, 2011 Global Author

Uganda's foreign minister has welcomed the deployment of US troops to help the country battle Lord's Resistance Army rebels, but said the contingent of 100 combat-ready advisors was "well overdue". "For 20 years, the government of Uganda has been pleading with our American and European friends to help in the LRA proble, because these are international terrorists," said Henry Okello Oryem, Uganda's... Read More

Malawi President Opens COMESA Summit Salutes Sata

October 15, 2011 Global AuthorBingu WA Mutharika, Sata

THE 15TH Summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Heads of State and Government officially opened here on October 14 with leaders in the regional economic block saluting President Sata on his historic victory in Zambia’s September 20 general elections. In his welcome address to the delegates, who gathered at the new State House, Malawian President Bingu... Read More

Malawi should arrest President al-Bashir – Demands Human rights groups

October 14, 2011 Global Author

On Thursday 13 October 2011, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir travelled to Malawi to attend the regional annual summit of the members of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) being held today in Lilongwe, the country’s capital. President al-Bashir is the first sitting President indicted by the ICC, which issued a warrant of arrest against him for allegedly... Read More

Dr. Vivek Solanki wins Hospital back as AMI is ordered to vacate

October 13, 2011 Global Author

Court in Harare ruled that African Medical Investments (AMI Plc) acted improperly and have been ordered to vacate the premises from which they had fraudulently and violently taken from Dr Solanki. Solanki was despoiled of his Trauma Centre Hospital which he had been operating for the past 16 years in July of 2010. Solanki brought an action of Expoliation to... Read More

Malawi Churches reiterate on anti-gay move, bash UK same sex demands

October 12, 2011 Global Author

Led by the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), churches in Malawi have voiced out against the British government's demands that poor African countries should legalise homosexuality or forego Her Majesty the Queen's aid. The International Department of the British government announced it would cut aid to such nations. . Read More

Let us not become complicit in the continued political rape of the Rwandan People

October 12, 2011 Global Authorafrica, Carnegie Melon University, Education Development, john karuranga, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwanda peoples party

President Jared L. CohonPresident, Carnegie Melon University5000 Forbes Avenue,Pittsburgh, PA 15213 RE: RPP/CRP-1/4551/10/JLC/JK/01/11/CMURPLondon, 12 October 2011 Dear President Cohon: Ref: CMU-Rwanda Partnership I write to you on behalf my party, the Rwanda People’s Party that has been fighting for a peaceful, democratic and non-violent change in Rwanda since May 2010. The RPP is the voice of the most disadvantaged Rwandans… Read More

Qaddafi Fights on and NATO wonders what Happened

October 12, 2011 Global Author

SURT, Libya — From the windows of an apartment overlooking this seaside town, a commander peered through binoculars and yelled orders into a walkie-talkie, directing fire at a white building in the distance flying Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s green flag. . Read More