Is TB Joshua’s Prophecy Being Fulfilled in South Sudan?
Sometime in late October or early November, Nigerian prophet TB Joshua prophesied that an East Africa president would be abducted by terrorists.
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Category: West Africa
West Africa has been defined as including the 18 countries Benin, Burkina Faso, the island of Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, the island of Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe and Togo.
Thomas Sankara And The Assassination Of Africa’s Memory
Thomas Sankara was Burkina Faso’s president from August 1983 until his assassination on October 15, 1987. Perhaps, more than any other African president in living memory, Thomas Sankara, in four years, transformed Burkina Faso from a poor country, dependent on aid, to an economically independent and socially progressive nation. Thomas Sankara began by purging the deeply entrenched bureaucratic and institutional corruption...
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Gambian president to open herbal AIDS-cure hospital
Gambia is a small country in West Africa, with a population of about 1.7 million. Fortunately, Gambia has not been hit as hard by HIV/AIDS as other African countries, and only about 2% of its inhabitants are infected. Under its current president, Yahya Jammeh, Gambia has seen important public health progress, and now, Jammeh has proposed something that has managed...
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Mali insurgents torch building containing ancient manuscripts
BAMAKO: Militants fleeing Timbuktu in the face of a French-led offensive in Mali have torched a building housing ancient Arabic manuscripts, security and army sources said Monday. “A building housing the manuscripts was burned,” a security source told AFP. Timbuktu, which was the intellectual and spiritual capital of Islam in Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries, is renowned for...
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Malian Forces Retake Gao, with Western Backing
SEVARE, MALI—French and Malian forces pushed toward the fabled desert town of Timbuktu on Sunday, as the two-week-long French mission gathered momentum against the Islamist extremists who have ruled the north for more than nine months. So far the French forces have met little resistance, though it remains unclear what battles may await them farther north. The Malian military blocked...
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Mali, Wahabis and Saudis; Following the Money Trail
The US and Western-backed overthrow of Libya's Ghadaffi irrevocably altered Africa's continental landscape. Chad and Mali, already paralyzed by excessive debt and climate change, are in the crosshairs of well-armed rebel “movements” operating across the Libyan border, backed by the West and financed by Saudi Arabia. .
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Former colonialists not fighting for freedom in Mali
France’s recent military action in Mali has raised many questions about the French Socialists’ rhetoric touting their belief in democracy and freedom. French President Francois Hollande seems to have committed a big mistake in Mali, and many compare the move to former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s decision to attack Afghanistan in 1979. The military action is expected to have huge...
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Mali’s President Appoints New Prime Minister
DAKAR, SENEGAL — Mali's interim president has appointed a new prime minister. The move comes less than 24 hours after the former interim prime minister resigned following his arrest by soldiers loyal to the military junta that overthrew the elected government in March. Mali's interim president, Dioncounda Traore, said Tuesday night on state television that he had accepted the resignation...
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Mali: Veering Toward A Nigerian Vietnam
With the unnerving undercurrents of developments in the vast wastelands of the Sahel and the Sahara in the north of Mali, Nigeria has real cause to worry. It rightly, as put forward by traditionalists, has to worry about dangerous elements determined to entrench themselves in its neighborhood. But Nigeria has to worry about many more things linked to its impending...
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The situation in northern Mali is still as dreadful
Interview with Moctar Mariko, President of the Malian Association for Human Rights (AMDH) How has the situation evolved in the North of Mali these past few months? The situation in the North of Mali remains practically unchanged for us. From a humanitarian perspective, I’ve just been informed that since the establishment of the corridor many families in the North of Mali...
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