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U.S. rebukes Rwandan leader amid scrutiny over opponent’s murder

January 17, 2014 Global AuthorJen PSaki, Kagame, Karegeya, Obama, Rwanda, South Africa, US State Department

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame arrives for the extraordinary session of the African Union’s Assembly of Heads of State and Government on the case of African Relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC), in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, October 12, 2013. CREDIT: REUTERS/TIKSA NEGERI (Reuters) – The United States says it is deeply worried about threats made by Rwandan President Paul… Read More

South Sudan, Central African Republic Targeted for US Political and Military Intervention

January 15, 2014 Global AuthorCentral Africa Republic, Obama, Salva Kiir, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Vice-President Riek Machar

U.S. admits that military advisers are functioning in Somalia Fierce battles have taken place in two states in South Sudan. Unity state, an oil-producing area, was retaken by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). Other gains in Jonglei state by Juba around the capital of Bor have occurred with the assistance of the Ugandan military during the first full week... Read More

Petition to Development Aid Partners of Rwanda and President of the United States

January 4, 2014 Global AuthorObama, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, RNC, Rwanda National Congress, Theogene Rudasingwa

On January 1st 2014, the body of a Rwandan opposition leader Patrick Karegeya, was found in Michelangelo Towers Hotel (Johannesburg, South Africa), strangled to death with a rope and towels. The prime suspect is a known Rwandan national believed to be in collaboration with senior officers of the Rwandan National Intelligence and Security Services. On 13 July 2010, the beheaded… Read More

Washington’s Puppet Regime in Libya Teeters on the Brink

January 4, 2014 Global AuthorAli Zeidan, Gaddafi, Libya, Obama, Tripoli, US

Libya’s capital city Tripoli was at a virtual standstill yesterday. Most of Tripoli’s businesses, schools and public sector workers went out on strike, demanding that militias leave the city. A 48-hour state of emergency was declared Saturday. Tripoli saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, with at least 45 people killed in... Read More

The Great Nothingness of Libya, Two Years After Muammar Gaddafi

January 3, 2014 Global AuthorFrance, Libya, NATO, Obama, UN

The notion of a “Libya” has ceased to have any meaningful practical application. As a concept that either refers to some degree of national unity, an imagined community, sovereignty, or the exercise of authority by a state over the territory within its borders, “Libya” has been driven back to the time when it had yet to become formalized as a... Read More

The Lies Behind The West’s War On Libya

January 1, 2014 Global AuthorGaddafi, Libya, Obama, US

It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first revolution in modern times – connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting and several other technological applications such as telemedicine and distance teaching. And thanks to the WMAX radio bridge, a low cost connection was made available across the continent, including in rural areas. It began in... Read More

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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

“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man’s attention and to inflame his ambition.”

November 8, 2013 Global Authorhuman rights watch, Kagame, Museveni, Obama, refugees, Rwanda, Uganda, UNHCR

AMAHORO PEOPLE’S CONGRESS*RWANDA NATIONAL CONGRESS*FDU-INKINGI H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President, Republic of Uganda. November 7, 2013. Your Excellency, Re: Treatment of Rwandan Asylum Seekers and Refugees Living in Uganda We, the undersigned, have been compelled by recent events to write to Your Excellency on behalf of the organizations we serve to express our grave concerns for the security of some… Read More

“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny”

November 7, 2013March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergDRC, Joel Mutabazi, Kagame, Nyamwasa, Obama, RNC, rudasingwa, Rwanda, Uganda, UNHCR

By: Jennifer Fierberg “The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” On October 25, 2013, former Rwandan Presidential bodyguard and RDF soldier, Lt. Joel Mutabazi, was abducted from a UNHCR safe house in Uganda where he was in… Read More

Cynthia McKINNEY raises questions on Killings in Libya

October 10, 2013 Global AuthorCynthia McKINNEY, Egypt, Libya, NATO, Obama, Toubu people, US Special Forces

Every loss of life is tragic and that is why I oppose the current US policy of killing. The US is currently regularly killing people in Asia and in Africa. Taken to its extreme, the Obama Administration even claims authority to kill US citizens on US soil! The unfolding situation in Libya is troubling, not only for the bloodletting and... Read More

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