Africa Global Village

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

President Museveni’s New Year message

December 31, 2013 Global AuthorMuseveni, Uganda, Uhuru Kenyatta

Fellow Ugandans, I extend greetings to all of you. I congratulate you on finishing the past year and wish you good luck in the new one. The projection for this financial year is that our economy will grow by 6.2%. Last financial year, our economy survived the global economic crisis, which had been running for several years. This decent rate... 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

Congolese Rebel Group Says It Is Laying Down Arms

November 5, 2013 Global Authorcongo, DRC, Kabila, Kagame, Kampala, M23, Rwanda, Uganda

Pete Muller for The New York Times Following a string of recent victories on the battlefield by the Congolese Army operating with United Nations support, the group, known as the M23, said that it was ending the 20-month rebellion that had brought renewed instability, uncertainty and conflict to the eastern part of Congo. In a statement, the group’s chairman, Bertrand… Read More

US ups pressure to end DRC’s M23 rebellion

October 24, 2013 Global AuthorDRC, Feingold, Kabila, Kagame, Rwanda, Uganda

US Great Lakes envoy Russ Feingold is believed to be more even-handed than some of his predecessors http://feingold.senate.gov/images/feingold_headshot_highres.jpg The US’s new representative for Africa’s Great Lakes region has upped the pressure on Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to end the bloody M23 rebellion in north-east DRC. After years of close relations between Washington and Rwanda, Russ… Read More

Tanzania officially renounces ‘coalition of the willing’

October 23, 2013 Global AuthorEAC, kenya, Kikwete, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

Dar officially renounced ‘coalition of the willing’—Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda— saying the ongoing tri-lateral talks between the countries were against the EAC protocol. TEA Graphic/Anthony Sitti Nation Media Group IN SUMMARY In a statement issued by the ministry of East African Cooperation, Tanzania also said the ongoing tri-lateral talks between Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda were against the EAC protocol. Defenders of… Read More

Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete threatens Malawi over lake dispute

July 26, 2013October 21, 2016 Global AuthorBurundi, east africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jakaya Kikwete, Joyce Banda, kenya, Lake Malawi, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda

LILONGWE(AGV)--Speaking on Thursday during the country's heroes' day celebrations, Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete made a rumbling speech saying its armed forces were ready to protect the country against any foreign threat to its territory, raising the stakes in an escalating border dispute with Malawi. . Read More

Press Briefing Announcement Regarding Great Lakes Special Representative

June 19, 2013 Global AuthorDRC, Great Lakes region of AFrica, John Kerry, Kabila, Kagame, Rwanda, Secretary of State, Uganda

Remarks John KerrySecretary of State Press Briefing Room Washington, DC June 18, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY:　 Good morning, everybody. QUESTION:　 It’s a late morning. SECRETARY KERRY:　 Good afternoon.　 (Laughter.) I’m happy to spend just a few minutes with you today and I apologize that I have to run over to the White House quickly after this, but I wanted to… Read More

Lake Malawi fossil could be oldest dinosaur ever found

December 7, 2012October 21, 2016 Global AuthorBurundi, east africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda

LILONGWE: Fossilised bones unearthed by a British palaeontologist in colonial Tanzania in the 1930s may be those of the oldest dinosaur ever found, researchers reported on Wednesday. The bones are either those of the earliest dinosaur or of the closest relative of dinosaurs discovered to date, they said.A denizen of the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, the creature... Read More

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