Africa Global Village

Further ratifications show wide global support for Arms Trade Treaty

June 2, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Arms Trade Treaty, ATT, Control Arms, Ratification, UN

Urgent call from campaigners for extra push from states – especially African countries – to ratify and help treaty enter into force and save lives New York, June 3 2014: Campaigners say the Arms Trade Treaty which will control the poorly-regulated trade in weapons and ammunition is more urgent now than ever before as the death toll in conflicts across the… Read More

Congo armed groups wielding machetes reportedly execute 70 – U.N

February 13, 2014 Global Authorcongo, MONUSCO, Rwanda, Uganda, UN

According to reports from the UN, armed groups wielding machetes have reportedly executed 70 people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo "to spread terror", the U.N. peacekeeping mission said on Thursday. The mission, MONUSCO, said it had received reports of gross human rights abuses including the reported summary killings at Nyamaboko villages I and II in Masisi... Read More

Rwandan Diplomat in Great Turmoil

January 29, 2014March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergKibeho Massacre, Olivier Nduhungirehe, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, UN

By: Jennifer Fierberg Olivier Nduhungirehe’s true nature has been exposed. (Photo: L-The late Patrick Karegeya, R- Olivier Nduhungirehe) (WASHINGTON, DC) – Hostile exchanges erupted earlier this week between the Rwandan Permanent Representative to the United Nations and his former friends as compromising confidences appeared in the social media networks. A series of Olivier Nduhungirehe’s emails that were written between the… Read More

RWANDA’S PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS: A POISONED PILL THAT BLACKMAILS THE WEST INTO SUPPORTING KAGAME’S BLOODY DICTATORSHIP.

January 27, 2014 Global AuthorPaul Kagame, Peace Keeping Troops, Rwanda, Theogene Rudasingwa, UN

Kagame has come to love United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. This is an irony since he hates the United Nations, and does not believe in peacekeeping. It is now an unwritten rule that the West ( mostly the US and UK) will ask Rwanda to participate in UN Peacekeeping Missions, and Kagame will kindly oblige. What is the deal? First, the… Read More

Rwandan diplomat slams UN report

January 24, 2014 Global AuthorDemocratic Republic Congo, DRC, M23 Rebels, Oliver Nduhungirehe, Rwanda, UN, United nations

A senior Rwandan diplomat has hit back at a United Nations (UN) report that indicates the M23 rebel group continues to recruit in his country.The official who serves as deputy to the country’s Ambassador to the UN has denied claims in a Group of Experts report, presented to the Security Council, that his country allows the Congolese rebel group to... Read More

President Salva Kiir accuses UN workers in his country of siding with rebel fighters seeking to overthrow him.

January 24, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, Sudan, UN

The relationship between South Sudan and the United Nations (UN) is souring during a critical time of conflict and mass death inside the world's newest country. After a month of fighting between President Salva Kiir's government and rebels loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar, the UN suddenly finds itself under verbal attack from South Sudan. Read More

UN says South Sudan civilians tied and shot in war

January 17, 2014 Global AuthorBentiu, President Kiir, Riek Machar, South Sudan, UN

A UN rights envoy in South Sudan said Thursday he had seen bodies in the streets that had been tied before being shot as the global body stepped up warnings over rights abuses. The UN has accused both sides of carrying out atrocities in the conflict that started on December 25 between President Salva Kiir and deposed vice president Riek... 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

CAR: Machete Wielding Youths Lay Corpses In Bangui Streets

December 27, 2013 Global AuthorCAR, Genocide, Rebels, UN, war

The United Nations was alarmed yesterday when dozens of dead bodies were found lying all over the streets in Bangui town in the Central African Republic. The dead bodies are a reflection of the work being done by youths armed with machetes and grenades who have embarked on a career of mass massacre. The Archbishop and the Imam of Bangui… Read More

Central African Republic: Tragedy At the Imam’s House

December 12, 2013 Global AuthorCAR, HRW, UN, violence, war

Photo: Voxcom/IRIN Some of the LRA soldiers sit outside, Sudan, April 2007. On Thursday morning, the photographer Marcus Bleasdale and I went to see the imam of Bossangoa, Central African Republic (CAR), at his home in the Muslim Boro district of the town. The situation in Bossangoa was tense as word spread of heavy fighting in the capital, Bangui, between the… Read More

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