By John Stephen Katende
13th Feb 2012:
Good friends: Museveni & Obiang Nguema
Forbes Magazine has named the five worst leaders in Africa following a survey conducted among 800 African respondents by Journalist Mfonobong Nsehe. In his slightly edited piece here-below which lists five of Africa’s longest serving leaders, Nsehe says:
“…I put a call through to my African followers on Twitter to nominate the worst African leaders of our times. I received over (more…)
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13th Feb 2012:
Somalia’s Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which controls much of Somalia, has released a joint video with al-Qaeda announcing that (more…)
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13th Feb 2012:
Sudan and the new republic of South Sudan have signed a non-aggression pact, the chief mediator at crisis talks between the two has said. According to the (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
23rd January 2012:
West African country Mali has become the first African nation to conclude an agreement that will see it enforce sentences of imprisonment handed down by (more…)
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9th Jan 2012: The Kenyan government has warned of an imminent terrorist attack from what the hawkish former US President George Bush would probably have called (more…)
By Timothy Nsubuga
21st Dec 2011:
George Athor: Controversial in life and death
The surviving leaders of one of South Sudan’s main rebel groups, the South Sudan’s Democratic Movement/Army (SSDM/A), have accused Uganda President Yoweri Museveni of killing their leader George Athor. In a statement seen by Uganda Correspondent, which was signed by Maj. Gen. Bapiny Monytuil, the deputy leader of the military wing of SSDM said:
“…George Athor was killed by (more…)
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19th Dec 2011: Tunisians have unveiled a statue in honour of the late fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi, the man who set himself alight a year ago and whose plight sparked the so-called “Arab Spring” protests that (more…)
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5th Dec 2011:
Opposition parties in Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] have rejected partial results released by the country’s Electoral Commission giving incumbent President Joseph Kabila (more…)
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28th Nov 2011: In an unprecedented show of political audacity, a man charged with organising the mass rape of 387 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] last week staged a campaign rally in the eastern town of (more…)
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21st Nov 2011:
Pope Benedict with Benin's President Yayi
The leader of the global Roman Catholic Church Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday called on Africa’s leaders to stop depriving their people of hope and to govern responsibly, just hours before he planned to unveil a pastoral guide for the continent which attempts to use church doctrine to address Africa’s problems.
The pope made his comments during (more…)
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