At the international stage, the Southern African country of Namibia is known as the rare success story of the UN. Lost in this UN Namibian success narrative is the story of people detained by the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), the current ruling party and one-time national liberation movement in Namibia, during the war […]
Zimbabwe features among the confidential documents released online by WikiLeaks, a whistle blower website, on Sunday. In a 2007 confidential diplomatic cable on Zimbabwe, the then-outgoing American ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, penned about the US policy on Zimbabwe as follows: “Having said my piece repeatedly over the last three years, I won’t offer a […]
The Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General has found that Cameroon, Mauritania, Mali, and Zambia misappropriated about US$25 million in grants meant for fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on the continent. No surprise there! In response Sweden is reported to withholding its pledge to the Global Fund. While Sweden (which has contributed US$85 million […]
The incident came as Germany was already on high security alert in response to intelligence tips that the country may be the target for terror attacks in the near future. Thanks to the Namibia police, it seems that the Namibian airport security system is working because they detected the bag before the departure of the […]
Namibians and the world today woke up to media reports and news that suspicious baggage, with a detonator and a ticking clock destined to be loaded on a German-bound plane was intercepted Wednesday at the Hosea Kutako International airport in Windhoek, Namibia’s capital city. This is still a developing story, but I can’t fathom the thought […]
Zambian police arrested and charged Emmanuel Mwamba, former Zambian president Fredrick Chiluba’s Public Relations aide, for allegedly authoring and publishing contemptuous articles on the online publication Zambia Watchdog. More: http://www.africanews.com/site/Expresident_Chilubas_aide_arrested/list_messages/36106Ex-president. Also see: http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/2010/11/17/police-to-arrest-emmanuel-mwamba-today/ Charles Andrianasoavina, a colonel with the Madagascan military, announced on Wednesday that he and a group of dissident top-ranking officers have taken […]
“Before you pay to volunteer abroad, think of the harm you might do”, article @http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/14/orphans-cambodia-aids-holidays-madonna
I am not sure if it is just me, but it is dawning on me that the IMF has one standardized economic solution when it comes to tackling Africa’s economic crisis: Cut spending, cut spending, and cut spending! Under the guise of the so-called “fiscal road map” presented in October to the International Monetary Fund (otherwise […]
This is happened sometimes in July of this year, but only landed on my desktop now. And I have to say that could not contain my excitement to post it! How many languages does Google speak? Oh wait, to be precise, how many African languages does Google speak? I admit, I don’t know the answer. […]
The last Sunday demonstration by Zimbabwean soldiers at a Masvingo shoping center, demanding that President Robert Mugabe rule the country “forever”, should not surprise anyone that uniformed soldiers are openly taking sides in Zimbabwe’s politics. Why? It is obvious that fear of prosecution is what is driving the military’s involvement in politics rather than loyalty […]
The challenge of being gay and lesbian in Uganda, a highly religious and deeply conservative Christian country, is constant isolation, insults, threats and violence. That’s exactly what a Ugandan tabloid Rolling Stone, an anti-gay newspaper, did when on November 1, 2010 again published pictures of 14 men it identified as the “generals” of the gay […]
Are development charities justified in utilizing dehumanizing images to raise funds for their causes? We’ve all seen it on TV screens, newspaper ads, and probably heard about it on radio talks. As an African living in America it makes me cringe, just like Duncan McNicholl, every time I see a “photo of a teary-eyed African […]
The Voice Of America’s latest Africa News reports the following: the recently released International Monetary Fund (IMF) Regional Economic Outlook suggests that, unless African governments cut spending, they could put their economic growth in jeopardy. According to Antoinette Sayeh, the head of the IMF’s Africa department, although “smart fiscal planning, combined with government spending, helped […]
While I am in favor of the idea of viewing locals as business partners, I take a different attitude with regard to Zimbabwe“Indigenization Plan”, a law that requires locals to own 51 percent of major foreign firms. Why? Nothing new about this approach: Zambia tried and failed. Namibia has been trying it with its land […]
The Zambian Watchdog, an organization owned by private Zambian journalists, is reporting that Zambian police opened fire on a crowd protesting the restoration of the 1964 Barotseland agreement in Mongu, Western Province. Two protestors are feared dead. Three police officers are also reportedly to have been injured. The 1964 Barotseland agreement is an Agreement regarding the autonomy […]