Finally, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has come to its own sense, and reversed all-together its earlier decision taken in 2008 to establish an award of US$3 million endowment from Equatorial Guinea’s president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, whose government is widely accused of corruption and gross human rights violations. UNESCO’s decision […]
Really? The Namibian newspaper is reporting that Sam Nujoma, the founding President of Namibia, is condemning attempts to legalize prostitution in the country. Nujoma claims that prostitution never has been part of the the African people’s culture, but was brought to the continent by Africa’s colonial powers. He is quoted saying, “we have destroyed colonialism, […]
Quoting AFP, AfricaNews is reporting that the US Agency for International Development (USAid) has donated $10m to a project aimed at combating sexual violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) where armed groups and rebel militias attack and raped civilians. Certainly this is welcome news, but it should not end here. All […]
South Sudan Trains Future Police Force: Margaret Besheer | Rejaf, South Sudan 16 October 2010 South Sudan police cadets are training ahead of the upcoming referendum on independence. In southern Sudan preparations are underway for the referendum scheduled for January 9 that will decide whether that part of the country secedes from the north. Part […]
AfricaNews is reporting that a Zimbabwean security consultant and a Somali aid worker working for Save the Children organization were kidnapped by unknown gunmen armed with heavy machine-guns in the town of Adado near the Ethiopian border. The security consultant who is also believed to be a British national had reportedly gone to Adado to […]
One thing that bothered me about Kenya’s new constitution was that the US government lobbied heavily and spent $23 million (including funding NGOs) to bring about a “yes” vote. Vice President Biden, who personally traveled to Kenya, was quoted in the media saying that Kenya’s new constitution would “allow money to flow” from the US foreign […]
“The conviction therefore that our past tells us that the time for Africa’s Renaissance has come, is fundamental to the very conceptualization of this Renaissance and the answer to the question: Whence this confidence? Unless we are able to answer the question “Who were we?” we will not be able to answer the question “What […]
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe may be a certified critic of the West, except that those words in the quotes bellow are not his but that of General Paul Kagame, the darling of the West, of Rwanda. Kagame, the rebel-hero who defeated the genocidal government in July 1994, has been accused of heavy-handed crackdown on his […]
Is anyone listening? Whether development aid or good governance, an increasing number of Africans are questioning the rhetoric around these goals. Valid or not, I think their criticism should not just be shrugged off. The truth is, when it comes to Africa, there is an unspoken code among the International Development Community (including the UN) […]
“Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is relinquishing his position as president of the larger faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) next year,” reports AfricaNews. The change in the MDC-T leadership comes as a result of the party constitutional term limit, which allows an incumbent to hold office for a maximum of two five-year […]
On Facebook, a Namibian citizen journalist is reporting that the Ministry of Information has embarked on a nation-wide survey to Namibia’s thirteen political regions to get “people’s opinion on the branding of a new Nationhood and National Pride campaign, dubbed “My Namibia.” No big surprise there! But if this is not a new low for […]
Unless you are from mars, there is a high chance that you probably heard about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight set of goals-ranging from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education-agreed to by the United Nations to address the needs of the poor countries! Well the world […]
The American Free Press Newspaper is reporting that President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday that foreign investors should embrace Zimbabwe’s equity laws which require them to sell 51 percent stakes to locals or “stay out.” Putting Mugabe’s rhetoric’s aside, I think the idea of viewing locals as business partners makes sense! Whether Aid or business […]
Apparently, in the bank’s efforts to promote economic growth and regional integration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Development Bank has approved a U.S.$ 95.6 million loan for the Nacala Corridor Phase II Road project (NCRP) in Zambia. However, I am not sure about the assertion that “the work will enhance poverty […]
Namibia is bracing for a culture war as Kosie Pretorius, the chairperson and the leader of the Self-Help Trust of Namibia, pushes for Afrikaner traditional authority and a white only museum. Kosie Pretorius whose Monitor Action Group (MAG) political party failed to gain a seat in last year’s election, has been lobbying hard for the […]