Comment & analysis

On 12 January 2011 Zanzibar marked 47 years since the 1964 revolution. Historically, this day is given more prominence in Zanzibar’s political circles than 10 December 1963 when Zanzibar obtained its independence chiefly because it ushered in majority rule.

Dominican President Leonel Fernandez told US State Department deputy assistant secretary Patrick Duddy in January of 2006, according to a cable released by Norway’s largest newspaper, that he suspected Brazilian United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) military commander Urano Bac

She could have forged a career in politics, but Dr Patricia Rodney is her own woman: an independent mother and grandmother who has made nonsense of the stigma attached to single parenting, and one who has kept the legacy of her husband alive without going near a campaign trail.

Tunisia has all the ingredients to be a successful country.

The statement by Afrikaner author, Anneli Botes, that one group that she still does not like are ‘black people’, reveals a deeper malaise that continues to permeate the post-apartheid psyche among certain sectors of our society.

I don’t know if the political elite truly believe that Kenyans are stupid, or whether they are too arrogant and self-important to care about what the people who voted them into office think about them.

The haunting omen of violence started 2011 with a common thread of police brutality in Tanzania and Tunisia. Under the shameless guise of ‘law and order’, this cloudy predicament stretching above Africa threatens to erase all the remaining traces of peace as a claim to fame.

Travelling across the old eastern region of Nigeria can be very challenging. The roads are just very bad. There are also thousands of police checkpoints. You meet one literally every one two minutes.

Twenty years after unilateral declaration, Somalia continues to eclipse Somaliland and globetrotters see a journey to Somaliland as a risky business. The assumption that Somaliland is like Somalia, where the gun rules, has not an iota of truth to it.

International diplomacy can indeed be juicy. On Wednesday Egypt kickstarted what it pragmatically calls the Nile Basin Tournament. Interestingly, this tournament will be a yearly one.