Governance

I am getting a little jittery over the repeated delays, postponements and all the backpedalling talk about ‘false evidence’ and ‘lying witnesses’ in the Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta International Criminal Court trial. I don’t want to say I smell a rat but I feel like I am getting a whiff.

Nestled in the turbulent Horn of Africa (HOA) region, Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent modern nation-state and second most populous.

My first encounter with the Sahrawi-Moroccan conflict also happens to be one of the first and most striking memories of my life.

In yet another example of African American moral and political deterioration in the Age of Obama, a new Pew Research poll shows Blacks are more in favor of NSA spying on Americans than are whites or Hispanics.

In conjunction with the passing of one of the greatest legends in our time, Nelson Mandela, South Africa gained some renewed attention.

The current shocking developments of the armed conflict in South Sudan were rather sudden though somewhat anticipated. Through the years, I have tried to remain optimistic about South Sudan.

What we academics often term South Africa’s ‘Minerals-Energy Complex‘ (MEC) keeps getting away with murder, including economic strangulation.

The campaign is conducted largely through regime lackey-proxies, stooges and puppets. Through its minions, the regime has used the most loathsome words, inflammatory rhetoric and repugnant imagery to describe Menelik’s alleged brutality in his quest for territorial conquest.

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For Emmanuel Kipande (82), a resident of Liuli village, Nyasa district in Ruvuma region, who has never travelled by a train in his entire life, the construction of a railway line linking Mtwara Port and the multi-billion shillings Mchuchuma-Liganga projects in Southern Tanzania could be news to h