Governance

It is hard to disagree with a weighty viewpoint expressed by a concerned Africanist.

We read with astonishment and anger that recently discovered Nok sculptures are being displayed for the first time ever in Germany and not in Nigeria where they were discovered.

“A council member told me we are too dirty to fish there … they are putting on a party to tell the world it is a beautiful country, but poor people are being trampled on.” That’s what Durban fisherman Khalil Adam told a journalist after hearing that he and thousands of fellow fisherfolk had been

Last week the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the ruling regime in Ethiopia announced:

The symposium organized in Algiers from 25 to 30 September 2013 gave rise to a rich debate revolving around a central theme: the ‘sovereign project,’ understood as the necessity for the peoples and nations of today’s world to reorganize their political choices in a way that would allow them to di

African leaders want respect from the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council to take them seriously.

A series of military operations and engagements in the countries of West Africa near the Gulf of Guinea has further exposed the United States build-up in the region. Two US citizens were reportedly kidnapped by so-called pirates while they transported oil supplies from Nigeria on October 23.

Not again. That was the thought for millions of people upon hearing news of the murder of 19-year old Renisha McBride near Detroit, Michigan.

The information that Abu Anas al-Liby is now facing trial on charges of terrorism in New York enlarges the story of the terrorism and hypocrisy of the Global War on Terror that is being fought by the United States along with its pliant allies in Europe and the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC).

The Uganda Governance Monitoring Platform (UGMP) under the stewardship of the NGO Forum recently launched a mid-term audit of the NRM Government in what it called its fourth term. The UGMP faulted the NRM leadership for its abysmal failure to implement “a citizens’ manifesto”.