Sokari Ekine

LIBYA

Sudan’s invasion of the town of Abyei and the resulting displacement 100,000 (UN figures) has renewed discussions on whether Sudan is engaging in ethnic cleansing and the ethnic/religious nature of the attacks and subsequent occupation or is this simply a case o

Recently the Dar es Salaam Citizen published an OpEd piece, “News is not coming out of Africa” in which it criticised African media for the focus on reporting ‘events’ and failure to follow through with informative opinion and commentar

In 2006 Oxfam published a report ‘Up in Smoke’ on the impact of climate change in Africa, which stated although the continent had played ‘virtually no role in global warming’, it would suffer the most. It lays the blame squarely with the economic activity of ‘rich industrialized nations’.

Uprisings continue across the continent, with Uganda being the latest country where citizens have taken to the streets in protest against rising food and energy prices.

Last week Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron resorted to the usual Machiavellian tactics in their joint statement to pursue military action in the removal of Colonel Gaddafi – deception, misinformation, hypocrisy.

I am at the point where I have the utmost respect for those who have or are considering engaging in some level of protest against their governments.

The Nigerian elections started off badly, very badly. On Saturday 2 April at approximately 1pm, Mohammed Jega, the INEC (Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission) chairman, announced the National Assembly elections would be cancelled due to administrative failures.

In addition to the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya – all of which remain in various revolutionary stages – protestors have taken to the streets in Zimbabwe, Senegal, Gabon, Sudan, Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Djibouti, Cote d’Ivoire and most recently in Burkina Faso and Sw

The start of the 2011 Nigerian elections is just two weeks away and like kids in the playground, arguments over the presidential debates continue. The incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan has refused to debate other candidates in the ‘What About Us’, organised by broadcaster NN24 on DSTV.