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Archives for May 2015
Uganda: No reforms, no polls – opposition
By Albert Tumwiine, Posted Friday, May 29 2015 , Daily Monitor (Uganda) Organising elections before the current Electoral Commission is replaced with a truly independent body, is like having a player refereeing a game in which he is playing, Opposition politicians said yesterday. In their new campaign, “Stop the Player-Referee”, the Citizens Reforms Now pressure … [Read more...] about Uganda: No reforms, no polls – opposition
Zimbabwe: Knives sharpen for Mnangagwa
TENDAI KAMHUNGIRA, DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER • 28 MAY 2015, Daily News (Zimbabwe) HARARE - The simmering war between Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF hawks who are referred to as the Gang of Four by their party detractors — and who have apparently enlisted the support of the other VP, Phelekezela Mphoko in their nasty fight with the party strongman — is … [Read more...] about Zimbabwe: Knives sharpen for Mnangagwa
AfDB sizes up candidates for president
Thuletho Zwane, 28 MAY 2015 , Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Outogoing African Development Bank (AfDB) president Donald Kaberuka said this week the bank's governance structures and business model "were wrong". As the African Development Bank (AfDB) prepares to elect its new president this week the question of its governance structures and business model has been called … [Read more...] about AfDB sizes up candidates for president
African air travel ready for lift-off
27 MAY 2015, Business Day (South Africa) PARIS — Africa has long been the El Dorado just over the horizon for airlines, but sustained economic growth and the emergence of a middle class on the continent may finally clear the obstacles from the runway. "Today, Africa accounts for just a small portion of global air traffic: less than 3% of passengers when it has 15% of the … [Read more...] about African air travel ready for lift-off
Nigeria’s Adesina is AfDB’s next president
29 May 2015, New Times (Rwanda) Nigeria’s agriculture minister Akinwumi A. Adesina has been elected by African Development Bank’s Board of Governors as the bank’s new president, AfDB has announced. “Akinwumi A. Adesina of Nigeria has been elected as the eighth president of the AfDB, to assume office on September 1,” the bank announced on its Twitter handle moments … [Read more...] about Nigeria’s Adesina is AfDB’s next president
Kenya to vote for embattled Blatter
THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015, Daily Nation (Kenya) Kenya is among the countries expected to vote for the re-election of Josef “Sepp” Blatter who is seeking a fifth term as president of Fifa — the world football governing agency. Mr Blatter, who has led Fifa for the past 16 years, has come under increasing pressure to either quit or postpone the elections after seven Fifa … [Read more...] about Kenya to vote for embattled Blatter
Mediterranean migrant crisis: Libya ‘will repel any military action from the EU’ to stop people smugglers, claims Tripoli PM Khalifa al-Ghawi
Kim Sengupta in Tripoli, Thursday 28 May 2015, The Independent (UK) Libya is ready to combat and repel any military action the European Union is planning in its attempts to stop the smugglers using the North African state as a base to carry migrants across the Mediterranean, the Prime Minister of the Tripoli government has warned. Alarmed at the increasing … [Read more...] about Mediterranean migrant crisis: Libya ‘will repel any military action from the EU’ to stop people smugglers, claims Tripoli PM Khalifa al-Ghawi
Early humans migrated out of Africa through Egypt rather than Ethiopia, new study says
Steve Connor Science Editor, Thursday 28 May 2015, The Independent (UK) Early humans migrated out of Africa more than 60,000 years ago through Egypt rather than crossing the shallow sea that separated Ethiopia from the Arabian Peninsula as some archaeologists have suggested, a study of the DNA of modern people has found. Scientists have long argued about … [Read more...] about Early humans migrated out of Africa through Egypt rather than Ethiopia, new study says
How Sepp Blatter won the hearts and minds of Africa to ride out Fifa storms
David Smith in Lusaka, Thursday 28 May 2015, The Guardian (UK) The support Sepp Blatter enjoys from football associations across the developing world has been bolstered by his Goal project, which delivers millions of dollars to improve facilities. A visit to Zambia underlines how it has helped to keep him in power Fraying at the edges, Fifa’s flags twist in the wind outside … [Read more...] about How Sepp Blatter won the hearts and minds of Africa to ride out Fifa storms
We All Think We’re Individuals. Here’s Why That’s Not True, And Why The Lie Is Told.
Henry Rosemont Jr. Confucian scholar, 05/28/2015, huffingtonpost.com The book from which the following two excerpts are taken was written in the belief that the world capitalist economic system has become so dysfunctional in the 21st Century that it cannot be defended rationally, but requires a particular moral/political ideology grounded in the assumption that human beings … [Read more...] about We All Think We’re Individuals. Here’s Why That’s Not True, And Why The Lie Is Told.