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Rhetorical bait and switch enabled Assad to neglect political reform while cultivating support among the wealthy elite

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Zoe Hu | 04 Oct 2016 | Mail & Guardian  Why is Syria's Bashar al-Assad is still in power? In January 2011, citizens across Egypt and Tunisia began demonstrating against their governments. Their calls for change swelled into a collective outrage that, in Tunisia, quickly pushed the president into exile. Before the year’s famous spring had even begun, popular unrest … [Read more...] about Rhetorical bait and switch enabled Assad to neglect political reform while cultivating support among the wealthy elite

Safety and rule of law in Africa deteriorating, says Mo Ibrahim Foundation

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Staff Writer  | October 03 2016 | Business Day ALMOST two-thirds of African citizens live in a country in which safety and rule of law deteriorated in the last ten years. This is according to the 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG)‚ launched on Monday by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Over the last decade‚ overall governance has improved by one score point at the … [Read more...] about Safety and rule of law in Africa deteriorating, says Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Seychelles’ President Michel surprised all when he announced his resignation

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CIUGU MWAGIRU | Saturday October 1,  2016 | Daily Nation Even as Cape Verde holds its presidential vote today, analysts are likely to be comparing last Tuesday’s developments in the Seychelles and Gabon.In an extraordinary move, Seychellois President James Alix Michel, 72, surprised all when he announced his resignation. Sounding very different from many an … [Read more...] about Seychelles’ President Michel surprised all when he announced his resignation

Ethiopia: The Myth of a Stable and Reliable Partner Under the Minority TPLF Regime

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Neamin Zeleke | September 28, 2016 | ecadforum “I want the superiority of one ethnic group to end” – Ethiopia’s Olympic Silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa on Al Jazeera “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy In the first installment of this series, the myth of a strong military under the TPLF/EPRDF regime … [Read more...] about Ethiopia: The Myth of a Stable and Reliable Partner Under the Minority TPLF Regime

Eritrea: Out of isolation?

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Haitham Nuri | 29 September, 2016  |  Al-Ahram The war in Yemen has been a gateway for Arab Gulf States to pay attention to Eritrea, long ignored and beset with problems, writes Haitham Nuri For a quarter of a century Eritrea remained an isolated country after its independence from Ethiopia in the early 1990s. Its isolation was compounded after vicious wars between the … [Read more...] about Eritrea: Out of isolation?

Angolans still not sure if dos Santos plans to leave

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Saturday October 1 2016 | Daily Nation LUANDA Will he go? Will he stay? Angola’s President Jose Eduardo dos Santos last week began his 38th year of largely unchallenged rule after promising to step down in 2018.“I have decided to leave political life in 2018,” the 74-year-old leader told party officials of his People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) … [Read more...] about Angolans still not sure if dos Santos plans to leave

Trapped and bereft in the world’s ‘fastest emptying country’

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Mark Anderson in Asmara for The Africa Report | Wednesday 28 September 2016  | The Guardian Thousands of people flee Eritrea illegally every month to skip military service, but getting out is too expensive for most Outside a cafe on the crossroads of a busy intersection in Asmara, three 25-year-olds sip macchiatos and catch up on the latest gossip in the … [Read more...] about Trapped and bereft in the world’s ‘fastest emptying country’

Ethiopian Olympian: Prime Minister’s Claims I Was Coerced into Protest Are ‘False and Insulting’

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Siobhán O'Grady | September 23, 2016 | Foreign Policy NEW YORK — Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn told Foreign Policy on Tuesday that when Olympic marathoner Feyisa Lilesa raised his arms in an “X” at the Summer Games in Rio, he wasn’t protesting mistreatment of Ethiopia’s Oromo population at the hands of government forces, but had instead been coerced into the … [Read more...] about Ethiopian Olympian: Prime Minister’s Claims I Was Coerced into Protest Are ‘False and Insulting’

Ethiopian Prime Minister blames US-based government dissenters for protests

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22 Sep 2016 | News 24/Mail & Guardian “This is not the capacity of the man himself. It’s something which has been orchestrated by someone else from outside,” Hailemariam was quoted saying. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has blamed the United States-based “dissenters” for being behind Olympic medallist Feyisa Lilesa’s protest at the Rio de Janeiro Games, … [Read more...] about Ethiopian Prime Minister blames US-based government dissenters for protests