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Archives for January 2016
African Union leaders expected to revive lobbying for UN Security Council reforms
AGGREY MUTAMBO | Sunday 24 January 2016 | DAILY NATION The African Union is to revive its push to reform the most powerful arm the United Nations, when leaders converge on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week. Despite resistance from the five permanent members of the UN security council, Heads of State and governments of an AU a committee have recommended that … [Read more...] about African Union leaders expected to revive lobbying for UN Security Council reforms
Why Museveni hasn’t kept his promise on retiring
Frederic Musisi | Sunday 24 January 2016 | THE MONITOR To understand President Museveni the politician, one has to study and understand the dynamics of a chameleon in the animal kingdom. While addressing a rally in present-day Wakiso District in 2000, the President said a good politician, that he is, should keep changing tactics to outmanoeuvre adversaries the … [Read more...] about Why Museveni hasn’t kept his promise on retiring
The Eastern Congo
Ida Sawyer, Mvembe Dizolele, Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman and Jason Stearns | COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Over the past two decades the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have experienced fighting that has killed more than five million people. As the eastern Congo struggles to overcome years of regional war, its hard-won progress remains at … [Read more...] about The Eastern Congo
H.E. Hanna Simon’s Interview with France 24
ASMARA (HAN) January 22, 2016 – Eritrea’s Ambassador to France, H.E. Hanna Simon gave an interview to France 24 TV Channel. She explained;- main cause of migration today is due to Ethiopia’s continued occupation of sovereign Eritrean territory including the town of Badme, the Eritrean people and Government have no other option but to be vigilant and maintain a strong … [Read more...] about H.E. Hanna Simon’s Interview with France 24
The Ugly Thugs Running Vietnam Aren’t Experimenting With Democracy
Thomas A. Bass | 22 January 2016 | FOREIGN POLICY It may look like a capitalist frontier, but it’s a police state at heart. Vietnam is a moiré pattern: Squint at the country one way and you get an aspirational society zooming into the future. Squint another way, and you get an old-fashioned jailer of anyone who refuses to toe the party line. The sunshine lobby … [Read more...] about The Ugly Thugs Running Vietnam Aren’t Experimenting With Democracy
Mo Ibrahim on Governance in Africa
Food and the Transformation of Africa
Kofi Annan and Sam Dryden | November/December 2015 Issue | FOREIGN AFFAIRS Getting Smallholders Connected African agriculture has long been a symbol of the continent’s poverty. Officials considered the hundreds of millions of African smallholder farmers too backward to thrive; the future would arrive not by investing in them but rather by bypassing them. But all that … [Read more...] about Food and the Transformation of Africa
Shabab Stage Deadly Attack on Beachfront Restaurant in Mogadishu
MOHAMMED IBRAHIM and JEFFREY GETTLEMANJAN | 22 January 2016 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 14 civilians were killed and dozens were wounded after Islamist militants struck a popular beachside restaurant Thursday night in Somalia’s capital that had become a symbol of the city’s struggling renaissance, officials said Friday. The militants attacked from … [Read more...] about Shabab Stage Deadly Attack on Beachfront Restaurant in Mogadishu
Why humans find it hard to do away with religion
John Gray | 20 January 2016 | THE NEW STATESMAN The new atheists decry religion as a poisonous set of lies. But what if a belief in the supernatural is natural? An American scientist visiting the home of Niels Bohr, the Nobel Prize-winning Danish physicist and refugee from Nazism who was a leading figure in the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb, was … [Read more...] about Why humans find it hard to do away with religion
Foreign Office ‘has betrayed Briton on death row in Ethiopia’
Mark Townsend | Saturday 23 January 2016 | THE GUARDIAN Claims government has failed ‘ghost prisoner’ denied access to a lawyer or his family The partner of a British man sentenced to death in Ethiopia has accused the UK government of wilfuly ignoring his plight. Andargachew Tsege was given the death penalty at a trial held in his absence six years ago, … [Read more...] about Foreign Office ‘has betrayed Briton on death row in Ethiopia’