A court in Madagascar’s capital, Antanarivo, has sentenced former president Marc Ravalomanana and two officers to life imprisonment with hard labour for the part they played in the deaths of about 30 protesters before he was forced from office in 2009. Ravalomanana, who has lived in exile in South Africa since being deposed by the [...]

AllAfrica.com………….. Always the sweethearts, al Qaeda has done it again. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) militants have executed an Algerian customs officer held hostage since June in the Sahara, following an attack that claimed the lives of 11 Algerian police officers at the border between Mali and Algeria. Algiers refuses to negotiate with groups [...]

Only about 12% of all African trade is with other African nations. No surprise there. Most of these countries have nothing to trade. South Africa and Nigeria. between them have more GDP than all the other sub-Saharan nations combined. Here are the dismal stats. Read ‘em and weep. GDP in billions. Just the top 3 [...]

allafrica.com Nqobile Bhebhe – 1 July 2010 A PLANNED US$100 million coal mining project in Gwayi is threatening surrounding wildlife conservancies as well as raising fears it will pollute the Gwayi-Shangani dam, which is viewed as Bulawayo’s solution to water problems. Liberation Mine, a joint venture firm between Zimbabwean and South African investors, was granted [...]

This report just in from a U.S. Army colonel. Subject: Russian Navy captures Somalian pirates. http://true-turtle.livejournal.com/85315.html This is part of the videotape showing the Russian Navy commandos on the Somalian pirate ship. You may remember that the pirates captured a Russian oil tanker. The EuroUnion navy that patrols these waters could not interfere because there [...]

This just in a few minutes ago from my favorite African correspondent – OMAR KALINGE. THIS IS THE AGENDA FOR POLITICAL CHANGE IN UGANDA Issued by the IPC Volunteer Corps, Uganda Forward (email) this message to as many Ugandans and friends of Uganda as possible. Print out, photocopy and distribute widely. Make enlarged copies and [...]

On Friday, I got my usual weekly bulletin from the Vanguard group of mutual funds. “The week’s economic news suggests increasingly blue skies ahead for the U.S. economy. Skies also turned friendlier in Europe.” For the week ended April 23, the S&P 500 Index rose 2.1% to 1,217 (for a year-to-date total return of about [...]

1. AllAfrica.com………….Nairobi — A new study has linked conflicts in Africa with the continent’s oil and mineral resources that Western powers are fighting to control through the militarised foreign policy of the United States in Africa, and geopolitical wars. The study says the West’s “imperial” interest in Africa’s wealth first led to conquest and more [...]

22 February – In Uganda, Kampala — A MAN has been arrested after he and nine others on the run ate a warthog that strayed from the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre in Entebbe. 24 February – In Uganda, Kampala — A fisherman was last week mauled by a crocodile at Musubi Beach on Lake Victoria. [...]

As if health and an awful economy aren’t enough to worry about in old, downtown Uganda, political injustices won’t take a back seat to them. Here, once again, is our communicant, Omar Kalinge, with his latest dispatch. Youth for Human Rights (YouthRight) 6, Katonga Road, Nakasero, Kampala Tel : + 256 701 060 909, + [...]

This just in from our friend, the ever worthy Omar Kalinge in Uganda. If you can circulate it, please do. INTER PARTY COOPERATION – “WOMEN FOR PEACE” PRESS STATEMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – March 8, 2010 Fellow Ugandans; women of the world. Members of the press who are our most [...]

From allAfrica.com…………….A Nigerian militant group said yesterday it had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil pipeline in the Niger Delta. The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), a coalition of ex-militants and community leaders, said it had disabled a trunk line in the Obunoma area of Rivers state connecting several flow stations to the Bonny export terminal. [...]

The U.S. government (a.k.a. “once upon a time draft dodgers”) and its military counterpart cannot make a move without labeling it. “Operation Desert Storm,” “Operation Mountain Greenery,” Operation War on Drugs,” etcetera. I am going to join in this childishness, only my aim is to reach the heights of idiocy. From now on, everything I [...]

If you have nothing better to do with your life, there are three good possibilities: (1) kill yourself; (2) take a vacation in Tunisia; (3) spend the next 10 years trying to figure out the difference. AllAfrica.com – Thanks to its strategic position and its proximity to Europe as a Mediterranean country, Tunisia remains an [...]

For the 14th consecutive year, Transparency International has ranked Botswana one of the least corrupt nations in the world and it always finishes highest among African nations. Nevertheless, don’t get on a jet plane, leave on a long vacation and sing praises. – Today’s headlines. 1. The Police this week played one of their most [...]

1. 33 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. 2. 67% of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa. 3. 13 million children in Africa are orphans because their parents died from AIDS. 4. The World Health Organization reports that 1.1 billion people have no access to a safe, reliable and sustainable water supply. 5. WHO [...]

As if this poor country does not have enough troubles, you haven’t seen anything as yet till you interrogate and interact with the world of the deaf to appreciate the real meaning and importance of the word exclusion and marginalization. While many countries around the world including a number of African states have made huge [...]

Once more we turn to one of the keenest observers and astute analysts of African affairs – our man Omar Kalinge for enlightenment concerning these matters. Mr. Kalinge is a regular columnist for Uganda’s Monitor and he has been very generous in granting us permission to reprint his articles on an as-we-feel-it basis. If Africa [...]

Omar Kalinge Nnyago, reporting from Uganda via Daily Monitor: July 27, 2009 Each day that passes proves one point to me; that unless Barack Obama disengages completely from the mess that George Bush created for America, he risks being the most spectacular failure of all American presidents. His gamble with the economy may bring some [...]

As I have pointed out in previous posts, the Vanguard Family of Funds sends me weekly bulletins about the statement of the economy. Here is yesterday’s. ECONOMIC WEEK IN REVIEW The mood turns hopeful “There was little economic news this week, but most of it was good. The Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators [...]

I leave it to you, the reader, to determine which African nation is farther along in the race to insanity but do not be deceived by the different number of incidents given for each of these countries. They are merely a selection from hundreds from each nation. I have excluded countries with fewer than 200 [...]

Since the Sudan is a mere one million square miles, only about as large as Alaska, California and Michigan put together, and is only bigger than 190 of the 200 nations of the world, it is hardly surprising that few Americans can locate it on a map, even if it is only a map of [...]

That bastion of protection for wild animals, The International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has just authorized an increase in the number of elephants that Mozambique can slaughter each year from 20 to 40. A huge number of Rhinos – 45 white rhinos and two endangered black rhinos – have been poached in [...]

AllAfrica.com……………..Convicted serial rapist and ex-naval seaman Tsediso Letsoenya is a dangerous man with strong psychopathic traits. This was the view of psychiatrist Dr Larissa Panieri-Peter, who told the Western Cape High Court yesterday that the 38-year-old married father saw himself not as a criminal, but as a victim of sexual addiction. She told the court [...]