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August 28, 2008
Ethiopia – Eritrea Relations: The Dying Voices of Capo Meles and his Bambinos
The purpose of this article is to show the propaganda games Capo Meles plays has reached its culmination point. It is ineffective and has reached maximum audience penetration it can influence. The message is depressing because it is based on stoking hate, fear and ethnic divide and rule system. There is no hope but human strife and destruction ala Somalia. His credibility is zero because he fails to deliver what he claims he can achieve.     
 
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Pamoja Media: An African Ad Network Launches
Erik Hersman of White African has just published an article on a new vertical ad network geared towards the African market. Pamoja Media makes it easier for marketers to reach the highly fragmented African market within the continent and in the Diaspora. This is achieved by partnering with the largest African media houses and premium niche sites that carry unique content and a faithful audience. By advertising on these online properties, advertisers access highly appropriate and targeted consumers for their products within any geographic region in the world.
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U.N. Official Abducted in Somalia Released
The head of the Somali office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was released from captivity on Wednesday, two months after he was abducted. The UNHCR welcomed the release of Hasan Muhammad ‘Ali, who was kidnapped by at gunpoint by an unknown group near his home on June 21. He was said to have been released in good health.
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Sudan: Winning Darfur’s PR war
5am (August 25th, 2008) – Sudanese government forces surround Kalma camp for displaced persons in South Darfur
 
8.30am – Shooting begins after Sudanese forces enter camp, saying they are searching for weapons and suspects.
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Somalia: PM says plans to reinstate Mogadishu administration agreed

The prime minister of the TFG Nor Adde has announced that him and the president have agreed to establish new administration for Mogadishu. Adde added that under their agreement Mohamed Omar Habeb Mohamed Dhere who has been dismissed by him as the mayor of Mogadishu would not be return to his position.

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Lovemore Moyo; the quiet new man in charge of Zimbabwe's parliament
THE Speaker's seat in Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament is an intimidating chair, overlooked by an artificial leopard mounted on the walls. It is a symbol of power. The man who has occupied it as parliament opens is volleyball fan Lovemore Moyo, 43, from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai.
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Ghana Election as Regional Democratic Test
The impending Ghana December 2008 is test for the West African region as it struggles for democratic consolidation. Seen as the sub-region’s democracy star, the Ghana December election is a trial for a region which stability is still suspect as last month’s military coup in Mauritania and the coup attempt in Guinea Bissau reveal. Despite the fully-steamed democratic activities in Ghana, the latest United Nations assessments of the health of Sierra Leone and Liberia stabilities say democracy is shaky not only in these two countries but in a sub-region that is hungry for democracy and stability for progress.
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Malawi Muslims threaten to boycott voter registration
Muslims in the country who constitute about 35% of the country's 12 million population have threatened to boycott the on-going registration exercise for the May 19 General Elections if registration clerks continue forcing Muslim women to remove headscarfs during the registration.
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Hijackers of Sudanese Plane Surrender in Libya
Finally, the two hijackers of the Sudanese plane have peacefully surrendered to Libyan authorities after releasing the last six hostages, the crew members. The two hijackers said to belong to the Sudanese Liberation Army, whose exiled leader Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur lives in Paris.
 
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Islam: Another Hajj Fiasco Looms?
It seems to have become a perennial thing for potential Moslem pilgrims to expect the difficulties and problems associated with the organization of the Hajj in Ghana. After all the hullabaloo that surrounded last year's Hajj, we thought the organisers would have learnt a lot of lessons.
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President Kagame Calls for Local Investors in ICT
President Paul Kagame has challenged local investors to borrow a leaf from foreign companies investing in Information Communication Technology (ICT) ventures in order to facilitate the country's development.
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Ethiopia: Speak Out for Your Fellow Ethiopians!
Ethnically-based killing has now erupted in the city of Hagere-Mariam, first starting in the small town of Soyama, sixty kilometers to the west of Hagere-Mariam in the Sidamo region of Ethiopia. Reports I am receiving from people on the ground indicate that the Burji, a tiny ethnic group in the region numbering less than 50,000, are being targeted by some Guji, a much larger ethnic group, numbering over two million, who also live in the area. The local administration in Hagere-Mariam is run by the ethnic Guji.
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Ghana Elections: Mahama to name running mate in September
Dr. Edward Nasigrie Mahama, flag bearer of the People's National Convention (PNC), on Tuesday announced that he would name his running mate in September and said the his choice would come from southern Ghana. He said his running mate would be selected from the Brong Ahafo, Volta, Greater Accra or Ashanti regions to balance the political landscape as these four regions had been left out of mainstream political activity for Election 2008.
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Beijing Olympic Games: Record medal collection for Africa
The cotton has finally dropped on the stage of the 26th Olympiad. On a whole, and for the more than two weeks, that the events lasted, records were created and broken.
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DFID launches 50 million pound Nigeria Malaria project, PATHS website and reports
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has recently announced its funding of a 50 million pound initiative to support the Nigerian National Malaria Programme. The programme will be led by the Malaria Consortium and you can read the details here and will run from 2008 to 2012. One of the aims is to ensure wider availability and access to effective preventive interventions and treatment, a very important point as I reflect on my journeys around Nigeria and the visible lack of insecticide impregnated bed nets in most of the places I went to, rural or urban.
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Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi
My name is Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi, a native  of Asuom,Ghana. I live in the  U.S. I am a social commentator and a founder of Adu-Gyamfi educational  and youth empowerment foundation to help the youth of my village in Ghana. I'm in the law enforcement profession but writing is what keeps me g... more
Rosemary Chileshe
Rosemary Chileshe is a professional model from Zambia.
 
Senegambia News
Senegambia News is an online news organization providing breaking news and opinion on both the West African countries of Senegal and the Gambia.

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Nyasa Times
Nyasa Times is a leading interactive news site covering Malawi.

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Oluniyi David Ajao
Oluniyi David Ajao is a young entrepreneur and runs Ghana's number 1 web host, Web4Africa, as well as Africa's leading website about mobile telecoms, "Mobile Africa". He enjoys writing feature articles, and blogging, when he is not coding websites. He is a professional web developer who su... more
Trust
Trust is a Zimbabwean journalist based in Johannesburg and enjoys writing politics, migrant rights and constitutional rights. Currently he corresponds for the Zimbabwean, an independent newspaper based in London.
 
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Mars Group Kenya
Founded in June 2006, the Mars Group Kenya maintains an anti-corruption
portal which archives and categorises official government reports and
other multimedia resources on grand corruption. Its website is intended
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Lee Chambers

American Lee Chambers has performed both classical and popular music throughout the Midwest in recital, opera, oratorio, chamber ensembles, in numerous chu... more

Benin
Benin also goes by Benin Mwangi at times. He is also an editor at African Path's business section called the Cheetah Index.

When he muses on general issues affecting the African continent he goes simply by "Benin". And his interests and opinions regarding the African continent... more
Jimma Times

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Franklin Cudjoe

Franklin Cudjoe is head of Ghanaian think-tank Imani: The Centre for Humane Education, (www.imanighana.org) which is a think-tank based in Accra dedicated to researching economic trends to glean practical public-policy insights for the benefit of government... more

Rethabile Masilo
Rethabile Masilo was born in Lesotho in 1961. Today he lives and works in France. He trains business people to use English to run meetings, make presentations, negotiate, and so on. Rethabile says, "I dislike injustice, especially in the form of discrimination, segregation, and economic slavery... more
Fred
Fred is a freelance writer. He has a certain amount of experience in troubled places and idealistic institutions, and has generally found more inspiration in the former.

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Wole Oguntokun
Wole holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and 2 Masters' degrees, one  in Law and the other in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies from the University of Lagos. He has been called to practice at the Nigerian bar.
Patrick Gathara
Born and bred in Nairobi, Kenya; Patrick Gathara is a self taught cartoonist and General Secretary of the Association of ... more
Joshua Wanyama

Joshua Wanyama was born in Nairobi, Kenya.

 

He received a B.S. in Architecture at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2003. Immediately upon completion of his college degree, he started Spectrum Interactive Media, LLC. A web design and development com... more

Kimberly Ba
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Samuel Gebru is an Ethiopian youth activist and humanitarian. He was born on November 20, 1991more
Pauline Harris

Pauline Harris a graduate in Business Administration from UEAB (University of Eastern Africa Baraton). Currently living and working in the United States of America Ms Harris is a rapporteur and correspondent for newspapers, journals and periodicals focusing on the African Diaspora.

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Yemisrach Kifle

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Standard Times Press News
Standard Times Press News is a leading news paper in Sierra Leone.

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Davison Chirodzero
I am a Zimbabwean journalist aged 25, a graduate of Journalism and Media Communication Studies. I have relocated to South Africa where I am working as foreign Correspondent of a local media organisation. I am also engaged as freelance/correspondent to broadcast and print media organisations abroad o... more
Benin Mwangi
Benin "Mwangi" Brown is editor of BeninMwangi.com, a premiere online destination for surfers seeking to learn or talk about business and entrepreneurship in Africa.  Additionally, he also is involved in several other initiatives.

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Desire-Joseph Katihabwa
I was born in Bujumbura, the capital City of Burundi. I moved to Britain in 1999,and I have been working in customer service and IT for various companies. My desire is to finish my studies in International Law, Psychology to be able to help children in armed conflicts. more
Dibussi Tande

Dibussi Tande was born in the mountain-side town of Buea in Cameroon. He holds a "Licencemore

Oliver Wekesa
Oliver Wekesa is a young executive in Kenya's media industry. A student of business, he believes that every individual is able to shape their world if they so wish. Just depends how bad they wish it. Oliver hopes that African Path will create discussions that will bring people from... more
Firetongue

Firetongue was born in Cameroon in 1971, and has played guitar, keyboard and
accordion since he was 6 years old. His first sources of inspiration came from churches, where his father preached the Good Book.

 

When he was only 13, a jazz-guitar teacher in Yaoundé t... more

Merhawie

Merhawie is a Civil Engineer who has been blogging for eight years. He holds a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering however, blogs on subjects as diverse as politics to cooking.

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Rodgerick Williams
Rodgerick was born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Eutaw, Alabama. He began studying nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, before he realized that he didn’t want to be a nurse. Rodgerick has graduated from the U.S. Department of Defense Biomedical Engineering school with a ... more
Reader Series
The Readers Series are  a group of opinion and commentaries submitted by African Path readers for dissemination on a wider audience. If you have an article that you want to publish on African Path, please feel free to submit it and our editors will determine if the article will run. To submit a... more
Dennis Matanda
Dennis is currently a Human Performance Technology consultant around Africa who studied international relations at both under and graduate level. He is currently doing his MBA and regularly contributes to Uganda's political debate on regular radio talkshows, newspaper columns and various Intern... more
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Simon Mkina
Born in Tanzania, Simon Mkina is a journalist working in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam. Currently working with Tanzania Standard Newspapers Limited, publishers of Daily News, Sunday News and newly Kiswahili publication; HabariLeo.
 
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Eric Aseka
Professor Aseka is a Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence at Kennesaw State University for the 2006-2007 academic year. He is a renowned political historian with a profound interest in leadership studies. He believes that turning around Africa requires institutionalizing quality and effective leadership o... more
Kim Media Group
Kim Media Group are the publishers of Kenya Empowerment Newspaper in Atlanta, GA. The print version of the paper is distributed in 11 states. For more information, visit www.kimmediagroup.com more
Anyuak Media
Anyuak Media, Anuak Media, provides news, entertainments, and culture via technological information to all members and audiences around the world. Anyuak Media is a news aggregator covering mainly Ethiopia and Southern Sudan. With comprehensive news from both countries and engaging discussion on lif... more
Meet Kenyans
 Meet Kenyans is the place where Kenyans have a voice to speak for themselves instead of hearing about their stories through a non-Kenyan, basically the "Mzungu" also known as a white, or white man. Meet Kenyans is where you will read and see Kenyans themselves sharing their thoughts,... more
Ben Ofosu-Appiah
Ben is a public policy expert who specialises on democracy and governance, conflict management and conflict resolution, post conflict peace buiding, international development with emphasis on education in more
Susan Thompson
Susan Thompson runs a training program for fish farmers in Western Kenya. You can find the work of her organization (Fish 4 Kenya) at http://www.fish4kenya.com. more
Ghana Web
The GhanaHomePage is a comprehensive resource about the country Ghana. On this website you can find lots of news, information and entertaining stuff and get in touch with (fellow) Ghanaian people.

The GhanaHomePage was conceived in 1992 by Francis Akoto, a Ghanaian living in Finland. In t... more
Jonathan Edelstein

Jonathan Edelstein is a lawyer practicing in New York City who has taught as an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He has written, both professionally and informally, about comparative legal systems, with particular focus on common-law systems in Africa and the Pacific Isl... more

Greg Houle
Greg Houle works in the publishing industry and is a freelance writer living in New York City. He has an MA in History and has recently focused his attention ... more
G. Pascal Zachary
G. Pascal Zachary (http://www.gpascalzachary.com) researches and writes on African affairs for the media, foundations and NGOs. He has made 25 separate visits to s... more
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Sami Ben Gharbia

Sami Ben Gharbia, fled from Tunisia in 1998 and ... more