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.
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.
‘Zimbabwe is a tragedy in more ways than one. It is a despicable disgrace to Africa and reinforces the racist notion that black Africans are incapable of ruling themselves. We took over from the departing white colonialists and in country after country we ran our economies into a sump [sic] and ruined our countries. The exceptions are few. Ian Smith, the former and late prime minister of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, must be dancing in his grave. This hurts and cuts deep into my African pride.’ [continue...]
Any insinuation that there would be a negative influence on Israel caused by the expansion of economic relations between Eritrea and Iran is irresponsible. Furthermore, to disparage Persians as Neo-Nazis is not only poor form, but a gross injustice. Rather than preaching genocide of Israelis it would seem that the Iranian leadership advocates the dissolution of the Jewish state. Whether or not this is just however, is outside of the scope of Eritrea’s relationship with Iran.
Yesterday, Cameroonian triple jump champion, Francoise Mbango Etone, won the Olympic gold medal in her discipline with the second-longest jump in history – 15.39 meters – just 11 centimeters off the world record. This was Mbango’s second consecutive Olympic gold medal.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today the launch of a pilot program, Scheduled Departure, which will begin next week in five cities. The program allows fugitive aliens who have no criminal history and pose no threat to the community an opportunity to remain out of custody while they coordinate their removal with ICE.
Itai Madamombe’s recent article in the United Nations magazine Africa Renewal describes internet use in a rural school in Uganda. In this community well off of the electrical grid (generators supply the electricity) students have access to DSL. Madamombe writes that during the World Cup students closely monitored their favorite teams. Both teachers and students were enthusiastic about utilizing ICTs (information and communication technologies).
Eritreans are having two versions of "popular resistance" or "hzbawi mekhete." Some Diaspora Eritreans are holding their "hzbawi mekhete" meetings in 5-star hotels of the WEST, where they listen to speeches by PFDJ-Eritrean regime cadres and then issue resolutions and pledges in defense of the victimizer(the PFDJ) of the Eritrean people.
All officers that stood trial on Friday April 25, 2008 for the November 25, 2006 killing of the unarmed husband to be, Sean Bell, on his wedding day have been found not guilty on all charges. The officers pleaded that the pretrial publicity has caused an environment for an unfair trial. This plea has led the judge to decide the case...
I am proudly South African. I tell people this freely and easily, and pretty much with chest-beating pride! But here I sit, way down at the bottom of Africa, not really knowing if I am proudly African.
The recent violence against foreigners in South Africa, mainly centered on the crowded township of Alexandra just outside of Johannesburg, is a worrying development for the entire southern African region.
My lady friend has refused to marry. She had watched from the grand stand, for many years, the various stages of marriage and decided she would have none of it. Her major problem is the huge disparity between courtship life and married life. To her, guys give all it takes to get a woman to say yes. But soon after, men become something else.
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.
In light of the approaching millennium celebrations, some of the Oromo-led opposition parties have demanded the immediate release of all Oromo prisoners in Ethiopia. Bulcha Demeksa of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) says the situation should be solved quickly and Ethiopia carrying her historical burden with her towards the new millennium would be detrimental.
A year has passed since the much talked about issue of Vanity Fair on Africa, with its spectacular twenty different covers. It has also been a year since I wrote my first take on it, expressed my reticences about the Sachs v. Easterly debate and promised to come back to Sachs’ ‘Big Dream’ for Africa… I finally decided to come back to it, but I’m afraid only to reiterate my initial reticences. This is, therefore, my last take on the issue – which is only appropriate since this is also my last article for Africanpath.
There’s something that has been bothering me for a while right now and I would like everyone in this forum to help me out with these thoughts.
During most of my childhood, my dream was to get into one of those huge aircrafts and jet into the US, the land of plenty, the land of the American Dream. I grew up knowing that all I needed to do was get myself into the US and I would have it all!
AFP - A US probe into the shooting of an Egyptian man by a US Navy chartered boat near the Suez Canal in March said Thursday that the ship's arrival at the wrong time was a "significant factor" in the killing.
The legal vacuum in the communication industry is becoming apparent with the three communication operators involved in a vicious fight over annual bottom lines.
Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf and his prime minister signed a deal in Addis Ababa on Tuesday to work together after a weeks-long rift that threatened to ruin their interim government.
Markets in the South-east part of the country yesterday witnessed increased patronage, with residents engaging in panic-buying, in readiness for today's commencement of the sit-at-home order issued by Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
Nigerian Army has assured that it would not undermine the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria even as it pledged to be guided by the provisions of the statutory document in its activities.
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