Coups in African countries described as ‘signs of failed democracies’
Africa’s coup belt is growing. The coup d’état in seven African countries has been described as a sign of failed democracies in the affected countries. According to a report in the Daily Maverick, censuring leaders for coups is only a first step. Businessday.ng, a Nigerian business and financial news website, describes the seven countries experiencing “military interregnum,” including Guinea, Burkina...
Sudan conflict continues and is spilling into neighboring countries
With Sudan entering its sixth month of a brutal conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, the country appears to be metastasizing into a catastrophe that has spilled over into neighboring countries. The result of fighting between the two factions in the capital city of Khartoum resulted in General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan,...
An African Giant Passes Remembering Ghana’s President Jerry John Rawlings
Another African tree has fallen with the death of former President Jerry John Rawlings, 73, who led Ghana’s successful transition to a stable democracy from military rule. “It is with great sadness that I announce to the nation that the first president of the Fourth Republic, His Excellency Jerry John Rawlings, has joined his ancestors,” said Ghana President Nana Addo...
West African bloc to send delegation to Guinea after coup
ACCRA, Ghana—A delegation of West African leaders is to travel to Guinea to meet with the junta that toppled President Alpha Conde in a coup in early September. Top officials of West Africa’s influential economic bloc, ECOWAS, are expected to meet in Conakry, the capital, with the military officers now ruling the country and press them to immediately return the...
The history of British treachery in South Africa
Take up the White Man’s Burden — Send fourth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, On flattered folk and wild — Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. —Rudyard Kipling Winston Churchill as a young war journalist, would go on to become Great...
Questions about EU, World Bank, IMF ties with Sudan
Davoe Malpass recently landed in Khartoum, the first visit for a World Bank president to Sudan in more than 50 years, announced Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. The prime minister of the East African nation hailed the visit as a sign that Sudan’s integration into the international community “is progressing in strides,” Hamdoks’s office said. Malpass tweeted that the World Bank “is...
White farmers in South Africa exploit workers, diplomat charges
HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA)–South African Labor Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said recently that White farmers in his country grossly exploited Zimbabwean immigrant farm workers, most of whom entered the country illegally. Mr. Mdladlana was in Harare for talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart on how to harmonize labor laws between the two countries when he made the statements. An estimated two million...
Zimbabwe government seizes farm of colonial ruler
Journalists see Zimbabwe's land crisis up close HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA)–The Zimbabwe government has seized a farm belonging to the country’s last White colonial ruler under its controversial land reform program, officials and the former leader said, recently. Ian Smith declined to give details, saying only that he would try to get back his 4,000-acre Gwenoro farm in the central district...
South Africa’s opposition to U.S., UK interference is a risk worth taking
There is an old adage that states, “politics make strange bedfellows.” South Africa’s upcoming May 29 national elections don’t beg to differ. Out of the not-so-clear blue, the United Kingdom (UK), members of the United States Congress, and the head of the Oppenheimer family founded Brenthurst Foundation have donated millions of dollars to the opposition—including the Democratic Alliance (DA),...
Africa provides a ‘home for hope’ despite new challenges: UN chief
On Africa Day, the world celebrates the diverse and dynamic continent’s “enormous promise and potential,” the UN chief said in an upbeat message to mark the day on May 24. “Africa is a home for hope,” said Secretary-General António Guterres, citing the continent’s “growing and vibrant youth population.” And with initiatives such as the African Continental Free Trade Area, the Decade of...