Here are two noteworthy stories about water and water rights. In summary, growing food or commercial crops in one country to transfer to another country also constitutes a transfer of water from the first country to the second, usually a transfer of water from a poorer country...
Dear All! We are happy to invite you to join our online briefings. We live in a very exciting moment of history in the struggle for the continental emancipation of Africa. As Hamid Dabashi puts it, “I think the ability of the people, the democratic will of the people to...
The crab does not bite, it is the handshake that hurts. - Proverb Somalia belongs to HOA Phase Zero of AFRICOM's activities across Africa according to a CJTF-HOA slideshow. You don't see any mention of partnerships or listening to African partners on this list of Phases from...
E-mail: mjbokor@yahoo.com Saturday, July 9, 2011 Chad’s Hissene Habre will go into the record books as the first former African leader whose flight from justice for many years has been cut short by the very country that has harboured him for 21 years. Senegal’s...
Now in its 15th week, the Libyan crisis seems to defy solution. To me, the conflicting rhetoric from all the parties involved in this crisis amounts to one thing: a failure to set a good example on effective conflict resolution. In the latest political rhetoric, Russia...
cc MoghawemtThe ‘global coalition’ is ultimately a mere front for the dominance of Western economic and political interests over genuine democratisation for the peoples of Africa, writes Zaya Yeebo. AFRICA’S CONFIDENT STEPS TOWARDS DEMOCRACY 2011 will go down...
Libya: At long last, Commonsense is Creeping In By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor E-mail: mjbokor@yahoo.com July 2, 2011 News reports that the Libyan rebels have welcomed an African Union offer to open talks without the direct involvement of Muammar Gaddafi are...
"Facebook in particular is the most appalling spy machine ever invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive data base about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting...
Huge Marine Drill Confirms Ground Invasion of Libya, from Kurt Nimmo at InfoWars. Exercise Mailed Fist, covering much of theeast coast of the United States, has been underway this week to test equipment and readiness for a ground invasion planned for some time in...
Is NATO bombing two thirds of the population of Libya in order to protect the other one third from the (alleged) danger of being slaughtered? According to a rebel spokesman quoted the Washington Post on June 14: "If the rebels take Zlitan, they would be within 85 miles (135...
