“The Accidental Ecowas & AU Citizen”: Why “Africa” is Lost in the “Abuja Treaty” Translation By E.K.Bensah Jr There's a conspicuously delicious irony centred around Nigeria in African integration history: it's to do with the fact that despite that...
The significant alignment of forces behind the governments facing popular uprisings in Southern Africa shows the powers behind the NATO in bed with the regimes under fire. It bears the same similarities with the patterns we saw in Tunisia and in Egypt. How do you expect France...
AU and the Politics of Recognition of the Libyan Rebels, A Roll Call A Pan-Africanist Brief - Situational Awareness Wikipedia is doing a very good job in helping to see clearly what is going on in Africa, so far as the politics of the recognition of the Libyan rebels is...
Friday, August 26, 2011 The African Union's Peace and Security Council held an emergency meeting in Addis Ababa today and decided not to recognize the Libyan rebel leadership (National Transitional Council) as the legitimate government of Libya. Instead, the AU has ...
Kwame Nkrumah: The greatest African By Eric Walberg “For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak,...
Thursday, August 25, 2011 Dr. Emmanuel Kwesi Aning, a security analyst at the Kofi Annan International Peace-Keeping Training Centre, may be concerned about the proliferation of all manner of weapons on the continent as a result of the mayhem in Libya. He may also be...
Akufo-Addo, A Threat To Peace In Ghana? - Part One: US CSIS Report A "Real and Present Dangers" Review by Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah, "The role of the NPP leader and expected presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, will be crucial, and early signals suggest reason for...
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Karl Marx Is Hot"][/caption] Joe Weisenthal writes in Karl Marx Is Hot: With things going the way they are, a lot of people are talking about big history in action, whether it's the breakup of the Eurozone, or the...
Two clever satirical commentaries have come to my attention regarding the demonstrations and riots in the UK. Yang Jiechi Says Britain's Cameron Has Lost Legitimacy "Beijing — Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi condemned British Prime Minister David Cameron’s regime for...
NATO is allowing refugees from the Libyan civil war and NATO bombardment to drown and die of thirst in the Mediterranean. NATO members feel no compassion and no humanitarian impulse to help these refugees. NATO knows where the refugees are and simply ignores them. NATO is...
