Alassane Ouattara is the current President of Ivory Coast, selected by France and the United States on behalf of the international community, and with the assistance of U.N. mission chief to Ivory Coast Y.J. Choi, they declared Ouattara the winner of the November 2010 Ivoirian...
Chatham House hosted a discussion in January, Nigeria in 2012: Crises and Reforms. In it Garba Sani gave a brief history of Boko Harum that is one of the best I have seen. [caption id="attachment_1568" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="View of Zuma rock from Madalla...
Towards... OCCUPY FOR MUMIA & END MASS INCARCERATION. April 24th, 2012, 58th Birthday Anniversary of Mumia Abu Jamal! WE PROUDLY PRESENT: INTERNATIONAL ON-LINE VIDEO CONFERENCE: A CELEBRATION OF STRUGGLE, SOLIDARITY & VICTORY April 21, 2012, Special...
[T]he United States must employ its soft power to persuade African nations to work with it. The time to do so is now, before China’s inroads in African states become insurmountable. If the United States is to secure its resource needs from Africa in the future, it must be...
MAMA DLAMINI ZUMA FOR AFRICA! http://bit.ly/xk4SOH A rejoinder to African Union Considers Future Leaders After Election Failure | Africa | English by Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa, VOA, February 02, 2012. http://bit.ly/zXMoKL In the first place, we completely part...
RT is featuring a documentary about oil in Nigeria called Blood of Nigeria, directed by Philippe Lespinasse. It is well done and worth a look. RT is showing it in two parts. They will be consecutive on the schedule, but there may be other programs in between, and the RT...
"All target regimes have one crime in common: Using their national resources to develop modern secular states - independent of imperial dictates." This is a pattern the west, the US, EU, and NATO have pursued in the Middle East in cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation...
The National Post’s Richard Johnson takes a look at the scale of America’s military bases across the globe. This is a huge graphic, you may have to click it more than once to get it big enough to read, or you may need to go to the National Post link above. There is a lot...
Here is a cartoon to start the year by the brilliant Somali cartoonist Amin Amir. Most readers here will recognize this guy. Most have seen him many times in many places. He can be found throughout the continent and throughout the world. We need to be careful we...
A collective bringing together some 30 Ivorian and African organizations in Europe celebrates Christmas with President Gbagbo before the detention Centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen, a suburb of the Hague, Saturday, December 24, 2011, from 13 h to...
