By Ali-Masmadi | June 29, 2015 at 2:06 pm | No comments
Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah, 29th June 2015
Nineteen African nations meet today in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their...
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By Crossed Crocodiles | May 8, 2012 at 3:04 pm | No comments
East Africa's Great Rift includes four rift systems that promise to hold significant deposits of oil. Africa Oil Corporation has been exploring and drilling here, and prepared a report that includes a number of excellent maps and graphics of seismic data. I've selected a few...
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By Crossed Crocodiles | February 9, 2012 at 1:46 am | 3 comments
[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...
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By Nana Akyea Mensah | August 27, 2011 at 8:24 pm | No comments
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...
Posted in: Africa, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, International Solidarity, Ivory Coast, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Situational Awareness, Sudan, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives, Togo
By Crossed Crocodiles | July 23, 2011 at 2:10 am | No comments
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...
Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, Libya, News, Situational Awareness, Somalia, Sudan