Overview of Ghana's 2012 Presidential Election On Friday December 7 Ghana will hold its Presidential Election. Ghana presidential elections are on the same 4 year cycle as the United States, though the Ghana election is in December rather than November. Presidents...
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...
The coup in Mali appears to be over, and President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso is leading talks on how to organize and move forward. "Former parliament speaker Dioncounda Traoré was sworn in on Thursday as interim president after Amadou Toumani Touré resigned under the 6...
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...
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...
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,...
