April 18, 2007
Sudan: 'Last Chance' on Darfur, Warns U.S. President
U.S. President George W. Bush has expressed skepticism over Sudan's announcement this week that it will accept United Nations personnel as part of a "hybrid"… Read more »
April 06, 2007
Rwanda: Former President Pardoned
Pasteur Bizimungu, the former president of Rwanda, has been released from prison after receiving a pardon from current President Paul Kagame. Read more »
March 19, 2007
Cote d'Ivoire: New Accord Signals Peace
In a nationwide address on Friday March 9, 2007, Ivoirian President Laurent Gbagbo profusely thanked his colleague from Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré for successfully… Read more »
March 18, 2007
Zimbabwe: Police Prevent Medical Evacuation of Tortured Leaders
Two women severely assaulted by police in last weekend's beating of opposition leaders in Harare, Zimbabwe, were prevented Saturday from traveling to South Africa for medical… Read more »
March 02, 2007
Uganda: U.S. Congress to Discuss Call to Resume LRA Peace Talks
United States Congressman Donald Payne (Democrat-New Jersey) has announced the introduction of a House of Representatives resolution urging the Ugandan government and rebel Lord's… Read more »
February 22, 2007
South Africa: Cabinet Condemns Violence Against Somalis
The South African Cabinet has condemned the recent violence perpetrated against Somali shop owners in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. Read more »
February 18, 2007
Guinea: The Case for U.S. Action
While the United States government plans to send an additional 20,000 troops to shore up a flawed military strategy in Iraq, it has failed to support the people of Guinea, where… Read more »
February 14, 2007
South Africa: Army Offers to Train Somali Troops
South Africa's defence minister, Mosiuoa Lekota said today that although the deployment of the country's troops as peacekeepers in Somalia was "improbable," the armed… Read more »
February 13, 2007
Guinea: Conté Declares 'State of Siege'
President Lansana Conte of Guinea has declared a "state of siege" and instituted martial law after bloody nationwide demonstrations in which 23 people are reported to… Read more »
Liberia: Shorten Road Between Commitment and Cash, Sirleaf Says
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday called for debt cancellation and increased development assistance for the country. Read more »
February 12, 2007
Guinea: Insurrection As Strike Resumes
On the evening of January 27, when the government and the unions signed an agreement suspending a bloody general strike, Guineans took to the streets of Conakry, the capital city… Read more »
February 09, 2007
South Africa: Mbeki Presses for 'Inclusive' Settlement in Somalia
President Thabo Mbeki described the need for national reconciliation in Somalia as "critical." Read more »
January 31, 2007
Sudan: The ICC: A Question of Accountability
The Sudanese regime is, by any measure, one of the most brutal and destabilising in the world today. Its atrocities have not been limited to Darfur. Khartoum has harshly suppressed… Read more »
January 28, 2007
Guinea: Government and Unions Sign Agreement, General Unlimited Strike Suspended
Under clear skies and a radiant full moon on Saturday night, Guineans took to the streets of Conakry, the capital city of this west African country lying on the Atlantic shoreline,… Read more »
January 26, 2007
Guinea: President Appears to Yield, Agrees to New Prime Minister
News reports confirmed by presidential sources indicate that President Lansana Conté of Guinea has signed an executive order establishing the nomination of a "consensus… Read more »
Somalia: U.S. Department of Defense Denies Capture of U.S. Soldiers
The United States Department of Defense has firmly denied reports of the capture of American soldiers in southern Somalia, stating "no U.S. service members have been captured… Read more »
January 25, 2007
Guinea: Army, President Need to be Warned Against Both Status Quo and Coup
In Conakry, the Guinean capital lying on the Atlantic shoreline, it is the season of the Harmattan, when the rains have given way to the dry dust-laden wind of that name, which… Read more »
January 24, 2007
South Africa: Gov't Blocks Listing of al-Qaeda Suspects
South Africa's foreign minister, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, wants bilateral talks with the United States government over its request to list two South Africans as having links… Read more »
January 22, 2007
Somalia: Tentative Hope and Little Else
Across a wide spectrum of political opinion there is a lot of hope for the success of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) but little expectation it will be fulfilled. Read more »
January 19, 2007
Somalia: 'You Break It, You Own It' Rule Does Not Apply
"You break it, you own it." The Pottery Barn rule of intervention and nation-building, made famous in Iraq, is about to be tested in Somalia. Read more »
Africa: Global Experts Encourage Women as Peacekeepers
Experts in peace-building have called on African women to become involved with peacekeeping from the start of negotiations to end conflicts, and not to allow themselves to be… Read more »
January 18, 2007
Africa: U.S. Official Sees 'Credible and Serious Dialogue' As Key to Peace in Somalia
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer, who has been leading the Bush administration's peace efforts in Somalia and Sudan, discussed the situation in… Read more »
January 08, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: Review of Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System - An Afrocentric Analysis
In this short book, Peta Ikambana attempts to offer an Afro-centric analysis of the Mobutu regime, which ruled over Zaire (today's DRC) from 1965 to 1997. The book's premise holds… Read more »
December 09, 2006
Sudan: Bush, Mbeki Urge Quick Deployment in Darfur
U.S. President George W. Bush and South African President Thabo Mbeki are pushing for an urgent increase in the number of peacekeepers in Darfur. In talks at the White House on… Read more »
December 08, 2006
Africa: 'Blood Diamond' Entertains, Educates
In the early days of Master Sergeant Samuel Doe's 1980 coup in Liberia, I was entering a hotel in Monrovia with my five-year-old son when soldiers lounging in the lobby started… Read more »