Boko Haram: The root cause of the conflict is ideological
The violence by Boko Haram in Nigeria has become endemic. The Nigerian military does not seem to have the capacity to defeat the terror band. And succesful peace talks are not likely either. Nigerian journalist Ahmad Salkida knows Boko Haram well from reporting in the past from Maiduguri.The root cause of the conflict is ideological.
The Nuba Crisis: A Continuing Assault
The war in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan continues unabated. A rare eywitness account
Flower farms in ancestral Ethiopia: a choice between large or small
Ethiopia has a huge, large scale flower industry. Does that benefit the country?
Sectarian violence has rocked the Coastal city of Mombasa in Kenya following the shooting dead of a prominent and controversial Muslim activist Sheikh Aboud Rogo. The violence by some Muslim youth has led to the death of four people including two Policemen who succumbed to injuries when a grenade was hurled at them. Christian establishments including Churches and businesses have also been looted and burnt. A "view from da hood" and a story of police behavior.
Meles Zenawi: Liberator with a tyrannical tendency
The Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (57) died on Monday the 20th of August 2012. A peasant leader who lived by the books and who could explain everything away.
The predictions were dire soon after South Sudan had closed the pipeline to the North and thus its oil production.
South Sudan’s Independence: “We are just muddling through”
One year after independence morale is still high in South Sudan. But the initial hope for a rapid start towards development, establishment of human rights and economic prosperity has faded. “It is as if the war never stopped.”
Meles Zenawi is the cleverest and most engaging Prime Minister in Africa – at least when he talks to visiting outsiders. When he speaks to his fellow Ethiopians, he is severe and dogmatic. But he entertains western visitors with humour and irony, deploying a diffident, self-deprecating style which cleverly conceals an absolute determination to control his country and its destiny, free of outside interference.
Mali finds itself in a political paralysis. A rebellion, an islamist uprising, a coup-d'etat: within mere months a seemingly stable country collapses under unresolved issues. A way out can't yet be seen. But Mali can't survive for long without peace. Singer Oumou Sangare: "We need peace to sing and dance."
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