Saturday, 15 June 2013 17:13
Tsvangirai And Mugabe At Loggerheads Over July 31 Zimbabwe Election Date
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe is in a serious confrontation with President Mugabe over July 31 Zimbabwe election date. While a constitutional court ordered that the election must be held before the end of July 2013, Mr. Tsvangirai has vowed to veto any election date that comes before democratic reforms are put into place. Mugabe used temporary presidential powers to set the date for a vote that would put an end to their uneasy power-sharing agreement.“Today, early in the morning, I received a letter from president Mugabe (proclaiming)... the 31 July as the election day,” Tsvangirai said.“President Mugabe is acting unlawfully and unconstitutionally,” said Tsvangirai. “As prime minister I cannot and will not accept this.”He vowed to take the matter to court.While Mugabe’s move would comply with a constitutional court order to hold elections by the end of July, the date of the vote is fiercely contested.Tsvangirai has vowed…
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Saturday, 08 June 2013 09:09
UK Government Makes Mau Mau Apology: Rembering the Slavery
For many Africans, it might sound like a dream, but the reality is that after many years of legal tsunami, the UK government has swallowed her pride and mustered the courage to apologize to and compensate victims of the 1952 -1960 Mau Mau uprising in Kenyan. According to Kata Kata’s mole at the Foreign Office in London, the Foreign Secretary William Hague is due to make the much anticipated announcement, during which he would equally announce the compensation package, which is said to be around £14m ($20m) for more than 5,000 Kenyans said to have been mistreated or even torture by the British. Prior to her independence from the Britain, Kenyans fought bitterly against the British colonial rule and exploitation; they demanded that their plundered and confiscated land be returned to them and the British colonial rule ended. Typically during the colonial period, the British settlers in Kenya confiscated…
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Sunday, 02 June 2013 16:50
Billions Belonging to Muammar Gaddafi Found in South Africa
If one would believe the Forbes publications, Bill Gates and Carlos slim were - and still are - on top of the world richest chart. However, the latest news coming from South Africa has revealed that billions of dollars belonging to the former Libya strongman, late Muammar Gaddafi have been found in South Africa. In their relentless hunt for the slain dictator Gaddafi's missing billions stashed in different countries, Libya authorities have discovered, billions in cash, diamond, gold, donkey, elephant and even in ostrich egg, belonging to late Muammar Gaddafi carefully hidden in South Africa. Tracing the funds said to have been deposited through the once feared Libya's former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, who is in jail in Libya, the investigators located the assets in South Africa. The discovered asset, when added together with more billions discovered in other parts of the world – and don’t talk about billions of…
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Friday, 24 May 2013 21:20
Kenyans Furious About Obama’s Africa Visit Snub
The latest plan by the USA President Barack Hussein Obama to spend eight days in Africa as part of his extensive tour of the continent has been widely criticized by many Kenyans. Ironically the furiosity of Kenyans has nothing to do with the planned visit itself. Nor is it related to fears in certain quarters that President Obama might decline to eat kachumbari or chew khat, two national “delicacies,” during the much publicized trip to the continent. No. Far from that. The anger of many Kenyans has much to do with the fact that President Obama has decided to visit only Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania during this trip, neglecting Kenya, the birthplace and ancestral home of his father.Feeling highly betrayed and neglected by the USA President’s snub, many Kenyans are angrily voicing their frustrations over what some have described as muzungu mentality of Mr. Obama, whom some have labelled…
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Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:11
Between Business and heartlessness: 2 People Jailed in Nigeria Over Poisoned Baby Drug
A court in Nigeria has sentenced two business officials to seven years in prison for making adulterated teething medicine, which has claimed the lives of at least 80 children.The two officials from the maker of a popular baby syrup My Pikin (literally – and ironically - translated in Nigerian pidgin as “ My baby” ) were found guilty by a court in Lagos after investigations revealed that their syrup, which started killing children as early as in 2008 contains deadly diethylene glycol, used as engine coolant. The syrup, which is used for treatment of sore – gums is said to have caused kidney failure in babies. Sentencing the two business officials, the judge equally ordered that the company be closed down and its assets confiscated and forfeited to the state.Sadly, it is not the first time unscrupulous individuals are jailed for turning the Nigerian pharmaceutical market into an abattoir due…
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Monday, 13 May 2013 08:38
Ugandan Esther Madudu: 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Winner?
In Africa and other so – called third world countries, where often, personal economic survival comes first before someone else’s problems, it is rare to find a woman who judiciously devotes her life to helping pregnant mothers to minimize infant mortality as well as creating social awareness of the mountainous challenges facing these pregnant women in many African countries. The name Esther Madudu might not ring a bell in the Hollywood community, but this Ugandan born midwife has through her humanitarian work, sensitize the world on the plight and challenges facing many African pregnant mothers during their pregnancy and African mortality cankerworm. In many poor African countries where the mortality rate is stubbornly high, many women end up not only losing their baby during delivery, often the pregnant mothers themselves pay the big price with their lives as well. This tragedy is just what Esther Madudu, a well known midwife…
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Sunday, 05 May 2013 07:13
Shell And Nigerian Petroleum Minister In a 380 Billion Dollar Oil Deal?
Nigerian House of Representatives, Thursday accused Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, minister of Petroleum Resources; Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited; and officials of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Corporation (NPDC) of “secret and arbitrary farm-out” of oil mining leases. The House has also asked its ad-hoc committee to investigate the alleged shady oil deal which it put at some $380 billion. According to the House, the deal include; oil mining leases 4, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 42 to two firms, Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited and Septa Energy Limited, without due process. The legislators alleged deliberate exclusion of indigenous operators from exercising their rights of first refusal before selections were made, adding that the exercise was carried out in violation of sections 3 ( 1), (2) and 5 of the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry content Act N0 2 of 2010. They said the federal government would have earned $800 million…
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Saturday, 27 April 2013 12:46
Tourism Nightmares: Poachers, Rangers Wipe Out Rhino in Mozambique Park
Poachers, aided by game rangers, have killed every single rhino in the Mozambique section of one of Southern Africa’s most vaunted transfrontier parks. The director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s wildlife crime and consumer awareness programme, Kelvin Alie, said poachers had killed 15 rhinos in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park last month, the last remaining animals from an estimated population of more than 300 when the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park was proclaimed in 2002. The administrator of the Limpopo National Park told the media that 30 rangers will appear in court soon, charged with involvement in the killing of the rhino. “It is tragic beyond tears that we learn game rangers have now become the enemy in the fight to protect the rhino from being poached for their horns. “That the entire rhino population of part of such an important conservation initiative can be wiped out – and with…
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Friday, 19 April 2013 16:53
Human Rights Violation: UK-Gambians Implore British Government to Impose Sanctions Against Jammeh’s Regime
A United Kingdom based Gambian human rights group Wednesday handed a petition to the British Foreign Minister William Hague, urging his government to impose sanctions against specific people in President Yahya Jammeh’s government for its human rights violations. The Sene-Gambian Human Rights League (SenGamHRL) said it wants a travel ban and a global freezing of financial and economic assets of the people mentioned in the petition. Among them are the President, the Speaker and majority leader of the National Assembly, the Chief Justice, the Vice President, members of the cabinet, permanent secretaries, heads of the security forces and directors of government agencies. A similar copy of the petition was presented to the Gambian High Commission in London after a protest led by former Vice President Bakary Bunja Darboe. Also in their demands to the British government is the suspension of technical and budgetary support to Gambia’s security apparatus and the judiciary. SenGamHRL…
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