Normalcy Returns to Mogadishu
It is Friday morning in Mogadishu and Lido beach presents a scene reminiscent of seaside towns around the world. At the top of the beach, women sit with their wares, selling water and ice-lollies from cool-boxes. The middle-beach is dominated by young men playing football using driftwood as goalposts. At the water’s edge, boys and [...]
South Sudan will soon acquire anti-aircraft missiles to defend its territory against air attacks it says are frequently carried out by warplanes from neighbouring Sudan, the South Sudanese military said on Wednesday. Since South Sudan became the world’s newest independent nation in July last year, its government has accused northern neighbour Sudan of continuing aerial [...]
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There’s been no peace in northern Mali since Tuareg rebels took control of the area and declared independence earlier this year. Radical Arab fighters came in their wake and introduced Islamic law. Meanwhile, terrorists from all over the world are reportedly coming to Mali. Yet no one really has a hold on the region. Boubacar [...]
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African military chiefs Wednesday visited the UPDF Peace Support Operations Centre in Singo and witnessed the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers undergoing training for the mission in war-torn Somalia. The visiting officers, who included commanders of land forces watched simulations of how the Ugandan soldiers respond to enemy attacks on its convoys and foot [...]
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, now convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in relations to atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, has stressed the need for former US President George W. Bush to be prosecuted for similar crimes. Taylor made the call in his first post-verdict special statement he read before judges of the [...]
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South Sudan said Tuesday that it would not accept Sudan placing conditions on its withdrawal from the contested region of Abyei, or any action that violated recent resolutions of the Security Council of the United Nations and African Union. Luka Biong, a senior South Sudanese official, has warned that if the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) [...]
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali and dozens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, extra-judicial executions or sexual violence including rape by Arab militias operating in the area according to Amnesty International. In a report ‘Mali: Five months of crisis, armed rebellion and military coup‘ Amnesty International catalogues a litany [...]
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Francois Hollande’s victory in France’s recent Presidential election may have dampened the focus on the stubborn rise in support for France’s far-right Front National and its leader Marine Le Pen; yet the general rise of the far right across Europe raises questions for the African Diaspora. In Greece, the breakthrough of the neo-Nazi party, Golden [...]
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European Union military forces carried out an air raid on what they called “pirate equipment” on the coast of Somalia on Tuesday. It is the first time the European Union Naval Force (EU Navfor), deployed off the country’s coastline to fight “piracy,” has carried out a raid on Somali soil. Until now it has acted [...]
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A tenuous peace has taken hold in Libya’s southwestern city of Sebha more than a month after ethnic clashes killed at least 70 people, with tensions still high between communities living there, many of whom have their own armed militias, according to local residents. “You see that place?” Adoum Abaka, a Tubu from Tayuri, a [...]
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Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema said on Monday he wanted to become a leader in the ANC. “I will lead this ANC. You must put it on the archive. I am going to be a leader of the African National Congress,” he said a news conference in Johannesburg. It was his first media [...]
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As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, Libyan militiamen order a few hundred African refugees lined up at a detention centre to chant “Libya free, Chadians out”, regardless of their religion they are forced to bow down for evening prayers. Most of the prisoners in the small, squalid compound called the Freedom Detention [...]
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