AFRICANGLOBE – The Africa Union is 50 years old. Hurray! In the coming days, African leaders are expected to gather in Addis Ababa. Many of them will deliver speeches upon speeches, paying respect to the founding fathers of the organisation. We will be reminded of how our forefathers fought hard to overthrow criminal colonial regimes and established the Organisation of African Unity
AFRICANGLOBE – “These miscreants underestimated the capabilities of the Nigerian Armed Forces. What they are seeing now and running into their hideouts is just deployments and movement. Wait until we begin continuous bombardments, then they will realize that democracy doesn’t mean you take the country for a ride”.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Despite comments by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn suggesting the pending withdrawal of his country’s troops from Somalia, many experts have voiced doubts that Ethiopia will pull out of Somalia before it is capable of handling its security without assistance.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Kenyan democracy was severely tested in the lead-up to, during and after the 4 March 2013 elections. On 9 March, following a tense but relatively peaceful election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared Jubilee Coalition’s Uhuru Kenyatta president-elect.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Welcome home Dinknesh banners adorned Ethiopia’s National Museum in Addis Ababa where residents, bus loads of schoolchildren and curious foreign tourists waited to catch a glimpse of a 3.2-million-year-old celebrity skeleton.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – Death and tensions in the Democratic Republic of Congo have triggered an intervention by a United Nations force, as the international body plans to deploy South African led forces to the country’s war torn provinces.
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – The more we as Africans fight and kill each other, the more profit our enemies make, so even as we work very hard to achieve peace and understanding among our African brothers, there are many out there working equally as hard to fan the flames of conflict across Africa
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – In this book, Kwame Nkrumah spells out the tactics and strategy for the African Union. His argument is that until and unless African countries unite at the political, economic, defence and economic fronts, the continent and its people will have no true freedom and prosperity.
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