AFRICANGLOBE – Two key dates loom in Zimbabwe’s political calendar in the first half of 2013: a referendum on the tortuously negotiated new constitution and then national elections for the presidency and the parliament.
AFRICANGLOBE – Facts are inconvenient things. More than that, they are stubborn. Sadly, the interpreters of fact – humans – are not nearly as reliable. We are subject to shifting emotions, cruel bias, and sometimes plain evil prejudices. It is these human frailties that often lend the seemingly obvious to imaginative interpretations. It’s a cruel [...]
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – President Barack Obama’s top diplomat on African affairs on Tuesday defended the U.S. administration’s response to the continued crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in the face of stepped up criticism from both civil society and U.S. lawmakers. Since April, violence has spiked in the eastern part of the DR Congo, [...]
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – What is happening in eastern DR Congo is not a civil war, but continuation of a 16-year aggression by the country’s two neighbours, financed and directed by the United States and Britain. All the signs are written on the wall that after the split of Sudan, the United States of America is targeting [...]
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – The escalation of conflict in Congo by M23 rebels may signal a panic by Rwanda over its failed bid to get the United Nations to alter the final version of a damning report over its control of the insurgents. Rwanda has total control of M23′s chain of command and direction of military operations, according [...]
Continue reading …Haitian President Michel Martelly has managed to inspire popular opposition to his government almost since his election in May 2011. Martelly, who came to office in a grossly unrepresentative process which excluded Lavalas, the country’s most popular party, has been closely linked with figures around former dictator Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. That in itself [...]
Continue reading …AFRICANGLOBE – E. Oppenheimer & Son has become an investor in South African venture capital company 4Di Capital, in a move that sees the mining giant support local tech start-ups. 4Di on Friday announced that the Oppenheimer family’s holding company had become a Capital Fund 1 investor in the venture capital company; doubling the size [...]
Continue reading …The war of words between Cornel West and the pro-Obama Black activists has heated up once again after West criticize President Obama, MSNBC anchors Rev. Al Sharpton and Melissa Harris-Perry and professor Michael Eric Dyson, implying that the later three are sell-outs for their uncritical support of the president. West made his comments during an [...]
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