USAfrica: Jonathan sends new message with Pius Anyim’s appointment as Nigeria’s new Secretary to Federal Government By Chido Nwangwu, Special to USAfrica, Houston and Abuja. USAfricaonline.com: Following his inauguration on Sunday May 29, 2011 as the elected President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has dissolved his cabinet and also announced his first major key appointments. Former [...]
120 military generals/officers defect from regime of Libya’s Muammar Kadhafi Special to USAfricaonline.com USAfrica, May 30, 2011: 120 military generals/officers and other officials have defected from the tottering regime of Libya’s Muammar Kadhafi to join the groups allied against the long-ruling mercurial personality. Among the defectors are 8 generals and senior officers of the Libyan [...]
Nigeria hit by multiple blasts after inauguration By Shehu Saulawa/Associated Press Bauchi, Nigeria: Multiple blasts rocked Nigeria’s restive Muslim north and a city near the capital (Abuja) following the inauguration of the country’s southern Christian president, officials said Monday (May 30, 2011). The most powerful of the blasts tore through a bar in a military [...]
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Goodluck Jonathan sworn in as Nigeria’s President AP: Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in Sunday for a full four-year term as president of Nigeria and is now faced with the challenge of uniting a country that saw deadly postelection violence despite what observers called the fairest vote in over a decade. The stately ceremony at the main [...]
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Mubarak and sons, ex-Interior minister, business mogul to face trial for killings, corruption Special to USAfricaonline.com: USAfrica, May 24, 2011: Egypt’s Public Prosecutor’s office has announced that ousted and disgraced former president Hosni Mubarak, his sons, Gamal and Alaa, and Hussein Salem, a wealthy and well-known businessman, have been referred to the criminal courts to [...]
Obama offers Egypt $1 billion debt forgiveness, $1 billion loan guarantees; warns Gadhafi time is up… By Chido Nwangwu, Publisher of USAfricaonline.com USAfricaonline.com: U.S President Barack H. Obama has announced that his country is offering a $1 billion in debt forgiveness for Egypt and another $1 billion in loan guarantees as support to nurture and [...]
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Nigeria’s President Jonathan should learn from Obasanjo’s unenviable fate By Prof. Okey Ndibe Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group, AnambraPolitics e-group, IgboEvents and Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group First week of May 2011, I proposed that Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan should pause, contemplate – and be instructed by – the misfortunes of Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo. When historians [...]
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Bob Marley: 30 Years after his death, legacy and legend still strong. By Winston “Stone” Ford Special to USAfricaonline.com , CLASS magazine and The Black Business Journal Houston, Texas. This commentary first appeared in TheRoot.com On May 11, 1981, the reggae superstar died at age 36. Here’s why his musical legacy and personal legend are still holding strong around [...]
USAfricaonline.com notes, significantly, the U.S and Britain looks the other way, and at best make very weak and tepid responses in the face of human rights abuses, corruption, electoral violence and abuses by Museveni.
In the face of today’s international and local outrage over the collusion between Kenya Airways and the Ugandan government to punish Dr. Besigye, the Kenya Airways was compelled to issue a statement “to confirm to its passengers, customers, investors and the public that Ugandan Opposition Leader Dr. Kizza Besigye is now scheduled to depart on KQ414/11th May departing Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for Entebbe International Airport at 1750hrs.”
South Africa makes push for 2018 Olympics AMPA, May 04: South Africa is revving up its hopes for an Olympic bid as the countdown looms just 58 days away for the start of the IOC session that will decide the fate of the 2018 winter Games city. Durban will host the IOC session and will [...]
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BIN LADEN KILLED. Special to USAfricaonline.com May 1, 2011. WASHINGTON—Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday night. U.S. President Barack Obama is (now 11.36pm EST making) the dramatic announcement (in a) late-night appearance at the White House: That the mastermind of [...]
