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Or, looked at from another perspective, the building doesn’t need to symbolize anything further than its existence, wherein it becomes a staggeringly articulate representation of Africa’s greatest skill: begging.
Gaddafi’s son arrested in Libya Special to USAfricaonline.com Saif al-Islam, Muammar Gaddafi’s son and lead successor during the latter years of his father’s dictatorship over Libya has been detained in the country’s southern desert, Libya’s interim justice minister and other officials said on Saturday November 19. They said Saif al-Islam and several bodyguards, but no [...]
USAfrica: African Union bungles Libya crisis; refuses to recognize transition council. By Chido Nwangwu USAfrica, August 26, 2011: The African Union, the continent wide organization, has rejected the broad acceptance of Libyan rebels and the opposition forces who have uprooted the government of the mercurial leader Muammar Ghadafi. The leaders of the AU’s Peace [...]
Guinea’s President survives attack at his home AP/CONAKRY, Guinea—Guinea’s democratically elected president survived an assassination attempt early Tuesday when gunmen descended on his home, an attack that throws into doubt the political stability of this mineral-rich country with a history of coups. President Alpha Condé later addressed the nation on state radio, saying that his [...]
Egypt’s former dictator falls into coma; ahead of August 3 trial Special to USAfricaonline.com Reuters/July 17, 2011. Cairo: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, hospitalized since April and due to stand trial in August, is in a coma, his lawyer said on Sunday, although state television said the hospital director had denied the report. Another medical source [...]
Nana Rawlings, wife of Ghana ex-ruler, to battle sitting President Mills for party presidential ticket Special to USAfricaonline.com ACCRA — The wife of former Ghana ruler Jerry Rawlings said on Thursday she plans to challenge President John Atta Mills in party primaries ahead of elections next year in the West African nation. Nana Konadu [...]
Political rally bound home-made bombs seized from radical Islamists in Nigeria. Special to USAfricaonline.com AFP: Police in northern Nigeria on Tuesday March 29, 2011, discovered two home-made bombs in a car carrying three suspected Islamists heading for a political rally ahead of general elections. Police suspect the target of the bombs was a political meeting [...]
After 40-plus years of rule, Gadhafi uses lethal, bloody force to crush Libyan protests Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group and Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group By Warren P. Strobel and Erika Bolstad. McClatchy: Of all the revolutions and attempted revolutions sweeping the Middle East, the one in Libya is the murkiest. It’s taking place in a police [...]
The protest was started by families of prisoners killed in a 1996 shooting in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison demanding the release of their lawyer, Fethi Tarbel, the paper said.
Tunisia, Egypt . . . Is Nigeria next? By Prof. Rosaire Ifedi Special to USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston. USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group and Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group Congratulations to the people of Egypt on a successfully-executed and peaceful revolution from the closing days of January into February 2011. Those days certainly stand in [...]
EGYPT’s army sacks parliament; suspend constitution and will rule for 6 months until next elections Special to USAfricaonline.com The movement to absolute power by Egypt’s military leaders has led to their dissolving the parliament, one of the rubber stamps of the disgraced, former President Hosni Mubarak. The Supreme Council of Armed Forces also suspended the [...]
Algerians protest, demand reforms and defy the north African-Arab government Algiers (AP) – Thousands of Algerians defied a government ban on protests and a massive deployment of riot police to march in the capital Saturday, demanding democratic reforms a day after similar protests toppled Egypt’s authoritarian leader. Heavily armed police tried to seal off Algiers, [...]
USAfrica: MUBARAK Quits!!! Power of the People triumphs hosni-mubarak.ousted President of Egypt USAfrica: Egypt’s corrupter-in-chief Mubarak slides into history’s dustbin, Egyptians are Not waiting for Obama and United Nations. By Chido Nwangwu, Publisher of USAfrica, and first African-owned, U.S-based newspaper published on the internet USAfricaonline.com http://www.usafricaonline.com/2011/01/30/chido-nwangwu-as-egypt-corrupter-in-chief-mubarak-slides-into-historys-dustbin-egyptians-not-waiting-for-obama-and-united-nations/ USAfrica, January 30, 2011: As the popular uprising and pressure continue in Egypt against [...]
Egypt’s disgraced ruler Mubarak on his way out, again…. USAfricaonline.com Thursday, February 10th, 2011: Egypt’s President, the dictator Hosni Mubarak could step aside as early as Friday February 11, 2011, with some constitutional amendment to allow the transfer and delegation of power to his new vice president, Omar Soleiman, a tarnished intelligence chief who reportedly has [...]
The Dictator’s end-game in Egypt: Mubarak’s supporters attack pro-democracy demonstrators Special to USAfricaonline.com Cairo, February 2, 2011: Hundreds of supporters of Hosni Mubarak today clashed with anti-government activists in Cairo during a massive rally against the besieged President who has vowed toquit by September, even as the military ordered the protesters demanding the leader”s immediate [...]
USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com will interpret Mubarak’s so-called “new Egyptian reality” — in his February 1, 2011 speech- as a negotiating position, for himself as a former airforce commander and his military cronies. Significantly, he has been unable to get the full support of the army as he is in a dizzying fall into irrelevance.
USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com contacts in Cairo say that some of the key local opposition leaders who spearheaded the revolt against Mubarak are saying that “ElBaradei is about to reap where he has not sowed enough.” The reality is that he is more acceptable for the U.S., Israel and the Western hemispheric powers as the next, likely President of the 78million Egyptians who will not rock their boat as contrasted to another member of the Egyptian armed forces or less likely a member of the radical, minor conservative Muslim Brotherhood. Amidst all these, like most dictators, Mubarak does not know, any more, he is an emperor without clothes…. It’s been, to put it tidily, a revolting, tawdry and sorry image. when, what day, what hour for Egypt’s corrupt dictator Mubarak to completely slide into history’s dustbin. Good bye to bad rubbish!
I understand President Mills’ position as: first, reflecting that west African country’s practical and immediate interests. Ghana is a neighbor of Ivory Coast’s and has business interests in the country.
Second, Ghana is likely to bear the brunt of a chaotic Ivory Coast, from refugees moving into Ghana.
Ivory Coast has 19million citizens with 60 ethnic groups, a mix of Christians and Muslims; the Baoule is the largest sub-group, the Senoufou, the Mande/Dioula, the Krou, the Yacouba, the Akan (some of who draw their links from Ghana).
Did President Obama get his first phone snub from Ivory Coast’s embattled President Gbagbo? Special report by Chido Nwangwu, Founder & Publisher of Houston-based USAfricaonline.com USAfrica, Jan 5, 2011: Apparently, the pressure from the international community, France and the domestic struggle over who won the disputed November 28, 2010 elections in the west African country of [...]
Why Ivory Coast, rest of Africa should avoid ‘negotiated democracy’ By L. MUTHONI WANYEKI, a political scientist is executive director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission, and former leader of the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEmNET). Special to USAfricaonline.com It is fitting, yet ironic, that Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been appointed [...]
