Peacefm Online, Ghana
Friday, 21 November 2008
A reporter with a France-based publication, Le Monde Diplomatique, once wrote that “the Nigerian film Industry has served in no small measure in laundering Nigeria’s battered image abroad”. How true the statement rings. From Nairobi to Kampala, from Dar es Salam to Addis Ababa, Nigerian home videos are selling like [...]
The Economist
Anarchy in Somalia
Nov 20th 2008
Pirates are only part of a much bigger problem in east Africa
IT IS tempting to be jaunty about piracy. So what if a few Robin Hoods in skiffs nick the odd tanker off the Horn of Africa? Often enough, the owners pay ransom and nobody gets hurt. Everyone needs a [...]
New Vision, Uganda
9th November, 2008
Uganda stops sharing water data with Egypt
Gerald Tenywa and Reuben Olita
Negotiations on a new River Nile agreement have stalled following a disagreement among member states.
While Sudan and Egypt want the new treaty to give them the right to consent to the use of the Nile waters, the other [...]
BBC
November 7, 2008
The government has failed to bring peace to Somalia
A group of more than 200 Somali MPs are stranded in the Kenyan capital a week after attending a regional summit.
The MPs say the organisers of the summit have refused to cover their travel expenses back to Somalia.
They are living in hotels [...]
Reuters
Wed 5 Nov 2008
Noor Ali
NAIROBI - Kenya said on Wednesday it had arrested 155 militiamen from Somalia and Ethiopia during a security operation in its remote northeast, and promised to investigate accusations of army torture and rape.
The government sent hundreds of soldiers into Mandera district last week to try to end clan conflict over grazing [...]
The Standard, Nairobi
October 27, 2008
Isaac Ongiri
IGAD heads of states and governments converge in Nairobi on Wednesday to consult with Somalia MPs over the country’s stability.
Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula said there was concern over the future of Somalia, with only six months to the expiry of the term for the Transitional Federal Government headed by [...]
BBC
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
FREE TRADE BLOC MEMBERS
The 26 African countries involved in the deal are:
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Swaziland, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The leaders of three African trading blocs [...]
BBC
October 16, 2008
Somali Islamists say they will attack Kenya if it goes ahead with plans to train 10,000 government troops.
“We will order all our holy warriors to start the jihadi war inside Kenya,” said spokesman Sheikh Muktar Robow.
Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula has been quoted recently offering the training to beleaguered government forces. [...]
Reuters
October 13, 2008
Andrew Heavens
KHARTOUM - Sudan summoned the Kenyan and Ethiopian ambassadors on Monday to protest against what it said were illegal shipments of arms to its semi-autonomous south, state media reported.
Khartoum was protesting over “violations” linked to an arms shipment seized by pirates off Somalia’s coast that Western diplomats said was bound for south [...]
BBC
October 8, 2008
Contract numbers include the initials GOSS, thought to be government of South Sudan.
A Kenyan minister has denied BBC reports that the tanks seized by Somali pirates were bound for South Sudan.
According to the cargo’s manifest, obtained by the BBC, the contract included the phrase “GOSS”, widely used to mean the Government [...]
