One of the things that most undermines African democracy is election theft. If you look at many bouts of violence and guerilla wars in several countries in Africa – from Yoweri Museveni’s war that started in February 1981, the Algeria civil war that began in 1992 after the military-dominated government cancelled elections set to be […]
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OCTOBER MADNESS: Can Stolen Elections In Africa Ever Be Better Than Clean Unpredictable Polls? Yes And No
October 23, 2012 0 Comments Short URL African democracy, Algeria civil war, and pulling down transmitters, Angola, armed soldiers, armoured cars, Barack Obama, Cameroon, cancelled elections, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, election theft, Ethiopia, guerilla war, high risk, insanely shameless, Ivory Coast, Kenya post-election violence, Kizza Besigye, Military Police, Mitt Romney, Nigeria, power hungry, shutting down websites, state machinery, tanks, the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Togo, Uganda, uncertainty, violence, Yoweri Museveni, Zimbabwe Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Politically Incorrect, Rogue Stuff
From Central, East To The Horn Of Africa, It Has Been A Fast And Furious 20 Years
So, as we reported in “How Guns And Bombs Dramatically Redrew The Economic And Political Map Of East Africa”, (http://nakedchiefs.com/2012/06/12/how-guns-and-bombs-dramatically-redrew-the-economic-and-political-map-of-east-africa-and-the-horn/), after 1998, nothing would be the same in East Africa, the Great Lakes Region, or the Horn of Africa. The decision by Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila, seen as a lackey, to expel […]
June 18, 2012 0 Comments Short URL Al Shabaab, Angola, Archbishop Desmond, Arusha, Bethuel Kiplagat, bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam August 1998, Burundi civil war, Cairo, ceasefire accord in Lusaka, Confederation of East and Central Africa, Daniel arap Moi. With the Inter Parliamentary Parties Group (IPPG) agreement of October 1997, Darfur, East Africa, East African Community, East African Posts & Telecommunications, Ethiopia, Great Lakes Region, Groupe de recherche et d’information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP), Horn of Africa, Human Security Project, John Garang, Joseph Kony, Julius Nyerere, Kenya election violence, Lamu Port and Lamu Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET), Laurent Kabila, Lazaro Sumbeiywo, Lord’s Resistance Army, Mogadishu airport, Mozambique, Namibia, Nelson Mandela, Paul Kagame, Pierre Nkurunziza, refugees, Robert Mugabe, Rwanda, Second Congo War, Seth Sendanshonga, Somalia, South African Development Community (SADC), SPLA, Sudan, Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Swaziland, The International Rescue Committee, The Wedding Planner, three million people dead in DRC war, Tunis, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, Zimbabwe Diplomatic Shenanigans, Fast & Furious
Cloak And Dagger Politics And War: How The ‘New’ East Africa Was Born From The Fires Of The Old
The fact that South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan have applied to join the East African Community (comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) was unthinkable even as the 1970s ended. The forces pulling East Africa were either southward, when for example Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, Uganda’s Milton Obote, and Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda formed the famed “Mulungushi […]
June 4, 2012 2 Comments Short URL Angola, Botswana, Col Mengistu Haile Mariam, Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, Frontline, Isaias Afewerki, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda, Khartoum, Lesotho, Meles Zenawi, Milton Obote, Mozambique, Mulungushi Club, Nelson Mandela, OAU Liberation Committee, Paul Kagame, Rwanda Patriotic Army/Front, Siad Barre, Tanzania, Tanzania People's Defence Force oust Idi Amin, Tigrinya People’s Liberation Front, Uganda invasion of Tanzania 1978, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Zambia African National Congress, Zimbabwe Diplomatic Shenanigans, Future Watch
Disease, The Clock, The Gods, Greed And Stupidity Have Helped To Change Africa As Much As Democrats, Generals (The Sequel)
When dictator Mobutu succumbed to prostate cancer, it was the first time anyone would have anything good to say about the dreaded disease – and also the first time the cancer showed any revolutionary potential In “Democracy Is Dying Or Dead In Africa; The Continent Is Being Torn Apart – Yet That’s One Of The […]
April 2, 2012 16 Comments Short URL Abdulsalami Abubakar, Africa, Angola, “the hand of God”, Democratic Republic of Congo Mobutu Sese Seko, Diego Maradona, Durban, Egypt, Ethiopia, General Abdulsalami-Abubakar, Gnassingbe Eyadema, Hosni Mubarak, Kamuzu Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Muammar Gaddafi, Ngbendu Kuku wa Zabanga, Ngwanzi, Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, Rwanda, Rwanda-backed rebels, Sani Abacha, Southern Africa World Economic Forum 2000, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Fast & Furious, Politically Incorrect, Rogue Stuff
‘Democracy’ Is Dying Or Dead In Africa; The Continent Is Being Torn Apart – Yet That’s One Of The Best Things To Happen To It (The Prequel)
Tuareg separatist rebels in Mali have taken advantage of the confusion in the capital Bamako following the recent coup against President Amadou Toumani Toure, to gain more territory. They are reported to have surrounded the historical city of Timbuktu, and wo important northern towns, Kidal and Gao, fell to them and their Islamist allies in […]
April 1, 2012 7 Comments Short URL Africa, Alassane Ouattara, Angola, Baganda, Bamako, Banyamulenge, Big Man rule, Capt Amadou Sanogo, civilianised, Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Diego Maradona, Economic Community of West African States, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Eduardo dos Santos, Ethiopia, executed 20000 civilians, forces of history, Ghanda Koi Songhai militia, greed, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Khartoum, Kidal Gao, Libya, Mali, Matebeland massacres, military coups, Mombasa Republican Council, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO bombing, Niger Delta, Nigeria, North-Korean-trained Fifth Brigade, one-party dictatorship, post-independence, regionalism, Robert Mugabe, secessionist, Somalia, South Africa, South Kordofan, Sudan, Tanzania, Timbuktu, Tuareg, Tuareg people, Tunisia, Tutsi, Uganda, Zanzibari independence, Zimbabwe Aliens & Stars, Political Barometre, Rogue Stuff
Africa Doesn’t Have An Image Problem; It Has A Reality Problem; Plus The Story of Rwanda’s ‘Small’ Money And How The World Doesn’t Owe Us Anything
‘I said to myself that he must be from a corrupt oil or mineral rich African country like Angola or Equatorial Guinea. The country, I said to myself, must also be a dictatorship. Diplomats from honest and democratic countries with a vibrant free press don’t wear $2,400 Clive Christian No.1 perfumes’ Recently I was in Paris […]
March 21, 2012 22 Comments Short URL Africa, Africa image, Africa: Altered States-Ordinary Miracles, African Union, Angola, Clive Christian No.1, CNN, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Nairobi, press freedom, Richard Dowden, Rwanda, South Africa, terrorism, Tickles, Wikileaks Aliens & Stars, Fast & Furious, Political Barometre
Let The Nigerian And Ugandan Protestors Burn Down Their Cities…But Should First Stop Being Jokers In The Rulers’ Circus
What a week it has been in Africa. In Nigeria, nationwide strikes against the Jonathan Goodluck government decision to scrap fuel subsidies today entered their fifth day. In Uganda, traders who closed their business in anger at sky-high interest rates, failed to reach agreement in a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni and representatives of the […]
January 13, 2012 1 Comment Short URL 500-600 people killed, Angola, authoritarian compromise, authoritarian/corruption bargain, Boko Haram, Christians, cities, clan, clowns, corruption, cronies, extremist Islamic militia, flout municipal laws, fuel subsidies, improving schools, interest rate protest, issues-based politics, Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA), Kenya, killed 100 people, kinship, lot of the poor, National Resistance Movement (NRM), nationwide strikes, Nigeria’s 1.2 trillion Naira ($7.4 billion) fuel subsidy, Nigerian protestors, pot-holed roads, power outages, President Jonathan Goodluck, providing safe water, ruler’s circus, shootings, tribal, Ugandan protestors, unpredictable Africa, Walk-to-Work (W2W), wave of bombings, Yoweri Museveni Political Barometre, Robbers & Barons
