East Africa and its economic bloc, the East African Community, are about to change forever, possibly transforming into a Greater Horn of East Africa Economic Community. Many factors are causing this change. There is Burundi and Uganda’s lead roles in Amisom, the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia. Then also Rwanda’s long-running involvement in peacekeeping […]
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Torn Between East And The Horn: The Tale Of Kenya, A ‘Two-Axis’ Nation And The Changing Strategic Realities Along Africa’s Indian Ocean Belt
June 4, 2012 2 Comments Short URL Burundi, East African Community, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni Diplomatic Shenanigans, Future Watch
The Moi Hand In Museveni’s Kenya Game; And The Political Tremors Shaking Up The Greater Horn Of Africa (Opening Shots)
Recently The Star newspaper in Nairobi reported that Kenya’s Deputy Prime Minister and Local Government minister Musalia Mudavadi held “secret” talks with Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in Kampala in early April. The meeting, the paper reported, was also attended by former Kenya president Daniel arap Moi’s roving envoy Mark Too. That was a richly […]
April 24, 2012 11 Comments Short URL anti-imperialist, Burundi, Daniel arap Moi, East African Community, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Francis Muthaura, Great Lakes University' Education Fund, Hassan Mwinyi, Hegleig, Isaias Afwerki, John Kazoora, Kalonzo Musyoka, KANU, Kenya succession, Kenya’s disputed 2007 election, Lonrho, Mark Too, Meles Zenawi, Mugabe-ist, Musalia Mudavadi, Museveni as Luo elder, Mwai Kibaki, National Resistance Movement (NRM), native cunning, northern Tanzania, Orange Democratic Movement Kisumu, post-election violence (PEV) in Kenya, Raila Odinga, roving envoy Mark Too, Rwanda, Somalia, SPLA/M, Sudan, The Star, Tiny Rowland, Uganda, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Diplomatic Shenanigans, Political Barometre
Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi Smile Like Siamese Cats At London Somalia Meet; But What The Hell Is Going On In Kismayu?
•Kenya has trained and armed 4,500 Ras Kamboni fighters – while Al Shabaab has about 3,500 fighters left. •With ‘victory’ in Somalia near, the British have eased pressure on President Museveni to behave at home. •Ethiopia needed a trophy ahead of the London conference; it captured Baidoa. •Burundi’s Nkurunziza was feeling so good, he didn’t […]
February 27, 2012 8 Comments Short URL 9th Extraordinary Summit of the East African Community heads of state, African Union, Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, Baidoa, Ban ki-Moon, Barack Obama, Burundi, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Goodluck Jonathan, Hilary Clinton, Jessica Buchanan, Kenya, Kismayu port, London, London Somalia Conference, Meles Zenawi, NATO, Nigeria, Pierre Nkurunziza, Poul Hagen Thisted, President Ismael Omar Guelleh, President Kibaki, President Yoweri Museveni, Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, Ras Kamboni, Somalia, Somalia Conference in Kampala, South Africa, TFG, Transitional Federal Government, Uganda, Yemen Women, Wine & War
Burundi: A Nation Trapped By A Crocodile, Its Born-Again Track-Suit Addicted President, And The Mountains
Maybe you did, maybe you didn’t, watch the 2007 film “Primeval”. Primeval, originally titled “Gustave”, follows a news team sent to Burundi to capture a crocodile on Lake Tanganyika. That crocodile is called Gustave. According to a Wikipedia entry, in 2004 Gustave was estimated to be 60 years old, 20 feet (6.1 m) in length and […]
January 19, 2012 8 Comments Short URL Somalia, South Africa, Burundi, nation trapped, crocodile Gustave, Born-Again president, Primeval film, Lake Tanganyika, notorious man-eater, Major Pierre Buyoya, Ghana’s Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings, Hutu-Tutsi, Domitien Ndayizeye, Amilcar Cabral, Pierre Nkurunziza, AMISOM, Wikileaks, avocado, Bujumbura, maPeter, First Lady Denise, President Jakaya Kikwete, journalist Alexis Sinduhije, Tanzanian jail, Dar es Salaam, Burundi’s Barack Obama, Central Africa, murder, terrorism, treason, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Rwanda genocide, ethnicity, Grahamstown Yakky Politics, Rogue Stuff
