There was a dramatic rush in the Kenyan capital Nairobi last Tuesday (December 4, 2012) to beat the deadline for registering coalitions for the March 4, 2013 General Election.When the dust settled, the rest of East Africa, which had been worrying itself to death about Kenya having another violent election as it did in 2007/2008 thus […]
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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 […]
How Guns And Bombs Dramatically Redrew The Economic And Political Map Of East Africa And The Horn
The two special reports; “Cloak And Dagger Politics And How The New East Africa Was Born From The Fires Of The Old” (http://nakedchiefs.com/2012/06/04/cloak-and-dagger-politics-and-war-how-the-new-east-africa-was-born-from-the-fires-of-the-old) AND “Torn Between East And The Horn; The Tale Of Kenya As A Two-Axis Nation And The Changing Strategic Realties Along Africa’s Indian Ocean Belt” (http://nakedchiefs.com/2012/06/04/torn-between-east-and-the-horn-the-tale-of-kenya-a-two-axis-nation-and-the-changing-strategic-realities-along-africas-indian-ocean-belt) last week examined the political and […]
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
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 […]
Christmas Thoughts: One Hole Could Save My Village – And 7 Billion Africans Too
In October the world population passed the 7 billion mark. Africa’s population too hit one billion in mid-2011. Thinking of this from Africa, a continent that has known some horrific famines in recent decades, perhaps the first question is how will all these people be fed? In my native Uganda, for example, the National Environmental […]
