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 […]
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Cloak And Dagger Politics And War: How The ‘New’ East Africa Was Born From The Fires Of The Old
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
‘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
