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 […]
From Central, East To The Horn Of Africa, It Has Been A Fast And Furious 20 Years
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
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
‘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 […]
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KONY 2012: With Enemies Like These Kony Doesn’t Need Any Friends. How We Got Here (Part 4)
•Troops went into the lands abandoned by the people who were huddled in the IDP camps, cleared away spiritually important trees, emotional landmarks, and altered the landscape. When the people begun returning to their lands after Kony was beaten and driven into South Sudan, they found no “history” or links to the past. The camps, […]
March 16, 2012 11 Comments Short URL Acholi people, josephkony, Kony, Museveni, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons
Kony 2012 Video, The Brouhaha, The Long Hunt For A War Criminal, And How We Got Here (Part 1)
“The LRA had punctured a hole in her upper and lower lips, then run a padlock through it—and walked away with the key. When they found the woman, she was emaciated, and had a rotting wound stuck around the padlock” THIS IS THE STORY OF KONY, OR RATHER KONY 2012, that sensational […]
March 13, 2012 10 Comments Short URL been abducted, charter plane, child soldiers, Daily Immigration Department, Daniel arap Moi, Democratic Republic of Congo, East Africa, farewells, forcefully recruited, Invisible Children, Israeli tourists, Joseph Kony, KANU, Kenya, Kikambala Paradise Hotel, Kony 2012 video, Lord’s Resistance Army, Mobutu Sese Seko, Mombasa, Mwai Kibaki, Nairobi, Nation Media Group, President Museveni, Sudan, terrorist attack, The East African, the misled, The Monitor, Wagula Oguttu, Winnie Byanyima, work permit Naked Chiefs & Emperors, Robbers & Barons, Rogue Stuff