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 […]
October 23, 2012
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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
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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
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The story begins in this first part, with why flush toilets and garbage trucks are “unAfrican” – and what that has to do with dirty streets in many African cities. Of the world’s 25 dirtiest cities, 16 – or 64 percent of them – are in Africa. Well, at least that was the story in […]
May 14, 2012
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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
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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
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Nearly 100 people have been admitted to hospital, and over 1,000 affected by typhoid in Zimbabwe over the last month. Between 2008 and early 2009, when Zimbabwe was a basket case and its health system had all but collapsed, cholera killed more than 3,100 people and affected another 60,000 – a world record of many […]
February 16, 2012
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In September, Michael Sata became one of the very few African opposition leaders to win an election, when he beat incumbent Ruphia Banda to take the Zambian president. Immediately, he set on a course that has drawn accusations that he is reckless, a populist, even a “clown”. Going by his outbursts and erratic behaviour, some […]
December 30, 2011
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