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Ali Ben Bongo, the eldest son of Gabon’s former leader, Omar Bongo, has called his opponents in the forthcoming Presidential elections, ‘traitors’ in an election campaign rally. There are 20 opposition candidates lining up against Bongo who is the candidate for the ruling party. A few weeks ago the Prime Minister resigned to join the […]
Former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has been released by the ICC ahead of his war crimes trial in The Hague. But his release is on hold until a suitable country can be found to host him. Bemba led a rebel group during Congo’s civil war and was arrested in Belgium and extradited to The […]
The UNHCR reported well over one-half million civilians have been displaced in South Kivu since January 2009. That is when the Congolese government began its military campaign to forcefully disarm Hutu rebels and their local militia allies.
But, things have not worked out as the government envisioned. In fact, the situation has grown worse, as can […]
A court in Switzerland has ruled that the assets of late Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko must be returned to his family. The federal criminal court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to extend a freeze on his assets in Switzerland worth about $7 million, saying the case is now too old.
The decision, which cannot be appealed, […]
The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai has officially announced that the MDC party will disengage from the Unity government over the Roy Bennett issue. He said that outstanding issues within the power-sharing arrangements should be dealt with before the MDC can work again with the Mugabe led Zanu-PF. Roy Bennett a senior member of [...]
When you assume the presidency of a country, Sierra Leone in particular, that is ranked at the bottom of the UN’s Human Development Index; a country that has denied its media the freedom to operate freely; a country that has seen its own people killed on the orders of another president in his quest to [...]
The European Union has called for the junta leader in Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara to face trial for crimes against humanity. The call was made by the EU’s development chief Karel de Gucht. He claimed that the suppression of an opposition rally in the capital Conakry last month was “an act of brutality never seen [...]
Africa has become the new economic playground of the Chinese government. In its quest to secure an abundant source of energy and minerals to sustain its growing industrial and economic demands, the Chinese government is using the unstable and corrupt political environment in some African countries to court some of the continent’s ruthless dictators in [...]