‘news’ Archives
Apocalypse in Central Africa: The Pentagon, Genocide and the War on Terror By Keith Harmon Snow
20 July 2010 keith harmon snow Published (edited extensively) by: Z Magazine, July 2010 under the title: BRUTAL REGIMES: Apocalypse in Central Africa: Ongoing repression, war crimes, and U.S. involvement * "As a key partner, we are very happy to be working with the Rwandan Defense Force as they seek to improve [...]
Uganda Land Alliance: STATEMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE NATIONAL LAND CONFERENCE MAY 25TH-27TH 2010
As representatives from across the country gather for the 3-day National Land Conference currently ongoing at Hotel Africana in Kampala to discuss salient issues in the National Land Policy, the Uganda Land Alliance wishes to call upon all stakeholders to put politics aside and churn a brighter future for all Ugandans both present and those to [...]
Drilling and killing: From the Gulf of Guinea to the Gulf of Mexico By Horace Campbell
It was simply a matter of time before the systematic destruction being carried out by petroleum companies around the world would reach the living rooms of the citizens of North America. In the wake of the tonnes of oil being spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the destruction of the coastline of the United States since 20 April 2010, there has [...]
Rwanda Pursues Dissenters and the Homeless By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Appeared on the net: April 30, 2010 IWAWA ISLAND, Rwanda — A few months ago, Gasigwa Gakunzi was hanging around a ramshackle house where poor children pay to watch television when the Rwandan police arrested him for loitering. The next thing he knew, he said, he was taken away from his family and carted off to this remote island in [...]
Sudan and Congo point to the need for a new, realistic map for Africa By Pascal Zachary
Muammar al-Qaddafi isn’t exactly known for brilliant ideas on maximising political justice. His own country, Libya, is essentially his private fiefdom. But a few weeks ago, he had a pretty good one: to partition Nigeria, “the giant of Africa,” as he called it, in half. Religious violence along the border between the country’s north and [...]
How Do Wars End? By Johan Galtung
“Only about 400 rebels had been in the fight at the bridge, but as the day wore on the number increased to several thousand. They would shoot at the enemy column from behind fences, trees, barns, walls, from inside houses, then reload, hurry ahead, and then shoot again. This was a strange, new type of warfare to the British, who were [...]
Rwanda: President’s Widows Sue Kagame, Demand $100BN
The widows of two slain African presidents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Rwandan President Paul Kagame, whom they claim ordered a missile strike that brought down the plane carrying their husbands. Attorneys for the widows of former Rwanda president Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundi's Cyprien Ntaryamira filed the [...]
SUDAN: Asharq Al-Awsat talks to SPLM Sec Gen Pagan Amum By Mustafa Sirri
Source: London, Asharq Al-Awsat - The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, which rules in the south of Sudan, has warned against tampering with the Referendum on Self Determination that is scheduled to take place early next year. It also rejected that the south is accountable for Sudan’s foreign debts estimated at 34 billion dollars and [...]
"We Want Our Voices To Be Heard": Democracy in Haiti’s Earthquake Zone By Laura Flynn
“We are living in the mud. We are wet and we are hungry. Those in charge have left us without hope. If they have a plan we do not know it. We are asking about the future. And we want our voices to be heard, " Suzette Janvier a resident of St. Martin (a neighborhood of central Port-au-Prince) - [...]
