By Allan Ssempebwa (Uganda)-“Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.” This is one famous quote by a great African Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah. As the African Union holds it 15th Summit in Kampla, it leaves scepticism as to whether African States are capable of working together to solve Africa’s most pressing challenges, to cause “a revolution” on the continent. One such challenge has exposed its filthy dark head in the recent 7/11 twin bombings on Uganda now blamed on the Al-Shabab Mujahedeen militants with connections to the Al-Queada terrorist... Continue Reading
ADDIS ABABA – The African Union Commission said it has noted with grave concern statements attributed to some members of the UN Security Council as well as the decisions ICC-02/05-01/09 of 27 August 2010 of the ICC Pre Trial Chamber informing the United Nations Security Council and the Assembly of the States Parties to the Rome Statute about Omar Al-Bashir’s presence in the territories of the Republic of Chad and the Republic of Kenya. The said statements and the decisions assert that the two African Union Member States have “a clear obligation to cooperate with the Court in relation to... Continue Reading
Workers were angry that the president has been out of the country during the strike. South Africa’s president has instructed ministers to return to the negotiating table to end a public sector strike that is about to enter its third week. Jacob Zuma’s decision comes as more workers in the water and tyre-making industries are expected to join. The strike over pay has closed schools and left hospitals relying on army medics to keep functioning. The main trade union federation has threatened a one-day general strike on Thursday, if its demands are not met. About one million civil servants are... Continue Reading
Two Russian pilots have been kidnapped in Sudan’s western Darfur region, the country’s state-run Suna news agency has reported. They work for Sudan’s Badr Airlines and were abducted in the town of Nyala on Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, the foreign ministry says a female US aid worker, held for more than 100 days in Darfur, has been freed unharmed and is now in Nyala. There has been a spate of abductions in the last year targeting foreigners. Correspondents say that most kidnappings appear to be for money. But the kidnappers said they had released the woman, who works for Samaritan’s Purse,... Continue Reading
KfW, Germany’s development bank, has financed internet access and improved international telecommunication for 250 million people in eastern and southern Africa. The 10,000 kilometre-long undersea cable that was co-financed with KfW and the resultant connectivity should serve as a growth impulse for the African economy. The East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), which KfW Entwicklungsbank co-financed with 13.2 million US dollars of its own funds, has “gone live”. The approximately 10,000 kilometres-long submarine fibre glass cable runs along the east African coast from South Africa to Sudan with land stations in Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and the Comoros.... Continue Reading
