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If one followed the plight of the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in detention in Libya only by the publicity coming from the United Nations, one might believe that the European Union funding to control migrants from landing on the shores of Europe was working. You would be fatally wrong. Instead, that financial support …
Another round of xenophobic violence broke out recently in South Africa, targeting migrants from other African countries and claimed the lives of ten people. About 50 shops and businesses, cars and properties mainly owned by Africans immigrants were torched amid widespread looting. In similar anti-foreigner riots in 2008 and 2015, dozens of people were killed …
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One of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first challenges in keeping his pledge for a new era of cleaner government is right inside his own party in the person of Ace Magashule, who is now secretary-general of the African National Congress. Magashule has built up his power by creating a network of corruption and dark deeds to …
The film, An Act of Defiance, puts the spotlight on the 1963 trial of Nelson Mandela and nine of his African National Congress comrades in South Africa on charges of sabotage. It became known as the Rivonia Trial, and their lead lawyer was Bram Fischer, an Afrikaner. Lindie Koorts reports that the film is a …
Our editor, Steve Mallory, traveled to the Norwegian capital Oslo to investigate more deeply into the controversy surrounding the recent abortive attempt by Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to buy two properties in Oslo for Ghana’s newly opened embassy – one for the chancery and the other for the ambassador’s residence – …
At last count in early September, 3.7 million Rwandans (60% of the electorate) had signed a petition asking their president of 15 years, Paul Kagame – whose mandatory second term ends in 2017 – to run for a third term. The president claims he had no role in this effort to extend his rule, but …
Ghana’s former President John Agyekum Kufuor says people should not use his predecessor, President Jerry John Rawlings, or accept him as a measure of righteousness because the man is a hypocrite. Here are excerpts from an interview published by Africawatch in April 2010, where ex-President Kufuor explains why Rawlings continues to hurl insults at him. …