I remember in 1994,” said Afwerki. “when experts from the World Bank came and said, “We’ll write the country program for you”; we never had any experience, we were a new nation, but the question came to my mind, so I said, why do we need someone else to write our country program? Why can’t we write our own one?
President of the Republic nation of Eritrea Isayas Afewerki
Speech on the unified front against debt
“Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa”, Thomas Sankara 1987
Sahara Reporters has been called the WikiLeaks of Africa.
Omoyele Sowore, a 40 year old political dissident from Nigeria produces the website from New York.
Sowore is dedicated to exposing corruption and greed in his home country.
One of the ways he does this is by tracing foreign property deeds and the assets of Nigeria’s political leaders.
DR CONGO: Women Candidates Needed
Women make up just 12 percent of the roughly 18,000 candidates who will stand for election to parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Nov. 28 elections.
According to the Permanent Framework for Dialogue for Congolese Women, a gender equality pressure group, only 42, or 8.4 percent, of the 500 members of the current National Assembly – the lower house of parliament – are women.
And there are just five women in the 108-member Senate, representing 4.4 percent, while the provincial legislatures have a total of 43 women representatives, or 6.8 percent of a total of 632.
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15 Africa Post: Kenyan young presidential hopeful
OXFORD student Kingwa Kamencu has set her sight on the highest seat in any country, the president’s office.
The hopeful candidate has already started her campaign ahead of the upcoming presidential elections which will take place in August 2012.
Ms Kamencu who describes herself as the…
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RWANDA yet again receives accolades from the international community for its development.
A recently released World Bank Doing Business Report is said to be an important indicator of which countries foreign businesses should invest in.According to the report, “a fundamental premise of…
The other side of the main stream media reports!
True words!
It is time to wake up, realize and recognize!
African nations needs to build a COMMON GROUND to stand on, for it is only then that Africa can enjoy emancipation from colonialism and post imperialsim. The greed of some African nations leader has to be stoped! The ECONOMIC GREED has inflected the minds of African leaders and is resulting in sellouts. Nigeria and Gabon submitted a proposal to the UN security council that Eritrea be sanctioned. Also, Nigeria was so quick to do what it did against Libya´s government, as a temporary member of the UN Security Council, so that Nigeria could sell more of its sweet crude oil while Libya´s sweet crude oil was pretty much off limits due to the civil war (sweet crude oil is the best crude oil in the world because it requires very little refining to make it useful as a fuel, especially for jet aircrafts). This act performed by the government of Nigeria makes me sick to my stomach! The leaders of Gabon are doing the exact same thing to the government of Eritrea because both Gabon and Eritrea rely quite a bit on the sell of gold.
So people! Especially Africans living in Africa and outside of Africa it is time to wake up, realize and recognize that a successful Africa only can be upheld if our African leaders merge and come to an agreement to build a common platform, to fulfill the dream that Muammar Ghadaffi had for Africa. It is time for Africa, as a continent, to reunite and realize its full potential. Once again, it is time to wake up, realize and recognize who your true enemies are, it is not your neighbouring country in africa, it is the western world with hidden agendas that steer some of the african nations with an iron fist.
