Journalist, Editor and authoritative commentator on African Affairs. Radio talk-show host and prominent guest speaker.
The pressure was on democratic South Africa even before President Nelson Mandela stood in the amphitheater and said “never again” to apartheid. The African countries that helped liberate South Africa have never stopped pushing it to muscularly help enforce and keep peace on the continent. That expectation is born of
Three-quarters completeded and already trapping rainwater falling into the Blue Nile catchment area, Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam has produced a hit record for one of the country’s most popular singers. Egypt fumes downstream about Ethiopia starting to fill the dam before a comprehensive agreement by riparian countries and leaves the
Write Laurent Gbagbo off at your peril. The former Cote d’Ivoire President who became the first former African head of state to appear in the dock at the International Criminal Court in the Hague has escaped more hazardous situations than Indiana Jones. One of these is that international tribunal sentencing
It was just a matter of time. President Donald Trump must have been deadly serious about wanting to postpone the U.S. election on November 3. After all, he tweeted about it. This is the first concrete indication he has given us that he fears he cannot beat Joe Biden. If
A distinction it probably could do without is the recognition that the Economic Community of West African State’s is the regional grouping most proficient in brokering and enforcing peace deals on the continent. Having that appellation confirms that the 15-nation ECOWAS is located in Africa’s roughest neighborhood. Like neighbours living
COVID 19 provokes the introduction: “Had it not been for the pandemic, this would be the time for ……” That encompasses both good and bad. So while many rue the loss of a holiday lazing on a Mediterranean beach, others regret not being able to take their lives in their
Egypt’s behavior in Libya flies in the face of everything the African Union stands for. Yet there is an ominous silence from the 55-member continental organisation. The AU echoes the United Nations in making clear its fears about the Libyan conflict becoming proxy war. It’s failure to condemn Egypt taking
It is pretty much common cause among strategic analysts that the next world war will be fought over water . The argument that oil might be the casus belli has been dealt a body blow by the Covid 19 lockdown. The black stuff remains vital to economic prosperity – important
by Jean-Jacques Cornish In journalism 101 we were taught never to give the oxygen of publicity to quack remedies for dreaded diseases. That’s why you don’t read, hear or see about cures for cancer in anything approaching responsible media. Believe me, these emerge daily from the crazies and the con-artists
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