Stories about Sub-Saharan Africa from September, 2005
Sudan: Follow the crude
Ngomrom examines the death of Sudanese vice-president John Garang in a Ugandan helicopter crash , and the relationship between Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army and the possiblity of a seceded southern Sudan gaining possession of huge oil reserves.
Uganda, Darfur: Interrelated conflict
UgandaCAN urges the international community to think of the fighting in northern Uganda and Darfur as part of an interrelated regional conflict.
African countries get little from FDI
Black Star Journal takes a look at a U.N. report which finds that African countries see little benefit from foreign direct investment.
Zimbabwe: Simmering resentments
Zimpundit warns the Zimbabwean government that it faces “impending rage” from its people, and highlights rumors that President Robert Mugabe is preparing the ground to stay on past his promised retirement in 2008.
Sudan: Darfur pledge mp3
Via The Passion of the Present, a public service announcement mp3 advertising the “Darfur Pledge” campaign from The Ethic, namely to contact the White House weekly about the mass killings, rapes and displacement of people in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur. http://www.radiospace.com/AudioFiles/dppsa1-96.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple...
South Africa: A Tale of Two Cities
Dialogue-South Africa posts a speech drawing parallels between the struggle against apartheid and the situation in Israel/Palestine, saying that “we South Africans have a unique perspective on this issue.”
Lesotho: Car-pooling dreams
Sotho shares a vision of how a car-pool might work to reduce petrol costs for owners and provide transport for pedestrians in a poor country like Lesotho.
Ethiopia: Warning about Zenawi
Ethiomedia reports on a warning from opposition leader Berhnau Nega that the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is “trying to take the country into a dangerous situation”. It also reports a comment from a political observer who wondered why the BBC was “ignoring major events in the country”.
Kenya: Wangari Maathai
Emeka Okafor, on Africa Unchained, admires Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, saying that she exemplifies what Africans seek in their leaders.
Nigeria: Class war
A silent war is being waged, writes Chippla, between the Nigerian working classes who sit and listen to fire and brimstone sermons in the country's many houses of worship, and the ruling class who live it up overseas only to be arrested for money-laundering.
Uganda: Stretching a point
African Update lauds a report in the U.S. media asking what happened to the condoms in the Ugandan government's anti-HIV/AIDS strategy, but thinks that this may be one thing that can't be blamed on the Bush administration.
Sudan: Give a woman a bicycle
Sleepless in Sudan gets caught up in a gender-skewed debate about the use of bicycles in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp where she works.
Uganda: Atrocities continue
“The Ugandan military and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army continue to kill, rape and uproot civilians in northern Uganda with brazen impunity,” says a recent report from Human Rights Watch.
Zimbabwe: Post-dramatic stress syndrome
Zimpundit deconstructs his country's political drama (“the drama that is no longer a drama”), President Robert Mugabe's visit to the United Nations, and consequently his own political commentary.
Nigerian Suya!
A mala is seen here seated in front of his Suya Stand Suya (pronounced Su-hu-ya) That's the name of a piece of meat roasted on an open heat basin, with Oil, onions and salt. Suya is a popular food among the rich and the Nigerian middle class. Suya is usually...
Nigeria: The bus stops here
Chippla gets ready to say farewell to the time-honored, happy-g0-lucky methods of bus-boarding in Abuja, with the advent of posh new bus-stops in the city.
Kenya: Diplomatic rape scandal
Kenya Democracy Project quotes unnamed official sources on the reported rape of a Kenyan diplomat by a Kenyan diplomat in the United States, during the visit of President Mwai Kibaki.
Kenya: Cellphone money
Bankelele has seen the future of money transfers in Kenya, and it's cellphone-shaped.
Ethiopia: Collective memory
Ethiopundit posts a long and thoughtful essay drawing parallels between Marxist thought and HIV/AIDS, and between Ethiopian political culture and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat.
Microfinance initiative
Timbuktu Chronicles reports that major financial institutions are increasingly offering microfinancing options in developing countries.
Somalia: Political rallies
Inside Somaliland reports on two political rallies held to mark the start of campaigning for parliamentary elections in the internationally unrecognized territory, at which Somalia is urged to learn from Somaliland's example.
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