Yosh Tandon: "Africa is run by a global kleptocratic system that enriches a minute number of economic and power elite in Africa along with the global bankocrats and corporatocrats at the one end of the pole while it impoverishes the masses of African people at the other end of the pole. Economists call this ‘rent seeking,’ but it is simply looting."
Shiraz Durrani. Information Society and Justice (ISJ) is a biannual peer-review journal based in the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (DASS) at the London Metropolitan University.
Nnimmo "Bassey’s work is rooted in the reality of what is happening now in Africa, and his knowledge and vision are increasingly recognised. In 2008 he was elected Chair of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), the world’s largest grassroots environmental network. In 2009 he was named by TIME magazine as a Hero of the Environment. In 2010 he was a winner of the Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize). In 2011, along with other climate campaigners from the South, he is in Durban."
CNN Dec 20, 2010: "One of the nightmare scenarios of the 21st century is a "rogue state" or terror group getting its hands on nuclear material that could be sufficiently enriched to make a weapon. And diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that from central Africa to central Asia, it's a constant preoccupation of U.S. officials. Two cables from 2007 detailed the discovery of uranium in "multiple containers" in the Democratic Republic of Congo."
Care petition against land grab Saudi Arabia "Resistance doesn't help when you are relocated, often being met with threats, violence and arrest, according to Human Rights Watch. The thousands already moved are just the beginning; the Ethiopian government plans to relocate 1.5 million people by next year. "
Huffington Post 28.1.2012 In the desert of Southern Tunisia, a group of renewable energy entrepreneurs, NUR Energie Ltd, and their Tunisian joint venture partner, Top Oilfield Services, are creating what may just be the most ambitious solar power renewable energy project to date. Along with the endorsement of the Desertec Foundation, NUR Energie has launched the TuNur project to export solar energy from North Africa to Europe, linking Tunisia to Italy via a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Cable and into the Italian electricity grid in order to supply a constant 2,000 MW of electricity. When completed, TuNur is set to be the world's largest solar energy project.
"Remove Corruption Not Subsidies" "469 NASS members gulp N1.12 trillion and its ok....But 160million citizens gulp N1.3trillion and it becomes an issue. #OCCUPYNIGERIA."
The repatriation of human remains ... has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa. This contribution situates the current issues and practices of memory politics between Namibia and Germany within their historical context.
j’aurais tendance à dire que cela s’inscrit dans une continuité graduelle qui renvoie à la marche des femmes sur Koulouba,...mécontentement profond au sein de l’armée... une crise de l’autorité militaire au sein de l’armée nationale... des militaires ont été impliqués dans l’acheminement de drogues illicites... des anciens rebelles aient été intégrés avec des grades importants, y compris au niveau du grade d’officier, et qu’on leur ait donné comme affectation des lieux de leur pays d’origine, à savoir le nord Mali. ... les conditions de l’impunité... chef de l’Etat qui ne sait peut-être pas suffisamment communiquer avec la population
On May 16, General Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, announced that AFRICOM, the American military mission in AFRICOM, would expand its activities, sending soldiers throughout the continent in a new plan of training, and it would involve a new combat detachment. Now—combat division, I should say. Now joining us to talk about this is Maurice Carney. He's the executive director and cofounder of Friends of the Congo, based in Washington, D.C.
Said: " il nous faut considérer l’oeuvre de Camus comme une transfiguration métropolitaine du dilemme colonial : c’est le colon écrivant pour un public français, dont l’histoire personnelle est irrévocablement liée à ce département français du Sud ; dans tout autre cadre, ce qui se passe est inintelligible."