Category: Africa News
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Refugees are not “political resources”
By Rebecca Buxton Theophilus Kwek Academics and policymakers alike have begun to push back, in earnest, against popular conceptions of refugees as a burden on their receiving societies. While these conceptions certainly ought to be challenged, we must be careful not to overlook refugees’ voices – and our own obligations – in the process. In…
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Promoting peace by waging war: African interventionism
By Obi Anyadike Editor-at-Large and Africa Editor NAIROBI Africa, the world’s poorest continent, faces many security challenges. But its leaders are not slow to intervene in crises when they can, as Yahya Jammeh in the Gambia is now discovering. His refusal to accept electoral defeat on 1 December has culminated in a coalition of West…
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African Commission asks CCG to submit arguments
Amid response by the Namibian government’s response has challenged the Caprivi Concerned Group to submit their arguments within 30 days. By Risco Lumamezi The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has asked the Caprivi Concerned Group (CCG) to respond to arguments submitted by the Namibian government, on the alleged mass-grave and other forms of…
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Egypt boat disaster shines light on new migration trend
By Hazel Haddon Just before sunrise on a warm September morning, mobile phones in the village of Green Island on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast began ringing urgently. “Our children began calling us from the sea. They said: ‘Save us! This boat is going to sink’,” Walid el-Hor, a community leader in the small fishing community, told…
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Zambia’s Edgar Lungu sworn in after disputed vote
Edgar Lungu inaugurated as president, after court bid by opposition leader fails to block swearing-in ceremony. Zambian President Edgar Lungu has been sworn into office after the country’s top court rejected a petition by the opposition to block his inauguration as “illegal and unconstitutional”. Lungu, re-elected last month in a closely contested vote, called for…
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Oil-rich Delta poses first big test for Nigeria’s new leader
By Obbina Anyadike PORT HARCOURT, (IRIN) – An early test for Nigerian president-elect Muhammadu Buhari is how his incoming administration will handle the volatile oil revenue-generating Delta, where former militia commanders pledged their support to Goodluck Jonathan, their clansman, who was emphatically beaten in the 28 March presidential election. The former Ijaw militants, all now…
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Barotse ex-prisoner speaks out
By Staff Reporter A former Zambian Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), public prosecutor Mr.Muleta Kalaluka from Mungu, has denounced the appointment of Inonge Wina, Zambia’s Vice President as a demise. “Inonge Wina her blood, is in Barotseland if she spits saliva on the floor whether she spits that saliva in state house for Northern Rhodesia, that…
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What you need to know about DRR
NAIROBI, (IRIN) – A new global plan to prepare for future natural and climate-linked disasters agreed in Sendai, Japan today has been condemned by development agencies as lacking in ambition and short-changing poorer countries that are most at risk. The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction agreed a framework for the next 15 years that…
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Zim cultural group to tour Namibia
By Burzil Dube A ZIMBABWEAN cultural dance group based in Hwange called Pezhuba Pachena will during the Easter Holidays embark on a tour of Namibia and Botswana as part of efforts to promote traditional music and dance beyond the country’s borders. In a recent interview with Caprivi Vision, the group’s artistic director,Mr Luckmore Munzambwa said…
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Nigeria’s north sanguine after elections postponed
MAIDUGURI, (IRIN) – Nigerian civil society is in uproar over the pressure exerted by the military on the country’s election body to postpone scheduled voting by six weeks. But in the northeast, the heartland of the Boko Haram insurgency the security forces say they need more time to crush, there is support for a delay.…
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