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In the wake of the enormous media coverage of the uprisings and so-defined “revolutions” in North Africa and the Middle East, I am hard pressed to find any media coverage of the escalating atrocities and impending civil war in Cote d’Ivoire. The “blackout” of this media coverage I am referring to is not within the [...]

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Dear Mr President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Though I am not your voter, I come from the same background like that of your humble voters. I come from the country where voters and all hoi polloi are but sheepish beasts of burden for hoity toitty like in your country. And they like this [...]

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Though Tanzania has always wrongly been regarded as a strong and peaceful country in the region, this does no longer hold water thanks to what transpired in the just ended elections. Recent sham and rigged general elections opened everything bare as it told the whole hidden story behind this former doyen of peace and tranquility in [...]

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Many African countries have unnecessary bigger governments made of cronies of their nugatory rulers as the way of repaying political favours. Aloof personal greedy and carbuncular constitutions, many parliaments are but rubber stamps when it comes to keep rulers on tenterhooks. Instead of keeping them honest, in some countries, they’re acting as the part of the [...]

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In its efforts to return the genie back into the bottle, EU decided to come forth and stand to be counted. Recent heroic and encouraging remarks by EU’s development Chief, Karel de Gucht sound cool and cannot pass without being enlivened. He said that Guinea head of Military junta, Cpt. Moussa Dadis Camara, who took power on [...]

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My name is Swindler, son of Conman. We’re having general elections next year in the country of goons. I thus better start campaigning even if the electoral commission hasn’t declared it yet. Given this is the season for reaping where nobody sowed through ballot box, I’m prepared to serve the goons. Though I deserve no honour, [...]

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