Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is set to win tomorrow’s presidential elections in Africa’s largest oil producer. Goodluck is credited for pushing forward with the amnesty process in the Delta region which has led to a reduction in violent attacks among various ethnic groups. He took office in May of 2010 and he has been the acting [...]

Prosecutors issued a 15 day detention order for Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, and his sons. Yesterday, Mubarak was brought to hospital because of a ‘heart crisis’, a move that was seen by most Egyptians with sheer skepticism. In fact, some Egyptian journalists saw it as an attempt on Mubarak’s family to find a [...]

Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seemed invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. (Mahatma Gandhi)

BBC ran a photo reportage on some of the most interesting coffins made by Ghanaian artists. You don’t get to see every day a coffin in the form of a fish, eagle head, car or plane. See all the pictures here.

This Friday, the Nobel committee would award Chinese peace activist Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Award for Peace in absentia. Mr Liu is currently serving an 11 year sentence for “subverting the state power” in China. The Chinese state reacted violently against the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award Liu the prize calling it “a complete [...]

I did not believe I will live the day when a top Kenyan official will publicly admit what has been the story of failed leadership for, well, the last fifty years. Finance ministry accountants recently told a parliamentary committee that the country might be losing up to 4 billion Us dollars every year due to [...]

So the geniuses at UNESCO decided that the President of Equatorial Guinea, President Teodoro Obiang should be awarded the Prize for Research in the Life Sciences. Desmond Tutu, Chinua Achebe, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and about 125 public intellectuals and scientists beg to differ. Obiang has allegedly driven more than 90 percent of the opposition in exile, has [...]

BBC ran a photo-gallery called Women of Power. Under one picture one can read the following explanation: “Among South Africa’s Venda people, Mpatheleni Makhaulele is a powerful woman. In this northern region, where traditional beliefs remain common, people say she has the power to heal the sick and ensure good health by praying to the [...]

The Overseas Development Institute (a leading independent think-tank working on international affairs) has recently published what they call a new and comprehensive report on how the world’s countries are performing in their quest to reach the Millennium Development Goals. Now, I am of the opinion that the MDGs will not be met, especially in the [...]

The military junta that removed Nigerien President Mamadou Tandja from power last February has pledged to organize the much waited elections in the next nine months. A referendum on the new constitution will be held in October and the first round of election in December. If no candidate gets a simple majority, a second round [...]