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  • senegalese shame

    Posted: July 31, 2008, 6:10 pm by kenopp
    The events in Senegal last Monday are yet another blow to the democratization of a very undemocratic continent of Africa. Senegal has always been a beacon of hope and a symbol of sobriety in the most turbulent region of the African continent. But even its impressive track record could not stop Abdoulaye Wade, one of [...]

  • kenyan new aids figures, cause for concern

    Posted: July 30, 2008, 7:38 pm by kenopp
    Otherwise millions more will die. Millions more will be orphaned. And millions that could have been spent building roads and schools will instead be spent on funerals and health costs.

  • I think I’ve caught Obamamania too

    Posted: July 25, 2008, 2:16 am by kenopp
    The speech and the pictures from Berlin did it all. I am a news and political junkie (no apologies) and have been keenly following the US presidential election ever since Iowa set things rolling in December of last year. Until today, I had been caucious about Barack Obama - I mean I read his two [...]

  • slavery in mali, sick and utterly disgusting

    Posted: July 17, 2008, 1:10 pm by kenopp
    The IRIN News website reports that thousands of Malians are still living in slavery in the North of this desert country. It is a shame that in the 21st century we should still have Africans, of whatever descent, enslaving their fellow countrymen. Last year I wrote a piece on the situation in Mali and pointed [...]

  • al-Bashir accused of war crimes and genocide

    Posted: July 14, 2008, 3:49 pm by kenopp
    Again, al-Bashir may never see the inside of a cell in the Hague but it is a triumph for justice, or more appropriately, the quest for justice.

  • Kimunya exit a loss for kenya

    Posted: July 8, 2008, 12:12 am by kenopp
    Politics is a dirty game. To that let me also add that all human beings made of bone and flesh are fallible. These two truisms proved their worth once again today when Kenya’s Finance Minister Amos Kimunya resigned in connection to the fraudulent sale of the corruption tainted Grand Regency Hotel. Corruption accusations, whether valid or [...]
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