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• Rwanda: Paul Kagame Says NO to Leaving Power in 2017

  

  Amanpour asked if that meant “yes,” he would step down.He replied, “No. It is a broad answer to say you don’t need to worry about anything.”Spanish protest... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Africa Needs Thousands of Lumumba

  

  Original caption: 12/2/1960- Leopoldville, Congo- Former Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, (right), his hands tied behind his back and without his glasses, is... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ghana’s Tears, 30 Years on

  

  By Prince Ofori-AttaGhana – UN pictureThere is one year Ghanaians won’t mind blotting out of history. A severe dry spell and bush fires resulted in a grim famin... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 SOCIETY

• French Intervention in Mali: Reading It from an African Perspective

  

  French military airplanesFor days Mali is experiencing a French military intervention to officially stop northern Islamists’ progress towards the capital –... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza: 3 Years After January 16th, 2010

  

  Victoire Ingabire, leader of FDU-nkingi, coming out of a Rwandan court with handcuffs.At the occasion of the third anniversary of Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Rwandan Hutus: Marginalized Or Killed

  

  Victoire ngabire, leader of FDU-Inkingi political party returned to Rwanda on January 16th, 2010 from exile. The Rwandan president Paul imprisoned her since... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Dr Denis Mukwege Returns to Bukavu.

  

  Dr Denis MukwegeDr Mukwege escaped an assassination attempt on his life on October 25, 2012 in Bukavu. He was almost days after taken to Europe for his safety.... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Kambale Musavuli’s Tribute to Aaron Swartz: a Freedom Fighter of a Different Kind

  

  The young man fought against the bill giving the US government control of the internet. Aaron SwartzAaron H. Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Paul Rusesabagina: Another Tribunal for Rwanda Needed

  

  Paul Rusesabagina and Don CheadleIn a long interview given to Daniel Kovalik and published on the Counterpunch website, Paul Rusesabagna, the Rwandan famously... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Rebranding Western Aid: Oxfam Case

  

  On Friday 4/1/13, Press TV brought together 3 panelists to discuss the issue of aid to Africa.The discussion was a consequence of the findings that Oxfam got... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Kagame’s Repression Continues: Mushayidi and Ntaganda on Hunger Strike

  

  For several months, mainstream media focus in the Great Lakes region, if any, has been on the situation of war in Eastern Congo caused by M23, a rebel group... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 SOCIETY

• DRC: No Drones, but Sanctions Against Rwanda

  

  DroneWho needs additional evidence of Rwanda interference in the Democratic Republic of Congo?I only see three possibilities. One has to consider the Rwandan... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Algeria: Why Did the Arab Spring Fail?

  

  Why Algeria? Why singling out that country?It’s an Arab country, but at the same time African. Almost any other North African has experienced fundamental... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Dr Denis Mukwege Advocates to End Impunity in DRC

  

  Dr Denis Mukwege. Medical Director of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu – South Kivu [DRC]. 30% of his clinic focuses on treating victims of rape.In an interview held... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Africa: A New Model for Scientific Development and Other

  

  Who is rethinking African development? One of the model’s main advantages is that it could reduce sustain-ably the brain drain that the continent has suffered... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 SOCIETY

• US Government Needs to Leave the Congolese People Alone

  

  “Today, we have neither democracy nor stability in Congo due to the continuous interference of Western governments in Congolese politics.” Kambale MusavuliIt... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 SOCIETY

• FDLR Movements Unfounded, Says MONUSCO

  

  Civilians fleeing fighting in Eastern CongoRumors related to thousands of FDLR forces and their family members having decided to return peacefully to Rwanda hav... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Patrice Lumumba Addressing the Congolese Youth

  

  Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. We need to write our own history.Patrice Lumumba – First elected Congolese prime minister“Thank... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2013 SOCIETY

• DRC: Standing Radically on the Issue of Women’s Rape

  

  Wivine Mumba Matipa – Congolese Minister of Justice and Human Rights…if Wivine Mumba Matipa, Minister of Justice and Human Rights and Genevieve Inagosi... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Murder, Mayhem and the UN: Carnage in the Congo

  

  By Thomas C. Mountain… create a crisis and then manage the chaos to better loot and plunder,…UN General AssemblyIt took me a moment to get to the bottom of... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 SOCIETY