tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:22:41 +0000African development, global politics, economics, and social commentary from an African perspective. "Until Lions have their own historians tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." (African proverb)http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Dom)Blogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-6163673390216465542Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:39:00 +00002009-03-19T20:34:18.402-04:00The recent SADC statement condemning "in the strongest terms the circumstances that led to the ousting of a democratically-elected president of Madagascar" comes as a breath of fresh air to peace loving people who are tired of the theatrics in our African politrics. How I wish this had been done in many other African countries! SADC is finally displaying some political maturity. Though Andry http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2009/03/africans-reject-madagascar-leader-case.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-5209679637048801669Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:52:00 +00002009-03-12T12:24:38.609-04:00As much as I would like to celebrate the recent ruling by South Africa's Constitutional Court to uphold the voting rights of citizens living abroad, there is something bitter- sweet about seeing other countries make strides in the right direction while my own continues to languish in untold suffering. But, for what it’s worth, SA must be congratulated for joining other enlightened countries thathttp://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2009/03/south-african-court-grants-citizens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-5999066897308362780Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:24:00 +00002009-03-06T06:34:48.439-05:00Judges of the ICC issued a warrant of arrest for President Omar Al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan. In light of this expected development, I wonder whether Sudan will finally know any peace. Many will be quick to point out the hypocrisy of the ICC in issuing this warrant while George Bush walks free in Texas, while others will note that this warrant http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2009/03/bashir-must-be-locked-up-but-what-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-9199288740714606898Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:32:00 +00002008-04-22T20:34:20.042-04:00On April 18, 2008, Zimbabwe turned twenty-eight. Though we suffered and sacrificed, the promise of independence, peace, and prosperity offered us enough comfort to shoulder on undeterred. But, today poverty and political anxiety prevail. Anyone who has picked up a newspaper in the last few years may well be aware of the numerous reasons cited for Zimbabwe's crisis. They include colonialism, http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2008/04/zimbabweans-forget-mugabe-end-apathy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-1513259279768695324Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:17:00 +00002008-04-13T01:32:11.330-04:00As the world continues under the powerful grip of political anxiety over the election results in Zimbabwe, I wonder what child will be born to us from this political pregnancy. But, what baffles me the most is how and why one man’s fate would swallow up the entire imagination of Zimbabwe and indeed the world. With the media hovering on Zimbabwe like a fish eagle spotting a potential lunch in the http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2008/04/zimbabwe-burns-sadc-drinks-tea-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-3710676619743173374Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:46:00 +00002008-04-07T13:53:17.969-04:00Zimbabwe is again on the front pages as the world looks to see whether there is change in the country. Media stories have been reciting the same song of how Mugabe has killed the economy and that he must go. However, no one ha been focusing on what must be done to revive the country's economy. Mugabe or no Mugabe, Zimbabwe will need a lot of help because of the following facts on the ground: http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-me-pair-of-scissors-as-zimbabwe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-938908005081760715Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:50:00 +00002007-11-26T11:53:29.803-05:00Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 14:41 GMT Zimbabwean: 'We were the enemy'Zimbabwean Richard Donald Munsaka, 53, told the BBC News website, via telephone from his home in the north-western town of Hwange, how he felt after hearing that the ex-Rhodesia leader Ian Smith had died. Below is an article from the BBC new site.Ian Smith was a sick old man. I don't begrudge him for what he did - I think he http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/11/memories-of-ian-d-smith-former-prime.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-5441632511523785564Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:06:00 +00002007-09-26T22:39:10.320-04:00Full Text Below:107th CONGRESS1st Session S. 494To provide for a transition to democracy and to promote economic recovery in Zimbabwe.IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESMarch 8, 2001Mr. FRIST (for himself and Mr. FEINGOLD) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign RelationsA BILLTo provide for a transition to democracy and to promote economic http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/09/zimbabwe-democracy-and-economic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-1911720130107950395Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:08:00 +00002007-08-16T16:43:22.696-04:00Chevron Nigeria Ltd is to stand trial later this year in the United States for the alleged murder of villagers in the Niger Delta region in two separate incidents in 1998 and 1999. According to the Nigerian Daily, THISDAY NEWS, “the lawsuit was brought against Chevron eight years ago in San Francisco Federal Court by nine Nigerian plaintiffs for alleged wrongful deaths, torture, and other abuses http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/08/chevron-to-face-trial-in-us-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-9181664904479671427Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:26:00 +00002007-08-13T14:39:59.383-04:00News that Africa will provide all of the 26,000 peacekeepers to be sent to Sudan's Darfur region mark a historic chapter in African politics. According to the BBC, “AU chairman Alpha Oumar Konare said enough African troops had been promised for no outside help to be needed.” While the UN had expected to call on Asian troops from Indonesia, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, the announcement that thehttp://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/08/darfur-force-to-be-all-african-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-1785920454951442016Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:10:00 +00002007-07-31T10:00:05.935-04:00Talks to find a lasting solution in northern Uganda's 20-year conflict between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army rebels are said have stalled. Though many reasons are being given for this development, a few days ago talks were moved to an unspecified date after the government and donors could not meet the rebels demand for US$2 million to ferry delegates, carry out http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/ugandan-peace-process-talls-as-rebels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-7793474622745645828Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:07:00 +00002007-07-23T21:30:42.652-04:00According to the BBC News, an EU delegation is in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to broker a deal to free the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of children with HIV and imprisoned in Libya since 1999. As part of the deal, Libya is said to be seeking renewed diplomatic ties with the EU and more funds to treat the infected children as part of any deal to http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/libya-seeks-eu-diplomatic-ties-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-121179919696855115Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:34:00 +00002007-07-21T16:18:57.565-04:00Reuters News reports that the United Nations has suspended a Moroccan military contingent from its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast while it investigates allegations of Moroccan soldiers having sex with a large number of underage girls in Ivory Coast's northern rebel stronghold of Bouake. Locals complained to the UN after it ran a campaign against sexual exploitation in which it asked local http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/un-suspends-moroccan-military-contigent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-8003530873252092825Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:12:00 +00002007-07-19T13:27:54.416-04:00Various news sources claim that Zimbabwe Catholic Archbishop Pius Alick Mvundla Ncube, one of Mugabe's fierce critics, is being sued for alleged adultery by the husband of a woman who worked as a secretary in the archbishop's office at St Pius Catholic Church in Bulawayo. Onesimus Sibanda, the plaintiff, accuses the Archbishop of having an adulterous affair with his wife, Rosemary, and has http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/mugabe-critic-bishop-ncube-accused-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-8042635211832353369Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:22:00 +00002007-07-16T09:19:37.087-04:00http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com The BBC News, reports that Retired Major-General and former Ugandan Health Minister Jim Muhwezi, together with former senior government officials-deputies, Captain Mike Mukula, Dr Alex Kamugisha and former state house official Alice Kaboyo- are on trial in Kampala for embezzling nearly $4.3m (£2.15m) and abusing their offices. It is alleged that they http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/ugandan-aids-scam-trial-begins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-8499281265324231188Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:59:00 +00002007-07-12T13:47:59.756-04:00http://allafrica.com/stories/200707110814.htmlIt is morally repugnant that millions of dollars worth of Malaria, ARV Drugs should be rotting in National Medical Stores (NMS) in Uganda while thousands of Ugandans perish everyday of HIV/Aids and malaria without treatment. According the Monitor News in Kampala, MPs on the Social Services Committee were shocked to find eight containers of 2- feet, http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/aids-drugs-worth-billions-expire-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-9201443704947222736Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:21:00 +00002007-07-11T07:32:10.982-04:00Assistant Ministers in Kenya are reported to have lodged complaints with the government for being underutilized and having no clear mandate. Over the last few weeks many of them have threatened to resign unless something is done to ensure that they are given the respect that they deserve. The latest of this saga has seen them meeting with President Mwai Kibaki, asking him to evoke Section 24 of http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/assistant-ministers-in-kenya-want-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-5236261743620267234Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:10:00 +00002007-07-07T09:40:01.057-04:00href="http://www.africanviewpoint.blogspot.com"> According to the BBC News, Congo's president-Denis Sassou-Nguesso- has condemned a French investigation into alleged embezzlement by him and Gabon's leader-Omar Bongo Ondimba- as "racist" and "colonial". There are on-going investigations on claims that Nguesso's properties are ill-gotten wealth that must be seized and sold, with the http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/congo-and-gabon-leaders-condemn-french.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-4805653489523882578Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:29:00 +00002007-07-03T09:15:32.811-04:00For someone looking for something to critique, is is not always difficult to read stories and theories into people's words. Though many a times I have found myself reading things in a flashlight mode searching for answers to questions I have held for a while, I read Rev Jesse Jackson's assertion that the Diaspora needs voice in the Africa government with much interest and openness of mind. I did http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/african-unity-can-jesse-jackson-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-4395986486026377359Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:48:00 +00002007-06-29T07:40:35.588-04:00From the recent NY Times article (06/27/07) that Zimbabwe’s government wants 51% stake in virtually all publicly traded companies to be transferred to Zimbabweans, one could be tempted to think that Zimbabwe has finally reached the promised land. A land where Africans are self-determining, sovereign, and where virtually all or the majority of African resources are for their betterment. One could http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/06/mugabe-wants-51-of-all-companies-to-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-4854692348211842678Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:18:00 +00002007-06-28T21:20:22.090-04:00Curse in mind, cursor in hand, I was just about to go on the offensive on Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua for his seemingly suspicious invitation to work with the opposition party. My simple reason being that I found it appalling that he wants to have a few opposition party members to be in his government. I still believe that African opposition parties need not be swallowed by ruling http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/06/nigerian-president-opens-new-chapter-in_28.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-2472356990110840119Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:37:00 +00002007-06-27T19:55:34.720-04:00You would think that by now the CIA would at least be humble enough to admit that yes, indeed, they assassinated Lumumba and his dangerous dreams for " economic independence, social justice and political self-determination, and his hostility to a political setup based upon tribal divisions, which the colonialists had effectively used to divide and rule Africa," as the Rwanda News Agency reports. http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/06/cia-had-plan-to-assassinate-lumumba-did.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-1046764979861861887Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:40:00 +00002007-06-26T22:54:00.132-04:00It comes as not much of a surprise that, for the nth time, Western Companies who treat African countries like dumping grounds or exploitation fields, depending on their mood, have again gotten of the hook. The Dutch oil-trading group Trafigura agreed to pay pay $198m (£102m) for a clean-up and investigation for dumping toxic waste that killed children in Ivory Coast. The families of 16 people whohttp://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/06/poisoned-ivorians-reject-payout-what.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-5562058782213789607Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:19:00 +00002007-06-26T22:39:44.616-04:00The news canvas of Africa today shows Pfizer wining an early Nigeria battle in which a Nigerian court, presided over by a Nigerian, refused to allow more cases to be added to a lawsuit against Pfizer. The Nigerian government wants $7bn in damages and compensation for the families of the children who died or suffered serious side-effects during improper drugs trials on children. In Zimbabwe, http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/06/gaddafi-may-just-have-point.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815393026514135897.post-8122808406016397889Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:53:00 +00002007-06-26T00:10:05.131-04:00They say our names make us who we are. And if names are anything to go by in terms of determining one's calling in life, then believe me, His Excellency Robert Gabriel Mugabe may be up to something very historic. I know the press has been suppressing his middle name Gabriel just in case people connect him to Gabriel the Angel. But there are too many coincidences for me to ignore, more so, http://africanviewpoint.blogspot.com/2007/06/behold-au-shalt-conceive-iand-bring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dom)0