It’s worse than hell: Drained emotionally and materially, Ukrainian military fear being overrun by Russians
Ukraine’s soldiers talk of exhaustion, faith, personal loss and a perilous shortage of munitions as Russian forces take new ground. We travelled along the front line, where Ukrainian troops say Vladimir Putin must be beaten back. Otherwise, said one, “he’s not going to stop over here.”
South Africa’s assassinations epidemic: ANC, like Kanu in Kenya, leaves a trail of political killings
Political demagoguery, explain Prof Oniang’o and Salat, is the source of disenchantment with ANC and Kanu, leading to splits. Similar situations obtain in Zimbabwe, where independence parties Zapu-PF and Zanu-PF are sliding into insignificance. They are accused of the same mistakes Kanu made in Kenya, and which are currently being replayed in South Africa as the country holds its seventh general election.
Walk from freedom: South Africa’s ANC loses favour with voters as it suffers ‘Kanu moment’
When Tell Media caught up with Salat to shed light on such unedifying comparisons. He summed it up as “an abuse of trust by Kanu” that is being replicated all over Africa. According to Salat, Kanu has become a “case study in Africa for betraying the wretched of the earth.”
Sudan’s descent into chaos provides fertile ground for al-Qaeda gestation, spread terror
Sudan’s civil strife predates the current fighting by decades. It ignited in 1989 when al-Bashir seized power, aligning the nation with radical Islamist ideologies. He imposed Sharia law and in 1991 sheltered al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Under al-Bashir’s regime, bin Laden established training camps and expanded al-Qaeda’s financial network, laying the groundwork for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Uncertainty hangs over ruling ANC party as South Africans get ready to vote next week
The vote occurs in the lower house of Parliament, known as the National Assembly, and it needs at least 201 votes from its 400 lawmakers to elect a president. The ANC has always had a majority in Parliament since 1994 and so the president has always been from the ANC.
South Africa’s Hammanskraal community’s struggles for clean and safe water symbolise widespread political pessimism
Resident gather at a water tank to collect water in the Hammanskraal township, Pretoria, south Africa on may 22, 2024. Hammanstraal’s problems are a snapshot of the issues affecting millions and driving a mood of discontent in South Africa that might force its biggest political change in 30 years in the next week’s national elections.
South Africa dropped its optimist ‘Rainbow Nation’ tag to become world’s crime capital where immigrants are hunted like rats
Dudula’s Deputy Secretary General Isaac Lesole rejected the allegations that the group harassed or abused migrants in the block. He said the group’s code of conduct, allowed members only to ask if someone has legitimate visa papers, not to demand to see them. He disputed the charge of vigilantism, saying their role was always to alert legitimate authorities.
How Mandela’s vision of Black unity faded in the heat of xenophobia as South Africa slammed doors on migrants
The May 29 election could mark the end of an era for post-liberation South Africa, with the long-dominant ANC expected to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time, abandoned by voters incensed at a litany of national woes including a dearth of decent housing, frequent power cuts, water shortages, poor schools, rampant joblessness and high crime.
‘You have guns, you don’t need a salary’ mantra sowed in national army by past regimes makes it difficult for UN forces to repulse Congo rebels
Criminality continues to bedevil the Congolese military, a major flaw that is cited in nearly every report of the UN Group of Experts on the DRC since 2011. Congolese security forces set up illegal roadblocks to extort citizens. They parcel off and control fiefdoms. They sell weapons to whomever is willing to pay, including the very forces they are fighting. They make deals with shadowy businessmen to pilfer minerals into neighbouring countries. These practices have long been the norm.
How successive regimes in Kenya ruthlessly effected scorched earth policy to pauperise Luhyia and Luo, then profile them as lazy
Our children now sit their Form Four (secondary school) exams and thereafter head to Kibra and Kawangware to look for menial jobs. They are ridiculed as pagazi (slaves). We are so poor that when the NCPB (National Cereals and Produce Board) Kisumu edition of the scandal was exposed last month, all the players in the team were Kip-This, Kip-That and Kip-Steal! The granary is bang in the middle of our land, but the products kept in it, plus the keepers and the thieves, come from elsewhere. How about that! Our own sons and daughters qualify for pagazi roles, their skills level notwithstanding.
