| News: East African Community wrangles |
News: East African Community
We continue to love the idea, at least the state does, our brothers south of the border it seems do not. East Africa Minister Amason Kingi just out of a Zanzibar conference quoted saying the Tanzanians are asking the other states to slow down in unification efforts. The Customs Union was supposed to have morphed by year end into a full common market, with equal rights for migration, property purchases, etc.
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| News: On Somalia's woes |
News: On Somalia
The president of the
TFG, the Transitional Government was quoted in the papers earlier lamenting
that the government's MPs had taken to making their home in Nairobi, escaping
the pressing challenge of the Al-Shahab who were threatening to take the entire
country, and who had the government pressed on all sides defending now just
Mogadishu and Baidoa (the seat of the government).
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| What The World Owes Congo |
What The World Owes Congo
Last summer, the national news media announced the deaths of four gorillas killed in a national park in eastern Congo. A United Nations delegation was quickly dispatched to investigate.
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| The Absurdity of Hopelessness |
The Absurdity of Hopelessness
First we are the only country in the world to declare a public holiday to honour the election of a foreign head of state. That was bad enough. But our national obsession with Barack Obama knows no bounds.
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Editorial: President-elect Barack Obama
Senator Barack Obama has been declared the 44th President Elect of the United States. The Kenyan government has declared tomorrow, Thursday 6th November, a public holiday.
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| My Victory Speech (text and video) |
My Victory Speech (text and video)
Published below is the text of the US 44th President-elect- Barack Obama's speech. Please make your reactions in the comment box below.
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| Liveblogging the US Elections |
 | Liveblogging the US Elections
It is the fourth of November, the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. America votes today, and the world watches.
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| Africa and global finance: potential resistance? |
Africa and global finance: potential resistance?
Far-reaching strategic debate is underway about how to respond to the
global financial crisis, and indeed how the North's problems can be
tied into a broader critique of capitalism.
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| China's mythical military menace |
China’s mythical military menace
For some time now the press in the global ‘North' has enjoyed itself making its readers' blood freeze with scare stories about the impending takeover of poor defenceless Africa by the Chinese;Yellow Peril'.
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| A changing morality: Obama and Kenya |
A changing morality: Obama and Kenya
The Kenyan papers are filled with reports on the US
election; the country is in a proper frenzy. The Prime Minister has declared
that we do not expect Obama to win, we know he will. It is all very exciting.
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| American Stories, American Solutions (video) |
 | American Stories, American Solutions (video)
There are only five days left until Americans pick their new president. Over 16.5 million voters have already cast early ballots all across the US. According to a Washington Post survey 59% of these votes are in favor of Senator Barack Obama.
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| Kenya: Exploring Obama's Religious Roots |
 | Kenya: Exploring Obama's Religious Roots
On a recent trip to Kenya, I sat down with Said Obama, Sen. Barack Obama's uncle, and asked him about his family and religion.
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| Darfur, ICC and the new humanitarian order |
Darfur, ICC and the new humanitarian order
On July 14, after much advance publicity and fanfare, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court applied for an arrest warrant for the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, on charges that included genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Important questions of fact arise from the application as presented by
the prosecutor. But even more important is the light this case sheds on
the politics of the “new humanitarian order.”
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| Obama and McCain Debate on Foreign Affairs (Transcript) |
| Obama and McCain Debate on Foreign Affairs (Transcript)
Published below is the transcript of the presidential debate between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. Jim Lehrer from the Public Broadcasting Station was the moderator.
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| Liveblog: US Presidential Debate Foreign Policy |
| Liveblog: US Presidential Debate | Foreign Policy
In less than an hour hour, the US presidential debates will begin. The debate-that-almost-never-happened following Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain suspension of his campaign will begin at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss).
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| Thumbs up Mbeki! |
 | Thumbs up Mbeki!
The resignation of South African president Thabo Mbeki is one of the bravest political acts in Africa in recent times. Mbeki has proved that he is indeed a democrat per excellence.
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| Kibaki's Speech to the UN General Assembly |
 | Kibaki's Speech to the UN General Assembly
Published here is the speech President Mwai Kibaki made today in New York at the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly.
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| Mbeki's final speech to South Africa (transcript) |
| Mbeki's final speech to South Africa (transcript)
Fellow South Africans, I have no doubt that you are aware of the announcement made yesterday (on saturday) by the National Executive Committee of the ANC with regard to the position of the President of the Republic.
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| Brockmann's address to the UN General Assembly |
 | Brockmann's address to the UN General Assembly
Published here are remarks made today by Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, at the opening of the General Debate United Nations in New York.
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