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AFRICAN UNION DIASPORA HIGH LEVEL MEETING

The biggest gathering of selected high caliber African Diasporan will take place on Thursday, October 6, 2011, during the African Union Diaspora High Level meeting organized by the African Union Diaspora Task Team to aggressively pursue the concrete realization of the dream and mission indicated when the African Union created and recognized the African Diaspora as the 6th Region of the African continent.  The meeting will be held at the Conference Hall of the African Union Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations, 305 East 47th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10017, between 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Rwanda/Democratic Republic of Congo: 21 years since 1st October 1990

These two countries had lived peacefully as neighbours from times expanding back before the arrival of Europeans. Throughout their characterised histories, they had had their own specific problems, but most of the time, these were cared for within the boundaries of their respective territorial spaces.  Then from 1/10/90, their shared tranquillity was going to change forever by atrocities rarely seen in past experiences of humankind.

Africa faced with same threats as 50 years ago

The following document was posted online by Explo Nani Kofi, who is an active  pan Africanist. Knowing what happened only this year [2011] on the African continent with reference to few examples such as Libya, Ivory Coast, and Uganda, everyone can understand that what the content of this document tells us is not a new phenomenon. Imperialist forces were yesterday active protecting their economic interests while most parts of the continent were gaining their political independence from their colonizers. Today the same forces are pursuing similar objectives under globalization. Nothing has changed, except time and actors.

Taking Rwandan politics into a sustainable ground

From immemorial times, Rwandan politicians [or generally those whose decisions have always impacted on destinies of many in the country of The  Thousand Hills], have all along past and present generations planted the seeds for future injustices, instead of establishing laws and implementing policies which guarantee fairness and equal opportunities to all.

A significant and telling twist in Victoire Ingabire’s trial in Rwanda

Court hearing of Victoire Ingabire, main leader of the Rwandan opposition to Kagame’s regime, took a telling twist today, when the Judge decided to postpone it. Boniface Twagirimana, interim Vice President of FDU-Inkingi, opposition party of which the accused is chairperson, reports from Kigali on the events in the courtroom.

Rwanda: Kagame facilitates killing of political opponent and flies abroad

An attempt of assassination on Eric Nshimyumuremyi was committed on 15/9/11 in Kigali. This criminal act is similar to those that Kagame’s government continues to perpetrate against opponents, and seems to be intended for political intimidation. [People will remember cases of General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa who was closely missed by his assassins in South Africa or the murdered Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, which both occurred last year]. The incident occurred while the Rwandan president was since Saturday 10/9/11 travelling to France and US to gain or renew personal support, since his regime is faced with increasing international disapproval, because of its criminal activities inside and outside the country.

Museveni’s – NRM’s strategic plan to rule till 2042 or lessons on how to establish an African aristocracy

 At the time African dictatorships are faced with popular outrage about their illegitimate longevity, it is important to understand strategies which sustain them at the expense of populations’ prosperity they lead. The following narrative might seem unbelievable to some readers. But the story it does tell is no more different from what other groupings [secret societies from Western countries] such as Skull and Bones, The Bohemian Grove, The Round Table, The Inquiry, Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, or The Bilderberg have developed and achieved throughout history. And some of them continue to influence the course of national and world events from where their members live.

Paul Kagame in Paris: A case of racial prejudice towards African victims of state terrorism

The man responsible of the disappearance of 500,000 Hutu refugees in DRC, Rwandan president Paul Kagame, is today [Monday 12/9/11] guest of French president Nicholas Sarkozy in Paris. It has been now fifteen years since an international complicit slaughter of these Hutu refugees. In the process and afterwards, several millions of Congolese died when Kagame’s RPF soldiers and other armies [Ugandan and Burundian] jointly with rebel Congolese movement of Laurent Kabila raged a campaign to topple Mobutu. The chaos they have created in Democratic Republic of Congo has enabled the ongoing looting and plundering of the country’s minerals. On Sunday 11/9/11, Washington and London remembered solemnly 2,977 victims of al-Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers in New York, ten years ago. Almost 6 millions of Congolese and Rwandan victims of criminal regimes don’t have any memorial and cannot even be officially remembered. Maybe this can somehow explain the reason Nicholas Sarkozy can receive with all due honours the Rwandan president whose criminal responsibility is far worst than that of the 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorists.

NTC leaders: Can you stop the slaughter of Black people in the New Libya?

On 31/8/11, Colette Braeckman, a Belgian journalist, wrote a note
in French on the plight of Black people in the New Libya, only days after Gaddafi had been overthrown from Tripoli. The course of events, particularly in reference to what might come to be called revenge killings in the future, reminds of what happened to Hutu refugees who, after the defeat of Juvenal Habyarimana’s soldiers in 1994, were pursued and hundreds of thousands of them were killed inside Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. It was only 16 years later [exactly on 1/10/10] that the international community through the UN Mapping report acknowledged that atrocities including those of genocide nature had been committed by the victorious RPF and other affiliated armies. Can David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy learn from such recent history of military conflicts and stop their humanity from being blinded by the riches they are counting from their venture in Libya? Please read an English translation of Braeckman’s note.

Libya: A Wake Up Call For African Leaders

By Ansah Nana – GhanaWeb Columnist

“If Africa was united, no major power bloc would attempt to subdue it by limited war because, from the very nature of limited war, what can be achieved by it is itself limited. It is only where small states exist that it is possible, by landing a few thousand marines or by financing a mercenary force, to secure a decisive result” Kwame Nkrumah