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Obama and the fallacy of the African dream

When then-Senator Barrack Obama won the presidential election in the USA, ahead of Republican Party nominee John McCain, on Tuesday, November 3 in 2008 â€“ Africa as a whole celebrated the election of a man many people on the continent reg…

Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 14:54hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka

Libya: 3 soldiers killed in Benghazi clashes

Benghazi - At least three soldiers were killed as special forces clashed with armed activists in the eastern port city of Benghazi early on Saturday, the army reported.The interim leader of Libya's army warned of the danger of a "bloodbath…

Published: 15 Jun 2013 at 07:34hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter

Securocrats and the future of Zimbabwe's politics

The Zimbabwean security sector has projected itself under the banner of the infamous generals as a major political player in Zimbabwean politics.The generals of the the army, police and prison services have privately and publicly sworn and…

Published: 24 May 2012 at 12:44hrs | 1 | by Khumbulani Malinga

Seven reasons why the WEST wanted Gadaffi dead

1. Gaddafi wouldn't bow down to the Rothschild central reserve banking cartel.2. Gadaffi Proposed $400 million African Satellite - Gadaffi alone came up with $300 million for this project. For those who ask, whats the big deal in it, it's …

Published: 01 Nov 2011 at 11:24hrs | 951 | by -

The murderous western touch

So now Muammar Gaddafi has died; apparently after being incapacitated by the fire power of US drones and French gunship bombers, and left to face a very primitively ruthless death at the hands of the NATO led rebels.Jurist Special Guest Co…

Published: 27 Oct 2011 at 05:24hrs | 4 | by Reason Wafawarova

GaddafiâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s death: An end to tyranny or prosperity?

Gaddafi's death: An end to tyranny or prosperity?The death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is one of the major highlights in the Arab Spring that began in January when a Tunisian young man set himself on fire. What started 10 months ago in Tuni…

Published: 25 Oct 2011 at 04:42hrs | 1065 | by Phithizela Ngcobo

GaddafiâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s death: An end to tyranny or prosperity?

GaddafiâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s death: An end to tyranny or prosperity? The death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is one of the major highlights in the Arab Spring that began in January when a Tunisian young man set himself on fire. What started 10…

Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 22:07hrs | 638 | by Phithizela Ngcobo

Zanu-PF should learn from the Libyan experience

Zimbabwe's dictator Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party should draw lessons from the demise of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya who met his brutal death in a dramatic way in Sitre on Thursday 20 October 2011. There are many people in Libya and abr…

Published: 22 Oct 2011 at 18:17hrs | 634 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri

Crucifying the innocent, feting Barabas

Well the UN General Assembly is underway and nowhere was Robert Copper's dream of a world of double standards evident than at this great gathering of animals great and small.To those who may not have heard of Robert Cooper. He was former B…

Published: 21 Sep 2011 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Caesar Zvayi

Trying to avoid another Libya in Zimbabwe

The world is watching what is going on in Libya but there are some who are not just watching; there are some who are watching and trembling. Among those who are watching and trembling, there are those who are planning. Among the various pl…

Published: 13 Sep 2011 at 04:53hrs | | by Prince, The Promises Of My People

Interpol issues Gaddafi arrest warrant

The Hague. - Interpol yesterday issued arrest warrants for deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi.The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, previo…

Published: 11 Sep 2011 at 07:21hrs | 1313 | by AFP

Libyan Ambassador Case: Zanu-PF bitter

THE recent booting out of the Libyan Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Taher Elmagrahi, shows that Zanu-PF is bitter after the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, some politicians have said.In interviews, officials from various political for…

Published: 07 Sep 2011 at 07:13hrs | 215 | by weeklyagenda

Shame on you AU!

Well the Nato Alliance, which over the past few weeks had been so stumped by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's resilience to the extent that the French component had proposed dialogue with Gaddafi is over the moon after helping smuggle their proxi…

Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 05:03hrs | 3 | by Caesar Zvayi

Powerful blasts rock Libya's capital

Benghazi - Several powerful blasts rocked Libya's capital on Tuesday, as the executive branch of Libya's rebel government was sacked in a political crisis a week after their military chief's assassination.The explosions in the Fernej distr…

Published: 09 Aug 2011 at 09:51hrs | 607 | by Moyo Roy

Why would Mugabe help Gaddafi!

Just like the Gaddafi regime, The Mugabe government has long feared that Britain and its Western allies would ally to work out a plan that would force him out of power. Both men were liberation fighters and saw themselves, at the beginning…

Published: 09 Jun 2011 at 09:39hrs | 690 | by Anissa Haddadi

Zuma in Libya for talks with Gaddafi, 'exit strategy'

President Jacob Zuma was expected in Tripoli on Monday for talks that officials said will focus on an "exit strategy" for Muammar Gaddafi, as Libyan rebels applauded a G8 call for the strongman to go.A source in Zuma's office, on condition…

Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 12:54hrs | 618 | by Moyo Roy

NATO: Freeing Africa from the Africans!

AS far as the United States and Europe are concerned, Africans have nothing to say about what happens in Africa.South African President Jacob Zuma made a second trip to Libya this week, on behalf of the African Union, seeking a diplomatic …

Published: 03 Jun 2011 at 20:58hrs | 1208 | by Glen Ford

$25 million US tax payers' money to be given to Libyan rebels

President Barack Obama plans to provide Libya's rebels with up to $25 million in urgent, non-lethal aid, a senior US diplomat told lawmakers in a letter obtained by AFP.The message from Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative A…

Published: 21 Apr 2011 at 10:11hrs | 165 | by Byo24News

Osama, Obama Hussein in Operation Odyssey

THE West has turned a deaf ear to claims by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi that the so-called protests in Libya are in fact not protests from the people of Libya, but a complex opportunistic insurrection by an al-Qaeda affiliated group in Benghaz…

Published: 31 Mar 2011 at 05:13hrs | 3 | by Reason Wafawarova

Libya: Africa and the Victorians - Libya and Zimbabwe

As I write, Libya is burning. It is in the throes of war, more accurately, of a "righteous" aggression. The list of the aggressor nations is as familiar as it is predictable: US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and …

Published: 30 Mar 2011 at 05:58hrs | 664 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Europe's Libya Intervention: A Special Report

Distinct interests sparked the European involvement in Libya. The United Kingdom and France have issued vociferous calls for intervention in Libya for the past month, ultimately managing to convince the rest of Europe - with some notable e…

Published: 25 Mar 2011 at 15:24hrs | 337 | by Stratfor

"Mercenaries" in Libya: Impact of Legal Impunity

Gaddafi's engagement of "mercenaries" to fight in his domestic civil war is problematic. The current hostilities between Libyan protesters and migrant Sub Saharan Africans manifest the weak international legislation regulating the use of "…

Published: 23 Mar 2011 at 19:00hrs | 8 | by Manpavan Joth Kaur

Yoweri Museveni says Libya needs dialogueâˆšÃ‡Â¬â€

BY the time Muammar Gaddaffi came to power in 1969, I was a third year university student at Dar-es-Salaam. We welcomed him because he was in the tradition of Col. Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt who had a nationalist and pan-Arabist position.…

Published: 22 Mar 2011 at 10:46hrs | 799 | by Yoweri Museveni

Imperialists twisting the meaning of a UN resolution in Libya: Mugabe

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday rapped attacks by the United States, Britain and France on Libya and accused the West of twisting the meaning of a UN resolution imposing a no-fly zone."The West has been (acting) in the same hy…

Published: 22 Mar 2011 at 07:48hrs | | by Byo24News

Pro-Qaddafi Forces Hit Besieged City

TRIPOLI, Libya - Each side of the conflict in Libya pushed forward on Saturday as militia forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi launched a second day of attacks on the rebel-held city of Zawiyah, just 30 miles west of the capital, and a …

Published: 05 Mar 2011 at 22:47hrs | 814 | by Byo24NEWS

Zimbabwe's story of missed opportunities

The default reaction of many Zimbabwean political pundits to the overthrow of despots around the world is to look for and accentuate even the most tenuous of similarities with their country to justify the predetermined conclusion that Robe…

Published: 01 Mar 2011 at 11:18hrs | 2 | by Lashias Ncube

UN Security Council slams Gaddafi with travel ban, asset freeze

The UN Security Council unanimously imposed travel and asset sanctions on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and close aides, ratcheting up pressure on him to quit before any more blood is shed in a popular revolt against his rule.It also adopt…

Published: 27 Feb 2011 at 09:06hrs | 688 | by Matthews Estell

How can Britain be so stupid, sell arms to despots then bleat about democracy

The most shaming picture to have been published in a newspaper for some time appeared in yesterdayâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s Mail. It showed a British-made armoured personnel carrier speeding past Libyan demonstrators. Perhaps you will think tha…

Published: 24 Feb 2011 at 13:31hrs | 5 | by Stephen Glover

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