Category Archives: Politics

By CHRYSTIA FREELAND | REUTERS NEW YORK — “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”

  “People in Tripoli have been attending the last Friday prayers of Ramadan and the last Friday prayers before the month of daylight fasting ends with Eid next week.

  On September 18, 2011 Eritreans across the globe and many friends of Eritrea, will mark 10 years to the day the flickering light of hope for justice and human rights in Eritrea grew considerably dimmer.

Long accused of aiding and abetting the Al Shabaab insurgency in Somalia, Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki’s three-day visit to Kampala last week was interpreted as an attempt to end his country’s isolation.

  President Issias has arrived in Kampala for a three-day visit and held talks with his Ugandan counterpart, President Museveni.

By Tabu Butagira & Isaac Imaka Kampala – More than a decade ago, former US President Bill Clinton helped to popularise the buzzword ‘new breed’ of African leaders.

Written by Emma Mutaizibwa The Horn of Africa’s belligerent leader, Isaias Afewerki, is set to visit tomorrow as he tries to mend fences and end his country’s isolation.

  Weeks have now elapsed since the report of the Monitoring Group to the UN Security Council, which virtually left President Issias’ fiasco naked, has become public.

  Analyst says that US endorsing of African democracy leaders must be tempered with dose of vigilance

  Many articulate opposition writers have been writing the follies and clumsiness of PIA’s diplomatic efforts for the past two decades and thus would be repetitive to add this writer’s opinion on this issue.