Africa News Update
Africa News Update offers news, background and feature articles from African sources twice weekly. The newsletter is free of charge and is edited by the Norwegian Council for Africa. Some of the articles may be shortened.
Nigeria: Oil workers' strike to go national
Lagos/Abuja (Nigeria) — The week-long fuel crisis in Abuja is likely to spread all over the country from Tuesday when the oil workers' union said it will widen its strike to cover all the states. Read >
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Daily Trust (Nigeria)
South Africa: The return of the police riot (opinion)
Johannesburg (South Africa) - Last week, the world was confronted with the horror of South Africa’s first post-apartheid massacre. Over thirty striking Lonmin mineworkers were killed by the police, who turned semi-automatic rifle fire onto the workers after claiming that they were shot at first. Read >
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS), by Jane Duncan*
Ethiopia: What might a post-Meles era bring? (analysis)*
As Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia concludes his 21st year of rule, and as rumours of his illness and possible demise abound, many are wondering what the future holds for the country. Read >
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
ThinkAfricaPress, by Yohannes Woldemariam**
Ethiopia: After Meles Zenawi
Nairobi (Kenya)- Ethiopia could be in for a bumpy ride ahead as the country seeks to come to terms with the huge vacuum left by the death of its totalitarian leader Meles Zenawi. Read >
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The East African (Kenya), by Argaw Ashane
Africa: Orange's music streaming service Deezer enters Africa's burgeoning music platform market - T
London (UK) — There are now several online and mobile music TV platforms that have started in Africa. Read >
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Balancing Act (UK), by Russell Southwood
South Africa: Treatment of gays is not better here, gay immigrants say
Cape Town (South Africa) - When Junior Mayema boarded a plane to South Africa from his native Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, he cried tears of joy because he was finally heading to a country where he could live openly as a gay man. Read >
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Inter Press Service (IPS), by Davison Mudzingwa
Congo: After Somalia, AU must intervene in the world’s richest country (opinion)
Nairobi (Kenya) - For me the African Union’s next rescue mission after Somalia is very clear; it is the so-called Democratic Republic Congo. There is no point continuing to pretend that the government of DRC is capable of running the country. Fifty-two years after Independence, the world’s richest country in natural resources is the worst to live in. Read >
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The East African (Kenya), by Joachim Buwembo*
Africa: The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse: G8 corporate power
Johannesburg (South Africa) - A dangerous international game is being played in the name of assisting Africa to feed itself. What is portrayed as charitable largesse has more in common with reinvigorating neo-colonialism than feeding Africans. This is in fact a misanthropic, multi-pronged raid by the G8 to control African commodities, land and seeds. Read >
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
*South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS), by Glenn Ashton
Africa: Mozambique among world's top 50 peaceful countries
Maputo (Mozambique) — Mozambique remains among the world's top 50 most peaceful nations, taking the 48th position, for the second consecutive year, on the 2012 Global Peace Index (GPI) released in London last week. Read >
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Mozambique)