Turai Yradua plotting behind the scenes to undermine Goodluck Johnathan

AllAfrica: Meanwhile, the core team of President Yar’Adua’s minders, made up of Alhaji Abba Ruma, Agriculture Minister, Mansur Muhtar, Finance Minister and Professor Tanimu Yakubu, Chief Economic Adviser, were in a series of meetings with the First Lady yesterday, at a time when the latter snubbed Acting President Goodluck Jonathan.

Although details of the meetings remained sketchy, a source familiar with the ongoing power tussle in Aso Rock Presidential Villa told Vanguard that “such a meeting couldn’t have dwelt more on any other thing than to cripple the influence of the Acting President.”

Mamadou Tandja on his way to Morocco – Tandja en route pour le Maroc

mamadou & his white friends blessed the the people of Niger with development as such

Le président nigérien Mamadou Tandja, renversé jeudi par un coup d’Etat militaire, serait en route pour le Maroc où il devrait arriver aujourd’hui, selon des sources concordantes à Rabat. Ces informations n’ont toutefois pas été confirmées par les autorités marocaines et un responsable du ministère des Affaires étrangères a affirmé n’être “pas au courant de cette information”.

propaganda note: be thankful they did not cut your fucking head off mamadou [être reconnaissants, ils n'ont pas coupé la tête hors mamadou]

Raila Odinga & Prime Minister post to be eliminated by new Kenyan constitution

Kenyan MPs agreed yesterday to recommend the elimination of the role of prime minister in a draft constitution being drawn up as part of a power-sharing deal. If the recommendation is followed parliament would have more power to check on the executive.

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan the new president of Nigeria

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Ph.D

A Nigerian court cleared the way on Wednesday for Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to perform all presidential duties while the country’s ailing leader is away. The ruling follows Tuesday’s demonstrations in Abuja by hundreds of Nigerians protesting against the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua, who has been in Saudi Arabia receiving medical treatment for a heart condition since November. However, the court’s decision does not make Jonathan the official head of state, as this requires a formal transfer of power. The power vacuum in Nigeria had prompted calls for Jonathan to take over as acting president. However, the issue is sensitive as ruling party leaders are alternately picked from the north and south of the country. Yar’Adua is from the north and Jonathan is from the south but the next southern leader is not due to take office until elections in 2011. [so fucking what?!]

we got photo from onlineNigeria.com there’s a bio of Goodluck on the same page

Umaru Yar’Adua dead man talking

 

they say you must not speak ill of the dead. so they say

Kaduna —President Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday broke his silence, 50 days after he left Nigeria to Saudi Arabia … saying he was alive, but does not know when he will return.

In an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Monday, Yar’Adua said his condition was improving, but that his coming home will depend on his doctors.
However, Prof. Wole Soyinka, leading other human rights activists and civil society groups in a protest march to the National Assembly yesterday, said the voice in the BBC interview was not Yar’Adua’s voice, but a computerized voice.
In the phone interview with BBC, Yar’Adua said: “My brothers in Nigeria, I want to inform you that I am getting better insha-Allahu. By the grace of God, any time my doctors discharge me, I will come back home to Nigeria to continue my work. I want to also thank all Nigerians for their prayers for me and for the nation

check out full article at allafrica

Moussa Dadis Camara arrives in Burkina Faso after ‘escaping’ from Morocco Hospital

BBC: Guinea’s junta leader has been taken to Burkina Faso after six weeks in Morocco being treated for a bullet wound.
Eyewitnesses said Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, who was shot by [aboubacar 'toumba' sidiki diakate] last month, had to be helped off the plane.
The authorities in Burkina Faso say he will continue recuperating there, but no-one has explained why he is not returning to Guinea

hello cece loua!!

Sékouba Konaté is not dead – Keletigui Faro, secretary-general of the Guinean unelected presidency

By Alpha Camara
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Guinea’s presidency denied reports that the West African nation’s acting leader dictator, Sekouba Konate, will leave the country for medical treatment.
Agence France-Presse reported earlier today that Konate is sick and will be admitted to a hospital in neighboring Senegal. The agency cited the Senegalese presidency. The Associated Press, citing unidentified Guinean officials, also said Konate is being evacuated for medical treatment.

United Nations Year in Review 2009

The United Nations takes on a range of tough global challenges

*2009* was the year in which the world absorbed the full impact of the worst global economic setback since the Great Depression, was startled by the arrival of a novel influenza virus that quickly reached pandemic scale, and was shocked by a crisis in Gaza, which dealt another setback to prospects for peace in the Middle East. It also witnessed the most tangible evidence yet that a changing climate is refashioning the face of the planet.

Moussa Dadis Camara betrayed me – Aboubacar “Toumba” Sidiki Diakité

RFI: Diakité was Camara’s aide de camp when he shot him in the head on 3 December. Camara was flown to hospital in Morocco where he remains in hospital while Diakité went on the run.

“I opened fire on him [Camara] because after a while there was complete betrayal – betrayal against me and a complete betrayal against democracy,” Diakaté told RFI’s Olivier Roget in a telephone interview from his hideout.

African Nations boycott Copenhagen Climate Change charade

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A protest by African nations accusing rich countries of doing too little to cut greenhouse gas emissions slowed U.N. climate talks on Monday just four days before world leaders are due to forge a deal in Copenhagen.

Green Business

After a five-hour standoff, the African nations let talks restart after assurances their objections would be heard. They accused the rich of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol, which obliges many industrialized nations to cut emissions until 2012.

Niger Delta farmers sue Royal Dutch Shell

A group of Nigerian farmers are suing Royal Dutch Shell over an alleged oil spill in the Niger Delta region that they say ruined the livelihood of local villagers. The farmers claim that badly maintained pipelines of a subsidiary of Shell spilt oil that contaminated fish ponds and farms in Bayelsa State in 2005. Backed by environmental group Friends of the Earth Netherlands, the farmers took the case to a Dutch civil court yesterday. They are demanding compensation and hope the court will force Shell to clean up the area affected. The company has denied any responsibility for the incident, arguing the leak was caused by sabotage. The court is expected to announce on 30 December whether it will proceed with the case.

DECLARATION DU PRESIDENT ANDRY RAJOELINA

TROISIEME REPRISE DE LA REUNION DES CHEFS DE FILES DES MOUVANCES POLITIQUES
La réunion d’Addis-Abeba est un tournant décisif pour la résolution de la crise politique à Madagascar.

La mouvance Andry RAJOELINA est plus que jamais déterminée à poursuivre toutes les démarches pour une issue de crise au nom de l’intérêt supérieur de la Nation.

Umkhonto we Sizwe (Military wing of the African National Congress): We are at War! (Dec 16, 1961)

Umkhonto We Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”) was founded partly in response to the notorious Sharpeville Massacre of March 1960. Its leader, Nelson Mandela, was to be arrested shortly after this manifesto was published, eventually being sentenced to life in prison, though he was released in 1990, with the end of apartheid.

IIdephonse Nizeyimana – another Rwanda genocide suspect arrested in Uganda

IIdephonse Nizeyimana was picked up at a hotel in Rubaga, a suburb of the capital, Kampala, by the National Central Bureau of Interpol, according to a news release from the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday.

World Food Programme to close 12 food centres in Somalia

The World Food Programme (WFP) will close 12 food centres for mothers and children in Somalia because it has run out of money. The organisation has only received 40 per cent of its budget for 2009. WFP spokesman Peter Smerdon said the group had no other option but to cut aid. The country is struggling with a violent armed conflict, which has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. A severe drought also threatens food security. Last week the group appealed for 217,000 metric tons of food, worth over 200 million US dollars, to feed 3.5 million people by the end of October when stocks will run-out. The WFP has also said it will have to restrict aid services to Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya.

Stolt Strength hijacked off Somalia

The Philippine-flagged Stolt Strength, managed by a Panama company, was seized on Monday, said Andrew Mwangura who runs the Kenya chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Programme.

“The ship was seized on Monday afternoon, but we are now tracking its whereabouts,” he told AFP.

“We are yet to establish where the ship was heading and what it was carrying,” he added.

Stolt Strength, with 21 Filipino crew, was seized nearly two months after its sister freighter, Stolt Valor, was taken in the same region.

Rose Kabuye arrest in Germany denounced by Rwandan govt

RwandaGateway:The Government Sunday denounced the arrest in Germany of the Director of State Protocol, Rose Kabuye, while on an official mission. Foreign affairs minister Rosemary Museminali told a news conference that the government had summoned the German Ambassador, Christian Clages, to formally protest the arrest.