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Osun Defender (blog)
March 7, 2018
In reality, however, mercenaries of democracy, dictators and a military culture dominate African politics. The form of governance may have changed, but the form of ... Like his other colleagues across Africa, he is a dictator who likes to have his way. Football is a body-contact sport, like rugby, boxing andÃâà...
Premium Times
March 6, 2018
Sierra Leone goes to the polls tomorrow, for example, with 16 parties and six leading candidates on the ballot, but the fight is between the ruling All People's Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone ... In reality, however, mercenaries of democracy, dictators and a military culture dominate African politics.
Christian Science Monitor
March 6, 2018
March 6, 2018 Freetown, Sierra Leone—The crowd making its way down the windy stone streets at the center of Freetown could easily be mistaken for a carnival. Women shaded by wide-brimmed hats stroke feather boas curled around their necks and cool themselves with red plastic fans. Men dressed inÃâà...
International Policy Digest
February 26, 2018
It is Sierra Leone or Equatorial Guinea…It is basically many resource driven African economies where islands of prosperity and opulence exist surrounded by immense poverty. Wakanda is perhaps the clearest example of the typical dictator's vision for Africa: the greatest country in the world, but only if youÃâà...
Awoko
January 24, 2018
His crime was demanding for the body of Ebrima Solo Sandeng, a former UDP colleague to be produced by the former dictator. He was jailed together with the UDP leader Ousainou Darboe. Months later, he was named Gambia's Ambassador to Sierra Leone where he passed away a few months afterÃâà...
africanews
January 5, 2018
Tundu Lissu, the Tanzanian opposition chief who was shot by unknown assailants in September last year says the country's politics had taken a dangerous turn thanks to the dictatorial regime led by President John Pombe Magufuli. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. Lissu is currently recuperatingÃâà...
The Times
December 6, 2017
Switzerland is to return $321 million to Nigeria of the public funds looted by its former dictator Sani Abacha after a deal brokered by the World Bank. The cash was originally deposited in Luxembourg but confiscated by a Swiss court in late 2014. It represents just a small part of the estimated $2.2 billionÃâà...
Quartz
November 23, 2017
The year 1991 was tough year for other East African dictators, too. Following a bloody war with insurgents, Somalia's dictator Siad Barre fled the capital Mogadishu and headed south towards the Kenyan border. Barre had come to power in a bloodless putsch in October 1969, and ruled over the Horn ofÃâà...
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