Zimbabwe’s envoy defends President Mugabe on Radio Africa International
Most freedom-loving persons instinctively support the legitimate struggles of the Zimbabwean people for the return of the land seized by white settlers. The return of the land to the African people is a democratic question and there can be no contestation over the rights of Africans to take back the land seized by colonial settlers. In the period of the struggle for independence, the issues of land along with the conditions of working peoples, were the key questions. At that historical moment, ZANU leaders and revolutionary leader Robert Mugabe articulated the people's demands, and could claim global support because Zimbabwe's political leadership was aligned to the anti-imperialist forces.
President Robert Mugabe "was placed on a pedestal" by the United States and Europe until African peasants started to revolt and occupy white farms. The U.S. and Europe allegedly challenged Mugabe to shoot those Africans.
In 2000, landless African peasants began invading white-owned commercial farms allegedly at Mugabe's encouragement. About 4,500 white families controlled the vast majority of Zimbabwe's best farmland until Mugabe's rise to power, and government's systematic confiscation and expropriation of more than 90 percent of those farms.
Presently, Zimbabwe's political leadership has reportedly degenerated. This degeneration affects every aspect of the society, including the legitimate requirement of land being returned to native workers. Africans everywhere rally to support Zimbabwe in the face of a propaganda war waged by the British and US governments.
His Excellency Mapuranga discusses those issues in an interview with Radio Africa International.
Angola Day highlights
country’s progress, prospects
by Sean O’Driscoll
According to Angolan Ambassador Josefina Pitra Diakite, Washington’s first-ever Angola Day on May 9 was a joint celebration that not only marked Angolan independence, but also another important milestone: the 14th anniversary of restored diplomatic relations between Angola and the United States.
In those 14 years, Angola has overcome a civil war, established democracy, and enjoyed unprecedented economic growth.
At the daylong celebration held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars—titled “Five Years of Peace: Progress and Prospects – A Conference on Development and Reconstruction in Angola”—Ambassador Diakite talked about the many improvements her country has made, as well as the need to further diversify Angola’s economy, in particular recognizing Chevron Corp. for its assistance over the years. <<MORE>>
Gadhafi's dream faces setback as civil societies marshal forces for showdown
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Ghanaian Chronicle
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[Accra, Ghana, May 28, 2007] -- CIVIL SOCIETY groups have started a stiff campaign against the possible adoption of the charter for a United States of Africa as is being pushed by some African leaders, especially Libya's Colonel Muamar Gadhafi.
Even before the issue is put on the drawing board for a thorough discussion and consideration by the various African leaders who would be attending the African Union summit in July in Accra, some civil society groups have set the stage to kick against any such plans in the interim.
Professor Kwame Karikari, a former Head of the University of Ghana's School of Communication and President of Media Foundation for West Africa has launched a blistering attack on any such intentions. <<MORE>>
Liberia's security officers abduct man,
free speech in danger
Culled from the Public Agenda
Monrovia, Liberia
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Liberia that had wallowed in the dungeon of totalitarian and dictatorial regimes, no other time is best suitable for the revival of the country from its revolting past than the administration of the first female President of Liberia and Africa, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who appeared to more people, both locally and internationally, as the icon of redemption.
But it seems that the tide of expectation is resulting to unexpected outcomes as manifested by the superfluous power drunkenness exhibited frequently by her state security personnel in discharge of their duties. Our reporter J.Dominic Farley reports about the recent happening involving personnel of the Special Security Service (SSS), the security arm of government responsible to shield the president and her family, and a peace loving citizen.
A man identified as Stephen Yarvongar Herron indicated that he was abducted on Friday, May 25, at about 8:20 p.m. by a group of officers from the Special Security Service (SSS).
Herron, who walked into the offices of this paper yesterday, said the SSS
men picked him up near the 11th Street gas station, where he and some friends had gone to drink beer. <<MORE>>
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