In a 26 June 2018 address to the United Nations Security Council, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General, reviewed the conflict situations in the Middle East – its profound divisions, troubling currents and the tragic shredding of its diverse religious, ethnic and cultural fabric. As he noted “In Syria, civilians have borne a litany of atrocities or…
Abiy Ahmed epitomises Africa’s short memory of hate
Africans have been at least as violent as anything ever perpetrated by other peoples; what is distinctive about Africans is their short memory of hate—so said Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui. By way of illustration Mazrui thus described four examples. Jomo Kenyatta was unjustly imprisoned by the British colonial authorities in 1952 over charges of founding…
No, Uganda’s new social media levy isn’t just another tax to raise revenue
In an attempt to clarify Uganda’s new daily levy for social media users, president Museveni, without irony, turned to Twitter to release a statement, published to his personal blog. The president who first floated the social media tax as a response to online gossip, now says it is meant to reduce capital flight and improve the country’s…
NATO Needs to End
The United States generates most of the wars and does most of the fighting, but Europe gets the majority of the terrorist blowback. What kind of a deal is that for Europe? War endangers us all; it does not protect us. Remarks Delivered by Pat Elder for World BEYOND War at the No to War,…
Game Over; The End of Ethiopia’s TPLF Regime By Thomas C. Mountain
Game Over! The Tigray People’s Liberation Front which has ruledEthiopia since 1991 has been ousted from power in Ethiopia, replacedby a new breed of leadership who have quickly moved to reassure thepeople that a real change is in the making.This past Wednesday, June 20, was a busy day for the new PrimeMinister Abiye, an ethnic…
On the World Football Cup and Education for a Culture of Peace BY Prof. Alicia Cabezudo
School life can be seen as an imaginary “front-line” crossed in multiple directions by diverse types of violence actually present in almost all societies. The violence of the socio-economic system, with its continuous adjustments creates poverty and misery for a large number of the world’s population. The violence in the political system, exercised by…
The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case
Julian Assange remains cut off from the world in Ecuador’s London embassy, shut off from friends, relatives and thousands of supporters, leaving him unable to do his crucial work, as John Pilger discusses with Dennis J. Bernstein. By Dennis J Bernstein – ConsortiumNews – June 9, 2018 In a recent communication between Randy…
Ensuring the water’s safety: What can local people do to protect the Nile?
Esther Muwombi The people who live and work at the Bujagali Falls on the River Nile are coming together to help preserve and protect their local environment and their livelihoods. Children playing along the Nile in Uganda, January 11, 2018. (photo: The Niles | Esther Muwombi) Nakanda Fatima is a single mother of four…