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Malawi has arrested former President Bakili Muluzi on charges of stealing $11 million in donor money, the country's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Thursday.

"We have re-arrested him and charged him with 87 counts on allegations of siphoning over $11 million of donor money into his private account. He will appear in court today (Thursday)," ACB Director Alex Nampota told reporters, http://connectafrica./2009/02/26/ex-malawian-president-arrested/

However Zimbabwe doesn’t need either Nigeria or Africa’s help. In the 1970’s when pan Africanism was the elixir, the fiends were the British and the West; the continent’s freedom fighters trudged jungles, valleys and hills in a bid to oust the colonialists. Robert Mugabe unfortunately 29 years after his country’s independence is the bogeyman of his country’s political and economic woes. Succinctly spinning his home-made labyrinth, Mugabe in the guise of nationalism threw out white farmers, entrenched himself as life-president of the nation-maiming, detaining or killing his opponents, http://connectafrica./2009/02/25/why-zimbabwe-must-not-be-helped/

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the current African Union president, on Tuesday accused “foreign forces” including Israel of being behind the Darfur conflict.

Judges from the International Criminal Court are due to announce on March 4 whether they will issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over allegations that he masterminded genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. U.N. diplomats have told Reuters the warrant will be issued.

But Gaddafi, addressing a meeting on ways to expand cooperation between the United Nations and African Union, urged the Court to stop its proceedings against Bashir:

“Why do we have to hold President Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv (Israel), for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?” http://connectafrica./2009/02/25/gaddafi-says-israel-is-behind-the-darfur-crisis/

on osrc-the state's political sloganeering media outfit-its music and congratulatory message galore for the new governor-olusegun mimiko

In Akure there is huge security presence; stern looking mobile policemen have been stationed around prominent government buildings around oba ile, Ijapo, Oyemekun and the commercial district of oja oba.  most shops are closed and there's limited movement-almost a ghost town. but there is a big sense of relief and muted joy in Akure-which is a strong hold of mimiko

The court of Appeal sitting in Edo state has nullified the governorship election of Ondo State in landmark judgenment lasting several hours. The appeal court justice sited several flaws in the conduct of the elections and declared the winner of the election held over years ago as olusegun Mimiko of the labour party.

The sitting governor of the PDP was absent at the venue of the meeting and was not immediately availaable to make a comment As the court ended proceedings, there were jubilant scenes in Akure and several cities in Ondo state. Mr Mimiko was surrounded by several cameramen as he  fielded questions after the ruling after the verdict. the governor praised the judiciary saying he will not fail the people, [url]http://connectafrica./2009/02/23/mimiko-wins/ [/url]

up mimiko

I SECOND APPARENTLY , SOMEONE IS SLEEPING ON HIS BALLS, MODERATOR NA TITLE
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However Professor Maurice Iwu, Professor of Pharmacology rings like a classic schizophrenic to Nigeria’s opposition parties; he caused a furore when he remarked that the American elections were not as organized as Nigeria’s advising that the Yankees could borrow a leaf from us. Three months from now INEC will begin plans for the 2011 general elections; incredible when you realise that incompetent elections conducted three years ago would ensure that nearly than one third of 36 states will have separate election dates beginning from 2011, The recent cancellation of the Ekiti state Governorship elections in 10 local government’s out of 18 is one more pointer on how the national electoral body has found it easier to conduct flawed elections than credible ones. For the INEC chairman, two years after the elections, it has been a facsimile of the popular nursery rhyme of ‘10 green bottles standing on the wall’. Several states have more than accidentally falling down and billions of Naira are being allocated in the conduct of election Re-runs, http://connectafrica./2009/02/19/maurice-iwus-ten-green-bottles/

sounds like a high up quote from "the rise and fall of Idi Amin"

Despite last year’s handover of the Bakassi Peninsular to Cameroun by The Hague following a long drawn-out legal battle, the last10 months have witnessed an endless cat and mouse chase in the peninsular between the militants and gendarmes. The media is rife with stories of nightfall and pre-dawn attacks by both parties on hapless civilian border communities; with both sides trading blame. However Nigeria and Cameroun have for decades been at daggers drawn; almost as far back as when Ijaw fishermen began their sojourn in search of the Golden Fleece in Malabo. The bulk this time however undoubtedly stops on the Nigerian side; its porous waterway security has not only been breached by oil pirates and buccaneers but ominously now by international terrorists reared on home turf, http://connectafrica./2009/02/18/nigerias-international-terrorists/

At first I assumed he was joking, I told myself it could not be possible. “I have been able to teach since this happened.” Once they locked the door of the staffroom and made everyone line up to receive their strokes, I knew that they meant business. Seven of my female colleagues took strokes of the cane in the palms of their hands, when it was my turn, a police officer ordered me to lie down and receive my punishment. I refused, so he kicked me and I fell down… he hit me everywhere… when it was over, I went to the hospital for treatment. I was given medicine but I still have a lot of pain in my chest…
He continued ‘My pupils did not see me take the beating but they know about it… I am married with 4 children. My wife is also a teacher at a different school, she is furious that they have done this to me.’, http://connectafrica./2009/02/17/spare-the-rod-spoil-the-teacher/

fayose's old layers have come home to roost

@goldcircle, bru i no know, but i get the uncanny feeling that they are testing the waters

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his finance minister and moved the energy minister in a cabinet reshuffle announced on Tuesday that brought onboard his wife and kept key loyalists.

Uganda is gearing up for presidential elections in 2011. Museveni is expected to stand again and the former cattle herder turned student activist and rebel leader is seeking to bolster support within his ruling party.

Museveni replaced Finance Minister Ezra Suruma with Sydda Bbumba and appointed his wife, Janet, as state minister for the Karamoja region, the Ugandan government said in an email showing the reshuffled cabinet which was received on Tuesday, http://connectafrica./2009/02/17/museveni-fires-finance-minister-appoints-wife-as-state-minister/

Equatorial Guinea’s armed forces fought off an attack on the presidential palace on Tuesday by gunmen believed to have come by boat from nearby Nigeria’s Niger Delta, the government said in a statement.http://connectafrica./2009/02/17/equatorial-guinea-coup-foiled/

But the damage had long been done, in 6 months the value of the market has tanked by more than 10 trillion naira. What is more remarkable is the banks still boast that they’re healthy, which means there isn’t talk of a bail out. The CBN Governor sounded the death knell on such a venture when he recently announced that the entire 3. 1 trillion naira national budget wouldn’t be enough to rescue a failed bank if such a scenario came up.

The chickens have come home to roost; the beautiful, expensive suit wearing, sweet talking svelte ladies, blasphemously proclaiming Solomon’s wealth in exchange for your hard earned cash have been replaced by apprehensive investors, Usain Bolting Stock brokers and Bankers soliciting the EFCC in capturing the debtors, http://connectafrica./2009/02/16/declining-stocks-svelte-ladies-and-schizophrenic-bankers/

not milking our citizens in this case but rather this is a classical example of direct foreign investment

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has bought a 4 million pound home in Hong Kong, Britain’s Sunday Times reported.

Citing unnamed sources in Zimbabwe, the newspaper identified an intermediary who it said had helped arranged the purchase of the three-storey property, in a walled and gated complex in an exclusive area of Hong Kong.

It was bought last year, as Mugabe’s 20-year-old daughter began studying at the University of Hong Kong, the newspaper said. The paper said it was one of several properties the Mugabes own in Asia but the first to be documented, http://connectafrica./2009/02/16/mugabe-buys-4-million-pounds-home-in-hong-kong/

well said. however there's a new twist to all this; some apocalyptic leanings from the post messianic block. Ghaddafi could just be a stooge or acocylte to the ANTI-CHRIST-whoever he is-just as Benito Mussoloni was Hitler's fall guy in his conquest of Africa and the Japanese to the Americas and Asia. The only difference here is the detractor-Ghaddafi-is working from within

Daukoru paid, holy smokes!!!! 2.5 million pounds . Whats left in the vault

Last year he had summoned two hundred African chiefs to be crowned as Africa’s King of Kings. Libya’s leader Muammar Ghaddafi a few days before the start of the AU summit in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa sent a communiqué to all guests asking them to lay their garments en-route his grand entry as the King of Kings. Muammar Ghaddafi a few days later was elected as chairman of the 52 member African Union. Anyone who thought Ghaddafi’s divine cabaret was a ruse would perhaps have done a second take when Ghaddafi’s welcome speech dragged into a late night meeting with several African leaders. And what was Mr. Ghaddafi’s bone; the establishment of the United states of Africa.
http://connectafrica./2009/02/06/hail-africas-king-of-kings/

whats your point dude

kenyan president mwai kibaki's 1st wife also has a history of assaulting ministers, journalists, MC's; anyone who dares steps on her toes. maybe we could trace a history of oppressive violent behaviours between 1st ladies, moronic imbecilic husbands and clandestine power sharing deals

A Hong Kong-based photographer who said Robert Mugabe’s wife assaulted him last week was undecided on Monday about whether to press charges against Zimbabwe’s first lady.grace-mugabe

Known as the “First Shopper” in Zimbabwe for her luxury shopping sprees, Grace Mugabe was on a low-key visit to the former British colony, known for its gleaming luxury malls, with members of her family when she was photographed by Richard Jones.

Jones who was working for Britain’s Sunday Times at the time, said she erupted into a “wild rage” and ordered her bodyguard to hold him down while she attacked and punched his face, http://connectafrica./2009/01/20/mugabes-wife-beats-up-journalist/

by the way i am not a muslim but only looking at things unbiasedly. Isreal is illlegally occupying lands it obtained by the sword, so by the sword it will have to protect it. Isreal wasnt a nation until 1948. 99% of Isrealis did not exist as inhabitants of this lands until after the 2nd war where shipped into palestine by the UN's magnanimity. so if ul stop being sentimental you'l realise that Israel brought this calamity on itself. read the bible with heart and the history and law books with your mind; Isreal is an illegal occupier

@davidylan; really, did you listen to president shimon peres sincerely apologize to the UN scribe on the attack at the UN headquarters, and did u hear Mr Moon say noone deserved to live the way the Isrealis and Palestinians are living. Israel allows Christians into Jerusalem simply because of the profit it makes from tourism dude. And dont tell me who's living peacefully side by side with mosques if you'll unequivocally answer this question who occupied the buffer zone in 1948, who were the bereaved before the 1948 conspiracy. if the truth doesn't hurt sometimes you'll know that these answers are blowing right in the wind.Isreal is learning that u can't live a life of illegality for too long without bearing the consequences.shalom

@seun: i am terribly appalled at your macabre sense of providential justice, this Israelis you love and crave so much for are even ANTI-CHRISTIAN, make no mistake they'd fry ur ass hotter than HAMAS in jerusalem if u dare show up in a temple saying PRAISE JESUS. Isreal messed up big time in this public relation fiasco by refusing international press coverage and is now scrummaging for crumbs and snippets from WHO when it could have saved itself from this huge embarrassment. this episode sadly is only going fuel the mendacious Islamists hatred for the West and the US, Already Osama Bin Laden has spoken from hiding, beware WORLD

this is disgraceful;isreal just shot itselt in the foot i just listened to ehud olmert and its unjustifiable; he's argument that missile were fired from un necessitating the attack is maddening, 1000 dead is unbelievable

ud have 2 ask him personally and i doubt if ul get a forthright answer; maybe you should try reading trials of brother jero

FINALLY THE MAD-DOG OF THE EAST HAS SPOKEN; Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has accused Arab leaders of a “cowardly” response to Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, urged them to let their citizens join Palestinian fighters as volunteers, state media said on Friday.

“I call on Arabs to open the door for volunteers to fight alongside the Palestinians,” said Gaddafi in a one-line statement carried by state news agency Jana, http://connectafrica./2009/01/09/ghaddafi-urges-arab-nations-to-attack-isreal/