Note this recent update on trouble in sub-Saharan Africa: Commentary and Analysis by Ambassador John Price The Republic of Mali: Under Siege In the 1950′s, the independence movement became endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning with Ghana in 1957. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, a socialist, became Ghana’s first president. Nkrumah founded the Pan-African movement with the goal […]
Read MoreFazul Abdullah Mohammed: Could have been captured in 1998
The killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 has become a highly charged political issue in the 2012 presidential election. President Obama has taken the credit away from the “doers of the deed”, our military, who put their lives on the line. The Executive Order (ExOrd) to kill Osama bin Laden didn’t take “guts”, just […]
Read MoreOsama bin Laden: Could have been captured before 1996
The 2012 election campaign has focused on the Executive Order (ExOrd) which was issued by President Obama to kill Osama bin Laden. In writing my book “When the White House Calls”, I reviewed a number of articles, books, media interviews and other source data on Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants. The data compiled […]
Read MoreSudan: A legacy of tribal and ethnic conflicts
News out of sub-Saharan Africa: Commentary by Ambassador John Price: Sudan: A legacy of tribal and ethnic conflicts “Africa has a history of irrational borders” (Excerpts from When the White House Calls, and February 8, 2012 Commentary, Sudan- Erratic Diplomacy at Best) In the seventh-century Arab traders sailed into the various ports along the coastline […]
Read MoreIn Nigeria: It’s about jobs and economic survival
Note this recent news out of sub-Saharan Africa
Commentary by Ambassador John Price:
In Nigeria: It’s about jobs and economic survival
I spent April 15 to 24, 2007 in Nigeria, serving as a member of the International Republican Institute (IRI) election observation team. It was to be a momentous occasion, with President Olusegun Obasango stepping down after two four year terms, as provided for in the Constitution. In this second civilian election for president, scheduled for April 21, the leading candidates were Umaru Yar’Adua, the governor of Katsina State, located in the northern part of the country; Vice President Atiku Abubakar; and Muhammadu Buhari, a former military leader.
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Read MoreBuilding Schools in Somalia
Note this recent news out of sub-Saharan Africa: “Somalia’s children schooled in guns” By Tom Odula – Associated Press Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Adan Abdi, a school teacher in Dhobley, “worries that the students in his class show too little interest in education. His students are interested in playing war.” UNICEF reports, “An entire generation […]
Read MoreThe 2012 Election Polls in Mali may be in trouble
Note this recent news out of sub-Saharan Africa: BBC NEWS AFRICA Gaddafi’s influence in Mali’s coup By Thomas Fessy BBC News, West Africa correspondent 22 March 2012 last updated at 16:36 ET “It did not take long for the Libyan conflict to spill over borders in the Sahel region – and now Mali seems to […]
Read MoreDiego Garcia: The Chagos Archipelago
Note this current petition: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: The U.S. Government Must Redress Wrongs Against the Chagossians Created: Mar 05, 2012 For generations, the Chagossians lived on the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. But in the 1960s, the U.S. and U.K. governments expelled the Chagossians from their homes to allow the United […]
Read MoreFazul: Indoctrinated at a young age
Note these excerpts regarding the death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed last June: CNN Top al Qaeda operative killed in Somalia, officials say By the CNN Wire Staff June 11, 2011 — Updated 2219 GMT (0619 HKT) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Mohammed’s death “a significant blow to al Qaeda, its extremist allies and […]
Read MoreOur inconsistent Foreign Policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Note these excerpts from a recent story on allAfrica.com: Africa: Understanding U.S.-Africa Relations During Obama’s Presidency BY MWANGI S. KIMENYI, 27 FEBRUARY 2012 “The limited U.S. interest in Africa…remain(s) very low. In 2009, of the $282bn foreign direct investment outflows from the US, less than 2 percent went to Africa – the majority of which […]
Read MoreFor most sub-Saharan Africans their cup is still half empty
Note this excerpt from a recent story from New Business Ethiopia: World Bank Sees Progress against Extreme Poverty By New Business Ethiopia Reporter Thursday, 01 March 2012 “The percentage of people living on less than 1.25 US dollars a day and the number of poor declined between 2005-2008 in every region of the developing world, […]
Read MoreThe Grouper and Patagonian toothfish once reigned
Note this excerpt from a recent story:
Coastal waters could feed many more Africans, but need better protection
Feb 18th 2012
BERBERA, FREETOWN AND MOMBASA | from the print edition
“MELITA SAMOILYS is a leading marine biologist. Since 2010 she has visited 72 coral reefs in east Africa. On only one did she see a shark. That is because so many black-tipped, white-tipped and grey sharks have been served up as shark fin soup, a delicacy in China.” “With the sharks almost gone, Chinese diners are demanding manta rays… as ingredients for their expensive banquet stews. Frank Pope, an Africa-based writer on oceans, says that the slow-breeding rays could be gone even sooner than the sharks they used to swim alongside on the glittering reefs.”
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