Togo circus revolts Africa
From Tawanda Kanhema in Harare
Political developments in Togo, where the army trashed the country’s constitution and installed a new head of state while the late President Gnassingbe Eyadema lay in his shroud, are a major drawback to Africa’s efforts to clean up its image as a continent of chronic coups d’etat and military dictatorships.
Eyadema died of a [...]
By Tawanda Kanhema in Harare
In what counts as the boldest move since the outbreak of hostilities in Sudan’s western Darfur region, the United Nations recently denounced the Sudanese government for what it described as “serious crimes against humanity” while guardedly sweeping the bulging genocide under a threadbare carpet of arguments that the Khartoum government had no elaborate policy [...]
