The new millennium African states suffered more than their fair share of military takeovers, the last case in Burkina Faso. No less than one in two of all military coups recorded in the world since 2000 occurred south of the Sahara. So, plus ?a change? Is the military coup part of the African political landscape as much as it has always been – and maybe even more? An analysis by the Italian Senior Researcher, Giovanni Carbone.
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This past week Edward Ssebuwufu opened his Friday evening radio show his usual music, a Ugandan pop song simply titled “Africa.” The lyrics are a wry commentary on the politics of his native nation—“who can buy our country, we’ve put it up for sale” — and for Ssebuwufu they had once again proven to be prophetic.
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Brussels – One of Afronline’s correspondent journalists, Salih Amar Hamid, has wonhas won a?prestigious media competition?held by the Thomson Foundation for his article covering refugees and migration in Sudan.
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BULAWAYO (Zimbabwe)?– Sijabuliso Nleya has been kept busy in the past few weeks digging up sand. He is not a sand poacher like scores of people who local district councils across the country say are digging along dry river beds for sand used in the construction of houses. “The situation is terrible,” said Nleya, who owns a plot in Douglasdale, a small farming community on the outskirts of Bulawayo.
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