USA: Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap

From: Yona Maro

Executive Summary

Unmanned systems continue to deliver new and enhanced battlefield capabilities to the warfighter. While the demand for unmanned systems continues unabated today, a number of factors will influence unmanned program development in the future. Three primary forces are driving the Department of Defense’s (DoD) approach […] Continue Reading…

A Message to Actualizers of Doom: President Kiir and Dr. Machar

From: Yona Maro

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By Kuir ë Garang

December 25, 2013 (SSNA) — It’s an undeniable fact that South Sudanese former Vice President, […] Continue Reading…

South Sudan mishandles the pro-Machar ‘coup’

From: Yona Maro

The on-going security situation in South Sudan has raised serious concerns about the future of Africa’s newest nation. Andrews Atta-Asamoah, a senior researcher at the ISS, talks about the causes of the fighting and how the situation can be addressed.

Why an alleged ‘coup’ so early in the […] Continue Reading…

KENYA: KISUMU INDIAN BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN FEAR OF BEING TARGETED BY CRIMINAL THUGS

By Special Correspondent

Members of the Asian business community are living in fear that they are being targeted by gun toting criminal gangs which has been terrorizing them.

The lakeside city which hitherto has been the haven of peace and security has of late been experiencing the alarming upsurge of […] Continue Reading…

KENYAN POLITICIANS MUST GIVE PRESIDENT KENYATTA AND THE JUBILEE GOVERNMENT A BREATHING SPACE OF TIME TO WORK

Commentary By Leo Odera Omolo

I should like to extend my passionate appeal to the opposition groups both inside and outside parliament to give the young jubilee government the breathing space of time so that it could implement its election pledges and carry this country to the next level of […] Continue Reading…

Kenya: When we finish our own citizens through killing of each other, who are we going to rule?

From: Yona Maro

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By Abraham Deng Luth

December 25, 2013 (SSNA) –Dear my fellow citizens, please, pray for Jieng people in Malakal! […] Continue Reading…

Statement of Sudanese and South Sudanese Civil Society on the Conflict in South Sudan

from: Yona Maro

December 25, 2013 (SSNA) — We, the undersigned, representatives of civil society organisations from Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan wish to express our deep concern about the military confrontations that erupted in the Republic of South Sudan on 15 and 16 December 2013. We are […] Continue Reading…

Pillay urges South Sudan leadership to curb alarming violence against civilians

From: Yona Maro

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GENEVA (24 December 2013) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed grave concern […] Continue Reading…

NFIA Bill: Why Stakeholders Declared Support–Group

From: Cheekless 2011

Paul Kingston

A group of Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Civil Society Coalition against Corruption believes that key stakeholders in the country threw their weight behind the establishment of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency during last Monday’s public hearing on the bill in the interest of […] Continue Reading…

Going To Africa. Hope I Don’t Get AIDS….. I’m White” –

From: Yona Maro

A US public relations executive has provoked a storm of online protest for writing a Twitter comment about Aids in Africa.

Justine Sacco, who works for the media company InterActiveCorp (IAC), wrote: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get Aids. Just kidding. I’m white!”

Ms Sacco’s account has […] Continue Reading…

‘They Came to Kill’ – Escalating Atrocities in the Central African Republic

From: Yona Maro

Christian militias responding to rampant abuses by Muslim armed groups have committed atrocities against Muslim communities in northern Central African Republic, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Concerned countries should immediately bolster the African Union peacekeeping force in the country and support efforts […] Continue Reading…

EFCC AND MOCKERY OF ANTI-GRAFT WAR IN NIGERIA

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Johnson Johnson

As time goes on, it is becoming clearer that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has lost direction and focus, thereby making it difficult for it to investigate cases dispassionately without witch-hunting and grandstanding.

Ethics and professionalism in the handling of investigations or prosecutions are now […] Continue Reading…

THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT SHOULD GIVE THE PROSECUTOR A CHANCE TO USE ANOTHER PART B

From: Nyambok, Thomas
To: “jaluo@jaluo.com”

The witnesses have been compromised by an exchange with money, threats, and by killing them in order to shield the truth.

Ms. Bensouda will now use the outcome from the recommends from Commission chapter contains the Commission’s recommendations that relate to the State of Security Agencies […] Continue Reading…