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Amen, Amen
Idi Amin, who was the dictator of Uganda for eight years died on Saturday. He had been ill for a long time. Idi Amin is easily one of the worst tyrants of the 20th century, and under his rule many...
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Faking Nigeria
Queen Elizabeth is in Nigeria this week for the always-relevant annual Commonwealth Heads of Government summit. BUT as my happy black fellow in the cartoon above says, Nigeria is too dangerous for the...
View ArticleGeldof saves Africa
Sanctimonious Irish rockstar Sir Bob Geldof (no, it’s not Bono for once) has been in the news a lot lately. He is organizing a star-studded charity concert to raise money for Africa, dubbed “Live 8.”...
View ArticleSudan’s Shame
The Sudanese dictator has let it be known, in no uncertain terms, that he will never, ever allow western soldiers to be deployed to his country, not even to end the vicious genocide. He was responding...
View ArticleFamily values
For a long time no one really ran Somalia. The country had no government and rival warlords just shot at each other from their little camps. But in recent weeks, a group known as the Islamic Courts...
View ArticleO Somalia
Toronto has a large community of Somalian immigrants. In the wake of the ongoing Somalian revolution launched by the hard-line Islamic Courts Union, a number of these immigrants have now returned to...
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Rewards for Rulers
An African millionaire named Mo Ibrahim has come up with a novel idea to promote good government in his homeland- a $5 million cash prize for the continent’s best ruler. The leaders will be evaluated...
View ArticleBlood in the water
The Islamist thug group that currently rules most of Somalia recently declared holy-war against their neighbor, the largely Christian-ruled Ethiopia. In response, the Ethiopian air force has begun...
View ArticleThe Exiles Return
The Ethiopians drove the Islamist warlords out of the Somali capital of Mogadishu a couple weeks ago, and have now thrown their support behind the so-called “Transitional Federal Government.” As I...
View ArticleStopping Kony (is) for Dummies
It feels almost superfluous to even summarize at this point. If you want, you can be like 66 million other people and watch this half-hour documentary on YouTube, which will teach you all about the...
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