MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Al-Jazeera news channel captured chilling footage of men in uniforms shooting unarmed men after they purportedly were arrested during clashes last year with Muslim militants in northern Nigeria.

The footage aired Tuesday on Al-Jazeera shows two uniformed men forcing seven young men to lie face-down at the side of a busy road. The [...]

Kenya’s current President Mwai Kibaki is sheltering a fellow looter, former President Daniel Arap Moi. In 2007 these two crooks reached a pact: an electorally desperate Mwai Kibaki promised to protect Moi if he (Moi) backed Kibaki for a second term. The deal would ensure that Moi’s political base — a group comprised of several [...]

…the individual who violates the norms of society is an individual who has constructed an intricate system of ego defenses which he uses to ward off the reactions of the social groups to which he belongs.” They are picking on me; I couldn’t help myself; I didn’t do it for myself; they asked for it; [...]

How a small band of Moi agents wrote Kenya’s darkest chapter in a basement: They were brutalised or killed by Moi’s agents and yet Wako (Attorney General) has refused to pay compensation awarded by courts. The victims of Kenya’s darkest chapter won’t wait for the Truth and Reconciliation hearing.
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Excerpts From The Book: “We Lived to [...]

If Mr Bashir of the Sudan and certain former African leaders are found guilty and punished, the intelligentsia may begin to demand from Mr Ocampo a good explanation why America’s Gang of Five is at large. Our civil society movements may want to know why George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and Condoleeza [...]