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Cautious Optimism After Calm Anjouan Elections
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 02, 2008
esults from the election on 29 June show that voters on the Comorian island of Anjouan have chosen their next president and observers hope a year of political turmoil will make way for calm and much needed ... more
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Exim Bank Subsidiary Launched
allAfrica.com - Friday, June 27, 2008
omoros President Ahmed Abdullah Sambi has pledged to protect foreign investments in the islands. He said by attracting more investors into the islands, competition will grow and service delivery would improve to benefits the citizes, stimulate the economy and reduce ... more
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Additional Listing for African Minerals
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
frican Minerals Limited (AIM: AMI), the mineral exploration company with interests principally in Sierra Leone, West Africa has announced the exercise of certain ... more
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France, Various Africa, Middle East: France goes easy on mercenary
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p> “The French again have demonstrated that crimes committed abroad in developing nations shouldn't necessarily be punished,” writes an outraged Fontaine, who reports that a French mercenary, who has also been implicated in several coups or coup attempts in other countries, has received only a five-year suspended sentence after... more
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Latest in French-Speaking African and Indian Ocean Blogs
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p> PAN-AFRICAN
Homosexuality in Africa Not a Myth
France-based Togolese blogger Kangni Alem reflects on a homophobic movement in Cameroon that sees homosexuality as a suspect new “religion” and concludes :
Evidence des temps, l’homosexualité ne peut plus être perçue comme un... more
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Africa: What Internet Brings
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p> Generation Consciente, Une Autre Afrique writes: (Fr) “A book by Cameroonian Jacques Bonjawo, Internet, a Chance for Africa [ L'Internet, Une Chance Pour l'Afrique in French] talks about the benefits of new information and communication technologies for Africa. However, the Internet promotes extraversion... more
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Why No Mention of Slavery in African and Haitian Fiction?
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>Why is there so little mention of slavery in African and Haitian Fiction? That is the question that Togolese France-based blogger Kangni Alem addresses in a prolific and well-thought out blog entry . He deplores that African fiction does not count more passages on the different waves of slavery... more
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Africa: World Cup Report Card
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>Says Senegalese blogger Seckasysteme (Fr): “ African football is not up to par and its presence in the World Cup is mostly symbolic . Too bad that the numerous individual African talents could not orchestrate a comeback. (…) Why couldn't such talented African football players achieve the same... more
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Africa: Is Homosexuality a Religion?
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>France-based Togolese Blogger Kangni Alem reflected on homosexuality in Africa recently . Namely, he tackled claims by some on the continent that homosexuality is a heretic religion. In the process, he mentioned recent “outings” of public figures. A debate ensued that involved Martinique's lesbian blogger Le... more
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Africa: Lessons Learned from Mittal Steel
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p> Lessons drawn by Le Pangolin from the recent acquisition by Indian-owned steel company Mittal Steel of European-owned Arcelor (Fr): ” Economic actors of developing countries can really change the world if they are so inclined. (…) The West is not invincible.” ... more
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French-Speaking Bloggers on Rabat Conference on Migration
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p> What Will the Conference Bring?
Says France-based African blogger Le Pangolin,
Du 10 au 11 juillet 2006, s'est tenue à Rabat au Maroc, la première rencontre interministérielle euro-africaine sur les problèmes des migrations entre ces deux continents.Elle a regroupé 57... more
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Madagascar: The First Indian Ocean Musical Network
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p> El Sono Mondial announces that (Fr): “A seminar about financial management of cultural enterprises specializing in music (organized by the International Organization of La Francophonie) took place last week [in Madagascar] … The participants discussed creating the f irst Indian Ocean musical and cultural network. “ ... more
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Indian Ocean: New Web 2.0 Cultural Site
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>Collective Malagasy blog Malagasy Miray announces (Fr): “Culture-océanindien [ www.culture-oceanindien.info ] is a space for cultural and islandness expression based on the web 2.0 principle . It was born out of the will to promote and support culture in general and more specifically that of... more
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Mayotte: Who Lives There?
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p> Reunion Passion usually blogs on her homeland but recently she focused on nearby Indian Ocean French overseas department Mayotte (Fr): “ Many cultures cohabitate in Mayotte , the first, of Comorian origin, constitutes 60% of the population, the second is Malagasy and is heavily influenced by the... more
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Moroni Blues, a Comorian musical comedy
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>Vola, a Malagasy blogger living in Paris, writes [Fr] about Moroni Blues , a musical comedy by Comorian writer, Soeuf Elbadawi , which explores love, cosmopolitanism, and ethnic division in the island nation's capital city . ... more
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Rebel Leader in Limbo
allAfrica.com - Thursday, May 15, 2008
he Comoros government has welcomed France's rejection of a request for political asylum by Anjouan's toppled rebel leader, Mohammed Bacar, but its refusal to extradite the ousted Colonel has sparked outrage in the impoverished Indian Ocean ... more
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Anjouan Road to Recovery Now Open
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
ver half a million dollars of much-needed emergency funding will help Anjouan, one of three islands in the Comoros archipelago, to address humanitarian needs and re-establish basic administrative structures after a recent military operation backed by the African Union (AU) allowed the central government regain control of the renegade ... more
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Anjouan Situation Worse Than Thought
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ith preparations for new local elections underway, following a succesful military venture by the Comoros Union government and African Union (AU) troops to restore order to the renegade island by force, deeper humanitarian concerns have ... more
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Chronic Poverty Pushes Anjouanese to Risk Their Lives
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
n a desperate attempt to escape grinding poverty, thousands of Anjouanese continue to risk everything to make the perilous journey from the Comoros to the nearby island of ... more
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Assoumani, Sidestepping Constitution, Seeks Second Term in Office
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
arliamentarians in the Comoros have expressed their dissatisfaction with a draft law that allows Union President Azali Assoumani to sidestep a constitutional provision requiring the federal presidency to rotate between the islands, and vie for a second four-year term in elections next ... more
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