In October the International Peace Operations Association, IPOA, the trade association that lobbies for mercenaries, will meet in Washington DC for their 2008 Annual Convention. The theme of their annual conference is: Engaging AFRICOM
In Dogs of War: Back to Africa, David Isenberg asks:
Where does the future lie for the private military industry? (When) Iraq, [...]

Africa is emerging as a new landscape that no-one could have predicted a decade ago: Telephony has assumed power politics dimensions.

It is essential that Africa and Africans resist being commanded by ethnic-European diktats, interests and standards. It has to be realised that it is a human trait for people to grab as much as they can for as little as they can.
A corollary of this is that the morally honourable Nelson Mandella’s magnanimity is taken [...]

How does African Union deal with presidents who inaugurate themselves in faulty elections? There are lot of elections that have not been not been free and fair.

It is especially right that Mr Nelson Mandela is celebrated here in Europe and the ‘West’ generally, because in 1990, upon his release from imprisonment by apartheid South Africa, he used his standing to disarm the fight of ethnic-Africans in South Africa, and end their courageous fight-back against European domination and for re-distribution of the [...]

Bob Mugabe must NOT be recognized by African counterparts as the “leader” of the Zimbabwean people, as a leader must represent the will of the people, of which Mugabe certainly falls short.

As the greater Africa tries to move out of conflict and institute a semblance of stability and socially responsible governance, Zimbabwe, under the leadership of octogenarian Mugabe, has been leaping in the opposite direction. And just when many thought they could see an end to the regression, Mugabe quit leaping, just to start sprinting, further and deeper into the abyss of tyranny!