NVA in Africa - 2009 March 28

Saturday, 04 April 2009

Zim will slide into total anarchy if unity government collapses
By: Charles Tembo, Zim Online, March 26, 2009
Zimbabwe will become a totally failed state in the style of anarchic Somalia if the country's new unity government collapsed because of a lack of resources, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday. Biti said the consequences of the unity government failing were too drastic including possible bloody civil unrest in the power vacuum created in the aftermath of government collapse.
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Zimbabwe: Bloggers not happy with the coalition government
By: Denford Magora, Global Voices, March 25, 2009
Zimbabwean bloggers are unhappy with the way things are turning out within the coalition government between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai. The reactions are a mixture of distrust of Mugabe ad disappointment in the policy approaches of the MDC.
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Somalia: Baidoa protests against Islamist order on popular narcotic
By: Garowe Online, March 25, 2009
Hundreds of protestors took to the streets Wednesday in southern Somalia after Islamist militias banned the sale of popular narcotic khat inside city limits, Radio Garowe reports. The protest occurred in Baidoa, a southwestern town where Al Shabaab guerrillas ordered khat traders to sell their product in the outskirts of town.
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Sudan: Darfur activist says crisis is worsening
By: James Smith, The Boston Globe, March 25, 2009
The Sudanese government's expulsion of humanitarian aid groups from Darfur has put thousands of displaced people at risk of death from outbreaks of meningitis and other infectious diseases, a leading human rights campaigner said. Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah also said that two months into the Obama administration, the United States still lacks a coherent policy to confront the worsening situation in the Darfur region of western Sudan. He appealed for tougher action and greater urgency.
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South Africa: Uproar over visa refusal for Dalai Lama
By: Ismail Dhorat, Global Voices, March 24, 2009
The South African government has denied the Dalai Lama a visa to attend a Peace Conference that will be held in South Africa. The government decision has sparked an uproar online on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
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Ethiopia's famine: Deny and delay
By: Rene Lefort, Open Democracy, March 24, 2009
In 2008 famine struck Ethiopia. Now, at the start of 2009 it is looming again. According to the "Humanitarian Requirements" released on 30 January 2009 by the government in Addis Ababa and their "Humanitarian Partners", 13 million Ethiopians - one-sixth of the population - are in need of aid. For over 10 million of them the need is urgent. But food allocations have already been "tentatively cancelled" or reduced. Relief is inadequate, as it has continued to be since the food crisis began in early 2008. The effects of its initial denial and then its consistent underestimation, which turned local production shortages into humanitarian catastrophes, are still being felt.
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Thousands protest against new Madagascar leader
By: AFP, March 24, 2009
Several thousand Madagascans on Tuesday demonstrated for a second consecutive day against Andry Rajoelina's army-backed removal of Marc Ravalomanana as president of the Indian Ocean island. According to an AFP correspondent, the protestors came in larger numbers than on Monday and numbered close to 10,000 for a rally in the capital's Ambohijatovo gardens to condemn Rajoelina's "coup".
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