On Monday 15 October 2012, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma began her tenure as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC). Her election at the African Union (AU) July 2012 Summit preceded a long drawn and somewhat not so fluent appointment.

The way in which the ANC elects its president is deeply flawed, is skewed towards churning out poor quality leaders and turns members and supporters into frustrated and impotent bystanders.

I remember my first love.

Martelly, who came to office in a grossly unrepresentative process which excluded Lavalas, the country’s most popular party (see Counterpunch), has been closely linked with figures around former dictator Jean

For not less than 12 years, Somalilanders were chanting ‘Democracy’ without a deep understanding.

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Carter Ham has been removed as head of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM). General Petraeus resigned from the CIA on November 9. Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette was reassigned on October 26 as the commander of the USS John C. Stennis strike group.