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Media Review for March 9, 2010
Please note: The following news items are presented here for informational purposes. The views expressed within them are those of the authors and/or individuals quoted, not those of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, the National Defense University, or the Department of Defense.Chad: UN boosts efforts to tackle food insecurity
Nigeria: Hillary Clinton seeks Nigeria trial for Jos massacres
Sudan: US eases Sudan web sanctions
Nigeria: The fresh offensive against polio
Africa: Countries need to rebuild crisis defences, IMF says
Togo: Presidential vote a setback for African democracy
DR Congo: Army kills protected species
Somalia: Brought to U.S., man is charged with aiding Somali terrorists
Nigeria: Massacre victims buried in mass grave
DR Congo: UN backs new DRC offensive
Africa: US Firm urges affordable internet access for East Africa
DR Congo: Abusive Congolese colonel got aid
Kenya: Legislator says regional countries are concerned about tensions in Sudan
South Africa: ‘To be good, you have to be bad’
Nigeria: Tackle extremists in Nigeria, U.S. Envoy
Today’s News
Chad: UN boosts efforts to tackle food insecurity
United Nations agencies are ramping up efforts to assist around 2 million Chadians who will require food aid this year because of poor rainfall and lean harvests, the world body said today.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34007&Cr=chad&Cr1=
Nigeria: Hillary Clinton seeks Nigeria trial for Jos massacres
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Nigeria to arrest and try those responsible for killing hundreds of people near the city of Jos. The massacre is seen as revenge for a previous round of killings in January.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8557072.stm
Sudan: US eases Sudan web sanctions
The US treasury department has eased sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of web services and support opposition groups. US technology firms will now be allowed to export online services such as instant messaging and social networks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8556341.stm
Nigeria: The fresh offensive against polio
Beginning from Saturday March 6, Nigeria joined 19 countries in West and Central Africa in a campaign to immunize over 85 million children under five years old against polio. The four-day exercise ends today.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090013.html
Africa: Countries need to rebuild crisis defences, IMF says
With its economies recovering, Africa needs to start rebuilding reserves and thinking about tightening spending to build defences against future crises, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday.
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE6270CD20100308
Togo: Presidential vote a setback for African democracy
Togo’s presidential vote is the latest in a string of disputed elections in Africa which risk undermining the trend of the last decade for political power to come through the ballot box.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Togo+vote+setback+African+democracy/2660830/story.html
DR Congo: Army kills protected species
Troops killed seven hippopotamuses, four elephants and six monkeys, including two chimpanzees, last month in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an environmental group said on Monday.
Somalia: Brought to U.S., man is charged with aiding Somali terrorists
A man has been brought to the United States from Nigeria to face charges that he provided money to a Somali terrorist group — and that he received military training from that group.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/nyregion/09indict.html
Nigeria: Massacre victims buried in mass grave
The victims of Sunday’s sectarian massacres were buried in mass graves in central Nigeria on Monday as survivors told horrific stories of Christian villagers being trapped in nets and hacked to death by Muslim herdsmen.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/08/world/la-fg-nigeria-violence9-2010mar09
DR Congo: UN backs new DRC offensive
A joint UN-Congolese operation against a Rwandan Hutu rebel group is under way in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just weeks after the anti-rebel military campaign was suspended amid allegations of rampant rights abuses.
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/UN-Backs-New-DRC-Offensive–86921042.html
Africa: US Firm urges affordable internet access for East Africa
A U.S.-based organization that promotes the use of the Internet is urging leaders in east Africa to make the Internet accessible and affordable to all of their citizens. The leaders are gathering in Nairobi for a regional summit due to begin Tuesday.
DR Congo: Abusive Congolese colonel got aid
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo provided food, fuel and logistical support to a Congolese colonel overseeing soldiers accused of gang rapes, massacres and other abuses, months after U.N. human rights investigators included him on a list of the army’s most abusive commanders and in further internal warnings.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030900279.html
Kenya: Legislator says regional countries are concerned about tensions in Sudan
The chairman of Kenya’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs says a summit of heads of states of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) scheduled to begin Tuesday will review Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
South Africa: ‘To be good, you have to be bad’
Justice Malala in his Monday Morning Matters’ column (Zuma sells his soul for Mugabe), I find him wanting on some facts, but I am more interested in his take on indigenisation policy enacted in the previous week by the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.
Nigeria: Tackle extremists in Nigeria, U.S. Envoy
United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms. Robin Rene Sanders, has called on Nigerian authorities to take decisive steps to address extremists from outside the country, who according to her, have footholds in Nigeria.
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