Africa

CENCO Dialogue: Bishops Utembi and Ambongo

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Bishops' Conference, known as the CENCO, appears to have made possible the almost impossible: reaching an accord that was improbable a couple of days ago. On Thursday, Dec 22, 2016, the CENCO held all-day talks with representatives of the government and the opposition. According to sources in Kinshasa,  contacted by AfroAmerica Network early today, a memorandum of understanding has been agreed to.

Pope Francis' and General Paul Kagame's cartoon in Ugandan New Vision, Dec 20, 2016

On Wednesday, December 21, 2016, the state-owned Ugandan daily New Vision  retracted and apologized for a cartoon about the 1994 Rwandan inter-ethnic massacres, after a forceful media and diplomatic attack from Rwandan officials working in the office of the  Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame.

Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Settled Kleptocracy Case in US in 2014

They loot their countries, swim in a sea of wealth and orgies farther from their homelands,  mostly in Western foreign lands, especially the United States, while their people are starving or dying from easily preventable diseases, and their killing squads are brutally murdering those who dare to speak up against corruption, embezzlement and tyranny.

"They" are tyrants and corrupt foreign leaders and their relatives. Some of the most notorious are from Africa. The latest case, involving Samuel Mebiame,  the son of the late Gabon Prime Minister Leon Mebiame, highlights the extent of corruption and kleptocracy in Africa.