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The events in Ferguson have been over the news over the last 10 days. The repercussions are nowhere near to end. The unrest over the the killing on Saturday, August 9, 2014, of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson,  appears to take bad to worse turns, as days go by.

The frustration of the residents of Ferguson and protesters appears to be fueled by multiple events, actions, or the lack thereof. There was first the lack of or contadictory information from the police and local politiccians: so far, the police and local authorities have been unable to provide information on the murder. Then, there was a forced curfew from 12:00 AM to 5:00 AM. Finally, Missouri's Governor Jay Nixon's decision to call in the National Gauard and to order a "non gathering" protest.

Pope Francis visits the US

"Our common home has been part of this group of the excluded which cries out to heaven and which today powerfully strikes our homes, our cities and our societies ... To use a telling phrase of the Rev. Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory

Paul Kagame and Museveni, Augus 2013

The United States will not support African dictators bent on changing the constitutions of the countries to allow themselves to cling onto power, the US State Department said in a statement on Friday, September 4, 2015 by State Department Spokesperson John Kirby . The statement condemned Rwanda’s Parliament and President Paul Kagame for the decision to " establish a Constitutional Reform Commission that may amend or remove executive term limits and permit President Kagame to seek a third term in 2017."

The statement by the US State Department immediately drew a scathing reply from the self styled Rwandan Foreign Minister, Louise