Another lesson is that Ghanaians abroad (in the diaspora) must come back home and help develop their country; may be in leadership positions. There are too many lazy people left here, to take care of business.
Another lesson is that Ghanaians abroad (in the diaspora) must come back home and help develop their country; may be in leadership positions. There are too many lazy people left here, to take care of business.
Bss 10 years ago
burgas are worse.
burgas are worse.
OH AFRICA POLITICIANS ,,,,,,,,,,,,, 10 years ago
Come home for what? ghana is mess and corruption that is going on ,our country is hopeless country now ,i feel bad for the youth because they dont have future,for over 57years we can not provide basic stuff like roads,gooddri ... read full comment
Come home for what? ghana is mess and corruption that is going on ,our country is hopeless country now ,i feel bad for the youth because they dont have future,for over 57years we can not provide basic stuff like roads,gooddrinking water,good schools our electricity system is bad,,,,,how can a country develop without this basic stuff. oh africa when.when.
NAKED 10 years ago
The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ... read full comment
The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get.
We are being told repeatedly in recent months that something supposedly calling itself Al Qaeda—the organization officially charged by the US Government as responsible for pulverizing three towers of the World Trade Center and blowing a gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001—has regrouped.
According to the popular media account and statements of various NATO member country government officials, the original group of the late Osama bin Laden, holed up we are supposed to believe somewhere in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has apparently adopted a modern business model and is handing out Al Qaeda official franchises in a style something like a ‘McDonalds of Terrorism,’ from Al Qaeda in Iraq to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya and now Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Maghreb.
I’ve even heard reports that a new Al Qaeda “official” franchise has just been given, bizarre as it sounds, to something called DRCCAQ or Democratic Republic of Congo Christian (sic) Al Qaeda. [7] Now that’s a stretch which reminds one of an equally bizarre sect called Jews for Jesus created back in the hippie days of the Vietnam War era. Can it be that the architects of all these murky groups have so little imagination?
If we are to believe the official story, the group being blamed in Mali for most all the trouble is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM for short). The murky AQIM itself is actually a product of several behind-the-scenes workings. Originally it was based in Algeria across the border from Mali and called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC according to its French name).
In 2006 Al Qaeda’s head guru in absence of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, publicly announced the granting to the Algerian GSPC the Al Qaeda franchise. The name was changed to Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Mahgreb and Algerian counter-terror operations pushed them in the past two years over the desert border into northern Mali. AQIM reportedly is little more than a well-armed criminal band that gets its money from running South American cocaine from Africa into Europe, or from arms dealing and human trafficking. [8]
A year later, in 2007, the enterprising al-Zawahiri added another building block to his Al Qaeda chain of thugs when he officially announced the merger between the Libyan LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).
The LIFG or Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was formed by a Libyan-born jihadist named Abdelhakim Belhaj. Belhaj was trained by the CIA as part of the US-financed Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside another CIA trainee then named Osama bin Laden. In essence, as the journalist Pepe Escobar notes, “for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one and the same – and Belhaj was/is its emir.” [9]
That becomes even more interesting when we find that Belhaj’s men – who, as Escobar writes, were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the so-called Tripoli Brigade—were trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. [10]
LIFG played a key role in the US and French-backed toppling of Libya’s Qaddafi, turning Libya today into what one observer describes as the “world’s largest open air arms bazaar.” Those arms are reportedly flooding from Benghazi to Mali and other various hotspot targets of destabilization, including, according to what was suggested at the recent US Senate Foreign Relations testimony of outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by the boatload from Libya to Turkey where they were being channeled into the various foreign terrorist insurgents sent into Syria to fuel the destruction of Syria. [11]
Now what does this unusual conglomerate globalized terror organization, LIFG-GPSC-AQIM intend in Mali and beyond, and how does that suit AFRICOM and French aims?
SORRY FOR YOU 10 years ago
THE WESTERN WORLD ONLY WANT YOU AND WHOLE WORLD TO SEE MR MANDELA THE WAY YOU ALL SEE HIM TODAY, FOR YOUR INFORMATION MR MANDELA WAS STILL ON THE AMERICAN'S TERRORIST LIST AS LATE AS 2008.THAT IS 5YEARS AGO. AT THE AGE OF 90Y ... read full comment
THE WESTERN WORLD ONLY WANT YOU AND WHOLE WORLD TO SEE MR MANDELA THE WAY YOU ALL SEE HIM TODAY, FOR YOUR INFORMATION MR MANDELA WAS STILL ON THE AMERICAN'S TERRORIST LIST AS LATE AS 2008.THAT IS 5YEARS AGO. AT THE AGE OF 90YAERS, HE WAS STILL SEEN AS A TERRORIST.
Mander 10 years ago
No doubts Mandela was a good and peace loving man. He learnt the rule of 'turn the other cheek'. If you are black the only way to become a hero in the eyes of the west is to forgive in the face of brutal attrocities and injus ... read full comment
No doubts Mandela was a good and peace loving man. He learnt the rule of 'turn the other cheek'. If you are black the only way to become a hero in the eyes of the west is to forgive in the face of brutal attrocities and injustice. Martin Luther King is a Hero Malcolm X is not. Mandela is Mugabe is not. But Mugabe is fighting for land, not votes in election. Why do you think the middle east is still a volatile spot? Fight for land.
We in the 21st century let us write our historyy and define who are hereos are. Good people are not necessarily heroes.
Jeff, UK 10 years ago
After spending so many years in prison, Madiba had time to do some serious analytical thinking and that is what informed his thinking and actions. Jerry Rawlings only spent a few weeks in the guardroom n came out spewing fire ... read full comment
After spending so many years in prison, Madiba had time to do some serious analytical thinking and that is what informed his thinking and actions. Jerry Rawlings only spent a few weeks in the guardroom n came out spewing fire and vengeance. Maybe Africa should try incarcerating future leaders b4 letting them out. That may be the African cure for greed and selfishness as the orientation does not abound in the GH educational curriculum
OH AFRICA POLITICIANS ,,,,,,,,,,,,, 10 years ago
AFRICA leaders are corrupt in a such way that ,when they get to power then is about them not for their country,they are problem of our continent.they are corrupt,they are thieves,they are greedy.they are stealing from this p ... read full comment
AFRICA leaders are corrupt in a such way that ,when they get to power then is about them not for their country,they are problem of our continent.they are corrupt,they are thieves,they are greedy.they are stealing from this poor Africans which is bad, i dont we will get another Mandela ......CORRUPT AFRICA LEADERS.
Shabi 10 years ago
Another idiotic academic. Since when did ruling for one term become an achievement?
Whether one rules for one term or 10 terms, the important thing is what one achieves during that period. As far as some of us are concerne ... read full comment
Another idiotic academic. Since when did ruling for one term become an achievement?
Whether one rules for one term or 10 terms, the important thing is what one achieves during that period. As far as some of us are concerned Nelson Mandela was simply incapable of going for another term because he realized that he was not up to the task. The white people had sucked all the energy out of him during his 27 years in jail. And as has been said, there was no progress whatsoever for the Black South African majority during his tenure anyway.
Lets forget about racism and Apartheid for a moment. If a ruler of any nation cannot satisfy the most basic demands of the majority of people who voted for him but rather ensures that the prosperity of the minority who voted against him is multiplied many times over, how would you describe such a person?
HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago
REMEMBER WE HAVE ABOUT 3 MILLION ASANTE
REFUGEES OUTSIDE WORLD IN GERMANY,SWEDEN,DENMARK,FINLAND,NORWAY,
CANADA,INCLUDES ARTHUR KENNEDY IN U.S.A.
NUMBER TWO PROBLEM IS AFRICANS SEE WHITE MEN AS ANGELS BUT CROOKS.THAT WAS H ... read full comment
REMEMBER WE HAVE ABOUT 3 MILLION ASANTE
REFUGEES OUTSIDE WORLD IN GERMANY,SWEDEN,DENMARK,FINLAND,NORWAY,
CANADA,INCLUDES ARTHUR KENNEDY IN U.S.A.
NUMBER TWO PROBLEM IS AFRICANS SEE WHITE MEN AS ANGELS BUT CROOKS.THAT WAS HOW SOUTH AFRICA PROBLEM BEGAN.
Another lesson is that Ghanaians abroad (in the diaspora) must come back home and help develop their country; may be in leadership positions. There are too many lazy people left here, to take care of business.
burgas are worse.
Come home for what? ghana is mess and corruption that is going on ,our country is hopeless country now ,i feel bad for the youth because they dont have future,for over 57years we can not provide basic stuff like roads,gooddri ...
read full comment
The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ...
read full comment
THE WESTERN WORLD ONLY WANT YOU AND WHOLE WORLD TO SEE MR MANDELA THE WAY YOU ALL SEE HIM TODAY, FOR YOUR INFORMATION MR MANDELA WAS STILL ON THE AMERICAN'S TERRORIST LIST AS LATE AS 2008.THAT IS 5YEARS AGO. AT THE AGE OF 90Y ...
read full comment
No doubts Mandela was a good and peace loving man. He learnt the rule of 'turn the other cheek'. If you are black the only way to become a hero in the eyes of the west is to forgive in the face of brutal attrocities and injus ...
read full comment
After spending so many years in prison, Madiba had time to do some serious analytical thinking and that is what informed his thinking and actions. Jerry Rawlings only spent a few weeks in the guardroom n came out spewing fire ...
read full comment
AFRICA leaders are corrupt in a such way that ,when they get to power then is about them not for their country,they are problem of our continent.they are corrupt,they are thieves,they are greedy.they are stealing from this p ...
read full comment
Another idiotic academic. Since when did ruling for one term become an achievement?
Whether one rules for one term or 10 terms, the important thing is what one achieves during that period. As far as some of us are concerne ...
read full comment
REMEMBER WE HAVE ABOUT 3 MILLION ASANTE
REFUGEES OUTSIDE WORLD IN GERMANY,SWEDEN,DENMARK,FINLAND,NORWAY,
CANADA,INCLUDES ARTHUR KENNEDY IN U.S.A.
NUMBER TWO PROBLEM IS AFRICANS SEE WHITE MEN AS ANGELS BUT CROOKS.THAT WAS H ...
read full comment