NOVANEWS Vick Lukwago Ssali With opposition candidates roughed up, arrested and held in house detention for fear they might ‘disrupt’ the electoral process, the man who once preached that staying too long in power […]
NOVANEWS Henry Makori As Kenya prepares for its next general elections in 2017, the parallels to previous violent elections are staggering. The electoral commission and the courts have lost credibility in the eyes of the […]
NOVANEWS A call for the resignation of World Bank President Jim Yong Kim CFM Contributor Dr. Kim has taken an uncompromising stance protecting violators of human rights and denying their victims aess to justice, even […]
NOVANEWS Patrick Bond The unprecedented contagion of what President Zuma has called ‘gossip and rumour’ around his inner circle threatens the internal stability of the Pretoria regime. The loyalty of many key individuals is being […]
NOVANEWS Attacks in Somalia Expose “Failure” of Decade-long War By Abayomi Azikiwe Bombings and ground campaign have not brought stability to the country On March 7 the Pentagon announced that it had killed 150 members ofthe […]
NOVANEWS By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research International Women’s Day on March 8 is an annual commemoration extending back for over a century. In Africa women have been in the forefront of the movements toward national liberation, […]
NOVANEWS By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research Government faced with drought and declining commodity prices On February 23 the Zimbabwe ministry of mines announced that all but one of the firms involving in mining and exporting gems from […]
NOVANEWS Kester Kenn Klomegah Over the past few years, Russian authorities have been prioritizing media cooperation and the use of soft power to address the falling image of Russia among the political and business elites […]
NOVANEWS Rindai Chipfunde Vava The BVR system worked well in Uganda’s recent elections. But BVR is not a silver bullet in solving all electoral issues. Inadequate voter education was a major problem as well as […]
NOVANEWS Patrick Gathara Politicians of the ruling Jubilee coalition in Kenya and public officials routinely lie to citizens, and the public has come to accept that as normal. This has led to a debilitating cynicism […]