Subjects: Africa : Agricultural production :: Improvement efforts; Africa : Civil war and ethnic conflict; Africa : Democracy efforts; Africa : Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); Africa : Economic growth and development; Africa : Energy, alternative and renewable sources and technologies; Africa : Food aid programs, U.S.; Africa : Government officials, corruption issues; Africa : Health and medical care, promotion efforts; Africa : HIV/AIDS epidemic, prevention and treatment; Africa : Human...
Religious pluralism threatens Nigeria's social stability and its hard-won democracy by pitting different religious and cultural beliefs, particularly of new, radical Christian evangelical and fundamentalist Muslim sects, against one another. Religious pluralism is fostered by the Nigerian Constitution's promise of religious freedom, by the right to travel and reside in the country, and by Nigeria's participation in the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This article examines the problems of religious pluralism, religious and cultural differences, and social instability in Nigeria. In so doing, it analyzes the religious rights granted to every Nigerian by the Nigerian Constitution. It also discusses the religious differences mi...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - The internationally recognized winner of Ivory Coast's presidential election is asking for special forces to launch a commando operation to remove the sitting president who has refused to cede power five weeks after his loss. At a hotel guarded by United Nations peacekeepers, Alassane Ouattara said Thursday that Laurent Gbagbo would try to flee if the Economic Community of West African States sent in troops to oust him.
Also, TransAfrica is leading the cry to stop the spread of the new U.S. military command in Africa, AFRICOM. AFRICOM is an initiative from the Bush administration and passed by Congress that will put permanent U.S. military installations across Africa. It is supposed to "help" Africa. TransAfrica calls the move arrogant and points to the history lessons that prove outside forces only cause chaos. Africa is well equipped to solve its own problems without U.S. military intervention. In a recent op-ed [Nicole Lee] and [Danny Glover] wrote, "...in 1990 the Economic Community of West African States set up an armed monitoring group in response to the civil war in Liberia. At their height, ECOMOG forces in Liberia numbered 12,000. In a separate mission, ECOMOG forces were instrumental in repea...
Crupi analyzes why the US should robustly support pan-African organizations. He contrasts various subregional and regional organizations in terms of policies and performance, concluding that subregional organizations such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) offer the greatest return on international investments. Crupi resolves that the development of a policy for the robust support of pan-African organizations serves the US national security interests because the employment of surrogates mitigates the risk of political and military entanglements.
In 2002, rebels-Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) intensified their attacks on Taylor's government. By June 2003, LURD and other rebel groups controlled two-thirds of the country. Finally, on Aug. 11, Taylor stepped down and went into exile in Nigeria. Gyude Bryant, a businessman seen as a coalition builder, was selected by the various factions as the new president. In a Nov. 2005 presidential run-off election, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a Harvard educated economist who had worked at the World Bank, defeated George Weah, a former world-class soccer star. In Jan. 2006 she became Africa's first female president. [William R. Tolbert Jr.] "was ousted in a military coup on April 12, 1980, by Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe, backed by the U.S. government. Doe's rule was character...
... Society to settle freed American slaves in West Africa. The society contended that the immigration... and 1867 the group resettled some 10,000 African-Americans and several thousand Africans from inter... was modeled after that of the United States, and Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Virginia was electe...The Economic Community of West African States negotiated with t...
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