Africa

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.

"Based on initial investigations, Rwandan government operatives are involved in the failed assassination attempt against Mr Willy Nyamitwe, " said  Police Officer Pierre Nkurikiye, the  Public Information Officer of the National Police of Burundi  and the  Ministry of Public Security,  in Bujumbura, on Tuesday, November 29, 2016. According to Pierre Nkurikiye, who posted the information on his Twitter account, the attempt against Willy Nyamitwe left 1 police officer and security guard dead, a security guard and driver injured. Willy Nyamitwe was slightly injured. 

Willy Nyamitwe is the Senior Advisor to the President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, in charge of media, information and communication. Following the failed assassination,