Africa

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

Martin Kobler, MONUSCO

Despised by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, challenged by United Nations Security Council members, the United Nations Secretary General Special Representative in the DRC, Martin Kobler,  has finally been relieved of his post as the Head of MONUSCO. His term will end in October 2015 and will not be renewed. MONUSCO is the UN peacekeeping mission in DRC.

All, if not most of Martin Kobler's woos started in Summer 2014, after the Intervention Forces Brigade, known as FIB, composed of troops

President Obama at the African Union, in Addis Abbeba

"I don't understand why people want to stay so long, especially when they have got a lot of money," said President Obama during a speech to the African Union Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. "Nobody should be president for life." President Obama was speaking in front of the 54-member county African Union during a 5 days trip that took him to Nairobi, Kenya and Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia. He spent the week-end in Kenya, the birth place of his late father, before travelling to Addis Ababa, the seat of the African Union. He is the first seating US President to visit both countries or address the African Union.

He was referring to several African dictators who have chosen to change the Constitutions of their countries, to allow themsleves to stay in power.  President Obama specifically  mentionned the leader of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, who recently managed to change