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Thousands of people staged a peaceful protest in Addis Ababa on Sunday in the first large-scale gathering of its kind and a rare show of public opposition in more than eight years.

Protests against Ethiopian human rights record

Post author:Uchenna Ekwo
Post published:June 4, 2013
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In less than a week after hosting the African Union 50th anniversary celebrations, Addis Ababa witnessed huge crowds of protesters Sunday demanding social and political reforms from the Ethiopian government.…

Lawrence Freeman, Director, Africa Desk at Executive Intelligence Review magazine speaking at the CMPI conference on Africa

Africa’s Great Deficit: Challenges of Infrastructure Decay, Development

Post author:Uchenna Ekwo
Post published:June 3, 2013
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By Lawrence Freeman With the creation of the Organization of Africa Unity by thirty-two African signatories on May 25, 1963, there was a sense of optimism in Africa and the…

L-R: Dr. Uchenna Ekwo, President/Founder, Center for Media & Peace Initiatives Inc, Osama Abdelkhalek, Deputy Permanent Representative, Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Nations, and Jennifer Dunham, Senior Research Analyst, Freedom of the Press, Freedom House, New York

Media and Democratization in Africa

Post author:uchenna
Post published:May 31, 2013
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By Uchenna Ekwo Media and democratization are clearly inseparable bedfellows. Hyden and Okigbo (2003) describe the relationship between the two as “complex at worst and interwoven at best”. Ocitti (1999)…

Participants at the CMPI sponsored conference entitled “Understanding Africa’s Waves of Democracy: Media’s Impact on Global Policy and Perceptions”

Communications, indefensible injustices in Africa

Post author:Osmond Ekwueme
Post published:May 31, 2013
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By Osmond Ekwueme 50 years of democratization in Africa can be summarized in Charles Dickens lines in his 18th century novel “Tale of Two Cities”...."It was the best of times,…