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,

Claudine Nadine Kasinge and her 7-year old baby sleeping in Nairobi Airport, Kenya, boarding room.

The Rwandan government has allegedly  refused entry to  Rwanda  to a 7-month old Rwandan baby returning from exile with her mother.  The mother, Claire Nadine Kasinge and her baby have since Wednesday November 23rd, 2016,  been sleeping on the floor or the chairs in the Nairobi, Kenya airport boarding room.

Claire Nadine Kasinge is the spokesperson of ISHEMA, a Rwandan political party based in exile and co-founded by Father Thomas Nahimana, a Catholic priest. Father Nahimana, 45, on his return to Rwanda, after 11 years of exile, was barred from boarding a flight to Kigali, Rwanda on Wednesday Nov 23th, 2016, a statement from

Thuli Madonsela

Her last job was South Africa Ombudsman or Public Protector. That was the official title, related to her function  as the prosecutor of misconducts and crimes, including embezzlement, corruption, and abuses of all sorts by public officials. But to the common  South African people, she is known, as she puts it herself, as makhadzi, or  the one  who "gives the people a voice, while giving the leaders a conscience".  

That is why, across the World, she  is widely labelled "South Africa's biggest tell-tale" or "the crusader against corruption". "She” is

DRC Opposition Leader Vital Kamerhe, too confident to read signs of backstabbing

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) president Joseph Kabila has, against all expectations,  appointed a new Prime minister to lead the transition toward elections. The new prime minister, Samy Badibanga, is a lawyer and a former diamonds dealer, who once was a member of Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party founded by veteran Etienne Tshisekedi. He was expelled from the party when he joined the parliament, against UDPS's directives. Immediately after the nomination, UDPS leaders have declared  Samy Badibanga's appointment as a "non-event."

Etienne Tshisekedi and his supporters claim that Etienne Tshisekedi is the country's "president elect" since the last presidential poll in 2011.

What is most surprising about the nomination is that most expected that  Vital Kamerhe, the leader of  Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) would be the