Why I hid in a culvert like Mzee Gaddafi...

Once upon a madly sunny afternoon half a century ago, when the bigger part of what is now known as Tanzania was called Tanganyika - a name which some people are fighting to revive as hard as combatants on the battle field want to win a war and avoid being branded unforgivable cowards, I went into temporary exile from my home.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Dec

Mandela hid in my house for six months

A year has passed since Nelson Mandela, the South African apartheid revolutionary passed on. Many across Africa and across the world reverenced him for his courage and the spirit of forgiveness, which he upheld.

 

10 years ago

Vijimambo

26 Sep

Immigrant who hid in Oregon church gains support

Francisco Aguirre - a community activist who first came to the U.S. from El Salvador two decades ago - poses for a photo on Sept. 24, 2014, in the church where he has taken refuge nearly a week ago to avoid deportation.
As an immigrant activist's stay at an Oregon church to avoid deportation nears a week, he's gaining supporters, including Portland's mayor, and the church plans a rally for him.
But court documents reveal more details about the troubled past of Francisca Aguirre, 35, who came...

 

5 years ago

Showbiz Cheat Sheet

19 Mar

Katy Perry Easily Hid Her Pregnancy Because She's Always Been 'Curvy and Hungry'

Katy Perry Easily Hid Her Pregnancy Because She's Always Been 'Curvy and Hungry'  Showbiz Cheat SheetKaty Perry wins appeal in $2.8m plagiarism case  The GuardianJudge Reverses Rapper's $2.78 Million Victory Against Katy Perry  XXLMAG.COMShowBiz Minute: Perry, Glastonbury, Hanks  Associated PressKaty Perry wins reversal of Dark Horse plagiarism verdict  BBC NewsView Full coverage on Google News

 

9 years ago

BBC

The Mobutu and Gaddafi effect

The presidents who insist on going on and on

 

11 years ago

BBC

'I played basketball for Gaddafi'

'I played basketball for Gaddafi - and almost lost my life'

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: A look around Gaddafi courtroom

A court in Libya is due to deliver its verdicts in the trials of Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and more than thirty close associates of the deposed leader.

 

10 years ago

Vijimambo

GADDAFI AWADH - MFUGAJI SAMAKI

 

9 years ago

BBC

11 Dec

Blair: Gaddafi rule 'not sustainable'

Tony Blair tells MPas the overthrow of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi was probably inevitable but insists he was right to attempt to broker a peace deal with him.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Gaddafi's son sentenced to death

A court in Libya sentences Col Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, and eight others to death over war crimes linked to the 2011 revolution.

 

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