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Aloisea Inyumba – (1964-2012) Rwanda Minister for Gender

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Editorial Team

On 6/12/2012 Dr Richard MASOZERA lost his beloved wife, Aloisea Inyumba who has been Rwanda’s Minister for Gender and Family Promotion in the Prime Minister’s Office. His two children lost their loving and caring mother while relatives lost a much-loved and valued family member. On my behalf and of that of my party, the Rwanda People’s Party (Ishyaka Ry’Abaturage), I would like to express my condolences and deep sympathy to Dr Richard MASOZERA’s family for the loss their beloved one Aloisea INYUMBA. Rwanda as a nation has lost an extraordinary daughter, sister, mother, and courageous freedom fighter with unique qualities and exceptional political insight which combined passion and love for her country. The nation has lost … Continue reading →

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Larry Martin ‘JR’ Hagman – Sept 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Editorial Team

Larry Martin Hagman who has died at the Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas, Texas, from complications related to Stage 4 throat cancer, was an American film and television actor best known for playing ruthless businessman J. R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas, and befuddled astronaut Major Anthony “Tony” Nelson in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. His supporting film roles included appearances in Fail-Safe, Nixon, and Primary Colors. His television appearances also included a handful of short-lived other series, guest roles on dozens of shows spanning from the late 1950s up until his death, and a reprisal of his signature role on the 2012 revival … Continue reading →

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Meles Zenawi – Prime Minister of Ethiopia (1995-2012)
Born 8 May 1955 – Died 20 August 2012

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Editorial Team

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi who died yesterday in a Brussels hospital aged only 57, led one of Africa’s most populous nations for more than two decades, steering it along the path of economic growth while clamping down on dissent. He was born in 1955 in Adwa, to an Ethiopian father from Adwa, Ethiopia, and a mother from Adi Quala, Eritrea. He graduated from the General Wingate high school in Addis Ababa, then studied medicine at Addis Ababa University (at the time known as Haile Selassie University) for two years before interrupting his studies in 1975 to join the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). While a member of the TPLF, … Continue reading →

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Yitzhak Shamir; Oct 15, 1915 – June 30, 2012
From bank robber to great Prime Minister

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Editorial Team

Israel‘s giants keep falling. With the death of Yitzhak Shamir, at age 96, in the nursing home where he was treated for Alzheimer’s Disease, the scale of the public lives that long drove Israel’s politics becomes, at least for the time it takes to read an obituary, alive again in an imagination not much fired any more by the biographies of public servants. But Shamir’s was an epic story and it is impossible to trim his life to a sentence, leaving out the prison breaks, assassinations and Holocaust. He went from robbing banks to support a terrorist organization committed to establishing a Jewish state, to serving longer as its prime … Continue reading →

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Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi:
Born 24 February 1934. Died April 5, 2012.

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Editorial Team

Bingu wa Mutharika – who died in hospital after having a cardiac arrest early on Thursday April 5, 2012 had nursed ambitions of ruling Malawi since the dictatorship of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda began to unravel in 1993. That ambition was first realised in May 2004 – and five years later he won a second term, with a resounding victory. But both Dr Mutharika’s terms in office were mired in controversy. Critics demanded Mutharika’s resignation, saying he had not so much run the country as run the country into the ground. He had been accused of trampling on democratic freedoms and economic mismanagement. In 2011, as people struggled with rising … Continue reading →

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Ahmed Ben Bella President of Algeria (1963-1965)
Born December 25, 1916. Died April 11, 2012

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Editorial Team

Algeria’s first President and one of six historic leaders of the bloody independence struggle from France who has passed away in his family home in the capital Algiers at the age of 96, was a symbol of pan-Arabist ideology as well as the global anti-colonial movement, and president of Algeria from 1963 until he was overthrown in a military coup in 1965 by the army chief of staff, Col. Houari Boumedienne. Until 1980 Ben Bella was under house arrest but later went into self-exile in Switzerland until 1990 when he returned to Algeria. A giant of Algeria’s independence struggle, he played only a symbolic role in the latter years of … Continue reading →

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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Somali Politician (Dec 15, 1934 – March 22, 2012)

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Editorial Team

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed who has died in Dubai aged 77 was born‎‎ on 15 December 1934 and was one of the founders of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front, as well as the Puntland State of Somalia, where he served as the autonomous region’s first President. In 2004, he helped establish the Transitional Federal Government, which he led as President of Somalia from 2004 until 2008. Ahmed was born in the city of Galkacyo, situated in the north-central Mudug region of Somalia. For his post-secondary education, he studied Law at the Somali National University in Mogadishu. Ahmed later moved abroad to pursue Military Studies. He obtained a degree in Military Topography from … Continue reading →

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John Njoroge Michuki – Kenyan Politician: (December 1932 – February 22, 2012)

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Editorial Team

Cabinet Minister in Kenya credited with streamlining the chaotic Public transport sector popularly known as ‘Matatu’ industry John Michuki died of a heart attack on Tuesday night at the age of 80. The Minister, who was a close political ally of President Kibaki, died at the Intensive Care Unit of the Aga Khan Hospital, Heart and Cancer centre, Nairobi on Tuesday night. Michuki who was until his death, the Kenyan Environment Minister, was taken ill on Sunday morning two days after returning from a London Hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment since December last year and admitted at the Aga Khan hospital after he was rushed there in critical … Continue reading →

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Marie Colvin – Journalist: January 12, 1956-February 22, 2012

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Editorial Team

Marie Colvin, one of Britain’s leading war correspondents, was killed alongside French photographer Remi Ochlik in the city of Homs when the house they were staying in was hit by government forces. Ms Colvin, who worked for The Sunday Times, stayed in the besieged city despite being ordered to get out by her editor because of the risk, her mother Rosemarie said last night. “She had to stay. She wanted to finish one more story,” her mother added. Lebanese intelligence staff were said to have intercepted communications between Syrian army officers revealing that direct orders were issued to target the building which was being used as a makeshift press centre. … Continue reading →

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Whitney Elizabeth Houston – Singer/Actress: Agust 9, 1963-February 11, 2012

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Editorial Team

Whitney Houston’s sad and sudden death on the eve of the Grammys after a well-documented history with substance abuse has plunged the media into schizophrenic mode as it wrestles with ways to praise her legacy while acknowledging her lurid end. The news on Monday, after hagiographic tributes at the Grammys on Sunday, dragged readers back to ugly reality: Whitney Houston was found submerged in her bathtub, police said. She’d been pulled from the bathwater and attempts at resuscitation were futile. Before that, most news organizations by and large focused on her superstardom and on her climb to the top of the music charts with a uniquely powerful and stirring … Continue reading →