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Dear Readers and Fellow-Apes; 2008 was a Murky and Hapless Year! Let us hope that 2009 does not turn out to be even  More Murky and Hapless!

I intentionally did not wish you a Merry Christmas, because Christmas is another story for another Posting at another time; and I do not wish you a Happy New Year, since I believe that ONLY FOOLS ARE, OR CAN BE, HAPPY ALL YEAR ROUND. I do, however, wish all of you A GOOD YEAR! With a little Good in one's life, one can be a little happy, which is all one can ask for in one's short sweet dream one calls a life-time. BY GOD AND SATAN! 

A Jack of many trades and master of all; I am honest to the core and I hate lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and stoic compliance; and I despise – and actually pity – Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack

I expose and reveal the lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and blind, deaf, and stoic compliance, and Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack; I tell or write the truth; and I say what I mean and mean what I say

I fear nothing; least of all, death

If I must fear anything at all in life, then let me fear what I think and  know of myself; because, in the end, one’s knowledge and opinion of oneself is what counts most. All the world may think and believe one is such and such, but one knows one is such and such. Also, I like to look in the mirror and like what I see and know about me.

I invite comments, remarks, criticisms, and even insults – so long as they are straight to the point, in order for me to correct or adjust myself accordingly. What I do not welcome and won’t accept or tolerate is HORSE-SHIT!

Dear readers and felow-Apes; with every page, every report or article, every paragraph, every sentence, every word, and every letter; I thank you for taking the trouble and the time to read My Not-So-Humble Comments.

243: OH AFRICA; ART THOU ASLEEP STILL OR AWAKE? OH AFRICAN UNION! WHERE ART THOU? OH UN! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR, MORE FUNDS? OH IC! QUE PASA? OH WORLD! QUO VADIS?
25 April, 2008

OH AFRICA; ART THOU ASLEEP STILL OR AWAKE? OH AFRICAN UNION! WHERE ART THOU? OH UN! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR, MORE FUNDS? OH IC! QUE PASA? OH WORLD! QUO VADIS?

I thought there were Internally-Displaced Persons only in Iraq! How dare these people become IDPs when The USA hasn’t invaded their country? Shame on them!

Diseases: HIV/AIDS, MDR-TB, MALARIA, CHOLERA; pillaging, HIGHWAY ROBBERIES, wars, battles, kidnappings, rapes, killings, pillaging, poverty, squalor, starvation, villages torched, people scattered like chaff before the wind or smuggled and carted about like so many cattle……

KENYA: HUNDREDS KILLED AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF IDPs

IRIN-News Friday 25th April 2008

Widespread violence in the Rift Valley following disputed election results led to the death of more than 1,200 people and the displacement of 350,000. Both the President and the Prime Minister have agreed to work together to resolve the problems. But even if reconciliation and compromise were achieved and the problems were resolved, the IDPs would still find it very difficult, if not impossible, to return to their homes unless the hatred and animosity between the two sides were resolved; which is almost impossible.

IRIN-News Tuesday 8th April 2008

NAIROBI: The suspension of talks between key political parties, announced on 8th April, could slow or halt progress made in returning hundreds of thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to their homes, humanitarian officials said.

The opposition, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), suspended talks with the President's Party of National Unity (PNU) on the formation of a coalition cabinet in line with an accord signed in February. Meanwhile, more than 1,500 people died and an estimated 350,000 others were displaced between January and February following violence in parts of the country sparked by the disputed presidential elections held on 27th December 2007.

Terror and horror of MDR-TB

IRIN-News Plus-News Wednesday 2nd April 2008

NAIROBI: The threat of Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis or MDR-TB has been heightened by the displacement of an estimated 300,000 people in Kenya's recent political crisis. MDR-TB is a stage of Tuberculosis that no longer responds to standard treatments, usually because of a failure to complete first treatments, and is lethal when combined with HIV.

Villages in flames

IRIN-News Tuesday 1st April 2008

RUMURUTI: Villagers woke up in the morning on 6th March to fire and panic as a neighbouring village in Rift Valley's Laikipia West district went up in flames. Soon, it was their village's turn to face the wrath of hundreds of attackers who were hacking people with machetes and burning homes and granaries. That was a day after violence had erupted in Rumuruti between the Turkana and Tugen communities and the Kikuyu, following the killing of a suspected rustler.

THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC): Torrential rains kill tens and leaves hundreds homeless or IDPs

IRIN-News Tuesday 8th April 2008

KINSHASA: At least 15 people have died and hundreds more were left homeless, IDPs, after days of torrential rains in the Kasai Occidental and Bandundu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a humanitarian official told IRIN.

CONGO BRAZZAVILE: Fighting malaria in children‏

Malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children younger than five in the Congo, with at least 21,000 children in that age group dying each year, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

ZIMBABWE: War veterans threaten violence

IRIN-News Friday 4th April 2008

HARARE: Veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war vowed to seize the remaining white-owned commercial farms if President Robert Mugabe loses the expected second round of a presidential ballot.

Call for international action as violence worsens

IRIN-News Thursday 17th April 2008

HARARE: Zimbabweans will commemorate Independence Day tomorrow, Friday 18th April, as a deeply divided and uncertain nation, shaken by the rising tide of political violence in the aftermath of last month's election in which the opposition for the first time won a parliamentary majority.

Human rights organisations say hundreds of people have fled rural areas where the army, police and war veterans have spearheaded terror campaigns against civilians for daring to vote against ZANU-PF, the party of President Robert Mugabe, in the 29 March poll.

CHAD: Fighting between government and rebels not the only threat to life

IRIN-News Thursday 3rdApril 2008

NDJAMENA: Fighting in recent years in eastern Chad between the government and rebels has usually taken place away from civilian populations, but in the latest battle on 1st April more than 50 civilians were killed and injured.

HIV/AIDS IRIN-News Monday 7th April

“The Axis of Death” is a road that runs for hundreds of kilometres from the CAR to N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, through the oil-producing regions of the south.

The strong economic activity attracts traders and people from other countries, but also brings an increased risk of spreading HIV/AIDS in an area where treatment services are scarce, according to an AIDS worker

SOMALIA: Villages abandoned as drought dries the land while the sun bakes it

IRIN-News Thursday 10th April 2008

HAMURE, in the self-declared autonomous Somali republic of Puntland; like most of Puntland, Hamure village is facing what locals describe as one of the worst droughts in decades. The last rains fell three years ago. The drought has forced most of the 400 families to abandon the village - some going as far as 100km away.

SOMALIA-YEMEN: Migrants dying and missing in the Gulf of Aden

By Agence France Presse (AFP) Tuesday 15th April 2008

SANAA: 22 migrants drowned off the coast of Yemen while trying to cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to the Arabian Peninsula state. The crew of the ship carrying around 120 migrants forced them to jump into the sea off Yemen's coastline to swim to land. 22 migrants died and 12 were still missing. The migrants could not find their way to the beach as it was too dark, and some were too exhausted to swim. The rest of the group survived and were being cared for in the port city of Aden. More than 1,400 clandestine immigrants have died trying to cross the Gulf of Aden from Africa in 2007, while more than 28,300 people managed to reach the Yemeni coast, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said in December. The crossing takes two days at best and is especially dangerous because the gulf is shark-infested, not to mention powerful currents and the inhumane conditions on poorly maintained vessels open to the elements.

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (C.A.R): Open season for bandits

IRIN-News 31st March 2008

BANGUI: Criminal gangs, known as coupeurs de routes: highwaymen, Zaraguina, or simply bandits, kill, kidnap for ransom, loot, and set fire to homes; and now pose the greatest threat to civilians in the north of the Central African Republic.

The gangs, mostly foreigners from Chad, Cameroon, and even as far away as Nigeria and Niger, are well-organised and well-connected, and they travel or move freely across the porous borders between these countries.

For years, the CAR and neighbouring Chad have been ravaged by numerous civil wars, rebellions and mutinies that have led to a proliferation of weapons and to a blurring of the lines between bandits and rebels. Although this article focuses mainly on the CAR, highway banditry and kidnapping have long been a trans-national problem in this region, unfettered by weak state borders and fuelled by chronic and endemic under-development and unemployment - I wonder where they get the weapons from and who pays for them!

THE REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Climate changes accelerate vector-borne diseases

BRAZZAVILE, 9 April 2008 (IRIN) - Climate changes are directly responsible for the geographic distribution of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and epidemics of meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis, Rift Valley fever, and cholera.

UGANDA: Government to focus on rebuilding the north

IRIN-News Thursday 10th April 2008

KAMPALA: The government will focus on rehabilitating the war-ravaged north of the country even before the anticipated signing of a peace agreement with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

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