Day: April 18, 2015
- Africa
Can Africa reinvent secularism? Debate and public lecture kick off packed Tana weekend
A lecture hall, six vice-chancellors or presidents of universities, and a sensitive issue: « secularism and politicized faith ». That is what it takes for a refined debate with about 150 students and teachers of the Bahir Dar University. The 4th Tana High-Level Forum could not have had a better start, a day ahead of its official launch on Saturday…
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The lords of power, the gurus of politics
The Ten Commandments of the Bible as a constitution. This is what the Lord’s Liberation Army (LRA), led since 1987 by Joseph Kony, wants in Uganda. Brandishing the Holy Bible, the LRA has committed the worst atrocities on civilians in almost three decades of armed fighting killing, torturing, and mutilating millions, if not thousands, along the way. In recent years,…
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The Fourth Tana Forum on Security in Africa begins; record number of heads of state expected to attend
The fourth Tana Forum on Security in Africa has started yesterday with African Vice-Chancellors debate and public lecture on the 2015 theme, “Secularism and Politicized Faith,” in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara regional state, 578 kms North of Addis Abeba. The lecture was organized by the Institute for Peace and Security (IPSS), the organizers of the Forum in…
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