Rose Birungi
That is the danger you get when you personalize national issues. Small
brains personalized Egypts problem to Hosni Mubarak as Ugandans narrowed
Ugandas problem to Milton Obote, as Eddie Cross personalize Zimbabwes
problem to Robert Mugabe, as Ugandans personalize Ugandas problem to Yoweri
Museveni. We somehow fail to look at a bigger picture and to build a system
that will run our countries after those leaders are even gone. We turn
around and burn industries for they are of Iddi Amins men. When Museveni
leaves office, Western Uganda will go as Mengo will disappear.
Your home work today is to find how such a vicious cycle can be ended in
Africa.
EM
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"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
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"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 1:35 PM
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I wonder how David Cameron and other Leaders are feeling with the chaos in
Egypt. Gadaffi warned the west about dancing with the so called demicracies
and revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt thats the change the West wanted.
On Jul 1, 2013 8:23 PM, "Ocen Nekyon" <[email protected]> wrote:
http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/protesters-ransack-muslim-brot
herhood-hq-demand-morsis-resignation/2013/07/01/f3f79698-e23c-11e2-a11e-c2ea
876a8f30_story.html
CAIRO Egypts powerful military issued an ultimatum to the government and
its opposition on Monday: resolve the crisis that has pitted hundreds of
thousands of
<http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/morsi-blames-corruption-consp
iracy-for-egypts-problems/2013/06/26/b10d27fc-deaf-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_st
ory.html> President Mohamed Morsis opponents against his supporters and
brought this country to a political standstill or the military will
announce its own solution.
The armed forces reiterates its call to meet the demands of the people, and
it gives everyone 48 hours as a last chance to carry the burden of the
ongoing historic circumstances that the country is going through, military
commander Abdel Fatah al-Sissi said on national television a day after
<http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/30/amazing-photos-o
f-egypts-massive-demonstrations/> huge crowds of Egyptians took to the
streets calling for the presidents ouster.
If the demands of the people are not met within the given period of time,
[the military] will be compelled by its national and historic
responsibilities, and in respect for the demands of Egypts great people, to
announce a roadmap for the future, and procedures that it will supervise
involving the participation of all the factions and groups, Sissi said.
Anti-government activists have called repeatedly on the military in recent
days to back them in their struggle against Morsi and his supporters in the
Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Many interpreted Sissis remarks on Monday as a
victory for their cause.
I think its highly unlikely that Morsi will be able to make a deal with
the opposition in 48 hours. I dont think anyone wants to deal with Morsi
anymore, said Wael Nawara, a longtime political activist, and the
co-founder of the liberal Dustour party.
So that effectively means that the military will basically appoint some
kind of transition government, he said.
The military had repeatedly signaled that it does not want to return to the
helm of politics, which it commanded turbulently in the first year and a
half after the ouster of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak in February, 2011.
But Sissi also said earlier this month that the army would step in if
Egypts political crisis worsened.
Before the militarys announcement on Monday, four of Morsis cabinet
ministers submitted their resignations, in a show of solidarity with the
anti-government protesters, the state news wire reported.
In the early morning, protesters stormed and ransacked the Muslim
Brotherhoods Cairo headquarters, looting its offices, and setting fire to
sections of the eight-story building as police officers looked on. Several
Muslim Brotherhood offices in other cities also were attacked.
President Obama, speaking to reporters during a trip to Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, urged Morsi to talk with opposition leaders and find a solution to
the unrest.
What is clear right now is that although Mr. Morsi was elected
democratically, theres more work to be done to create the conditions in
which everybody feels that their voices are heard and the government is
responsive and truly representative, Obama said. All parties have to step
back from maximalist positions. Democracies dont work when everybody says
its all the other persons fault and I want 100 percent of what I want.
Obama also expressed concern about reports that some women were assaulted in
Tahrir Square during Sundays anti-government demonstrations. Everybody has
to show restraint, Obama said. Assaulting women does not qualify as
peaceful protest.
Sundays gatherings were the largest showing of opposition to Morsi since
the Islamist leader took office one year ago. At least 16 people nationwide
have been killed in violence related to the protests since Sunday, said Saad
Zaghloul, assistant to Egypts minister of health.
Protest leaders are calling for a new wave of demonstrations on Tuesday and
gave Morsi until 5 p.m. that day to step down from office a move that
analysts describe as unlikely and Morsi supporters say is out of the
question.
We are not making light of the protests or demands, presidential spokesman
Omar Amer said in a news conference late Sunday. But, this is not how
things are solved. Things are solved through dialogue and by coming to
agreements.
In the coastal city of Alexandria on Monday, uniformed police officers
joined anti-Morsi protesters in a funeral procession for one of their own,
Col. Mohamed Hani, who was shot in the Sinai Peninsula by unidentified
attackers over the weekend. Egypts private ON TV channel aired video
footage of the police officers hoisted onto the shoulders of the anti-Morsi
demonstrators, leading protest chants.
Anti-Morsi protesters also blocked state employees from entering the offices
of at least three provincial capitals in southern Egypt, the state news wire
reported.
On Sunday, as the
<http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/tension-roils-egypt-as-protests-grow/2013
/06/30/fcc318aa-e184-11e2-8657-fdff0c195a79_story.html> anti-Morsi masses
packed the area around Tahrir Square and the presidential palace, a smaller
number of Morsi supporters filled another Cairo thoroughfare. The standoff
also underscored the lingering question of how this nation of 85 million can
reconcile its devastating political divide, more than two years after
Mubaraks fall.
Opposition protesters a
<http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/divide-between-islamists-libe
rals-threatens-to-splinter-egypt-revolution/2011/11/23/gIQAiys9wN_story.html
> loose alliance of liberal and secular activists, old-regime loyalists and
a growing number of the nations disenchanted poor say Morsi has lost his
legitimacy during a year of political turmoil as the countrys economy has
faltered and security in the streets has crumbled. They want Morsi to
resign, the Islamist-dominated elected upper house of parliament dissolved
and the Islamist-drafted constitution shelved in favor of a new round of
elections and a new constitution.
I waited for Morsi to give me a job, and he didnt. So I came here to take
some things from them to sell, said Ali Agami, an unemployed 32-year-old,
as he his cousin hauled an air conditioner and a desk out of the
Brotherhoods ransacked headquarters on Monday. Agami said he had voted for
Morsi, but added that the economic turmoil during Morsis first year in
office had left him feeling deeply embittered.
The presidents supporters, most of them from the Muslim Brotherhood and
other Islamist groups, accuse the opposition of challenging the democratic
process and engaging in a conspiracy to oust an elected ruler.
Were supporting the legitimacy of an elected president, said Azmi Sabah,
a journalist at Sundays pro-Morsi rally.
But as each side sought to claim the nations majority, and thus the
legitimacy, it was also apparent that the presidents supporters were vastly
outnumbered. And that, political analysts said, left a resolution to Egypts
crisis hanging in uncertainty.
There is a good scenario, and there is a bad scenario, said Yasser
El-Shimy, an Egypt analyst for the International Crisis Group. I think the
good scenario is for the president to get the hint that his approach has
failed to build a consensus so far and it needs a serious readjustment.
Ideally, the opposition would accept some sort of compromise then and
recognize Morsis legitimacy, he said.
If the protests maintain their momentum and numbers, it may only make
opposition leaders less willing to compromise, El-Shimy said. And I think
that will just get the country bogged down in a protracted political crisis
for weeks to come.
Some in the police have publicly refused to protect Morsi and his backers in
the Muslim Brotherhood. In a news conference last month, a spokesman for the
nations police association said the police would not provide protection
for any party or political headquarters, in a clear message to the
Brotherhood.
I reject Morsi. I want him to leave, said Hussein Ahmed Ibrahim, a police
major, who stood on a corner with other officers near the palace on Sunday,
waving a red card that read Leave toward the supportive passersby who
honked their car horns.
Ill protect the protesters, but I wont protect the palace, he said.
Were all like this, he added of the police. And the army has the same
position.
Lara El Gibaly in Cairo contributed to this report.
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