Mario Monti: Daunting task to revamp Italy’s shaky financial market

Paul Arhewe 
(Published November 21st, 2011)

Italians last week took to the street in jubilation over the ouster of their former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. No doubt the vacuum and pitiable financial market situation this European country is left with during Berlusconi’s regime needs someone that is vast in economics and one who gathers political might; who can weather the storm. The person Italy has laid solace on is no one else but a technocrat and former European Commissioner, Mario Monti. He has since taken over from Berlusconi as Italy’s Prime Minister.

He accepted the monumental task penultimate Sunday and has expressed confidence that the nation can beat the crisis if its people pull together.

Gaddafi: Life and times of a dictator

Muammar Gaddafi

By Paul Arhewe

(Published October 21st, 2011)

The long awaited drama surrounding the hunt of Libyan strongman, Muammar Gaddafi finally drew to a close, as the National Transitional Council (NTC) forces successfully drew the curtain, where he was hunted down, captured and killed from his burrowed hideout in Sirte, in his hometown yesterday.

The 42 –year rule of this proponent of a ‘United States for Africa’, and fondly referred to as ‘Brother Leader’ by some is no doubt one that has colourised the continuation and presence of tight-sitting leaders in the African continent. Unfortunately, Gaddafi had failed to learn where his tight-sitting predecessors had failed. The story trailing the demise of Idi-Amin of Uganda, Samuel Kanyon Doe of Liberia, Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, Omar Albert Bernard Bongo of Gabon, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, among others have failed to deter those still clinging on to power.