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KAMPALA, Uganda — Kampala is in an uproar. The Ugandan government has just shut down four private media outlets — a move that follows a
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Read the original article on Theafricareport.com : Pan-Africanism is more important than ever – Dlamini-Zuma | North Africa By Elissa Jobson and Parselelo Kantai in
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www.africanwriterstrust.org “Gatherings like these help us to know each other and keep Africa writing,” Jack Mapanje said.“We should not separate ourselves, we should not
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Dawn Gable Assata Shakur HAVANA TIMES — After 40 years, the FBI has arbitrarily labeled Assata Shakur a terrorist. The former Black Panther was convicted
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LONDON, Somalia May 7 2013 (Garowe Online) – Hundreds of Somalis protested outside the Somalia conference in London’s Lancaster House where Somali Federal Government (SFG)
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President Ouattara has been forced by the need to hold some form of plebiscite to demonstrate that his French-imposed presidency of the country has some
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www.ConsciousBeingAlliance.com www.AllThingsPass.com www.KeithHarmonSnow.com War and plunder continue to rip apart great swathes of Africa. The perpetrators are known, and many have been named and exposed.
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Source: monitor.co.ug IN SUMMARY Raïs Neza Boneza is a Congolese poet and author. His works include Nomad, a Refugee Poet; Black Emerald; Peace by African’s
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"They were not stupid … they knew we had no support … they had intelligence on us … they knew our movements, our numbers, our
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By Marilyn Langlois, April 1, 2013 – TRANSCEND Media Service Richmond, California Refinery to Be Worker-Owned and Operated Chevron CEO John Watson announced today that
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Faisal Kiwewa, the Director of Bayimba Cultural Foundation, spoke on “Arts and Arts Education: Lovely or Essential?” on 12th March 2012 at The Hub in
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the Biafrans as “people who’d been abused, who’d undergone genocide, and who felt completely rejected by the rest
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INTRODUCTION On Tuesday 19, March 2013, there were commentaries all over the Western media about the impact of the war against the People of
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Ugandan folk music artiste Joel Sebunjo has been honoured with the prestigious Visa Pour la Creation award by the French government, through the Institut Francais,
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his soapbox commentary was inspired by a recent article that appeared in the German Der Spiegel under the title of "Ethiopian Kids using Tablets to
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Haitian civilians receive assistance in a camp set up by the Brazilian Army in Port-au-Prince, in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. (Photo credit:
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When Tony Blair visited Beijing a few weeks ago to by Browse to Save" style="CURSOR: pointer; COLOR: ; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-DECORATION:
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Let’s remind ourselves. One of the big news stories of 2012 was “Kony 2012”, the short documentary video by the American children rights group Invisible
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With the takeover of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo”) last year by M23 rebels, and with Rwanda receiving
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“ The Messiah will come when he is no longer needed. He will come not on the last day but the day after.” In the
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Women & Gender
Pan-Africanism is more important than ever – Dlamini-Zuma By Read the original article on Theafricareport.com : Pan-Africanism is more important than ever – Dlamini-Zuma | North Africa By Elissa Jobson and Parselelo Kantai in
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Seema Jilani Physician reporting from Afghanistan The faux red carpet had been laid out for the famous and the wannabe-famous. Politicians and journalists arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, bedazzled in the hopes of basking in a few fleeting moments of fame, even if only by osmosis from proximity to celebrities. New
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In his latest Ceasefire column, JJ Bola pays tribute, on the occasion of Women’s History Month, to the prominent role played by African women throughout history. March marked the start of Women’s History Month, featuring International Women’s Day on 08/03, an occasion to celebrate and highlight the achievements, successes and general brilliance of women, and
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Film director Kathryn Bigelow after a showing of her film The Hurt Locker, 2009 Seattle International Film Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Zillah Eisenstein Zillah Eisenstein has written feminist theory in North America for the past thirty years. She is an internationally renowned writer and activist and Distinguished Scholar of Anti-Racist Feminist Political Theory at Ithaca
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25 November is the UN-proclaimed International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Violence against women is a year-round occurrence and continues to an
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guardian.co.uk Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan, one of two women named in 10-minister cabinet, seen as divisive figure over role in Somaliland politics The new
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Interview conducted by Annika Schall Bernedette Muthien, Executive Director of the South African NGO Engender, speaks to Annika Schall about gender based violence, its root causes and possible solutions. Question 1: What are the most common forms of gender based violence in South Africa and what are its root causes? When we talk about forms
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Your Excellencies, Mr. Ambassadors, I would have liked to begin my speech with the usual formulation, "I have the honour and privilege of taking the floor before you." Alas! The women victims of sexual violence in Eastern DRC are in dishonor. I constantly with my own eyes see the elder women, the young girls, the
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Environment
AGRICULTURE AND ICT – MY STORY SO FAR by Emmanuel Ugokwe Networking Service: SMS or MMS, Mobile or Online Music, Mobile Commerce, Instant Messaging, Social Networking 1. What problems are you hoping to solve? Using Information Communication Technology to aid rural farmers. 2. How has technology helped to solve this problem? What devices does your solution run on?” Information communication technology (ICT) is my life
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By Marilyn Langlois, April 1, 2013 – TRANSCEND Media Service Richmond, California Refinery to Be Worker-Owned and Operated Chevron CEO John Watson announced today that
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it was the night before Christmas, when all through the land The 99% were taking a stand. A good life for everyone was their goal
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Tropical storm Sandy swept through from the Caribbean up the Eastern Seaboard of North America in the last week of October 2012. The date is itself important because by the end of October, it had been expected that the Hurricane season was over. But this massive Hurricane called a ‘super storm’ swept through the Caribbean
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Less than three days after Sandy made landfall on the East Coast of the United States, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blamed New Yorkers’ resistance to big-box stores for the misery they were about to endure. Writing on Forbes.com, he explained that the city’s refusal to embrace Walmart will likely make the recovery
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English: Chevron Corporation headquarters in San Ramon, California. This view shows just one of a huge, sprawling complex. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Source: BBC A judge has ordered $19bn (£11.9bn) of assets held by oil company Chevron to be frozen in Argentina over an environmental damages claim in Ecuador, lawyers in the case say. The Ecuadorean
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Every morning several homeless people flock to the Tshwane Leadership Foundation for breakfast at 8am. Breakfast time is a good time to meet with them.
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Idinthakarai 627 104 PRESS RELEASE September 12, 2012 Let us Do Some Soul-search and Talk Again! Just like a hapless wife brutally assaulted
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Activism
Pan-Africanism is more important than ever – Dlamini-Zuma By Read the original article on Theafricareport.com : Pan-Africanism is more important than ever – Dlamini-Zuma | North Africa By Elissa Jobson and Parselelo Kantai in
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Networking Service: SMS or MMS, Mobile or Online Music, Mobile Commerce, Instant Messaging, Social Networking 1. What problems are you hoping to solve? Using Information Communication Technology to aid rural farmers. 2. How has technology helped to solve this problem? What devices does your solution run on?” Information communication technology (ICT) is my life
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www.africanwriterstrust.org “Gatherings like these help us to know each other and keep Africa writing,” Jack Mapanje said.“We should not separate ourselves, we should not
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Seema Jilani Physician reporting from Afghanistan The faux red carpet had been laid out for the famous and the wannabe-famous. Politicians and journalists arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, bedazzled in the hopes of basking in a few fleeting moments of fame, even if only by osmosis from proximity to celebrities. New
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The cultural foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, decided to initiate a new thematic focus in its sponsorship work. The programme is called TURN and – as explained in the introductory statement – it is supposed to deal with ‘Africa’. Although there are certainly good intentions behind this new initiative,
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INTRODUCTION Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of Britain in 1979. That year was the last year of a decade that had been significant in many ways. Inside Britain, it had been a decade where the full dimensions of British economic decline had become clear. Edward Heath, the Conservative Prime Minister had been critical of
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Source: monitor.co.ug IN SUMMARY Raïs Neza Boneza is a Congolese poet and author. His works include Nomad, a Refugee Poet; Black Emerald; Peace by African’s
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By Marilyn Langlois, April 1, 2013 – TRANSCEND Media Service Richmond, California Refinery to Be Worker-Owned and Operated Chevron CEO John Watson announced today that
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