Tag Archive "africa"
Gaddafi visits Ghana; ‘Rawlings Revolution’, not democracy saved Ghana
Update, July 21th 2009- Gaddafi cancels visit due to ‘exigencies’. The visit is now tentatively set for September 2009. Update, July 19th 2009- Gaddafi to ...
Obama’s second visit to Africa; Ghana only International Airport Shut down for Obama
NewsRescue Update, July 10th 2009- Obama acknowledges the effects of the legacy of colonialism and Western foreign policy on Africa’s predicament. View: ABC News video ...
France’s 40 year ongoing genocide of Central Africa
Story from Independent.co.uk Inside France’s secret war For 40 years, the French government has been fighting a secret war in Africa, hidden not only from ...
Nigerian lawmakers describe taking naked blood oaths to office
Warning- Nekkid images! June 29th 2009: CompassNews- Apparently to save his face, Alausa, who represents Ijebu-Ode State Constituency in the House of Assembly, claimed that ...
US Senate approves resolution apologizing for slavery
Thu June 18, 2009 CNN: The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for the wrongs of slavery. The nonbinding resolution sponsored ...
80,000 reported displaced in Nigeria
Nigeria’s National Commission for Refugees has reported the presence of a total of 10,000 refugees and more than 80,000 internally displaced persons in Nigeria. The ...
Niger rally against president Tandja
Niger (Aljazeera)– Tens of thousands of people in Niger have held protests after an attempt by the president to make a change to legislation that would allow him ...
When We Ruled! Africa’s reign
100 Things you never knew about Africa THIS IS AN EXTRACT FROM A BOOK BY ROBIN WALKER Since 1992 and up to the present period, ...
How ‘Not’ to write about Africa
Binyavanga Wainaina — Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ...
Shell settles Nigeria killings suit; $15.5 Million
Previous story: Shell human right abuse case with Sarowiwa family slated for New York Veronica Kobani, whose husband was killed in the unrest between protesters ...
The Jewish Holocaust was precedented and superseded by Leopold’s 30M Holocaust of Africa’s Congo
To President Obama NewsRescue recently published an article on the Pope’s recent comments, calling the European Hitler’s Holocaust of European Jews, an unprecedented event in ...
Shell court case for human rights abuse and terror sponsorship against Nigeria’s Ogoni
The Video Shell Oil Desperately Doesn’t Want You to See By Han Shan, Huffington Post. Posted May 26, 2009. Business as usual: Shell is trying ...
Africa’s brain gain
With the current global recession and the tough work climate in the western world, equal or even higher racial discrimination due to the competition for ...
Terrorists from the US going to fight Somalia government
Somalia’s president has condemned the presence of foreign fighters in his country as he called for help to tackle armed opposition groups seeking to topple ...
Watch the businesses! World business in radical consolidation
Business is no longer- business as usual. If you have paid any attention to trends in world business and finance sectors, one thing can never ...
How The IMF-World Bank and Structural Adjustment Program(SAP) Destroyed Africa
Herbert Jauch , Labour Resource and Research Institute, Namibia Structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) have been implemented in many ‘developing’ countries since the 1980s. They were designed ...
Timbuktu- Journey From World Richest Nations, Voyaging To The Americas Before Columbus, To Poorest
How did the once great Timbuktu in the western African nation of Mali at the edge of the Sahara, recently one of the strongest economies ...
Obama To Visit Ghana- All About AFRICOM?
NewsRescue- The United States President, Barrack Obama is scheduled in July to visit Ghana in his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since resuming office [1]. ...
A New Lagos Nigeria!
Updated! June 7, 2009, September 4, 2009. More images from NaijaRyders/ Happy Lagosian Blogspot at page bottom. Pictures speak louder than words. The transformation of ...
Largest class action ever brought before the British courts- Toxic waste dumping in Abidjan
Dutch Trafigura settles Ivory Coast toxic waste case 02/15/2007 | 03:52 PM AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – A Dutch-based oil trading company paid $197 million to secure ...
Revealed: the face of the first European
35,000-year-old skull fragments found in Romania are made flesh by scientists By Steve Connor, Science Editor Monday, 4 May 2009 The face of the first ...
Chad troops battle advancing rebels
Fresh clashes have erupted in Chad as government troops moved to halt an attempted rebel advance on the capitalNdjamena, the government has said. The fighting in the ...
Nigeria’s hip-hop industry booming even in global recession
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Largest Penalty Against US Company Ever- Halliburton for Nigeria Bribe
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Friday formally charged engineering company KBR Inc (KBR.N) in a $180 million, decade-long scheme to ...
Al Qaeda exporting jihad with a hip-hop vibe
Embedded video from CNN The story The latest video from Somalia’s al Qaeda-backed Al-Shabaab wing is as slickly produced as a reality TV show but ...
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