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A great divide: Brazil 's public self-image of a 'racial democracy' is being challenged as black Brazilians struggle to overturn centuries of racism By Jack Chang http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/part3/index.html RIO DE JANEIRO --...

Ode Issue 999 When doctors strike, fewer people die. In 1973 doctors in Israel staged a month-long strike and during that month, mortality fell by 50 percent. A couple of years later, a two-month work stoppage by doctors in the Columbian capital of Bogotá...

Latest world trade talks collapse The latest negotiations to try to secure a new global trade deal have collapsed without agreement. Trade leaders from the European Union, US, India and Brazil had been meeting in Germany to find a breakthrough on the...

Slavery alive and well in Mauritania (English title on our site) Mauritania --Ils vivent en esclavage (Premier et deuxieme partie) Garba Diallo, 1996 Ne vous inquiétez pas, je ne vais pas vous faire reculer de 200 ans dans l’histoire. Ce dont je veux...

Dr Charles Geshekter (speaking about the myth of aids in Africa) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qUBagW-xWs Dr David Crowe (speaking about the myth of aids) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO9pFFanbCQ Thank goodness doctors are speaking out about the...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1dyrc_thomas-sankara-addis-abeba-29071987 Au moment ou l'Afrique et sa diaspora cherche à se renaître, réécoutons le discours du grand dirigeant et visionnaire atrocement assassiné, Thomas Sankara de Burkina Faso. Ses...

Sudan: Garang Was Assassinated, Says Widow New Vision (Kampala) 18 June 2007 Posted to the web 19 June 2007 Felix Osike and Reuben Olita Kampala THE death of Sudan's First Vice President, Dr John Garang de Mabior in July 2005 in a plane crash took a new...

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/he1.htm Lascaux on the Nile Palaeolithic rock art depicting animal illustrations similar to those found in the Lascaux caves in France have been discovered in the Upper Egyptian town of Kom Ombo, reports Nevine El-Aref...

http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=555530 Resisting a Globalised Africa - Message to the Pan African Summit in Jamaica Posted: 2007/06/13 From: Mathaba An open letter to participants of the 2007 Pan-African Summit; the theme of which is Political...

http://www.buanews.gov.za/view.php?ID=07053010451003&coll=buanew07 Date: 30 May 2007 Title: SA aims to 'rekindle flames of African solidarity' By Shaun Benton Cape Town - A number of key events in 2007 and 2008 are adding some velocity to the process...