contemporary africa

Unfortunately, the Nubians never understood that building the Aswan Dam was to remove them from their homeland and from Egyptian history. Today we are seeing the limitations of the resettlement propaganda programme that they were sold back then. Nubians...

http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 06/09/business/ global/09shell. html?th&emc= th Shell to Pay $15.5 Million to Settle Nigerian Case By Jad Mouawad June 9, 2009 Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing...

http://www.talkzimb abwe.com/ news/117/ ARTICLE/4828/ 2009-06-07. html Africa should end conflicts, increase self-reliance: Mugabe Gift Chinene Sun, 07 Jun 2009 PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Sunday urged African countries to end conflicts and increase self-reliance...

http://www.ghanaweb .com/GhanaHomePa ge/NewsArchive/ artikel.php? ID=162675 General News Tuesday, 26 May 2009 Nkrumah stands tall among contemporaries - Dr Graham Accra, May 26 GNA - Dr Yao Graham, Executive Director of the Third World Network, has said...

http://actualite.aol.fr/le-president-bongo-est-decede-a/article/2009060810311304558945 Le président Bongo est décédé à Barcelone selon les médias espagnols Lundi 8 Juin 2009 Le président gabonais Omar Bongo Ondimba est décédé lundi à 14H00 (12H00 GMT)...

Will Zuma raze Orania, a white enclave, in South Africa to the ground.? It is an insult to South Africans and to African people everywhere, to allow whites to continue to practice apartheid in South African under black rule. Our people did not lose their...

http://www.afrol. com/articles/ 33320 Cape Verde wants emigrants back Thursday, May 21, 2009 afrol News, 21 May - Cape Verdean Prime Minister José Maria Neves on an official visit to the United States has met with the Diaspora and Cape Verdean students...

10 ans de sanctions économiques, ça suffit ! Aminata. D. Traoré, Jean Ziegler Mardi 03 mai 2009 Plus de 3000 morts et près de 70 000 malades du choléra au Zimbabwe, avec des risques de propagation de l’épidémie aux pays voisins, n'ont donc pas suffi à...

http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/ 30574810/ Oil firm faces trial amid accusations of complicity in human rights abuses Tues., May 5, 2009 NEW YORK - Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has been fighting for more than 13 years to make his late father's prediction come true....

The second scramble for Africa starts By Julio Godoy Updated May 5, 2009 BERLIN (IPS) - Sub-Saharan African countries have of late become the target of a new form of investment that is strongly reminiscent of colonialism: investors from both industrialized...