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Mauritania's new anti slavery law not enough for real change
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73936 MAURITANIA: New anti-slavery law not enough for real change, activists say DAKAR, 24 August 2007 (IRIN) - The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery...
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Growing tension between Italians and Chinese migrants
Italy struggles with Chinese migrants BBC's Radio 4 Crossing Cultures In cities across Italy tension between the Chinese and Italians is high. The rapid influx of Chinese migrant workers and their dramatic impact on the labour market have caught Italy...
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Saving the Timbuktu Manuscripts dispels myth of an oral Africa
Saving the Timbuktu Manuscripts African countries have thrown their weight behind efforts to preserve the priceless Timbuktu Manuscripts, ancient documents that hold the key to some of the secrets of the continent's history and cultural heritage - and...
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Des doutes sur la version officielle du 11 septembré
« Loose Change » : un documentaire qui critique la version officielle des événements du 11 septembre 2001 Andreas Molau Vendredi, 12 Octobre 2007 Est-ce une parole inoffensive ou est-ce une exagération, lorsque Michael Renz déclare, hors de lui : « C’est...
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Africa's Legacy in Mexico
Africa's Legacy in Mexico What Is a Mexican? Miriam Jimenez Roman Black people in Mexico? The looks of amazement and disbelief on the faces of first-time viewers of Tony Gleaton's photographs are eloquent testimony to the significance of these images....
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Struggle to keep Steve Biko's legacy alive in South Africa
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL12141189.html ANC grapples with Biko legacy as discontent simmers Wed 12 Sep 2007 Muchena Zigomo in Johannesburg Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - South Africa on Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary...
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A great loss
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=356&Itemid=33 A Great Loss: The Passing of Dr. Asa Grant Hilliard III (1933-2007) by BAR contributing editor Donald H. Smith, Ph.D Wednesday, 12 September 2007 Video tribute to...
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Africans must show world how to use technology for good, not evil
http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/emeagwali/120607.html Technology is the root of all evil By Philip Emeagwali According to history books, gun-wielding European slave traders kidnapped one in five Africans and transported them across the oceans...
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Appel à Soutenir Victor Bissengué
A.R.M.A.D.A Agir pour les Réparations Maintenant pour les A fricains et D escendants d' A fricains assoc.armada@yahoo.fr Soutien massif à Victor Bissengué mercredi 24 Octobre 2007 , 13h TGI de Paris, 17e Chambre, Palais de Justice de Paris, métro : Cité,...
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Dramatic increase in cancer deaths expected in developing countries
Cancer deaths to hit 17 million in 2030: researcher By Michael KahnMon Sep 24, 2007 Cancer deaths will more than double to 17 million people each year in 2030 with poor countries shouldering the heaviest burden from the disease, the head of the United...
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Private Military Firms in Africa : Rogue or regulated?
http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/ASR/13No3/CMcIntyre.htm Private Military Firms in Africa: Rogue or regulated? Angela McIntyre Senior Researcher in the Interact Project at the ISS Published in African Security Review Vol 13 No 3, 2004 In a 2003 article Peter...
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Screen violence tied to boys' aggression
Screen violence tied to boys' aggression: study By Andrew Stern 5/11/2007 Boys aged 2 to 5 who viewed an hour of on-screen violence a day increased their chances of being overly aggressive later in childhood, but the association was not seen in girls,...
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Africa's Paradoxes And Perverted Priorities need to be corrected
http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=3697 Africa’s Militarists: Paradoxes And Perverted Priorities … By Amii Omara-Otunnu September 13th, 2007 It is a tragic paradox of history and a chilling mockery of the sacrifices of those who fought so hard for African...
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Portugal Gets Harsh Blast From its colonial Past
War Documentary Confronts Portugal With Harsh Reality of Its Colonial Past in Africa By BARRY HATTON LISBON, Portugal The heads of enemy soldiers impaled on roadside trees. Hundreds of prisoners tortured, killed and dumped in mass graves. Napalm dropped...
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South American Leaders Launch Bank of the South
South American Leaders Launch Bank of the South Chris Carlson Venezuelanalysis.com December 10th 2007, Mérida, December 10, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and five other South American leaders met in Argentina on Sunday...
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American Dream a nightmare for most black families
http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/news/details/2598/us/ New report confirms that the American Dream is a nightmare for most black families Deborah Gabriel 16/11/2007 A new report published this week by the Economic Mobility Project has revealed that the ability...
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Venezuela and China Form Bilateral Development Fund
( http://www.venezuelanalysis.com ) Venezuela and China Form Bilateral Development Fund Chris Carlson November 7, 2007 Mérida-The governments of China and Venezuela signed several new bilateral agreements, including a bilateral development fund in Caracas...
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Dr. Kyalo Manthi's fight for ownership of his theory of evolution
Hedging hegemony: Dr Kyalo Manthi, African fossils & the ownership of science Sunday, September 16, 2007 When the news broke out in August of this year that new archaeological research in Kenya urged huge reversals in the conventional wisdom about the...
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The appalling practice of untouchability in India finds new forms
http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/26/stories/2007092656181000.htm Untouchability finds new forms Bageshree S. Bangalore: The appalling practice of untouchability seems to only assume new and less obvious forms after it is exposed and causes public outrage....
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Subprime lending, another Western strategy to keep African people enslaved
Africans bear brunt of subprime crisis in U.S. economy built on slavery and genocide By Penny Hess December 15, 2007 The subprime mortgage mess is making headlines, but what the media barely mentions is that the African community is bearing the brunt...
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Gulf states 'offer Iran uranium'
Gulf states 'offer Iran uranium' 2007/11/01 Gulf states are willing to set up a body to provide enriched uranium to Iran, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister is reported to have said. Prince Saud al-Faisal told the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) the plan...
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Invitation to Celebrate our Nubian Heritage and Resist Kajabar Dam Project
The Rescue Nubia & Kajabar Dam Resistance Committee (London-UK) has pleasure in inviting you to a Nubian Open Day on Saturday 3 November 2007 – 12noon to 11.00pm at the Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 [nearest underground Holborn – Piccadilly...
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Why and how the African child is miseducated in the Western system(traduction français)
Titre en francais sur notre site: Pourquoi le système éducatif occidental est inapproprié pour les enfants d’origine africaine http://horte.over-blog.fr/article-13659533.html http://horte.over-blog.fr Why and how the African child is miseducated in the...
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US govt planning to fight wars in urban areas rather than fight economic disparities
The Pentagon Plans for a New Hundred Years' War By Nick Turse Duane Schattle doesn't mince words. "The cities are the problem," he says. A retired Marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late 1990s,...
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Venuzuelan children to be taught Christopher Columbus not a hero
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=75961 Venezuelan children to be taught that Christopher Columbus was not a hero Friday, September 21, 2007 Jeremy McDermott The Daily Telegraph (Jeremy McDermott): Children in Venezuela are to be taught that Christopher...