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The real scandal at the World Bank
Johann Hari: The real scandal at the World Bank The Bank is killing thousands of the poorest people in the world Published: 26 April 2007 While the world's press has been fixated on the teeny-weeny scandal over whether the World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz...
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Stop manufacturing cluster bombs
Stop world cluster bombs, urge six Nobel Prize winners Tue May 22, 7:06 PM ET Jody Williams and five other female Nobel prize laureates on Tuesday urged civilians to press for the elimination of cluster bombs, which cripple children and others long after...
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Strategic move by Asian tigers
BEIJING, May 8 -- The willingness expressed by Asia's financial ministers to establish a reserve pooling is surely a necessary, albeit long-overdue, response to the financial crisis that swept across the continent a decade ago. Last Saturday, the finance...
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The scramble for Africa's oil
"Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil" Thursday, May 17th, 2007 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1350254 Historian and Journalist John Ghazvinian discusses his recent trip to Nigeria and the African oil boom. The U.S. now imports...
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Nigeria plans to convert to nuclear power in 2011
Country's Nuclear Power Plant Begins 2011 NEWS 27 July 2007 By Juliana Taiwo Abuja Problem of epileptic power supply in Nigeria may soon become a thing of the past, as the Director-General of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC), Dr Franklin Erepamo...
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Boot airline companies out of africa (voir traduction francais)
BAISSEZ VOS TARIFS OU SORTEZ DE L'AFRIQUE (titre en francais sur notre site) BRING DOWN YOUR AIRFARES OR GET OUT OF AFRICA By Jacques Sotero Agboton Author of Philosophy of Engagement (An ideological basis for the liberation of African people) AMERICAN...
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China launches nigerian satellite
China has successfully launched a communications satellite for Nigeria. The official Xinhua news agency says it is the first time that a foreign buyer has purchased both a Chinese satellite and its launching service. The Nigerian Communication Satellite...
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4 contre ADP(appel au palais de justice)
A toutes et à tous, Dans le cadre du marathon judiciaire entamé par les « 4 Contre ADP », le 31 mai 2007 se tiendra un point de ravitaillement (audience de réintégration) devant : la Cour d’Appel de Paris, 18ème Chambre Sociale, à 13h 30 au Palais de...
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Bill Gates gives 9 milliion to fight aids (resumé en francais)
Gates charity gives $9.7M to fight AIDS By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press Writer Fri May 18, 7:57 AM ET The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give a $9.7 million grant to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation to study ways to prevent...
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Nicolas Sarkozy's Africa (voir traduction francais)
Achille Mbembe démonte le mensonge de Sarkosy sur l'afrique (titre en français sur notre site) Nicolas Sarkozy's Africa By Achille Mbembe publié le 08/08/2007 If they'd had the chance, the majority of French-speaking Africans would have no doubt voted...
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First continental political party adopts Swahili name
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/diaspora/artikel.php?ID=128812 First Continental Political Party adopts Swahili African Name 11 August 2007 UHURU AFRICAN CONVENTION (UAC) Leader Woos Diasporians : African -Americans, Caribbeans, etc, and pleads...
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Nubians to protest dam murder in front of white house
Nubians rally in front of the White House Lafayette Park - Saturday September 8, 2007 - from 1.00-3.00 pm The Rescue Nubia and Resist Kajbar Dam Committee ( RNARKDC)- US chapter will organize a peaceful rally in front of the White House on September 8,...
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Youth dies in toronto school shooting
Slain Toronto teen a 'good kid' Thu May 24, 8:11 AM The 15-year-old student gunned down in a Toronto school was a "good kid" who shared the values of his mother, a community leader in a neighbourhood reputed for violence, filmmakers who knew the boy said....
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Iran et G-20: Créer une crise pour masquer des divisions
http://www.michelcollon.info/index.php?view=article&catid=6&id=2306&option=com_content&Itemid=11 Iran et G-20: Créer une crise pour masquer des divisions Sara Flounders 06 Octobre 2009 Le sommet du G-20 à Pittsburgh rassemblait selon toute vraisemblance...
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Medicine owes a lot to Africa
Most people are still unaware today that without the traditional healer the western scientist would not know which plants cure the different parts of our body. It is the local doctor who identifies the plant, then the western scientist returns to his...
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Les USA financent de jeunes Vénézuéliens pour dire du mal de Chavez
http://www.michelcollon.info Les USA financent de jeunes Vénézuéliens pour dire du mal de Chavez Eva Golinger 9/09/09 Au moyen d’une campagne internationale contre le Président Chavez, menée par l’extrême droite depuis la Colombie et avec l’appui de Washington,...
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Uncovering Indoctrinated Racism
Uncovering Indoctrinated Racism By Ezrah Aharone 10/09/09 Since he wasn’t the first and won’t be the last president to address the nation’s youth, it’s peculiar that claims and fears circulated that Barack Obama would somehow “indoctrinate” children during...
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Africentric school makes history in Canad
Well done Canada, especially to my friend Georges Dei who fought tooth and nail to achieve this goal. Hort http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/articlePrint/692804 Africentric school makes history Louise Brown September 09, 2009 Drummed into school to a...
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South africa needs foreign workers
Jamaica Gleaner Online South Africa needs 35,000 skilled foreign workers published: Wednesday | May 9, 2007 Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer SUN CITY, South Africa: Rapid growth in its construction industry, positioned among the top five tourist destinations...
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Le Tchernobyl Antillais
Des pesticides à l'origine d'un "désastre sanitaire" aux Antilles françaises 17/09/07 PARIS (AFP) L'utilisation massive de certains pesticides a provoqué un "désastre sanitaire" aux Antilles françaises, mettant en danger l'ensemble de leur population,...
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Mugabe stays the course of indigenous empowerment
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN350287.html Defiant Mugabe says Zimbabwe will not change course Mon 13 Aug 2007 By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's embattled President Robert Mugabe vowed on Monday he would not change course because...
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British and Australian government's indigenous land grab
http://www.ekosso.com/2007/07/the-chagos-isla.html The Chagos islands: the British government’s recipe for dehumanisation Ingredients Warmongering An innate sense of racial superiority Landgrabbing Method Start in 17th and 18th century First, uproot people...
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Amistad retraces slave route
Amistad sets sail on slave trade route By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press WriterT Thu Jun 21,2007 A ship bearing the name Amistad once again set sail for the Atlantic, tracing a 19th-century route of the slave trade. The Freedom Schooner Amistad,...
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Honouring our martyred ancestors
Slaves who died at sea being honored By BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 9, 6:06 AM ET Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade....
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Black Victims of the Nazis
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20070608T230000-0500_124093_OBS_BLACK_VICTIMS_OF_THE_NAZIS_.asp Black Victims of the Nazis Patrick Wilmot Saturday, June 09, 2007 "Holocaust" is usually associated with the six million Jews slaughtered by the...