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Ethiopian rabbis win court victory in Israel, but struggle continues for Africans in the Zionist State
Sixteen Ethiopian rabbis recently won what is being touted as a landmark court case against discrimination in the Zionist State of Israel. In proceedings that spanned 12 years, the case was part of nearly 20 years of struggle by the clergymen against the state. Observers say the friction stems from years of Ethiopian Jews struggling to integrate into Israel since...
Pandemic shaping economic, social climate of East and Southern Africa
In many East and Southern African countries, local, regional and national lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic have been extended, reported Equinet. “Their impacts raise questions on their sustainability. The conversation inevitably turns to when and how countries will exit them. South Africa’s President Ramaphosa said recently in introducing their risk adjusted strategy: ‘We cannot sustain a nationwide lockdown...
Venezuela – past and present
I remember so many wonderful things about the place I was born. I would travel back to Venezuela with my mother—the entrepreneur who would go down to sell the latest fashions she bought in Miami or New York. My father worked for an airline in those years so, flying back and forth was a constant. We had moved to...
Hands off African import taxes, Europeans told
/GIN BRUSSELS (IPS/GIN) - A new report commissioned by the French government is expected to fault the European Commission for pushing trade agreements with African and Caribbean countries that ignore social and economic development needs. In the report by Christiane Taubira of the French national assembly, she recommends that the mandate given to the 27-member European Commission to negotiate...
U.S., Israel relations rocky?
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - If a recent week was any indication, the U.S.-Israeli relationship, which could scarcely have been smoother during the eight-year presidency of George W. Bush, appears headed for choppy waters. Since taking office days ago, the new government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been slapped down–at least, rhetorically–by the two most senior members of the...
CIA medics ran experiments on detainees, group charges
NEW YORK (IPS/GIN) - A major human rights organization claims it has uncovered evidence indicating that the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush conducted “illegal and unethical human experimentation” and research on detainees in CIA custody. The group, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), claims “the apparent experimentation and research appear to have been performed to provide legal...
Akbar Muhammad goes ahead with Guyana lawsuit
-Staff Writer- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - In front of the Guyana Embassy, Attorney Martin McMahon announced he was filing suit against the country's government on behalf of Abdul Akbar Muhammad. “We are here to send a message about illegal and repressive tactics used by overseas governments against innocent, law abiding American Muslims,” he said. “We have filed a lawsuit seeking substantial...
UN rejects lawsuit, claims immunity in Haiti
By Saeed Shabazz-Staff Writer- UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - A spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General recently told reporters at UN headquarters in New York that the world body is rejecting claims filed on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti. Fifteen months ago the Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy In Haiti and its Haitian counterpart, the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, delivered to...
Fall of Fallujah refocuses U.S. on Iraq
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON - Two years after the last U.S. combat soldiers left Iraq, the recent takeover of the Western city of Fallujah by the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has refocused Washington's attention on a country that it had hoped to put permanently in its rear-view mirror. The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, which has ruled...
Pan-African solidarity in the midst of a crisis Final Call Covid-19, Africa forum unites experts across continent with audience in U.S.
Staff Writer @nisaislam WASHINGTON–According to recent figures published by Johns Hopkins University, over 2.7 million cases of Covid-19 have been detected worldwide, with 192,019 deaths and 752,148 people now recovered. In Africa, Nigeria has logged about 981 cases and 31 deaths; South Africa about 3,953 cases and 75 deaths; Ghana about 1,279 cases and 10 deaths and Kenya about...