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Farrakhan addresses attack on Libya, warns of catastrophe headed for America

By Richard B. Muhammad Editor (FinalCall.com) - America is facing a major earthquake as part of God's divine judgment against the country for her evil, warned the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan during a March 31 press conference at the Nation of Islam's flagship Mosque Maryam. The Minister called the news conference to address this upcoming major catastrophe, U.S. policy in the...

Politics, double standards and warmongers

-Contributing Writer- World class 'hypocrisy' in Libyan attacks (FCN, 03-22-2011) Video: Farrakhan warns, advises Obama on Libya (FCN, 03-10-2011) (FinalCall.com) - On Saturday, March 19, the U.S. launched air strikes against “military targets” in the North African country of Libya, sending more than 120 tomahawk cruise missiles from U.S. ships and U.S. and British submarines. France, a partner in this “coalition...

Uncertainty in Ivory Coast, optimism in Sudan

According to published reports, ECOWAS has threatened to remove Laurent Gbagdo, Ivory Coast's incumbent president, through the use of “legitimate force,” after being unable to “coax him into conceding defeat in elections. The West African Organization of States has called for a two-day meeting of its “defense chiefs (on) January 17 to plan future steps” if Gbagdo does...

The Unholy Alliance Between Israel and South Africa’s Apartheid Regime

(FinalCall.com) - You'd think with all the recent ink, with both Foreign Affairs and the UK-based Guardian articles “Bringing Israel's Bomb Out of the Basement” and “Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa (SA) nuclear weapons,” that Israel's nuclear arsenal would be big on the WikiLeaks list of revelations. And if that's not enough you'd think the...

The Oil Factor: The loudest voice in Sudan’s referendum

(FinalCall.com) - Sudan's upcoming January 2011 referendum that will decide whether Southern Sudan secedes and forms a separate nation state seems plagued with the same confusion of tongues bestowed upon the Babylonians in the book of Genesis. The referendum is part of an internationally brokered 2005 peace accord between the North and South that ended 20 years of a...

Is scholar linked to Sudanese rebel group?

(FinalCall.com) - Looking into the reasons for Dr. Hassan Al-Turabi's most recent arrest, his fifth since his falling out with President Omar Al-Bashir, analysis as always comes from different quarters: Political science professor at Al Neilein University Hassan Al-Sa'ori believes the detention is somehow connected to Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim's “failure to distort the...

Sudanese leader offers insight on politics, oil and Farrakhan

(FinalCall.com) - Prior to his recent arrest, The Final Call interviewed Dr. Hassan Al-Turabi, a Sudanese political leader, and discovered this constitutional scholar and Islamist, a former friend of President Omar Bashir and former House speaker in Sudan willing to openly and frankly speak his mind, not caring about possible consequences. As secretary general of the Popular Congress Party,...

Sudan election a good first step

-Contributing Writer- KHARTOUM, Sudan (FinalCall.com) - During two press conferences the recurring theme of European Union and Carter Center observers was, recently concluded Sudan elections “were not up to international standards”– but were a good first step for Africa's largest country. Meanwhile African Union chief Jean Ping hailed Sudan April 17 for “peacefully conducted” elections as Khartoum kicked off vote-counting...

‘Kill the Boer’ and the death of White-Supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche

(FinalCall.com) - Controversy over Julius Malema, the African National Congress Youth League leader, and the recent killing of the White supremacist African Resistance Movement creator Eugene Terre'Blanche may be the spark that ignites dissatisfaction over the limited gains received by Blacks in post apartheid South Africa. First Terre'Blanche was a White racist Afrikaner whose viciousness and brutality in the...

Sudan kicks off and extends elections

KHARTOUM, Sudan (FinalCall.com) - The first multiparty elections in over two decades in Africa's largest country will go ahead as planned despite the withdrawal of several opposition parties citing campaign irregularities. Presidential and legislative elections kicked off nationwide here as more than 16 million voters were scheduled to go to 120 voting centers across this vast nation and choose the...