Hotly contested UK elections up for grabs
(FinalCall.com) - With elections less than three weeks away, and the first major televised debate on April 15, political campaigning is in full swing in efforts to sway the British electorate. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labour Party has never won a national election as leader of his party. With the British economy suffering and involvement in...
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...
African National Congress and internal squabbles
(FinalCall.com) - An interesting development in post apartheid South Africa is current African National Congress internal political squabbling, including Youth League leader Julius Malema, and questions about whether discussion of the infighting creates a cover for more serious economic issues. It has also been charged that the “family squabble” may have lessened ANC credibility and party leaders have been...
Which way for Black Brits in 2010?
CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - Londoners are preparing to cast their votes in the upcoming General Elections, either for ruling Labour Party, the liberal Democrats, the conservative British National Party, or the Green Party and Black political activists say there are key issues that Black and ethnic voters must keep in front of the politicians and voters. But they are not sitting back...
TransAfrica: ‘Overwhelming need’ still exists in Haiti
-Staff Writer- WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - There is the Haiti that President Obama recently described: "The situation on the ground remains dire and people should be under no illusions that the crisis is over," he said following a meeting with Haitian President René Preval. With spring rains coming, the president noted, "The challenge is now to prevent a second disaster." Then...
Israel’s Netanyahu defiant in the face of American, world criticism
(FinalCall.com) - Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a defiant speech during his appearance on March 22 at the 2010 Annual Policy Conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, D.C. “The connection between Jerusalem and the Jewish people cannot be denied. The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people...
President promises help, Caucus member seeks debt relief for Haiti
- WASHINGTON (FinalClal.com) - President Barack Obama hosted Haitian President René Préval at the White House March 10 as part of Mr. Préval's visit with top U.S. officials in Washington. He traveled to Washington with First Lady Elizabeth Préval, just as the Haitian government is finalizing an aid proposal ahead of an international donors' conference later this month. Mr. Obama...
Scarce water the root cause of Darfur conflict?
If one looks to the Council on Foreign Relations to define the tragedy that has been Darfur you initially get: “Farmers and Arabic nomads have long competed for limited resources in western Sudan's Darfur region, particularly following a prolonged drought in 1983.” Taking a closer look at this position suggests, “the crises in Darfur stems in part from disputes...
A rising demand for freezing adoptions of Haitian children
CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - Some child advocates and human rights groups are calling for an immediate end to adoptions of Haitian children in the aftermath of the 7.0 earthquake that toppled its capital Port au Prince. The instinct to help by taking children out of the country could have horrible results, they said. As of January 25, 363 Haitian orphans had been...
Haiti: New problems for already suffering nation
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Fresh off a fact-finding mission from the earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) blasted some recent developments in the Black Republic and called for more tents, more medicine, consistent U.S. military relief flights, and an end to all unvetted child adoptions. Some of Rep. Waters' strongest reactions were in response to the recent arrest of 10 Americans...