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Tired of ‘living while Black’: Many finding a place in Africa

Serious interest in going back to and engaging with Africa keeps growing among Blacks in the West separated from the continent for nearly 500 years. After experiencing slavery, marginalization, racism, and seemingly unending discrimination, many are opting to create life elsewhere rather than continue “living while Black” in America and Europe. They are enhancing their well being—spiritually, mentally, emotionally and economically. For...

Libya: Political stalemate and lack of progress on elections

Leaders in Libya must take immediate steps to resolve their political impasse, which is spilling over into increasing violence, UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council on Aug. 30.  The North African country became divided between two rival administrations in the years after the overthrow of former leader Muammar Gadhafi a decade ago.  The government of National...

Farrakhan, Mandela and Jewish leaders

The similarities between the interactions with Jewish leaders and organizations of influence—whether in person or upon reflection, by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Nelson Mandela—are worth looking back on. Mandela was sentenced in 1964 by prosecutor Percy Yutar, who used his increased fame in the Apartheid State of South Africa to become attorney general and later the president...

Coups or revolution? African nations at a crossroads and throwing off Western colonial shackles 

Military leaders in the Central African nation of Gabon announced that they had taken power, ousted the government, and placed its longtime President Ali Bongo under house arrest. The officers introduced themselves as members of the Committee of Transition and the Restoration of Institutions (CTRI). They annulled the official results from the Aug. 26 presidential election, closed borders, and...

Is there an election crisis brewing in Senegal?  

“A leap into the void,” is what human rights expert Alioune Tine said in response to Senegalese President Macky Sall’s “unconstitutional delay” of the upcoming February 25 election. Tine added that postponing the election until December 15 plunges the West African country into “uncertainty and (possible) violence,” reported Foreign Policy’s World Brief columnist Alexandria Sharp.  Kicking out or null and...

Famine threat returns to Yemen, amid upsurge in fighting

The specter of famine has returned to Yemen as donor countries fail to make good on their 2020 pledges, amidst an upsurge in fighting, fresh hurdles for aid deliveries, and ongoing efforts to nail down a nationwide ceasefire, the Security Council heard on Sept. 15. Increased funding was the main reason that famine was prevented two years ago, but this year only...

Journalists see Zimbabwe’s land crisis up close

Doctors: Will of Zimbabweans can conquer AIDS, food problemsMugabe: Zimbabwe will not be a colony againAre White Farmers reaping what they have sown?MDC says it has a better wayVisit to war memorial a blessed moment HARARE (FinalCall.com)–When Lorenzo Martin, publisher of the Chicago Standard newspaper, arrived at the international airport here, he expected to see soldiers all over the...

UN Report – UN members feeling heat from U.S. on Iraq war

UN launches inquiry into American spying (UK Guardian)American Corporate Media Dodging U.N. Surveillance Story (FAIR) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com)–A London-based activist group, citing outrage over reports that the African country Angola is moving toward supporting the United States/United Kingdom resolution now being debated in the United Nations Security Council to declare war on Iraq, has called for world-wide demonstrations against Angolan...

With body counts climbing, military families vent frustration over unproven Iraqi claims

(FinalCall.com)-With his dreams of climbing skies and racing through clouds since the age of eight, the family of United States Army Captain Konata Ato Crumbly said they always knew he would be a pilot. Captain Crumbly is in Iraq, along with 9,000 of his fellow soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division, who learned last week, via U.S. Secretary of...

How does the U.S. aid Africa?

Bush's Goal: Bring African leaders in line with U.S. policy (FCN, 07/25/2003) (FinalCall.com) - The Bush administration has worked “hard” over the past three-and-a-half-years to build relationships with the nations of Africa said Secretary of State Colin Powell July 8, addressing the Africa Policy Advisory Panel, a group of high-level “leaders” from Congress, the executive branch, the business sector, academia...