African Union closes summit with tasks ahead
Bush's Goal: Bring African leaders in line with US policy Gadhafi to western powers: Treat Africa as equal partnerFCN Editorial - The two faces of Bush Reports on the African Union MAPUTO, Mozambique (PANA)–The newly-elected chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali, took the oath of office of the African Union (AU) shortly before the Union’s...
Gadhafi to western powers: Treat Africa as equal partner
MAPUTO, Mozambique (PANA) - The West "has eaten our flesh raw and committed historic crimes by engaging in the slave trade and making huge fortunes from it," Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gadhafi declared here July 12. Speaking at the end of the African Union (AU) summit in the Mozambiqan capital, the Libyan leader affirmed that the West in the past...
Fighting in Liberia continues
Sharpton in Africa to address Liberian crisis ACCRA, Ghana (FinalCall.com)--The effort to hammer out an agreement to stop the heavy fighting in Monrovia moved slowly here July 21, even as word circulated that rebel forces on the ground in the Liberian capital city were resisting any effort to stop their forward motion toward the residence of President Charles Taylor. The...
Sharpton in Africa to address Liberian crisis
ECOWAS And MODEL Call On Lurd to Stop Fighting (allAfrica.com)Activists closely watch Bush in Africa ACCRA, Ghana (FinalCall.com)--The Rev. Al Sharpton, at the head of a delegation of religious clergy from the United States, hit the ground running here, landing in the early morning July 20 with a goal of visiting war-torn Liberia to try to bring stability to...
British wall of silence around Kenyan rape charges
/GIN Tales of Rape, Sodomy by British Soldiers (Inter Press Service) LONDON (IPS/GIN)--Attempts to investigate complaints that at least 650 Kenyan women were raped by British army soldiers over three decades have run into "a wall of silence," according to Amnesty International. Amnesty is demanding an independent inquiry into the complaints against British army soldiers sent to remote areas of...
Reparations lobby groups demand trillions of dollars for slavery
NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA)-Two lobby groups pressing for the return of resources looted from Africa by former colonial masters have intensified compensation claims from the United States and Britain ahead of President George Bush’s visit to the continent, starting July 8. The Pan African Reparations Movement and the Global African Congress are demanding $776 trillion from the two powers for...
Gadhafi: Reason for Bush’s trip to Africa?
Activists closely watch Bush in Africa Click here to read recent and past articles on the African Union Why Liberia? Why Pres. Charles Taylor? (Column by A. Akbar Muhammad)In The Twilight Of Our Freedoms? (by Cynthia McKinney) THE WHITE HOUSE(FinalCall.com)--President George W. Bush left for his first visit to Africa July 7, confident that his administration will bring about a...
Palestinians, Israelis agree to a ceasefire
Sheikh Yassin: Hamas still committed to truce (Al Bawaba)Minister Louis Farrakhan's Peace Mission Report (FCN, 07.22.2002)Nation of Islam leader offers his vision for Middle East peace (FCN, 06.26.2002) Farrakhan initiative accepted one year later UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com)--Almost one year to the day after the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan proffered a plan to get the peace process moving between Palestinians and Israelis, that plan...
Activists concerned that Black Americans excluded from WCAR follow-up group
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com)–Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed five individuals June 16 to work along with the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights on the implementation of the "Declaration and Program of Action" of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), which was held in Durban, South Africa. Referring to the appointees as "eminent experts," Mr. Annan said they "have a...
U.S. casualties mount in Bush’s war without end
ATLANTA (FinalCall.com)–Officially, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are over. But the U.S. death toll continues to rise as soldiers come under fire in both hot spots. At Final Call press time, more than 45 U.S. soldiers had lost their lives in Iraq since the May 1 announcement by President George Bush that the combat phase in the war against...