Progression towards United States of Africa continues
The African Union (Official Site)Birth of the African Union (FCN, 07-14-2002) TRIPOLI (FinalCall.com) - “Africa should not be in the position of beggars,” insisted Colonel Muammar Gadhafi, the head of Libya, in his opening remarks to the Fifth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union held July 4-5. Serving as host for the summit, his remarks echoed...
U.S. conduct in terror war destroyed image abroad
WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - It was in 1776 that a group of British colonists living along the Atlantic seaboard of North America felt compelled to offer a public justification for their “Declaration of Independence” from their mother country out of “a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind.” That justification, a bill of particulars against King George II for a host...
Arab summit rekindles talk of unity
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz's address to Summit .(FinalCall.com) - There was much anticipation surrounding the 19th Arab League Summit which took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mar. 28-29, well attended by kings and heads of state from throughout the world. The evidence of the interest in the meeting was noted by a writer for the Washington Institute for...
International Community: End U.S. embargo on Cuba
UN General Assembly votes 184-4 in favor of lifting U.S. embargo on Cuba Cuba: President Bush has no moral authority (FCN, 10-22-2007)Why does the U.S. government hate Cuba? (FCN, 04-10-2006) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - For the 16th consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly (GA) met on Oct. 30 to debate a draft resolution on the necessity of ending the...
African Union, Arab League oppose Bashir indictment
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Unable to have an amendment adopted by the Security Council to quash an arrest warrant issued by an International Criminal Court prosecutor against the president of Sudan, the African Union and the Arab League successfully inserted language about their concerns into a resolution that reauthorized UN peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region. The August 31 vote resulted...
U.S. slams door on greater UN role in economic crisis
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The United Nations General Assembly convened a major conference on the global financial crisis in late June meetings at its New York City headquarters. Hopes that the UN could play a greater role in alleviating the crisis were dashed as the U.S. and Western nations rebuffed the world body's attempt to have a hand in reforming...
Wyclef’s New Fight
ERICTOUREM -Contributing Writer- Ruled ineligible to run for president, Haitian-born rapper plans to appeal decision (FinalCall.com) - At Final Call press time, lawyers for Haitian-born entertainer Wyclef Jean had filed an appeal contesting the decision by Haiti's election commission to reject the rap star's application to appear on the Nov. 28 presidential ballot. Mr. Jean, along with 14 others, was excluded from...
War Hawks fret over U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Eclipsed by the war in Afghanistan, growing tensions between Israel and its neighbors, and the continuing reverberations of the so-called “Arab Spring,” Iraq is inching back into the news here as a debate over the future of U.S. military forces there gathers steam. Military commanders and foreign policy hawks have been distressed by reports that the...
Looking to Cameroon’s women senators
YAOUNDE (IPS) - Marlyse Aboui, a 40-year-old nurse, has still not gotten over the astonishment she felt when she heard that Cameroon's President Paul Biya had nominated her to the senate. “I feel like I am in a dream that I will wake up from at any minute. When I first learnt that I had been appointed to...
Taking to the streets to free ‘The Cuban ‘
FCN Full Coverage: The 'Cuban 5' NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The men known as ‘The Cuban 5', Fernando Hernandez, Ramon Labanino Salazar, Renee Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and Gerardo Hernandez, were arrested on September 12, 1998 and convicted on June 8, 2001 in a Miami, Florida federal court on charges to commit espionage and threatening United States national security. The “Month of...