Int’l Court indicts Sudan’s leader with genocide
International Court prosecutor charges Sudan’s leader with genocide Is oil behind indictment of Sudanese president? (FCN, 07-22-2008)Sudan and America's racist foreign policy (FCN, 06-25-2007) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which is located in Brussels, announced July 14 that he was presenting the case for genocide against Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, of...
Call for action on Islamophobia as Canada Muslims remember Afzaal family killing
Muslim community leaders in Canada have renewed demands from the government to deal with Islamophobia a year after four members of a Muslim family were killed in a terrorist hate attack. They met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and lawmakers in the capital, Ottawa, on June 6 to call for meaningful measures to address persisting Islamophobia and hate crimes in the British Commonwealth...
Anger boils in Morocco’s earthquake zone as protesters demand promised emergency aid
AMIZMIZ, Morocco—Hundreds of protesters on October 24 took to the streets of a city near the epicenter of a devastating earthquake that hit Morocco in September to express anger and frustration after weeks of waiting for emergency assistance. Flanked by honking cars and motorcycles, demonstrators in the High Atlas town of Amizmiz chanted against the government as law enforcement tried to contain...
Kenya’s economy to pick up after unrest?
New cabinet faces tough road in Kenya (FCN, 05-05-2008)Economic inequality fuels Kenya’s violence (FCN, 02-15-2008) NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s economy is expected to accelerate its growth from the depressed focus rate of 4.6 percent upwards as the economy picks up activity months after violence erupted following the East African nation’s disputed presidential polls. Kenya’s Finance Minister Amos Kimunya said...
Seattle, Sudan and unlikely similarities in autonomous zones, calls to end repression
In a tweet, President Trump threatened to “take back” the city of Seattle, Wash., after protesters responding to the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police camped out around a vacated police station near downtown. They have vowed to resist any Trump effort to dislodge them. This Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, as it’s called,...
A ‘son of Africa’ honored Abdul Akbar Muhammad enstooled as chief in Ghana
A major distinction was bestowed on a son of Africa and longtime servant in the global struggle of Black people. Abdul Akbar Muhammad, the International Representative of the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, was recently enstooled as a Development Chief in Ghana, West Africa. Mr. Muhammad was enstooled in the Asebu Traditional Area in the nation’s...
Mandela’s visit to Libya raises questions about U.S. policy
Mr. Young, emcee of the glitzy fund-raising dinner honoring Dr. Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, at first seemed to echo official U.S. anger over the visit that week in Tripoli by Africa's most popular president with the African leader Americans most love to hate. Continuing, Mr. Young said he then realized that President Mandela's action-like...
Rwanda announces visa-free travel for all Africans as continent opens up to free movement of people
NAIROBI, Kenya—Rwanda announced in early November that it will allow Africans to travel visa-free to the country, becoming the latest nation on the continent to announce such a measure aimed at boosting free movement of people and trade to rival Europe’s Schengen zone. President Paul Kagame made the announcement in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, where he pitched the potential of Africa as “a unified...
Armenia PM agreed to Karabakh truce to avoid ‘full collapse’
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he agreed to a Russian-brokered peace deal with Azerbaijan to avoid further losses in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, adding that the continuation of fighting would have resulted in “full collapse.” “The document secured what we could lose, according to military estimates and other assessments,” Mr. Pashinyan said on Nov. 10. “In a situation when...
Iran launches English-language news channel
Latest challenger to CNN and BBC World News (FinalCall.com) - PRESS TV is the first international Iran-based news network to broadcast in English on an around-the-clock schedule. This is the latest of several news outlets seeking to challenge the global media dominance of CNN and BBC World News. The recently-launched English channel for Al Jazeera and Venezuela-backed TELESUR have...