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Sudanese protesters call for end to foreign interference

Sudanese protesters have called for the expulsion of the United Nation’s representative to Sudan and a stop to foreign interference in the country’s internal affairs. Protesters from civilian groups gathered outside the United Nations office in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to condemn the interference of foreign countries in their country’s internal affairs. The demonstrators were opposed to UN efforts to...

The U.S. and Europe’s foreign interference, influence on Africa’s military 

For many reasons, it’s seldom that African leaders allow non-military influencers to speak to their military. However, in 1986 while traveling in Ghana, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam was asked by Jerry John Rawlings—the air force officer turned Ghanian President—to address his military. The Minister later said how “unusual” that was.   Fast forward to...

New military alliance emerging among West African countries

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger recently declared a new defense pact, the coalition called the “Alliance of Sahel States.” The pact guarantees each country comes to the aid of each other in defense of their territorial integrity from internal and external aggression. The author of the article, “A New West African Security Pact Is Bound to Fail,” posted on...

Ravages of acute hunger will likely hit six in 10 in Zimbabwe: WFP

UNNEWS The World Food Program (WFP) is urgently seeking more international support to prevent millions of Zimbabweans plunging deeper into hunger. The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated an already severe hunger crisis in Zimbabwe, UN humanitarians warned on July 30. In an appeal for an additional $250 million to support emergency relief for millions of vulnerable people, the World Food Program (WFP)...

Minister Farrakhan and the global impact, principles of the Million Man March

“That (world) trip that I made was the greatest trip made by any Black man in the history of America,” said Minister Louis Farrakhan in 1996 while addressing the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). “White folks will not tell that story. Every word I said (while traveling abroad) I got all the film… and we will release it,...

Heroin, ecstasy, tobacco use growing among Caribbean youth, expert warns

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (IPS)–Drugs like heroin and ecstasy have begun to show up throughout the Caribbean, said narcotics project director Ken-Garfield Douglas. "Heroin has started emerging in Bermuda, some parts of the Bahamas, and is very much on the increase in Suriname. We’re also seeing the introduction of ecstasy within the region in Dominica, the Bahamas, the Cayman...

U.S., UN to square off over lifting of Iraqi restrictions

Direction of Iraq's future gov't worries U.S. UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com)–The United Nations Security Council said they were engaged in serious dialogue over resolutions on Iraq, so on April 17 they moved their meeting out of UN headquarters to the embassy of a Council member. "This dialogue is very intense and is taking place right now and it will be...

A booming China challenges

/GIN Premier Wen urges stronger Sino-US ties (12/08/2003, China People's Daily)China and the World's Power Pyramid Pt. II (April, 2000 BlackElectorate.com) BEIJING (IPS/GIN)–Two years after its entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), China is picking its way through a minefield of explosive trade issues, drawing criticism for dragging its feet on market reforms, for its aggressive export strategy and for...

6.4 Earthquake hits Iran, aid workers rush to help victims

UNNEWS Centre Race to reach Iran quake victims (BBC, 02-22-2005)Latest list of major worldwide earthquakes (USGS) United Nations agencies are organizing assessment missions to the area of central Iran where an earthquake killed and injured hundreds early today, and first staff reports said many villages had been destroyed, bad weather may impede aid efforts and immediate needs included tents, water and food. In...

Powerful neocon brotherhood begins unraveling

JIM.LOBE United States foreign policy Hijacked (FCN, 07-02-2004)Webcast: Guidance in a Time of Trouble (FCN, 05-03-2004) WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The Washington foreign policy elite finds itself on pins and needles awaiting a response from the neoconservative heavyweights at the Weekly Standard magazine to a scorching denunciation by one of their most venerable fellow travelers, Francis Fukuyama, in Sunday's New York Times...