"Arms talks collapse in I Coast"

Arms talks collapse in I Coast
Representatives of the army and rebels in the Ivory Coast on Saturday failed to reach agreement on a long-overdue disarmament process, a key condition of the latest peace pact signed to end two years of crisis in the west African state, and suspended the negotiations, military officials said.

Uganda starts rough journey to self-sustained economy
The Ugandan government has announced that it has started a long journey toward achieving a self-sustained economy, at time when there is increasing debate about the decision by Britain to cut aid to the east African country.

Trade laws tear at Africa's fabric

South Africa Wants To Emulate M'sia In Traditional Dress
South Africa is interested in promoting its traditional fabric the way that Malaysia does with batik.

Idaho nuclear lab can't account for missing computers

China said to reject plan to cut off N.Korea oil
China rejected a US envoy's proposal to cut off North Korea's oil supply as a way to pressure the reclusive government to return to disarmament talks, The Washington Post reported today.

U.S. leans more on Iraq troops to fight insurgents

Backing for Colombia drug war criticized

Another Look at Daneil Ortega and the Sandinista Struggle
In 1911, Nicaragua was occupied by a force of United States Marines that invaded to protect United States interests. This was just the next of a series of US "interventions" and invasions of Nicaragua. The marines remained till 1925, then returned again in 1926, to quell a rebellion organized by a Nicaraguan, Augusto C. Sandino, who grew up under this US occupation. His guerrilla forces were never defeated, despite the deployment of 12,000 troops and the use of aerial bombardment. The Marines left Nicaragua in 1933, after the US had trained a Nicaraguan security force, The National Guard. In 1934, Sandino was assassinated by Anastasio Somoza Garcia, a United States-trained officer who was the head of the National Guard, in a treacherous act of betrayal after a negotiated disarmament of Sandino's forces.

US imprisons Iraqi journalists without charges
At least nine Iraqi journalists who worked for major Western news organizations have disappeared into the network of concentration camps in which the US military is holding an estimated 17,000 citizens of the occupied country, the French news agency AFP reported May 5.

Not GOP? You're Excommunicated!
Following the report that nine members of the East Waynesville Baptist Church in western North Carolina were excommunicated because they did not support President Bush in the election, Ralph G. Neas, President of People For the American Way Foundation, had the following statement:

Child shot because he refused to collaborate with Soldiers
Soldiers fired at and seriously wounded wednesday child Ahmad Salah 14, from Al-Kahder village near the west bank city of Bethlehem, because he refused to collaborate and lead soldiers to the homes of stone throwers.