"Diaspora Can Help Build Africa"

Congo: 'White King, Red Rubber, Black Death'
For over the last 12 years, the African Diaspora Film Festival (ADFF) has presented a weeklong series of rare Africentric cinematographic masterpieces viewed through a Pan-African prism where the everyday experiences of people of African ancestry can be appreciated by those interested in seeing how African filmmakers tell their own stories through comparative analyses of their collective history.

Posada Has to Go, says US Legal Expert in Cuba
The president of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), Michael Avery, said the US government has a moral and legal obligation to extradite Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela.

Diaspora Can Help Build Africa As a Brand
The African Union needs to set up a task team to build Africa as a "brand" that attracts investment, to counter negative media coverage of the continent.

Calls for new brand for Africa
African business leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Africa Economic Summit in Cape Town have called for the creation of a new, positive brand for Africa in order to erase the poor image of the continent abroad.

Perception of Africa unfair, its leaders complain
CAPE TOWN African political and economic leaders complained here this week that the West unfairly perceives the continent solely as a place riven by conflict, coups and deadly diseases, when in reality the majority of countries can absorb new investment to build roads and health systems and develop a new generation of leaders

Deputy President faces calls to resign over bribes
A court has found Deputy President Jacob Zuma's former financial adviser guilty of corruption and fraud, increasing pressure on the man who had been seen as the country's next leader.

'It looks very bad for Zuma'
The race to succeed Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa has taken a new twist after the financial adviser to frontrunner and deputy president Jacob Zuma was convicted of corruption.

Zuma 'not guilty of any wrongdoing'

Live 8 shows will pressure leaders: Gordon Brown

South Africa: Concerns Over Intelligence Agency Probe
South Africa's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) was tight-lipped on Friday after news reports that it had launched an official probe into recent protests over poor service delivery.

Israelis to train Equatorial Guinea presidential guard
Israeli arms dealers and security companies are negotiating a contract to train Equatorial Guinea's presidential guard. At the same time the dealers and companies are trying to organize a visit to Israel for President Teodoro Obiang Nguema during which he would meet President Moshe Katsav and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

A rich country being stripped of its wealth
It has got a sad record of disease, brutality and corruption, and fewer inhabitants than Sheffield. But Equatorial Guinea is one of the key targets of the west's new "scramble for Africa". So much so that a gang of British businessmen, including Sir Mark Thatcher, were accused last year of financing an armed coup to get their hands on its wealth.

Farewell to 'one of the best sons of Africa'

Promoting Democracy Or Fueling Repression?
At a Rose Garden press conference earlier this week, President Bush struck one of his favorite themes, asserting that "the U.S. is a country that promotes freedom around the world." But the reality of U.S. arms sales policy contradicts Bush's rhetoric.

The Real Lessons of Watergate
As the Washington Post again basks in the faded glory of its Watergate coverage, many of the scandal's crucial lessons remain obscure even to people close to the iconic events of 33 years ago. Ironically, that's especially true for those on the winning side.

N.Korea calls Cheney a 'bloodthirsty beast'

National Conferance of Black Lawyers Demands:
Hands Off Assata Shakur

Sell the Gold, Free the Poor
When historians look back over the last 25 years, one of the great crimes they will identify is the Third World debt crisis. Now, finally, the rich countries have agreed to cancel the debts of the poorest countries to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. But they continue to differ over how to do it.

Felt Pen
In 1999, a teenager broke the story of Deep Throat's identity as W. Mark Felt in a high school history term paper. He got a B on it. Or "something ridiculous like that. The teacher is...an idiot in my opinion," said Chase Culeman-Beckman to the Journal News of New York in 1999.