"Hundreds of Eritreans flee to Ethiopia"

Racism, Lynching, Slavery - Pillars of the American Dream
The 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen, a former part-time Baptist preacher, has been charged with the murder of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964. He has now confessed to being a member of the notorious White supremacist group, Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Despite the fierce opposition from local white population, the civil rights workers came to aid black people register to vote. Keeping black people away from the ballot box is still practiced in white America; the cronies of George Bush prevented thousands from voting in the Florida 2000 election.

Aid in exchange for alienating Zimbabwe
Malawi accused over tear gas for Mugabe
AN African government whose people are receiving financial aid from Scotland has been accused of flouting sanctions in supplying the Zimbabwean police force with tear gas.
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This is how European 'Aid' works. European leaders intend to create more divisions among African leaders. All European/American 'Aid' is tied to getting more African countries to alienate President Mugabe and Zimbabwe. Among other methods, such as sanctions, this is often accomplished by adding restrictive control measures before aid is released.
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Africa - debt, aid and race

Japanese publisher defies Little Black Sambo protest
Seventeen years after it was removed from bookshops for its racist content, the children's story Little Black Sambo has made a comeback in Japan.

1250BC glass factory found in Nile delta
Dated 1250BC, world's oldest glass factory found in Nile delta

Hundreds of Eritreans flee to Ethiopia
More than 600 Eritreans have crossed into neighbouring Ethiopia in the last nine months seeking political asylum, state radio reported on Friday.

Chad deadlock at Darfur talks
African Union mediators continued informal negotiations on Saturday to break the deadlock over Chad's participation in the ongoing peace talks to end the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, an AU spokesperson said, while playing down the problem.

DR Congo Parliament Extends Political Transition
The parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo has voted to extend until December this year a political transition period.

Zimbabwe: Over 3 000 chickens found at mansion
Elsewhere, demolitions continued in Epworth and Chitungwiza with many residents destroying their illegal structures ahead of a police clampdown. Police descended on the Greystone Park home around mid-morning and caught up with some workers battling to transfer the chickens to a farm in the Glen Forest area.

Death Row Redux
In a suprising turnabout, the Supreme Court serves up a rebuke to Texas and gives death row inmate Thomas Miller-El a second chance.

Report documents systematic betrayals
on "deals" made in exchange for trade votes
As the Bush Administration steps up efforts to obtain congressional approval for a the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) NAFTA expansion, Public Citizen released a new report documenting the fate of promises made to members of Congress since 1992 in exchange for their support of controversial trade agreements in a press conference call with former chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Rep. Esteban Torres (D-CA).