"Emancipation From Mental Slavery"

Villagers in Sudan fight dam dictators
They are selling their cows because they can no longer afford to feed them. The land they have been given is so infertile, and growing anything so hard, that children are being kept out of school to help in the fields. They were promised prosperity, but are now victims of fear, destitution and dependency.

Iraq should ponder U.S. history in Haiti
While it takes American leaders and their armed enforcers just a few hours, days, weeks, months to rewrite another sovereign nation's history, it takes more than 90 years to overcome the devastations caused by such an operation, to replace the irreplaceable, the dead lost, the spirits quelled, to steer an entire generation out of the shadows of dependency, to meet fellow citizens across carefully constructed divides and become halfway whole again.

Question mark hangs over disarmament - again
Government soldiers have recaptured a town near Abidjan which was occupied by unidentified attackers at the weekend, but rebels controlling the north of Cote d'Ivoire raised fresh doubts on Monday about their willingness to disarm ahead of elections planned for October.

Emancipation From Mental Slavery
If emancipation was done at the stroke of a pen, then all of my people would have been freed on the morning of August 1st, a hundred and sixty-seven years ago.

Election Forecast in Haiti Goes from Bad to Dreadful

U.S., UN-backed oppression in Haiti becoming more extreme
With opposition to the coup government continuing into the middle of its second year in power, state and United Nations violence against the Haitian poor majority has escalated. Less than two weeks after a UN-led operation that killed many unarmed non-combatants, and which the government said killed a major leader of alleged pro-Aristide violence, violence and deaths continue at a level elevated even compared to the past 17 months of post-coup terror.

Nigerian Optimistic on UN Expansion Plan
Nigeria's foreign minister says he is very optimistic that the African Union and Brazil, Germany, India and Japan can agree on a plan to expand the U.N. Security Council that will win approval from the United Nations.

SA proposes quicker land reform
South Africa needs to revise its approach to land reform to end racial inequalities, government officials say.

'Most land still white-owned'
Referring to the Freedom Charter as the "Freedom Cheater", Pheko said South Africa did not belong to all who lived in it and poverty was the "mother of all revolutions". Calling land the basis for nationhood, he said without land and resources Africans had a "sham liberation". "The principle of willing seller, willing buyer will not solve the land question in South Africa. Land seized through colonialism must be expropriated and compensation paid for improvements on the land. Land claims must be land for land," he said.

South Africans' long wait for land

People, pollution threaten Nairobi wildlife

U.S. to announce 'Beyond Kyoto' climate pact

ANGOLA: Painful period of transition
After three years of peace, Angola - rich in diamonds and oil - still faces a complex mix of humanitarian and developmental challenges.

UN envoy was pressurised, says Mugabe
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said a United Nations envoy who probed Harare's controversial demolition drive which has left hundreds of thousands homeless, had told him she was pressurised into producing a damning report, a newspaper said on Wednesday.

Barbados to bring first death penalty case to new Caribbean court

Police warned against racial profiling and shoot-to-kill policy on non-whites
Labour MP Diane Abbott and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan have both spoken out against the dangers of targeting people of colour in the biggest manhunt Britain has ever witnessed to catch the suicide bombers responsible for recent incidents in London.

Sorry is not good enough
LONDON'S POLICE chief expressed regret, the Prime Minister said sorry, but the brutal killing of Jean Charles de Menezes demands more than a few words.

Funds begin to reach Niger but more still needed

U.S. Makes Final Push for CAFTA Trade Pact

Côte d'Ivoire: UN Forces Enter Town After Being Blocked for 48 Hours

China will 'protect Mugabe at UN'

Microsoft cracks down on software piracy

Aristide's party to run in Haiti elections

NIGERIA: Kano introduces separate sex buses as it tightens Shari'ah law

The July 21 Attack: The Pictures of the Four Suspects
Where are the Other Passengers?

Microsoft cracks down on software piracy
In a controversial effort to stop software piracy, computer users who go to the Microsoft website for Windows updates will have their system scanned, to check whether their copy of Windows is a counterfeit.