"Value the People's Wisdom"

NIGER: Gold Miners Exploit Children
Abdou Adamou spends his days in a pit 50 to 80 metres below ground at the Komabangou gold prospecting site. His job involves hacking up rocks and raising them to the surface with a bucket. He is only 15 years old.

CORRUPTION IN AFRICA
"Corruption is something used against Africa whenever debt cancellation, grants or investments are suggested as ways to help African people out of the poverty trap."

Land wrangles rage on

Guebuza Urges the Government to Value People's Wisdom
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said on Thursday that one of his government's priorities is "to value people's wisdom" to transform locally existing natural resources into wealth to benefit the same people.

Nepad Faces a Challenge in Connecting Fibre to Inland Africa

Burundi: Former Rebel Leader Becomes Nation's President
Former rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza, 40, was sworn in on Friday as Burundian president for a five-year term. He becomes the country's first democratically elected leader since 1993.

PETA generates outrage equating Blacks with mistreated animals
You can almost always trust People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to instigate a national controversy, but this time, activist groups and others say, the animal rights group has gone too far in a campaign that compares the enslavement of Blacks to animal abuse.
"Our ancestors were not animals! That feeds right into the white supremacy mentality which rationalized slavery in the first place!" said Mitchell Allen.

Benjamin Karim: Malcolm X confidant dies
Imam Benjamin Karim, trusted assistant and devoted confidant of Muslim leader Malcolm X (aka El Hajj Malik El Shabazz), passed away on Aug. 2 of cardiac arrest. He was 73.

Asian and Western companies in race for Nigerian blocks
Asian and Western oil companies competed yesterday for the most promising exploration contracts in Nigeria's first open bidding round as world prices hit record highs.

Why the origins of the Notting Hill Carnival must never be forgotten
When African Caribbean people arrived in Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948 full of dreams and ambitions for a better life after the alluring calls from the Motherland, little did they realise just how inhospitable the British public would be.

Men more intelligent than women, says academic
Men are more likely to win Nobel prizes and achieve excellence simply because they are more intelligent than women, according to a controversial male academic. In a paper to be published in a leading research journal, one of Britain's most outspoken academics will argue that men have larger brains and higher IQs than women, to such an extent that they are better suited to "tasks of high complexity".

Venezuela curbs foreign preachers
Venezuela's government has temporarily suspended permits for foreign missionaries after a US evangelist said Washington should assassinate President Hugo Chavez

Chavez: If anything happens to me, blame Bush
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday President Bush would be to blame if anything happened to him after an American evangelist said Washington should assassinate the leftist leader.

Uncovering the one-sided media coverage
We complain a lot about the portrayal of Black people by dominant media outlets, but we continue to support them, and we continue to sell ours or use them to perpetuate the stereotypical images of ourselves with daily (and nightly) buffoonery.

JAMAICA: Gov't May Repeal Anti-Gay Laws
In a desperate bid to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS, the Jamaican government is preparing to hear arguments for and against existing legislation outlawing homosexuality and prostitution.

"7/7 Bombers" movements Physically Impossible ...

ReExploit 9/11?

Don't let the Israeli settlers fool you

Two fingers to America
He's a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, has long been a thorn in the side of the US - a fact highlighted this week when televangelist Pat Robertson called for his assassination. Richard Gott on a man at war with the White House

Pat Robertson Describes U.S. Foreign Policy
Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has stirred up a firestorm with his call for "taking out" Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. What's all the fuss about? All that Robertson has done is state publicly what has long been an important part of U.S. foreign policy – assassination of foreign rulers who behave independently of Washington.

Relating to Venezuela: Hurricane Hugo (Chavez)
As President Hugo Chavez adeptly leverages Venezuela's oil wealth to forge an array of regional alliances that leave the United States out in the cold, U.S. Venezuela tensions are heating up. Boosted by the rising prices of oil and the deepening regional anger over U.S. imperial arrogance, Chavez has proved able not only to construct a counter-hegemonic constituency in Venezuela among the country's poor majority but also to piece together a regional network that is challenging U.S. political and economic dominance. Uncle Sam is becoming the odd man out in the hemisphere claimed as U.S. domain since the early 19 th century.

What is to be done? As Chavez's star has risen and as the U.S. stars and stripes increasingly become subject to derision, the Bush administration finds itself at a loss when attempting to stem the anti-imperial tide. All its attempts to persuade or dissuade, enforce, or manipulate have backfired.