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08/30/2005:
"Ovaherero people March Against Germany"
Kenyans Allege Racism in U.S. 'Arranged' Marriages CaseUS investigation into bogus marriages arranged to help Kenyans in Iowa sidestep immigration laws recently netted at least one innocent couple and raised concerns of racism. A report by the Des Moines Register, a local newspaper quotes a Des Moines immigration lawyer Jim Benzoni as saying some people were arrested because of the colour of their skin.
Don't Steal This Television
In 1970, Junior Allen, a Black man received a life-sentence for stealing a television. He spent the next thirty-five years in prison.
In Northern Nigeria, Riding Too Close for Comfort.
For women, commuting across this ancient Islamic city has long been as easy as hopping into a minibus or climbing on the back of a motorcycle taxi. Both are cheap and readily available. Nigerian Government officials, determined to halt what they see as the decline of public morality, are banning women from all but a handful of Kano's motorcycle taxis and are requiring them to sit in the back of public minibuses.
Ovaherero people March Against Germany
CHIEF Kuaima Riruako of the Ovaherero people led a march through Independence Avenue to Parliament yesterday to hand over a petition to Prime Minister Nahas Angula.
Accusations over aid money
Development campaigners accused the Government of spending UK aid money on a public relations campaign to pursue a privatisation agenda in Sierra Leone.
'UK aid cash funds PR campaign'
UK ministers have been accused of spending British aid money on a public relations campaign to promote water privatisation in Sierra Leone
UK Govt 'Wastes' African Aid
The British government has been accused of wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of African aid in Malawi.
Zimbabwe parliament passes controversial reforms
Zimbabwe's parliament on Tuesday approved a widely condemned bill that stops white farmers from challenging land grabs in court and curtails the travel and voting rights of those without full citizenship.
UK to lend stolen artefacts to EA for six months
The British National Museum has agreed to return on a six-month loan hundreds of artefacts taken away from the three East African countries during the colonial period.
Bush accused of Aids damage to Africa
A senior United Nations official has accused President George Bush of "doing damage to Africa" by cutting funding for condoms, a move which may jeopardise the successful fight against HIV/Aids in Uganda.
Paris apartment fire kills 7
Seven people were killed, including four children, when a fire ripped through a rundown Paris apartment building housing African immigrants, officials said Tuesday.
White Man Praises The Good Works Of Mugabe
Robertson's not alone in his dislike of Chavez
Last Monday, Christian televangelist Pat Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. While Robertson's remarks were shocking in their utter disregard for global democracy and the rule of law (he eventually apologized), he is by no means the first to beat the drum against Venezuela. In fact, his comments were merely a more vitriolic version of what the Bush administration has been saying for some time, with declarations to "contain" Chavez and the funneling of millions of dollars to opposition groups within the country. The White House even supported a 2002 military coup, before popular uprisings restored Chavez to power
Palestinian Authority's US assets are frozen
Weapons: A Trillion-Dollar Trade
'A New Label on a Bottle of Poison'
Oil, Blood and the Future
Bush vs. History
Britain's elite get pills to survive bird flu
IT'S ALL ABOUT OIL!
9/11 was an INSIDE JOB : Everything else is a Distraction, The BRAINWASHING of the American people
Radioactive Wounds of War
Tests on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted uranium
More than 95 percent of Gulf oil production lost
Accident halts work to ship soil containing uranium to U.S.
U.S. and U.K. Recruit Colombian Mercenaries for Iraq