"George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"

Kanye West: 'George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People
Kanye West slammed President Bush during NBC's live broadcast of Concert for Hurricane Relief. In an impromptu speech, the Grammy winner informed viewers of the fact that Bush had given National Guardsmen the order to shoot at the residents of New Orleans caught taking provisions out of stores

Government Stands Its Ground On Loan to Harare
SOUTH Africa is sticking to its tough conditions for financial assistance to Zimbabwe despite that country coming up with a $120-million payment to the International Monetary Fund this week, officials said on Friday.

Nigeria bans imports from 24 Indian drug companies
Nigeria has banned the import of pharmaceuticals produced by 30 Asian companies, including 24 Indian, alleging the firms sent counterfeit and substandard drugs to Africa's most-populous nation, officials said on Friday.

Sudan honours warriors who fought British
Brandishing spears and flags, around 1 500 Sudanese gathered at the site of the historic Battle of Omdurman on Friday to commemorate warriors who died trying to fend off British domination of their country.

Survey tracks South Africa farm evictions
More workers have been evicted from South African farms since the advent of multiracial democracy in 1994 than in the 10 years before that, according to a new survey presented to parliament Tuesday.

Kenya: Drug Companies Under Fire
Pharmaceutical companies yesterday came under attack for taking herbs from Kenya to manufacture drugs, which they later sell exorbitantly. Herbalists accused the multi-national companies of stealing their ideas by masquerading as researchers. Senior Government officials attending the African Traditional Medicine seminar in Nyeri accused the companies of exploiting Kenyans.

We Don't Need GM Foods

Anti-poverty music fest starts in Ghana
Music fans swayed and danced Saturday as African musicians jammed in Ghana's capital to support a campaign to reduce poverty across the world's poorest continent.

Kenya halts first field trials of GM crops
Kenya has begun destroying the country's first genetically modified (GM) crops growing in open field trials, researchers confirmed Friday. The east African nation halted the research and ordered the destruction after discovering that a technician had sprayed a restricted pesticide on maize modified to resist attack by insects called stem borers.

Eastern Africa to build submarine cable system
The construction of a planned submarine optical fiber cable to link southern and northern Africa via the Indian Ocean coast will start next year at a cost of 230 million US dollars.

Food aid in hands of pirates
A ship carrying food aid for the tsunami victims remains in the hands of Somali pirates after more than two months, said a spokesperson for the UN World Food Programme on Friday.

Sudan and Malaysia sign billion-dollar oil refinery deal

Katrina Exposes the "Third World" at Home
As thousands of people in New Orleans approach their fifth day without food, water or shelter, the news media and, doubtless, millions of ordinary citizens are wondering how state and particularly federal authorities could have been so slow to respond to one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.

What They Should Have Learned from a Hurricane Named Ivan

Profiteering on Disaster
In a crisis, there are always those who will obscenely take advantage of the situation for personal gain. I'm not talking here about the looters in New Orleans, as ugly and mean as some of their actions have been. I am talking about the oil industry.

They're Trying to Wash Us Away....

Don't Give Your Hurricane Donations to the American Red Cross

Will the "New" New Orleans be Black?

Bush Strafes New Orleans, Where's Huey Long?

Microsoft boss vowed to 'kill' Google

Rasta lawyer to petition UN

Nuclear hypocrisy