"Arab Slavery of Africans"

Arab Slavery of Africans
ARAB-led slavery of Africans is important because it affects directly contemporary Afro-Arab relations and is complicated by the fact that both Africans and Arabs frequently treat it as an issue to be hushed-up because of the embarrassing reaction it generates. It is a historical reality which differentiates the fate and the aspirations of Africans on the one hand, and Arabs on the other, in their different attempts to achieve Arab unity and African unity respectively. Both these objectives, if pursued democratically, would assist in the emancipation and development of the two peoples.

British, Masters Of Colonialism
The idea on which the foreign policy of the West is based is the spread of capitalism and to make this view point dominate the whole world. Colonialism is a tool for spreading capitalism to the world and forcing it on others and a master of this tool is Britain.

South Africa, Nigeria Warn On High Oil Prices
Nigeria and South Africa yesterday in Johann-esburg, warned that rising crude oil prices posed a major threat to on-going global efforts to alleviate poverty in third world countries, particularly Africa.

Controversy trails Nigeria’s space station
The nation’s ambitious space programme, which President Olusegun Obasanjo, said would result in the country putting its first man in the orbit in 2015, is mired in controversy.

Belgium asks Rwanda to hand over priest
Belgium has asked Rwanda to hand over a Belgian priest arrested by the Rwandan authorities earlier this month on charges of helping to incite the African country's 1994 genocide.

Disarm Janjawid Militia, UN Official Urges
The Janjawid, a militia group allegedly allied to the Sudanese government, must be disarmed if peace is to return to the country's western region of Darfur, a senior UN official said on Monday.

Rwandan rebels disarm, prepare to return
The leader of a splinter group of Rwandan Hutu rebels operating in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has said his fighters are disarming and preparing to return home.

Slavery: The Myth of Northern Innocence
In the decades before the Civil War, America began its soaring growth that would turn it into an economic giant. The new nation was producing large agricultural surpluses, building a railway system and launching the American chapter of the Industrial Revolution in New England's textile industry. But historians have generally neglected the pivotal role that New York played in the booming business of exporting cotton - grown by millions of Southern slaves.

Africa urged to protect textile industry
Southern African clothing and textile trade unions met last week to assess the effects of the end of the Multifibre Arrangement on the region and urged African governments to develop a structured plan for the industry, which has lost 55 000 jobs since 2003 in South Africa alone.

Kenya Issues Ultimatum to US On Trade Talks
Kenya will only support the US position at the forthcoming World Trade Organisation's ministerial conference in Hong Kong if the US government lifts a travel advisory it has issued on Kenya, the Government said yesterday.

Iran president charges 'nuclear discrimination'
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has complained of "nuclear discrimination" in the world, stressing Iran's right to have peaceful nuclear technology.

The Right to Armed Struggle

Israel Conducts 4th Day of Airstrikes in Gaza

We can do this the nice way ... or the nasty way

National Guard Sent to Protect Oil, Not People

Rising Tide of Xenophobia: Australia’s Shallow Multiculturalism

NBA Player Etan Thomas Slams Bush Administration, Outlines Impact on Poor

Rethinking the war on drugs

Holy Squid! Photos Offer First Glimpse of Live Deep-Sea Giant

US Delaying Farce in Terrorist Posada Carriles Case