"Nyerere's legacy lives on"

The rise of Africa's women politicians
In the US, the notion of a woman president is, for now, only a fiction played out on network TV. But here, as election workers continue to count the ballots cast in Tursday's landmark elections, Liberians could soon find that they have chosen Africa's first-ever woman president.

Spain & Morocco continue to expel African migrants despite protest
Spanish authorities have continued to expel hundreds of African migrants their enclave in Morocco, despite grave concern expressed by the international community over the treatment of the migrants following the death of 11 people.

Economist and soccer star lead in Liberia polls
Former Finance Minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and soccer star George Weah emerged as early front-runners today in Liberia's first post-war elections, officials said.

Massive turnout at Liberia polls
LIBERIANS demonstrated their readiness for democratic rule yesterday when they turned out en-masse for the country's presidential and general elections.

Six years later, Nyerere's legacy lives on
The village of Butiama has not changed a great deal since Mwalimu Julius Nyerere died almost six years ago. The most significant change is the recently upgraded 11-kilometre road between Butiama and Kiabakari, which saw Butiama, for the first time in its history, linked by a tarmac road to the Mwanza-Musoma road.

California Prepares to Execute Tookie Williams
The U.S. Supreme Court has now rejected Tookie's appeal to investigate the racism and discrimination at the heart of his case, as well as Tookie's innocence issues. One issue highlighted the fact that the prosecutor in Tookie's original case removed all of the Black jurors from the jury, leaving an all-white jury to deliberate his case. During Stan's trial, this prosecutor made racially-coded remarks during his closing argument, comparing Stan during the trial to a Bengal tiger in the zoo and stating that a black community - South Central Los Angeles - was equivalent to the natural "habitat" of a Bengal Tiger.

Pakistan wants trade agreement with Kenya
Pakistan will cement its relationship with Kenya through a trade agreement. High Commissioner to Kenya, Syed Zahid Hussain, said Pakistan was emerging as an important market for Kenyan horticulture, which it imports from Dubai.

New Orleans officers deny battery of black man
3 police officers have pleaded not guilty to battering an African-American man in New Orleans despite tv footage showing them kicking and punching an elderly black man on Saturday night

Ghana Urges Repatriation Of Darfur Refugees
Ghana has made a request to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees(UNHCR)to assist it to repatriate Darfur refugees in the country to their country.

COTE D IVOIRE: Rebels lay out peace proposals in letter to UN chief
In a letter sent to UN chief Kofi Annan on Wednesday, Cote d’Ivoire’s rebels say it should fall to them, not President Laurent Gbagbo, to select a new prime minister to steer the war-torn country towards delayed elections.

Nigeria voting could go hi-tech
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday expressed his support for an electronic voting system for future polls in the country.

Dying mans agony in cop cage
POLICE OFFICERS left a dying man flat on the floor for an hour because they believed he was "faking" an illness, an inquest has heard.

Venezuela to Expel U.S. Evangelical Group
Venezuela will expel the U.S. evangelical group New Tribes Mission, which has been active in indigenous communities along the southern border with Colombia and Brazil since 1946, President Hugo Chávez announced Wednesday.

SOUTH AFRICA: Ex deputy president casts long shadow
Former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma appeared before a magistrate on Tuesday to face charges of corruption, bolstered by the support of chanting, ululating crowds outside the courthouse.

Zimbabwe: State Intensifies Efforts to Develop Alternative Fuel
GOVERNMENT has intensified efforts to develop an alternative source of fuel and identified more than 31 000 hectares of land to grow jatropha curcas trees whose seed can be processed into bio-diesel.

Former Ugandan President Dies in South Africa
Former Ugandan president Apollo Milton Obote, who had been living in exile in Lusaka, Zambia since 1985, has died of kidney failure in a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Using War as an Excuse for More War

Iraq war now costing $6 billion a month

Iraq & Peak Oil

Gang 'smuggled in 200,000 migrants'

Brazil declares Amazon river a disaster

Haiti Rules U.S. Citizen Can Seek Office

Cuba Sends Doctors to Guatemala and Offers Them to Pakistan

The Cuban Blockade: A Crime Against Humanity

U.S. Opposes the Poor in Haiti at Every Turn