"Globalisation 'exploits' Africa"

Hurricane Wilma strengthens to Category 5 storm
Hurricane Wilma, the storm headed towards Cuba, Mexico and Florida, has become the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record. Hurricane Wilma has already killed 10 people in Haiti. Wilma is now a Category Five hurricane, the top rank on the five-step scale of hurricane intensity, and forecasters have warned that it is "extremely dangerous."

Tensions rise in Horn of Africa
One of Africa's most bitter wars - which has been largely dormant since 2000 - risks reigniting, partly because America's neutrality in the conflict may be compromised by the alliance it formed with Ethiopia in the war on terrorists.

Senegal: Minister Satisfied With Pan-African Institute for Gender

Mali President Appreciates Cubans in Africa
Republic of Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure highly appreciated the noble gesture of Cubans who died for the freedom and growth of Africa. "This is the opportune moment to convey to Cubans my most profound gratitude as a friend and brother," asserted Toured in Havana on Wednesday, after he laid a wreath to honor the Cuban internationalists who died while fighting for the African independence. "I am deeply moved," he stated at the pantheon in Havana´s Colon Cemetery.

Escaping Africa's longest civil war
Despite the hardship, this is part of the "peace dividend" from Africa's longest civil war. With a deal agreed between the largely Arab north and the southern rebel group, the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), hundreds of thousands of the four-million who fled the fighting have started the dangerous journey back.

African nations join SA in fight against bird flu

The bird flu: Is it hype or reality?
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Keeping Africa poor
Africans don't need aid – they need to be given back their oil and gold

Changing Africa's face to suit western ideals
TO their critics, foreign aid workers in Africa serve a new form of imperialism: in their zeal to do good, the argument goes, they prop up a system that perpetuates the continent's dependence on outsiders. To their supporters, international nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) help the hungry and excluded, campaign for trade reform and take big risks to expose human rights abuses, often fostering African self-reliance in the process. One thing friend and foe agree on: for better or worse Africa's attempts to tackle the issues that govern its fate are influenced increasingly by a growing army of foreign NGOs.

'Colonialism caused problems'
"Adams said one of the lessons his party had learnt from South Africa's transition from apartheid into a democracy was that negotiations, although a slow process, did indeed work."
South Africa used a combination of negotiations and guerilla warfare. - Ayinde

Globalisation 'exploits' Africa
31/08/2005 - Globalisation exploits, denigrates and humiliates Africa in the same way slavery and colonialism once did, said Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa in a speech to the African Union on Wednesday.

Human genetic diversity supports 'Out of Africa' model
Small groups of settlers expanding outward from Africa are the most likely progenitors of the modern human population worldwide, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan and Stanford University.

The Case Against Cheney
Well, of course, the investigation of who leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's name -- violating the federal law that bars the "outing" of intelligence operatives -- has come around to Vice President Dick Cheney's office. While it may be news to the Washington Post -- which headlined a breathless report on Tuesday: "Cheney's Office Is A Focus in Leak Case" -- the fact is that Cheney and his aides have been likely suspects from day one.

War and Intelligence
"Guerrilla warfare isn't about holding terrain," as the late Colonel David Hackworth summed up Vietnam. "It's about making us bleed until we give up and leave." The latest casualty figures from Iraq put the insurgency on a trend to be averaging 100 US fatalities per month by the 2006 election. The insurgents have thrown off Secretary Rumsfeld's dismissal as a few "dead enders" and appear to be edging perilously close to Colonel Hackworth's goal. How could this be happening to the world's only superpower?

Fixing the U.S. by Making the Chinese Into Debtors
John Snow, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, was in China last week lecturing the Chinese that they need to borrow more. Snow is pushing the expansion of American-style credit for China's budding consumer class, managed, of course, by American credit card companies. Noting the western-style hotels dotting China's cities, Snow commented, "They've imported their hotels. What we're saying is you can do the same thing in finance."

Spain orders arrest of US soldiers over death

International Support to Honor Venezuela's Sovereignty
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Bill Gates, World's Richest Man, Bets Against Dollar

MAS Denounces Serious US Interference in Bolivia
Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales denounced Wednesday that troops at the service of the US seized 28 land-air missiles supplied by China to Bolivia and sent them to the United States.