"High-Tech Toxic Trash Exported to Africa"

High-Tech Toxic Trash Exported to Africa
SEATTLE, Washington / LAGOS, Nigeria - A new investigation by the toxic trade watchdog organization, Basel Action Network (BAN), has revealed that large quantities of obsolete computers, televisions, mobile phones, and other used electronic equipment exported from USA and Europe to Lagos, Nigeria for "re-use and repair" are ending up gathering dust in warehouses or being dumped and burned near residences in empty lots, roadsides and in swamps creating serious health and environmental contamination from the toxic leachate and smoke.

South Africa: nearly one million farmworkers evicted since 1993
A recently released survey revealed that evictions from South African farms have accelerated under the African National Congress (ANC) government. Between 1993 and 2004 a total of 942,303 people were evicted, whereas under the apartheid regime, from 1984 to 1993, 737,114 people were evicted.

Africa Forges United Approach to Climate Change
Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk has emphasised that Africa needs to forge a common African approach to present to world leaders regarding climate change.

MOZAMBIQUE: Drought after drought

Yemen: Benevolent attention in the Horn of Africa
In 2003, the Horn of Africa grouping with Yemen was established. This group includes Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Sudan. This grouping aimed to reinforce the relationships between the countries, resolve conflicts among them, stop the civil war in Somalia, and fight terrorist organizations that exploit the politically instable situation in the region to attack western interests.

Equatorial Guinea wants bigger share of oil revenues
Equatorial Guinea wants to negotiate with foreign oil companies to ensure it receives more revenues from its rising oil production, which could reach 400 000 barrels a day by next year, a senior minister said.

Taliban corpses used for propaganda
Australian television has broadcast footage of what it said was US soldiers burning two dead Taliban fighters and using the charred and smoking corpses in a propaganda campaign in southern Afghanistan. The television report said US soldiers burnt the bodies for hygienic reasons but then a US psychological operations unit broadcast a propaganda message on loudspeakers to Taliban fighters, taunting them to retrieve their dead and fight.

Nigeria starts three days national mourning after crash
Nigeria began a three-day national mourning Monday for the 117 persons killed in Saturday's crash of a Bellview Airlines passenger plane some 40 kilometres northwest of Lagos.

It's not always what people say, it's who says it
IT'S OFTEN BEST to ignore absurd statements such as that which former Education Secretary William Bennett made linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies. But it's hard to do in this instance because of who Mr. Bennett is. This is a man who once oversaw education policy for all the land. His job was to guide us all in the effort to make sure our white, our black, our Hispanic babies got a quality education and reached their full potential.

Haiti, Imperialism, and the Treachery of Liberals

'Intelligent design' supporters gather

Accidental invention could light up the future

The ILEA: A New School of Assassins?

Venezuela Advances in Dialogue with Landowners for Land Reform
More and more large land owners are offering to peacefully negotiate with the government about giving up part of their land for the country’s land reform program, said Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez during his weekly television show Aló Presidente, yesterday.