"Can Zimbabwe Become Africa's Cuba?"

Iran looks to SA to help process uranium
Iran is talking to South Africa about assistance with its nuclear programme in an attempt to solve a prolonged international dispute over its atomic ambitions.

SA denies taking part in Iran uranium activities
South Africa has denied that it proposed taking part in any uranium enrichment activities in Iran. The department of foreign affairs said in a statement released late yesterday that it has been actively involved in seeking a diplomatic solution regarding the peaceful uses of nuclear energy by Iran.

U.N. seeks $3.2M for Africa cholera
The United Nations appealed for $3.2 million Monday to combat an outbreak of cholera that killed more than 700 people in West Africa this summer.

Minister blames banks over poverty in Africa
The failure by commercial banks to lend to small and medium-sized businesses in Africa is to blame for rampant poverty on the continent, a Cabinet minister said yesterday.

Obasanjo seeks 'real' Africa, industrialised world partnership
Visiting Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo Sunday called for the establishment of "a real partnership" between Africa and the industrialised nations of the world for "common security and shared prosperity".

Can Zimbabwe Become Africa's Cuba?
There is the Zimbabwe of the Western imagination, equally multi-layered and rife with contradictions. Within it we find the racist view of the machete armed African hacking away at civilization again, a historical guilt over slavery and colonialism, a paternalism that excuses unjust practices under cultural relativism, a fear of black liberation and a naturalized Western dominance over Africa as point of reference and source of comfort. This view cannot and does not desire to distinguish between a white dead body in the streets of Somalia, Iraq or Zimbabwe. No matter its point in this scale, it remains a Western imagination that sees the world through both a racialized and nationalist lens.

Paradise Mombassa
The following journalistic piece is a glimpse into some Israeli pathological psychotic conditions. It is a bizarre story of an absurd criminal identity that demands affection from its victims.

Paris is Burning: Racism and Repression Explode in Week of Uprisings
Africans living and working in Paris have been pushed into ghettoized suburbs of Paris (banlieue), where the state has withdrawn education, health, and other services, while increasing police presence, checkpoints, raids on sans-papiers and levels of oppression in general. This week the suburbs have exploded.

French Ghettos, Police Violence and Racism
The French called them Les cités. The ‘ghettos’ are specially built for excluded and disfranchised migrants from France’s former North African colonies - mostly Arabs and Muslims - and other parts of the world. Clustered on the peripheries of France’s big cities, Les cités proved to be laboratories for dissent and resistance against oppression. The children of the immigrants who built France after World War II are being pushed further outside the French society.

In peril: The rock images of Africa
Kenya There are two markedly different manmade etchings on a rock face here, and it is hard to decide which is the more jaw-dropping. One, dating back thousands of years and featuring the outline of an elephant, is a sign that this hilltop in western Kenya was a special gathering place for early Africans. The other, no more than a few years old, featuring the names "DENNIS" and "PATRICK," is a sign that Africa's rock art is under threat.

Run-Off Elections Underway in Liberia
They aren't making it to the polls in numbers as enthusiastic as the first round, but voters in Liberia are lining up today to cast their votes in a run-off election pitting a former Finance minister, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and a football legend, George Weah. More than 1.3 million voters registered in 3,070 different polling stations.

UN Security Council delegation expected in Uganda

South Carolina Refuses to Lower Flags to Honor Rosa Parks

Terror temperature rises in Somalia as PM survives attack
A failed assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of Somalia and an attempt to hijack a luxury American cruise ship off the coast has reinforced fears that the country is spiralling out of control as a centre of al-Qa'ida terrorism.

Dengue fever kills 79 in Sudan

IAEA praises Nigeria's peaceful use of nuclear power
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has commended Nigeria's commitment to deploy nuclear facilities for peaceful uses, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Monday.

In honor of the Little Black People
The Saisiyat tribe of Hsinchu and Miaoli will perform a solemn rite this weekend to commemorate a race of people that they exterminated.

Anti-Bush Protests in Argentina Grow Violent

Fallujah: Where is the Outrage. The Story the Mainstream Media won't tell you
Although reported by a handful media outlets at the time, the mainstream media took the official US denials at face value — that there had been no use of the illegal white phosphorus weapons on the inhabitants of Fallujah in December 2004. However the newly released movie (35 mb) from Italy’s RAI News 24 television programme blows the lie out of the water. Will we now see the mainstream media report the horrific crimes committed on the inhabitants of Fallujah?

So Iraq Was About the Oil

The media are minimising US and British war crimes in Iraq

US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah

Second Lawyer in Saddam Trial Assassinated

The Stage Is Set: Who Will Control the Internet?

Scientists Find Fossils in Sexual Union

Deconstructing Cheney

Cómo Se Dice 'Spin'?

The Threat of Hope in Latin America