"Special visa for Africans in Diaspora"

Textile sector threatened by Chinese manufacturers
The textile industry has been handed a blow after the European Union and the United States moved last week to further relax Chinese import quotas. A looming trade war with China forced the EU and US to relax the quotas agreed in May, which were meant to protect their domestic producers.

Plight of Niger Delta People
Before crude oil was found in the country, an equitable formula and derivation principle were the bases of sharing revenue, such that there was peace in the land. Today, there is no peace and progress in the country. Successive military and civilian regimes have punished leaders of Niger Delta who questioned the unfair and inequitable distribution of the proceeds of the crude oil derived from their land. Anyone who ventured to provide leadership for the oppressed people of the region is stigmatised, incriminated, imprisoned or killed. Isaac Boro and Ken Saro-Wiwa and many others were killed because they tried to draw attention of the world to the cheating, injustice, deprivation, exploitation and degradation they were suffering in their own land.

Racism and Social Apartheid. French Suburbs: 10 Questions
We are witnessing a strange phenomenon: French political leaders are all rushing to appear on television with a pleasant but hypocritical tone: "We understand you, and we're going to do something for you." Everyone knows the cause of the problem and everyone knows what has to be done. But then, if you already knew what to do, then why have you been doing the exact opposite for the last thirty years?

France: Gaullist officials stoke up racism to justify state of emergency
Ministers and deputies of the ruling Gaullist party, the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), have issued statements calculated to whip up anti-immigrant and racist sentiment in order to justify the government’s unprecedented imposition of a three-month state of emergency.

Kenyans Reject Revamped Constitution
Kenyan voters, venting their frustration with a government that many said had failed to deliver on pledges to create jobs and curb corruption, have overwhelmingly rejected a proposed new constitution that would have given sweeping powers to President Mwai Kibaki.

Special visa for Africans in Diaspora
Beginning from 2007, Ghana would start issuing special visas to Africans in the Diaspora to give them free access into the country without needing ordinary visas anytime they had to come, Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City, announced on Tuesday.

We shall not be moved
RASTAFARIANS LIVING in London’s oldest squatted street vowed to defend their unique community as authorities finalised plans to evict them.

Double Standards in Assessing War Crimes

Why I Hate Thanksgiving: First Genocide, Then Lie About It

Earth to John McCain -- The Israelis Use Torture

The real cost of Iraq war

Memo: Bush wanted Aljazeera bombed

On President George W. Bush's Speech