"Indigenous People Leap Forward in Bolivia"

Morgan Freeman has it wrong on black history
Morgan Freeman, the Academy Award-winning actor, stirred the pot recently when he went on CBS News' 60 Minutes and told correspondent Mike Wallace that he finds Black History Month "ridiculous."

Top Attorney: Boycott maintream stores on December 24th
African Americans are being urged to boycott mainstream stores for black businesses on December 24th in support of the campaign for Reparations for slavery.

Blacks and Non-Black Supporters
of Reparations Will Not Spend Money on Dec. 24th
Throughout the nation, on December 24th (Christmas Eve) people who support Reparations for slavery will move their Christmas shopping dollars from mainstream stores and venues to buy from Black businesses according to attorney Barbara Ratliff. The nationwide "Black Buying Blackout" was launched Christmas 2004 to demonstrate support for the struggle for reparations and to create pressure on the political-economic system by demonstrating the impact of Blacks' $700 billion-a-year buying power. For Christmas 2006, the BlackOut will shift to a Boycott--Nov. 24-Dec 24.

Southern Africa and reintegrating ex-combatants
The end of armed conflicts in southern Africa has brought the much desired peace, but also created new challenges on the disarmament and demobilisation of former combatants, and reintegrating them into society, Mozambican Veterans` Affairs Minister, Feliciano Gundana, said here Wednesday.

Indigenous People Leap Forward in Bolivia
David Jovis stands in a circle of supporters cheering on others waving handkerchiefs and dancing the cueca, a traditional Bolivian dance. "This is a triumph not only of a candidate and a party, but of a people," Jovis shouts over the noise of the celebrating crowd.

By any measure, Bolivians made history Sunday with their overwhelming vote to make Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian and leader of the nation's coca leaf growers, president of their nation. Never before has the most indigenous country in the Americas been governed by one of its indigenous people. As in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela before it, Bolivia also elected a president committed to challenging its powerful neighbor to the north.
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Air crew back in SA
It was a tearful reunion at the Johannesburg International Airport on Wednesday night as two South African air crew held captive in Equatorial Guinea for over a month were reunited with their family and friends.

Does Africa lack market or what to sell?
Due to high subsidies, farmers from the rich nations are able to export to the world market at prices below the actual production costs, so farmers without support are thrown out of the market. It is unfair playing ground that casts serious doubt about the rich nations’ commitment to end poverty. Analysts say that ending farm subsidies and all forms of domestic support by the rich nations would increase competitiveness and thereby boost world trade by $280b, theoretically to the benefit of poor countries. However, for this thinking to hold, a number of questions must be answered. If the developed countries opened their markets wide today, what would African countries have to export?

World must prevent new Ethiopia-Eritrea war'
The world's major powers and the United Nations must move urgently to prevent a new border war between arch-rival Horn of Africa neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea that could further destabilise the volatile region, a leading international policy institute warned on Thursday.

Ethiopia will seek millions of dollars for Eritrea war
ETHIOPIA yesterday said it would seek "hundreds of millions of dollars" in compensation after an international commission ruled Eritrea started a war between the two countries.

ZAMBIA: Landmark judgment for women in customary marriages

Lethal Developments: Who Pays for Building in Flood Plains?

Of All the Fools He Could Be, Bush is Mostly His Own
In considering Lincoln's presidency, who in the history of the United States did more than Abraham Lincoln in implementing the values of Democracy as set forth in Jefferson's Declaration? In his famous insight on fools, i.e., those people who fool with the truth and those people who abide the fooling, Abe was providing a warning to dishonest politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen guilty of coercion, incompetence and lies.

US Judge Resigns Over Bush's Domestic Spying Authorization: Report

Privatizing Apartheid in Israel
Prior to the dismantlement of the apartheid regime in South Africa, the privatization of state assets and services was quietly undertaken in order to ensure that the loss of political power would not also mean the loss of an economic status quo beneficial to the White minority.

Provocations by US Interests Section Denounced in Cuba
Havana, Dec 21 (AIN) The Round Table television and radio program was dedicated on Tuesday to the provocations from the new chief of the US Interests Section in Havana and his paid mercenaries.

Ice Age Footprints Said Found in Outback
Hundreds of human footprints dating back to the last Ice Age have been found in the remote Australian Outback, an official and media reported Thursday.

Panamanians march to commemorate fallen
About 2,000 people marched through Panama City on Tuesday to commemorate the hundreds of people who died when the United States invaded the Central American country 16 years ago to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.