"Remembering 'Rio's holocaust"

Drought-hit East Africa faces acute hunger-monitor

Gunfire, explosions rock military barracks
Unidentified gunmen attacked the main military barracks in Ivory Coast's largest city on Monday, authorities said as gunfire and heavy explosions shook the area after dawn.

Zambia to benefit from South Africa's food aid
Zambia and six other countries in southern Africa will share 22 million U.S. dollars as food aid provided by South Africa to alleviate food shortages in the region, according to Times of Zambia on Monday.

African-Americans aren't getting lung cancer surgery
Even when they have equal access to specialized care African-Americans with potentially curable lung cancer are about half as likely as whites to undergo surgery that could save their lives, according to a study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers in Boston, Mass.

What it means to be black and gay
Last February, when the debate over gay marriage had reached a particularly ugly juncture, the Rev. Gregory Daniels, a prominent black minister from Chicago, announced from his pulpit: "If the KKK opposes gay marriage, I would ride with them."

Back to Africa
IN THE face of the current xenophobia in Europe against immigration and the mass movement of Africans, the unsuspecting observer may sympathise with the Europeans, justify their angst and look with apathy at the hordes of African immigrants whose dead bodies are washed ashore every day on the beaches of the Mediterranean sea.

Report reveals racial coup in U.S.
That story began to unfold a couple weeks ago when a commission created by the North Carolina Legislature issued a draft report on the causes of a bloody racial clash in 1898. It concluded that the so-called Wilmington race riot was actually a coup staged by a group of white supremacists to seize power from the coalition of whites and blacks that dominated the political life of what was then North Carolina's largest city.

Remembering 'Rio's holocaust
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The remodeling project at a 19th century home in Rio's old Gamboa district came to an abrupt halt. Laborers digging in the yard to check the foundations had found human bones. Thousands of them. The homeowner, Ana de la Merced Guimaraes, soon discovered that her house was sitting on the Cemeterio dos Pretos Novos - Portuguese for Cemetery of New Blacks - a crude burying ground for African slaves that historians had thought was lost.

Zapatistas' Marcos quits armed struggle
The pipe-smoking, balaclava-wearing, but no longer gun-toting leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebel group, subcomandante Marcos, emerged from his jungle hideout yesterday for a six-month nationwide tour to promote a new, non-violent political movement.

Last year, the politics of global inequality finally came of age
A year ago, we were told we had 12 months to make poverty history. So, in the bleary cold light of the new year, how does our achievement stack up? Did a year of unprecedented focus on Africa - rock concerts, 250,000 demonstrating in Edinburgh and an extraordinary degree of political engagement at the highest levels - succeed?

Blood Flows With Oil in Poor Nigerian Villages
"This region is synonymous with oil, but also with unbelievable poverty," said Anyakwee Nsirimovu, executive director of Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the Niger Delta. That combination is an inevitable recipe for bloodshed and misery, he said. "The world depends on their oil, but for the people of the Niger Delta oil is more of a curse than a blessing."

Towards an 'axis of good'
Evo Morales, the president-elect of Bolivia, will travel to Venezuela this week from a visit to Cuba. But he would have been happy to travel to the US - except that Washington did not invite him.

Looking back: 45 years of Viet Nam-Cuba ties

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Venezuela regains control of 32 privately operated oil fields
Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said in a statement on Sunday that 32 privately operated Venezuelan oil fields returned to state control with the start of the new year.

Bitterness returns to D.C.-Havana relations
After months of relative calm on the U.S.-Cuba diplomat front, the two nations have returned to the caustic rhetoric that has often characterized their relationship since Fidel Castro took power in 1959.