"The Northern Slave Trade"

In Caracas, Belafonte calls Bush terrorist
CARACAS, Venezuela -- The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

The Northern Slave Trade
Americans excel at ego-boosting myths of exceptionalism: It's our ingenuity, energy and can-do attitude that explain our rise from frontier to world power. But what if slavery were the real secret of our success?

The noose tightens
Sudanese asylum-seekers scattered in churches and hospitals around Cairo tell Gamal Nkrumah about the horrors of the New Year's Eve police raid on their camp

U.N. calls urgent meeting on postponed Haiti elections
The UN Security Council has summoned an emergency meeting on Friday for talks on Haiti’s elections which have been pushed back again. The country has failed to keep a date for elections and has previously postponed four dates since former president Jean Bertrand Aristide was ousted from office in 2004. Its interim government has postponed polls planned for January 8, causing alarm bells in the U.N.

Africa Spends Us$4bn a Year On Western Expatriates
Africa spends US$4 billion per year, representing 35% of total official development aid to the continent, to employ some 100,000 Western experts. These are recruited to perform functions generically described as 'technical assistance', which could have been done by African experts lost to the brain drain of the western world.

Egypt says Sudanese won't be deported after 27 left dead in clashes
police last week Friday. However, there have been reports that some migrants are being held at a military airport near the Egyptian capital and will be deported in days.

Nigeria's Odious Debt
Anti-debt campaigners and some U.S. lawmakers are joining forces to call on the George W. Bush administration to return debt arrears owed by Nigeria and to let the African nation spend the funds on health and education through a World Bank-sponsored fund.

Congressional Black Caucus Says US Should Return Debt Payment to Nigeria
Eighteen members of the United States Congress are asking the Bush Administration to return the US share of Nigeria’s $12.4 billion debt payment under a forgiveness deal reached with the Paris Club group of creditors last October.

King Tut: African or European?
Debates over King Tut’s image and identity are not new. In 1922, Howard Carter, an English archeologist, “discovered” the tomb of this young king who had ruled Egypt about 3300 years ago, from 1336 to 1327 B.C. As soon as his reconstructed images began to appear, they sparked decades of debate over his identity. Most European and Euro-American scholars and others persuaded by their point of view claimed that King Tut was essentially a “caucasoid” ancestor of present day Europeans (referring to ”whites” generally).

UN threatens to pull out of Eritrea-Ethiopia border dispute
Ethiopia and Eritrea have been told that the United Nations may have to withdraw its peacekeeping mission from the region following their volatile stalemate over their disputed border. In recent months, the tension between the two countries has heightened with more troops mobilising at the border, as an outbreak of another bloody conflict threatens. From 1997 to 2000, the neighbours, situated in the Horn of Africa, were locked in a war over the border, which left around 80,000 people dead.

Nigeria to free many awaiting-trial prisoners
Nigeria plans to free about 25 000 inmates, many of whom have been awaiting trial for years, in a bid to decongest overcrowded and unhygienic prisons and improve its human rights record.

A Black Radical from the 1960s Fights Extradition to the US
Just north of the border, in the Canadian city of Toronto, African American Gary Freeman is fighting to stay in the country he fled to 35 years ago. Freeman is being held while a legal battle rages with the Canadian government, which wants to deport him to the U.S. to stand trial in Chicago for the 1969 shooting of a white police officer.

Darfur rebels attack AU force, one killed, 10 wounded
One Senegalese soldier of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission was killed and 10 others were wounded in an ambush Friday by armed Sudanese rebels in the Darfur region of western Sudan, said the Senegalese military.

Cricket & Iraq – Exposing Politically-Correct Australian Racism
Apart from record temperatures, huge bushfires and the death of a media mogul, major stories in Australian media in the current holiday season have been beach-side racist race riots, racial taunting of the South African cricketers touring Australia and Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Thousands of Rwandan Hutus fleeing to Burundi
Around 2,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees have arrived in Burundi in the past month, many saying they feel insecure in Rwanda or are being refused permission to cultivate their land, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Eritrea accepts border ruling
Eritrea has reluctantly accepted an international panel's ruling that it was to blame for hostilities that led to a bloody two-year border war with Ethiopia, but lashed out its arch-rival neighbour for rejecting a binding boundary demarcation.

Basis for Spying in U.S. Is Doubted

Netanyahu waiting in the wings...with bombs for Iran

Iraq war could cost US 'more than $2-trillion'

What White America Doesn't Hear

Morales: Bolivia needs "partners, not masters"

UNH archaeologist uncovers earliest Maya writing system

Haiti's Court System