"Africa should set up its own educational standards"

Africa should set up its own educational standards
African governments have imposed colonial educational standards on its people for so long and it was time for them to set up their own standards to suit their own situations based on their own criteria, Mr Thulas Nxesi, President of Education International (EI) of South Africa, said on Tuesday.

UN admits civilians may have died in Haiti peacekeeping raid
The UN has for the first time admitted that a number of innocent civilians may have become "collateral victims" and killed during a controversial raid by peacekeeping forces in Haiti. The admission will likely add to the tension inside the capital city, Port-au-Prince, already wracked by violence and chaos – and the recent suicide of the UN military commander - as it prepares for a crucial election.

3.9 million dead from war in Democratic Republic of Congo: The Lancet
Eight years of war in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have left nearly four million people dead, making it the deadliest humanitarian crisis today, according to a study published on Saturday in the British medical weekly The Lancet.

GM crops fail to deliver benefits to Africa
Ten years after the first significant planting of genetically modified (GM) crops there are no apparent benefits for consumers, farmers or the environment, a report made public on Tuesday said

Voodoo celebrated at festival in the Republic of Benin
Thousands gathered Tuesday on a beach to celebrate Benin's once-banned Voodoo, slaughtering animals and welcoming revelers from Brazil and the United States whose slave ancestors took the religion to the Americas centuries ago.

Ministers: Donors biased on debt
Two Cabinet ministers have accused the international community of discrimination in cancelling foreign debts to poor countries. Finance minister David Mwiraria and his Trade counterpart, Mukhisa Kituyi, said while most African countries had received debt relief, Kenya was yet to benefit from such magnanimity even though the Government has been lobbying for cancellation of external debts amounting to Sh449 billion.

Sudan’s new oil wealth still a source of conflict
Nothing has changed in the way oil wealth is distributed in Sudan, oil and aid workers say, a year after a peace agreement to end a petroleum-fueled civil war in the south of Africa’s largest country.

ANGOLA: Oil rich but dirt poor
On the back of record oil prices, Africa's second largest producer, Angola, has one of the continent's fastest growing economies while its people remain among the poorest.

AU and the challenge of a summit
Senior Correspondent, Victor Onyeka-Ben examines issues surrounding the forthcoming African Union summit noting that the outcome will go a long way towards defining the direction of the African continent's fragile peace.

Illegally Imported, Fake Drugs Flood Kenya
Thousands of Kenyan patients are unknowingly taking wrongly formulated or expired medicines, thanks to a thriving illegal trade in counterfeit and illegally imported drugs, the country's pharmaceutical industry has warned.

'10 million girls aborted in India'
Up to 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades after gender checks, according to a study published in the Lancet, a British medical journal.

Zimbabwe: Judge seeks end to colonial era restrictions on the practice of witchcraft
A senior High Court judge urged Zimbabwe's government to ease colonial era restrictions on the practice of witchcraft, state-run radio reported Tuesday.

'Fool Me Once...'
The revelations that the Bush Administration has engaged in the secret jailing and torture of people in gulag-like conditions in Eastern Europe and elsewhere while pursuing the warrantless wiretapping of Americans at home should send shivers down the spines of all who value our constitutionally protected civil liberties. Yet although the institutions that have reported on these chilling developments clearly deserve our gratitude, the manner in which they have done so nevertheless inspires suspicion and unease.

What is happening in Venezuela, was bound to happen at some time!
Since World War II, the US and Britain have been busy undermining Human Rights in every area that they were supposed to protect.

American liberators or American thieves?

Palestine: the People and the Land...