"Africans must regain control"

African Diaspora: Africans must regain control
There are outside interests (working through local representatives/collaborators) whose main aim would be best served by our loss of ancestral knowledge. These are entities who know the truth in the saying "knowledge is power" and because their plans for 'full-spectrum domination' will never come to fruition for as long as they are not in control of ALL knowledge, they have been working for a while now to degrade the regard Africans have for their own ways of knowing and, for the products of those ways.

HIV infection in Zimbabwe falls at last
Researchers of the disease report that prevention programmes have cut the portion of Zimbabweans infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by 2.5%. The news has inspired those hoping that education campaigns advising people to change their behaviours could turn back the scourge of AIDS in Africa.

Mbeki may speed up SA land reform
South Africa may move more quickly on the emotive issue of land reform, said President Thabo Mbeki as he outlined this year's government's programme.

UN official calls for ending arms sales to Africa
A senior United Nations aid official called on Thursday for a halt to arms sales to Africa, saying it would be more effective in addressing the continent’s poverty than charity rock concerts or debt relief.

Libyan businessmen to boycott Danish products
Libya`s Council of Businessmen decided Monday to to stop importing into the country Danish products in protest against a campaign orchestrated against the Prophet Mohammed in the Danish media.

Haitian cane-cutters struggle
Large-scale sugar production began in the Dominican Republic in the 1870s. In many ways, little about the process has changed since then: The sugar cane still grows tall, wild, and sweet, and Haitian laborers - poor, desperate, and hungry - still work day in, day out, to cut it.

Chad: New Janjawid Attacks Force More People Into Camps
Ask Kaltouma Yaya Ato why three years into the Darfur conflict, she has only just decided to seek refuge in Chad, and the 80-year old says not a word. She simply rolls up the folds of her skirt to reveal traces of the Janjawid.

RITA MARLEY: A philanthropist and a patriot

US expels Venezuelan diplomat
Responding to Venezuela's expulsion of a U.S. naval officer from Caracas, the US State Department on Friday declared a senior Venezuelan diplomat persona non grata and gave her 72 hours to leave the United States.

Rescue Efforts Continue in Red Sea Ferry Disaster
Rescue efforts are still under way to find possible survivors of an Egyptian passenger ferry that sank in the Red Sea early Friday, carrying roughly 1,400 people. There are conflicting reports about the number of survivors who have been rescued so far, with some sources saying it is about 100, and others saying it could be twice that many. It is feared that the death toll will be high.

Muhammad cartoons row rages internationally

Why ‘freedom of expression’ defence is questionable in the Muslim dispute with a Danish publication.

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