"Africa Should Unite Or Perish"

Africa Should Unite Or Perish
There is no disputing that trade is key to any nation's economic development. It is against this background that incessant calls are being made by African leaders and social movements for the expansion of Africa's trade with the West.

Schools consider Afrocentric curriculum
Hoping to better capture the attention of African-Americans and close the achievement gap between black and white students, a group of parents and educators is pushing for adoption of an African-centered curriculum in Evanston/Skokie School District 65.
The curriculum would keep state-required core subjects such as reading, language arts and math but include the history and culture of Africans and African-Americans in daily school lessons.

African Artifacts get a new home
With bountiful gold mines, powerful kings and fabulous cities, ancient Nubia was a great black African civilization that sprouted and grew 5,000 years ago alongside Pharaonic Egypt, two empires that were sometimes friends and often enemies.

Report on Death of Sudan's Garang Delayed Again
It has been seven months since Sudanese Vice President John Garang was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Sudan. His death came a mere three weeks after he assumed the vice presidency, and aroused suspicions of foul play. Results of an investigation into the crash have been repeatedly delayed, and many are convinced that Garang was murdered.

Shell told to pay Nigeria's Ijaw
A Nigerian court has ordered oil giant Shell and its partners to pay $1.5bn to the Ijaw people of the Delta region. The Ijaw have been fighting since 2000 for compensation for environmental degradation in the oil-rich region. They took the case to court after Shell refused to make the payment ordered by Nigeria's parliament. Ijaw militants have staged a spate of attacks against Shell facilities recently and are holding seven foreign oil workers hostage.

Shell appeals $1.5bn fine over pollution in Nigeria
Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, which is locked in a bitter legal battle over environmental damage in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Delta, is appealing against a hefty $1.5 billion (R6.4 billion) fine for pollution.

Rwanda accuses Belgian airline of discriminating against its nationals
Rwandan minister for foreign affairs and regional cooperation Charles Muligande has accused the Belgian air company Brussels Airlines (SNBA) of practising racism against Kigali`s nationals during transit in Nairobi on their way to Belgium.

Darfur Sanctions Deadlock As ICC Considers Prosecutions
The United Nations is reportedly split on proposals to punish Sudanese officials and rebel leaders allegedly responsible for impeding peace efforts in Darfur, where International Criminal Court, ICC, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has launched an investigation into war crimes. As violence again flared in northern Darfur, the UN Security Council met February 27 to consider sanctions against officials deemed to be a threat to the peace effort or human rights in the area.

Nigeria: Police Arrest 448 Over Sectarian Crises
No fewer than 448 persons have so far been arrested by the police in connection with the sectarian crises that rocked some states of the federation last week. This was disclosed in Abuja yesterday by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero . Crises arising from the cartoon controversies first broke out in Katsina and later spread to other northern states including Gombe, Borno, Niger, Bauchi, sparking off reprisal attacks in Anambra State.

Apartheid's founding party draws last breath
The old apartheid-era National Party will draw its last breath practically unnoticed after capitulating to the party it tried to destroy when South Africans go to the polls today to vote in local government elections.

Bush extends Zimbabwe sanctions
United States President George Bush on Tuesday extended by one year a series of sanctions against Zimbabwe officials, including President Robert Mugabe, deemed to be undermining democracy.

The UK pay gap of black and ethnic minority women has not been addressed, says a leading campaign group
A report this week by the Women and Work Commission which confirmed a UK gender pay gap has been criticised by a leading lobby organisation who said it failed to address equality at work for black women. The claim was made by the Fawcett society, the UK campaign for equality between women and men, which is concerned that the report did not give sufficient attention to the pay and employment issues faced by black and minority ethnic (BME) women.

Imperial Conquest, Torture, And A Little Matter Of Genocide

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Halliburton Strikes Again

Mahatma Bush