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RSS FeedHaitian: Protest brutal attack on street vendors by U.N. soldiers
2008-04-24
On Saturday, April 11th, a little past 3 p.m., a MINUSTAH (UN) soldier, Nigerian Cpl. Nagya Aminu, was shot and killed in downtown Port-au-Prince. While this killing was widely reported in the international media, what followed the killing was not. I...
Haiti: Letter from Jean-Bertrand Aristide
2008-03-14
Dear Friends, May the spirit of International Day in Solidarity with the Haitian People continue to spread! If the more than 10,000 people killed in the 18 months that followed the February 29, 2004 coup d’état could speak, what would they say? Woul...
Venezuela: The Afrovenezuelan Network and the paramilitary menace
2008-03-12
From its foundation in 2000, the Afrovenezuelan Network had systematically denounced first the threat from Plan Colombia, and second the so called Plan Patriotic as a threat to the stability of the Andean region, this plan is based on military aims w...
Haiti: Petition for safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine
2008-03-13
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine has been missing since the night of the 12th August 2007. It is believed that his kidnapping was politically motivated and someone in the Haitian government and or the UN forces in Haiti led by Brazil must know what happened...
Haiti: Haitian inspiration: On the bicentenary of Haiti's independence
Peter Hallward (2008-02-29)
Two hundred years ago last month (January 2004), the French colony of saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola became the independent nation of Haiti. Few transformations in world history have been more momentous, few required more sacrifice or prom...
Haiti: Feb 29 Haiti Solidarity Day Call to action
2008-02-15
Four years after the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d’etat that overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Aristide… Four years after US Special Forces kidnapped the President at gunpoint from his home, late at night, and flew him on a military plane to exile in Africa… Four years after US Marines seized control of Haiti’s capital and installed a US-appointed coup regime…...
Haiti: U.N. troops accused of human rights violations
2008-02-01
The United Nations Security Council decided in October 2007 to extend the mandate of the MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) through Oct. 15, 2008. The Brazilian government is responsible for coordinating the MINUSTAH forces that...
UK: £1,000 bond planned for visits by overseas relatives
2007-12-19
Families who sponsor visits by overseas relatives to Britain will first have to pay a bond, expected to be £1,000, under new immigration proposals out this week. The immigration minister, Liam Byrne, is also to outline plans to cut the duration of to...
Global: Home truths
Mukoma wa Ngugi (2007-12-13)
There seems to be a common misconception that Africans are born dreaming of emigrating to the West. But if we are to see Africans as fully fledged members of humanity, argues Mukoma wa Ngugi, we should recognise that no-one would want to leave his or...
USA: Ethnic media take on race challenge
2007-12-12
The first-ever multilingual poll of black, Hispanic and Asian Americans is a call to action for the ethnic media leaders who sponsored it. While respondents believe that ethnic media are "irresponsible" when it comes to covering race relations, they ...
Global: Registration to the IOM African women diaspora database
2007-11-16
Given the specificities of women in migration, particularly their potential to contribute to gender equality and the empowerment of women both at home and abroad, IOM is creating an adjunct database for African women diaspora members. This women data...
Haiti: Member of Lavalas Party kidnapped
2007-11-01
Dr. Maryse Narcisse, member of Haiti's National Commission of the Fanmi Lavalas Party, has been kidnapped. Dr. Narcisse and her driver, Delano Morel, were abducted near her home in Port-au-Prince. Dr. Narcisse is a medical doctor and long-time advoc...
Haiti: Origin of AIDS - Haiti Action Responds
2007-11-01
US Report on the spread of HIV/AIDS claims one Haitian immigrant in 1969 is the cause of the spread of AIDS in the US.Leslie Fleming responds on behalf of Haiti Action....
Global: New York opens slave burial site
2007-10-08
A burial ground for African slaves, which had been forgotten for almost two centuries, has been opened to the public in New York. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and poet Maya Angelou attended a dedication ceremony for a monument at the site. The la...
Global: the dual melting pot
2007-09-26
There is a 'melting pot' of all the races of Europe in America, but it does not include African Americans. It may someday include light-skinned Hispanics, and everybody else except Blacks, Stephen Steinberg writes. The American paradigm of race requi...
USA: International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
2007-09-06
Between August 29, 2007 and September 2, 2007, a Tribunal of 16 esteemed jurists from nine countries, including Algeria, Brazil, France, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mexico, South Africa, Venezuela, and the United States, convened in New Orleans to hear ...
Haiti: UN vows no early withdrawal of peacekeepers
2007-08-03
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon vowed on Wednesday that there will be no quick withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti, who have helped stabilize the deeply impoverished country for the first time in years. Speaking during his first visit to Hait...
Global: Stop trying to save Africa
Uzodinma Iweala (2007-07-20)
Last fall, shortly after I returned from Nigeria, I was accosted by a perky blond college student whose blue eyes seemed to match the "African" beads around her wrists. "Save Darfur!" she shouted from behind a table covered with pamphlets urging stud...
Global: Pan-Africanism and the 21st Century African Revolution
Horace G. Campbell (2007-07-13)
Pan Africanism arose as a philosophy to restore the humanity and dignity of the African person and indeed all humans. The concept of dignity and humanity has gone through many iterations from the period of enslavement to the period of colonialism, se...
Global: African Americans celebrate Lumumba's birthday
2007-07-07
Patrice Emery Lumumba (July 2, 1925 - January 17, 1961) was the first freely elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Beloved by his people, he was assassinated by western interests for advocating that the Congo's vast mineral wea...
Global: The UK's child slaves
2007-06-28
Betty was nine when her mother told her she would have to leave Nigeria and live with a family friend in the United Kingdom. The girl was sad to leave her five sisters and two brothers, but the family was poor, living in one room, taking turns to sle...
USA: Town Hall meeting - "Why Media Diversity Matters"
2007-06-29
Join author, commentator, and talk show host Tavis Smiley, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, LCCR President and CEO Wade Henderson, and other distinguished speakers for a one-of-a-kind event on the importance of media di...
Global: Ireland elects first black mayor
2007-06-29
A Nigerian man who arrived in Ireland as an asylum seeker seven years ago has become the country's first black mayor. Rotimi Adebari has been elected as first citizen of Portlaoise in County Laois. The 43-year-old fled from Nigeria in 2000 because of...
Global: Influx of Africans finds mixed fortunes in US
2007-06-23
They range from surgeons and scholars to illiterate refugees from some of the world's worst hellholes -- a dizzyingly varied stream of African immigrants to the United States. More than one million strong and growing, they are enlivening American cit...
Barring Winnie Mandela from Canada
Global Afrikan Congress (2007-06-13)
The triumph of ending political apartheid in South Africa is at the doorstep of the Rt. Honourable Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. When the racist and murderous apartheid regimes in South Africa and Namibia forced many freedom fighters into exile, and/or ...
Africa: The politics of coevalness and the creation of a Black counterpublic sphere
Zine Magubane (2007-06-14)
In this article, Zine Magubane explores the complex range of issues raised by Oprah’s philanthropy. Chief among them are the power relations that inform charitable acts; the racial politics and history that structure Oprah’s relationship to her viewe...
Africa: Europe looks to encourage diaspora investment
2007-06-07
Africa's robust diaspora in Europe will soon have an investment facility to help people make direct investments to better develop their home countries thanks to a new study by the Brussels-based Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Business Climate (BizCli...
Global: Very British coup for an African francophone
2007-05-17
When a headhunter phoned Tidjane Thiam, then working in Paris, to discuss a job with Britain's biggest insurer, Aviva, he laid down a condition. "I said, 'well, I am very happy to interview. But frankly, you need to tell them that you found someone w...
Kenya: The role of the Kenyan diaspora in constructing a new politics of culture and identity
2007-05-10
According to Eric Masinde Aseka, the precariousness of contemporary politics of identity in Kenya seems to affirm the philosophical insights of Frantz Fanon when he states in "Black Skin, White Masks" that the colonized subject cannot make a meaning...
USA: Michigan State University African Studies Centre
2007-05-03
Founded in 1960, the Michigan State University (MSU) African Studies Center (ASC) is one of nine Title VI National Resource Centers on Africa designated by the US Department of Education. MSU can offer instruction in 30 African languages, with 9-12 l...
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