Africa

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AFRICA’S PROBLEM FROM HELL: SAMANTHA POWER

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power is on a mission to save Africans from African savagery. She wants you to call 1-800-GENOCIDE so ...

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Find Walter Palmer, Cecil’s Killer

Today’s topic isn’t about guns, the right to bear arms, or the US Constitution. The following take has nothing to do with upward mobility, ...

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Facebook Opens Its First Office in Africa

Facebook opens its first office in Africa At the end of June 2015, Facebook opened its first office in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. ...

A Historic Step: Nigeria Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation

As one of his final acts as President, Goodluck Jonathan bans female genital mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria. As the most populous state in Africa, ...

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A Historic Step: Nigeria Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation

As one of his final acts as President, Goodluck Jonathan bans female genital mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria. As the most populous state in Africa, ...

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Authoritarian African leaders with a thin veneer of democratic legitimacy

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is seeking a third five-year term in office, despite violent street protest, and a failed coup détat. Burundi’s Parliament elected ...

U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice greets Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in New York City on May 5, 2015.

Rice and Museveni shake hands on crimes in Central Africa

During the first week of May, President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC) Advisor Susan Rice met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in New York ...

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Uganda: Besigye calls for no election without electoral reform

Three sitting presidents in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are doing their best to stay in power beyond constitutional term limits. They include ...

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RWANDA HOLDS POLITICAL PRISONER VICTOIRE INGABIRE IN DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS

PRESS RELEASE   On Tuesday, February 17, 2015, the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Kigali, Ms. Leoni Cuelenaere, paid a visit to political prisoner ...

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The Real Reason Blacks “Can’t Breathe” — We Finance Our Own Oppression

El-Ouli Mustafa Sayed died in combat during liberation war — he founded Polisario when he was 23 Observations From The Streets Of America To ...