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Namibia: Revealing the Interests in the MCA Saga
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:56:52 GMT
PRIME Minister Nahas Angula and Minister of Works and Transport Helmut Angula, who spearheaded the MCA process as the former director general of the National Planning Commission, scored a pyrrhic victory this week over their dissenters, the Swapo Youth League (SPYL).
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Nigeria: Americans, Free At Last
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:15:46 GMT
In everyone's life there are events that stick in our memories for decades and may be for all our life. When such events are recalled we remember exactly what we were doing on that day, hour and minute. I remember with minute detail Nigeria's Independence Day, October 1st 1960 and also our becoming a Republic, with Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe transforming into our first President.
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South Africa: Obama - Changes the Rest of the World is Waiting for
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:46:59 GMT
IT IS difficult not to be excited about the election of America's 44th president, Barack Obama. The package seems so unlike any we've seen before.
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Africa: Victims, Counselors Reclaim Lives From Torture
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:36:55 GMT
Survivors of torture and persecution who fled to the United States for asylum have had much taken away from them: their sense of dignity and personal safety, their family and friends, the security of having homes and careers.
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Zimbabwe: U.S. Envoy Decries Grim Humanitarian Situation
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:36:53 GMT
Zimbabwe is facing a man-made food and health emergency that is being exacerbated by the actions of its government and the government's failure to implement a power-sharing agreement with its political opposition, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe says.
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Nigeria: The Obama Euphoria and IWU's Crucifixion
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:16:36 GMT
How fascinating it is to see Nigerian politicians and critics react to the emergence of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America after two years of enduring campaigning and a historic election victory.
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South Africa: Driving Into the Sunset
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:55:09 GMT
IN THE middle of the previous century US drivers would not been seen in anything other than an American car. The US automobile held pride of place in the hearts of most Americans.
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Nigeria: Reviewing Obasanjo's Sermon on Obama's Election
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:51:31 GMT
For the most powerful country to be ruled by a minority, man of 'colour' makes colour to recede into insignificance and cease to be regarded as an important consideration in American life." - Obasanjo
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Nigeria: IWU, American Elections and Ensuing Diatribes
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:51:23 GMT
In the last one week or thereabout the media in the country have been awash with vituperation on the person of Professor Maurice Iwu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
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Congo-Kinshasa: Footprints And Paradoxes of Canadian Mining
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:35:21 GMT
Mikhael Missakabo reveals the extent to which Canadian mining companies are benefiting from instability and weak institutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo to reap huge profits while paying little attention to the ecological and human cost of their actions. These companies have become adept at hedging their bets in the ongoing conflict and negotiating contracts that literally impoverish the host country. All that remains in their wake is environmental and economic and social ruin.
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