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Immigration officials express fears as team set up to probe airport fire By Moses Michira, Lonah Kibet and Felix Olick The Standard (Nairobi) NAIROBI- Senior Immigration officials Wednesday evening expressed unease with hasty plans to reopen the damaged Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to international flights. The Immigration Department said it would not be pushed […]

Why Robert Mugabe scored a landslide victory in Zimbabwean elections Triumph for president and his party Zanu-PF cannot be dismissed as rigging and obstruction by the incumbent Blessing-Miles Tendi The Guardian UK HARARE- There is a phenomenon in African politics called the preponderance of incumbency. Simply put, it maintains that it is difficult to defeat […]

Demands for new Indian states revive after Telangana created By Amy Kazmin Financial Times NEW DELHI- Globally renowned for tea estates that produce some of the most delicate, and highly-prized teas, India’s mountainous Darjeeling region was rocked for most of the 1980s by strikes and protests by the indigenous Gorkha community, who were demanding the […]

Mugabe declared winner of presidency in Zimbabwe The Guardian (UK) Robert Mugabe was on Saturday declared the winner of Zimbabwe’s presidential election with 2,110,434 votes, giving him 61% of the total and Morgan Tsvangirai 34%. The margin was enough to avoid a repeat of the runoff in 2008. As Zanu-PF supporters celebrated the national election […]

US economy adds 162K jobs, jobless rate 7.4% U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.4 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in retail trade, food services and drinking places, financial activities, and wholesale trade. Household […]

Los Angeles subway expansion: About the Purple Line Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) With the completion of the Final EIS/EIR, Los Angeles is closer than ever to making this long-awaited heavy rail subway project a reality, connecting the Westside to the region’s growing rail transit network, and improving mobility for everyone who lives, […]

‘White Student Union’ started at Georgia State University  By Laura Diamond The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Fall semester won’t start for several weeks, but Georgia State University has already received a handful of complaints about a new student club — the White Student Union. Freshman Patrick Sharp said he started the club so that students of European […]

Zimbabwe: Polling stations open as citizens cast ballots By Peta Thornycroft The Star (Johannesburg) Harare – With 9,735 polling stations opening for business at 7 am today, Zimbabweans are getting the chance to vote more freely than at any time in the past 13 years. Electoral reforms since the last disastrous poll in 2008 have […]

The first Americans were black according to a BBC documentary BBC News The first Americans were descended from black Australian aborigines, according to evidence in a BBC documentary. The program, Ancient Voices, shows that the dimensions of prehistoric skulls found in Brazil match those of the aboriginal peoples of Australia and Melanesia. Other evidence suggests […]

Voters defy threats as polls close in Mali Thousands of Malians went to the polls in country’s first presidential election since a military coup last year. Al Jazeera Mali’s polls have closed amid reports of high voter turnout in the capital, but elsewhere in the country people found themselves unable to cast their ballots. Sunday’s […]