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Gaddafi-era Libyan oil chief drowned: Vienna police   By Michael Shields | Reuters   VIENNA (Reuters) – Libya’s former prime minister and oil minister Shokri Ghanem, a prominent defector from Muammar Gaddafi’s government, drowned in the River Danube, Vienna police said on Monday and a Libyan security source suggested he could have been murdered.   […]

South Africa releasing over 14,000 prisoners to mark Mandela election victory RTE News The South African government is releasing more than 14,000 prisoners to mark the anniversary of Nelson Mandela winning the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. It represents about 9% of the country’s prison population. Another 20,000 offenders, on probation or parole, will […]

Time to record history from the generation that lived Jim Crow Photos from the generations that were born into enslavement Dilemma X 70 years after being freed from enslavement in the United States, the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Progress Administration (WPA), collected more than 2,300 first-person accounts of former enslaved African Americans and 500 photographs […]

The Forbes Five: Who Are Hip-Hop’s Wealthiest Artists?         1. Sean “Diddy” Combs ($550 million) 2. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter ($460 million) 3. Andre “Dr. Dre” Young ($260 million) 4. Bryan “Birdman” Williams ($125 million) 5. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson ($110 million)   ________________________________________________ The Forbes Five: Hip-Hop’s Wealthiest Artists 2012   Zack […]

India’s Aggressive Military Build-Up: Keeping Up With China Indian police and army soldiers march towards India Gate on Rajpath during the main Republic Day parade on Rajpath, in New Delhi, Thursday. India is marking it’s 62nd Republic Day with military parades across the country. By Palash R. Ghosh International Business Times  As India prepares to […]

Mugabe urges peace ahead of Zimbabwe elections By Cris Chinaka Reuters HARARE- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday urged political parties to ensure a looming general election is peaceful, amid a rise in violence that he blamed on ambitious politicians staking claims as candidates. “It’s very sad that we are seeing ugly fights in constituencies […]

Ghana’s new capital city highway named after U.S. President George Walker Bush Will President Obama have a road in Ghana or Nigeria too?           Many Americans do not know that an African nation back in February 2012 named one of their capital city’s new expressways after former President George W. Bush.   President John Evans Atta […]

Ghana signs $1 billion loan with China for natural gas project By Bloomberg News Ghana signed a $1 billion lending agreement with China Development Bank Corp. as part of the biggest loan in the country’s history that Vice President John Dramani Mahama said would provide hundreds of thousands of jobs and develop natural gas. Ghana […]

Learning to be racist in South Africa: “Afrikaner Blood” -The shocking video by Elles van Gelder and Ilvy Njiokiktjien   “Afrikaner Blood” “Afrikaner Blood,” by journalist and videographer Elles Van Gelder and photojournalist Ilvy Njiokiktjien (from the Netherlands), received first prize in the second World Press Photo Multimedia Contest. World Press Photo Multimedia Contest announced its […]

April 10, 2012 Robert Mugabe close to death: reports     Megan Levy The Sydney Morning Herald   Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is reportedly fighting for his life in a Singapore hospital with his wife and close family by his bedside. The 88-year-old, who is believed to be suffering from prostate cancer, flew to Singapore […]