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Slavery By Another Name   Produced by Twin Cities Public Television and premiering on PBS early 2012. Major funding for Slavery by Another Name is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Coca-Cola Company and the CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund.     Slavery by Another Name is a 90 […]

Nigeria’s president declares state of emergency in parts of country after recent sect attacks By Felix Onuah and Tim Cocks Reuters ABUJA- Coming nearly a week after radical sect Boko Haram set off a series of bombs across Nigeria on Christmas Day, including one at a church that killed at least 37 people and wounded […]

Raila, Uhuru invited to ANC celebrations By Peter Orengo The Standard South African President Jacob Zuma has invited Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his deputy Uhuru Kenyatta for centenary celebrations of the African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa. Raila’s director of communications Denis Onyango Thursday confirmed that the PM, who is ODM party […]

Sudan’s Suakin Island in the Red Sea

  Christmas bombs kill 35 in Nigeria By Ola Awoniyi AFP  ABUJA -Bomb attacks on churches during Christmas services and a suicide blast killed at least 35 people in Nigeria on Sunday amid spiralling violence claimed by Islamists. A purported spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a bombing of the church outside […]

Video: Uganda- Bwindi Impenetrable Forest December 2011

Army kills 59 Boko Haram members in Damaturu attack BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI Vanguard  The Joint Task Force set up to quell the Boko Haram menace rocking the Northern part of the country, in the early hours of yesterday, launched a successful operation on the sect’s operational stronghold in Damaturu, Yobe state, killing 59 of  the […]

Ghana imports $2.6 billion worth crude, oil products one year after becoming oil producer Emmanuel K. Dogbevi Ghana Business News Ghana joined the ranks of oil producing countries one year ago, December 15, 2010. And according to the Bank of Ghana, in the 11 months of 2011, the country has imported crude oil to the […]

Nigeria coast braces for biggest oil spill in 13 yrs Around 20,000 barrels, worst spill since Exxon in 1998   By Tim Cocks and Emma Farge Reuters LAGOS/LONDON – Nigerian authorities were putting emergency measures in place on Thursday to prevent an oil spill from a Royal Dutch Shell facility, the biggest leak in Nigeria […]

Jacob Zuma blames Christianity for South Africa’s problems Jacob Zuma is at the center of a religious storm in South Africa after reportedly blaming the introduction Christianity in the 19th century for the continent’s current problems South African President Jacob Zuma By Barney Henderson Daily Telegraph Mr Zuma, South Africa’s first Zulu president, told an […]