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African Masks

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:31:59 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nmafa.si.edu

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Possibly Efik peoples, lower Cross River region, Calabar area, Nigeria

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Bassa peoples, Liberia

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Wee peoples, Côte d'Ivoire

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Bush and Blacks

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:29:25 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: The message—both in words and action—is clear, consistent, and stirring.

This year he joined forces with Washington D.C.’s black Democratic mayor, Anthony Williams, to win passage of the first federally funded voucher program, which will provide $7,500 each to poor minority children in the nation’s capital, giving them some of the same educational options that their wealthier neighbors enjoy.

The Bush administration has also tried hard to help lift Africa out of its deepening misery. Last year, the president pledged $15 billion—a twenty-fold increase from Clinton-era funding levels—to help stem the AIDS pandemic sweeping the continent, and he has sent troops and diplomatic envoys to try to quell violence in Liberia and Sudan.
African-relief activist Bob Geldof recently acknowledged, “The Bush administration is the most radical—in a positive sense—in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.”

Clip Source: www.city-journal.org

21 July 2004

“We’ve got a president that’s prepared to take us back to the days of Jim Crow segregation and dominance,” says NAACP president Kweisi Mfume. Republicans’ “idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side,” says NAACP chairman Julian Bond. And the leaders of this supposedly nonpartisan organization are surprised President Bush declined to attend their convention last week?

Instead, tomorrow the president will address the National Urban League, a black organization whose mainstream leadership is focused on ideas for improving life in inner cities rather than on politics and racial demagoguery.

Issues number one and two on his domestic agenda have been education reform and his faith-based initiative, both specifically targeted to help inner city minority residents, and both implemented by two accomplished African-American cabinet members, education secretary Rod Paige and HUD secretary Alphonso Jackson.

Tags: president bush, racial equality, voucher program, aids funding in africa, liberian/sudanese violence

africa pictures

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:44:38 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Africa in pictures: 2-8 August

On Sunday, a boy sells peanuts in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, as US former President Bill Clinton tours an outdoor market on a visit to the West African country.

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UIUC Professor Helps Feds Track, Crack Diploma Mill

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:21:01 GMT

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Clip Source: chicagoist.com

With the assistance of George Gollin, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Fermilab physicist, helped state and federal officials track and bust a ring accused of issuing phony diplomas worldwide. The investigation, appropriately called Operation Gold Seal, listed almost 10,000 people who had purchased the fake diplomas generated by Dixie and Steven Randock Sr. The couple used a combination of fake institutions (St. Regis University) and unsuspecting existing ones (Chicago Technical School) on their diplomas. The scam was international with buyers based in over 130 countries, some with U.S. government addresses, and reports that government officials in Liberia were bribed. Overall, the scam netted over $7 million for the couple, who were based out of Spokane, Washington.

Ethiopia and Liberia

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:52:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Liberia is a nation of freed slaves

Clip Source: answers.yahoo.com

Ethiopia except for a short time when it was conquered by Italy before World War II. (They had to give it back when they bowed out of the war - surrendered to the Allies - in 1943.)
Liberia is also a correct answer, but that was a country founded by a foreign power (the United States 1821 - 1847), so it was "colonized" by African Americans.

Liberia was colonized by freed slaves sent there by the Americans

'Blood oil' dripping from Nigeria

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:51:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An interesting story...

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

'Blood oil' dripping from Nigeria

Oil company employees are suspected of selling their skills to oil bunkerers

Under cover of night dozens of barges queue up to dock at a jetty in a creek somewhere in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta.

Full, they chug downstream to meet around 10 larger ships near the oil export terminal in Bonny, Rivers State, where they disgorge their cargo.

This is an industry that makes £30m ($60m) a day, they'd kill you, me, anyone, in order to protect it

Analyst close to former government of Olusegun Obasanjo

According to Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua this is "blood oil", akin to the trade in "blood diamonds" that fuelled bloody civil wars in West African neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Gordon Brown promised to help Nigeria tackle the unrest in the Delta

ILLEGAL BUNKERING

Oil theft costs Nigeria an estimated $5bn (£2.5bn) every year

Estimates of how many barrels of oil are stolen range from 70,000 to 500,000

Nigeria has proven reserves of over 31bn barrels

Tags: oil, nigeria, illegal, bunkering, theft, abuja, africa

space after studies

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:22:35 GMT

clipped by: penelopecray

Clip Source: www.bard.edu

Case studies
are drawn primarily from Liberia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

Today in History - July 25

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:26:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mlive.com

Today in History - July 25

Ten years ago: Two government officials revealed that special prosecutor Kenneth Starr had subpoenaed President Clinton to testify before a federal grand jury about the Monica Lewinsky case. The U.S. Capitol was reopened, a day after a gunman killed two police officers.

Five years ago: President Bush ordered U.S. troops into position off the coast of Liberia to support the arrival of a West African peacekeeping force, as renewed violence in the capital brought despairing pleas for American help. President Bush received Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. Movie director John Schlesinger died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 77.

Thought for Today: "The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity." — George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher (1863-1952).

Tags: today in history, - july 25, birthday

African Hotel Development

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:25:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Typically, you might expect hotel owner Robert L. Johnson to leave the spiel about bed linens and room decor to his marketing types.

But here he is, the BET founder-turned-billionaire developer/financier (among other things), perched casually at the foot of a California king, patting the poofy white duvet, noting the colorful mudcloth laid across it, pointing out the antique tribal African masks on the walls.

This is his model showroom, if you will, and on Monday he plans to unveil it to potential investors and guests. RLJ Kendeja Resorts &Villas will be an $8 million, 85-room, four-star resort on the Atlantic coast of northern Africa, near the capital of Liberia. Whatever images the world might have of an impoverished country that is still trying to recover from 13 years of civil war, Johnson wants this project to provide a new one.

Tags: bet, johnson, liberia, hotel

Feminism: 10 Bravest Women

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:49:39 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.barbranovac.com

The Ten Bravest Women.

1. Lalita Banavali - Activist for the Hunger Project

3. Ilaben Parmar - Punchyat member and grass roots political activist.

4. Amelia Jacob - Founder, Service health and Development for people living positively with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.

5. Ayaan Hirisi Ali - Controvercial Dutch writer and politician.

2. Mukhtaran Bibi - Gang rape victim and social and political activist in Pakistan.

6. Hanan Ashwari - Palistinian scholar and political activist.

7. Mary Daly - radical feminist and philosophical scholar.

8. Aung San Suu Ky - Leader of National League for democracy party in Mynmar (Burma)

9. Ellen johnson Sirleaf. President of Liberia and Africa's first female head of state.

10. The Revolutionary association of the women of Afghanistan.

Failed States Index 2008 The Best And Worst

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:00:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bangladesh took this year’s hardest fall, set off in part by postponed elections, a feuding, deadlocked government, and the imposition of emergency rule that has dragged on for more than 18 months. These political setbacks were followed by greater economic hardships after a devastating cyclone in November flooded large swaths of cropland and left 1.5 million people homeless.

In nearby Pakistan, also one of this year’s worst performers, a beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf sparked waves of violent protests when he dismissed the head of the Supreme Court and declared martial law. In a tragic close to the year, the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto left many wondering about the future prospects of this fragile, nuclear-armed state.

Ironically, Pakistanis constitute the largest national U.N. contingent operating in Liberia. More than 9,000 Bangladeshi troops wear U.N. blue helmets around the world, a third of them in the Ivory Coast.

Clip Source: www.foreignpolicy.com

This year, a few states managed to beat the odds and make impressive gains. Others were less fortunate.

A common thread links these most improved players: All three host U.N. peacekeeping operations. Nearly 15,000 U.N. troops have monitored Liberia’s fragile gains since the end of its 14-year civil war in 2003, disarming former fighters, training new police, and repairing roads, schools, and hospitals. Haiti’s U.N. mission, nearly 9,000 strong, has made notable progress in tackling the country’s gang violence, though daily life for most Haitians remains steeped in abject poverty. And in the Ivory Coast, a U.N. force of more than 9,000 helps ward off a relapse into war, with troops remaining there to supervise the peace ahead of elections this November. These important, if incremental, gains suggest that, though U.N. peacekeeping missions are frequently dismissed as underfunded, poorly staffed, and even corrupt, they should not be written off.

Tags: failed states, achievements, economic hardships, natural disasters, political setbacks, u.n.peacekeepers

Refugees

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:44:04 GMT

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Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

LONDON, England (AP) -- Tents, sacks of food and a replica of a burnt-out village hut appeared in Trafalgar Square as a tourist hotspot became a refugee camp to highlight the plight of millions of people displaced in Darfur and elsewhere.

The display, set up Tuesday to mark World Refugee Day this week, came as the U.N. refugee agency reported a record 11.4 million people were driven from their home countries last year.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said numbers were rising again after several years of decline in which refugees returned to countries including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Angola.

"Now, unfortunately, with the multiplication of conflicts and the intensification of conflicts, the number is on the rise again," said Guterres, standing amid white U.N. tents erected in the square as part of the "Experience Darfur" exhibition.

"People being forced to move, unfortunately, will be one of the characteristics of the 21st century," he said.

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Number of refugees worldwide rises to 11.4 million

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:05:11 GMT

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Number of refugees worldwide rises to 11.4 million

LONDON (AP) -- Tents, sacks of food and a replica of a burnt-out village hut appeared in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday as a tourist hotspot became a refugee camp to highlight the plight of millions of people displaced in Darfur and elsewhere.

The display, set up to mark World Refugee Day this week, came as the U.N. refugee agency reported a record 11.4 million people were driven from their home countries last year.

start the count down on olympics 2008

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:19:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Countdown to the Beijing Olympics

By Christopher Lyles

Last Updated: 1:04am BST 02/06/2008

67 days to go . . .

67: The number of countries that were represented at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, two less than had participated in Helsinki four years previously.

Olympic Tales

Among those nations making their Olympic debut in 1956 were teams from Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia, Taiwan, Uganda, Malaya and North Borneo (the latter two countries now combined as Malaysia).

The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland did not compete because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary while Egypt and Lebanon declined to attend because of the French and British intervention in the Suez Canal dispute.

Tags: olympics 2008, beijing

Cell Phones Allow Countries to 'Leapfrog' Technology

Wed, 28 May 2008 17:14:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.voanews.com

Cell Phones Allow Countries to 'Leapfrog' Technology

By Bill Rodgers
Washington
19 May 2008

Cell phones are an example of what is sometimes now called leapfrog technology, a product that allows developing nations the benefits of a reliable and extensive communications network without the heavy investment in fixed-line phone infrastructure. Mobile phones, along with Internet access, are part of a communications revolution that is helping boost income and stop the spread of disease in emerging economies. VOA's Bill Rodgers has more in this second of a series on technology in the developing world, with additional reporting by Cathy Majtenyi in Rwanda, Wakil Ehsass in Afghanistan, Nico Colombant in Liberia, and Ahadian Utama in Indonesia.

Tags: tech