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Africa
  • News Bulletin , The East African

    Somali pirates marauding the East African coastline will now find it hard to hijack ships sailing along the Indian Ocean waters following a new agreement between Tanzania and Kenya to safeguard a greater area of the continental shelf. The two neighbouring East African states are at the same time finalising... » read this article
  • News Bulletin , IRIN Africa

    Signatories to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - restated their commitment to the scheme at the close of a three-day meeting in Namibia on 26 June, but campaigners warned that more action, not talk, was needed now. "There... » read this article
  • Abayomi Azikiwe , Pan-African News Wire

    Resistance forces control large sections of the country; Ethiopian troops re-enter A worsening security situation in Somalia has prompted the US-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to declare a state of emergency and issue a call for military support from both neighboring countries as well as the "international community." Attacks on... » read this article
  • Samwel Kumba , Nation, of Kenya

    Thousands of Kenyans are registering themselves as refugees to benefit from food  rations as the hunger crisis bites, a report shows. However, they are unable to obtain Kenyan identity cards so the report proposes that  their cases be considered favourably. As many as 4,000 Kenyans are said to have been... » read this article
  • Mohamed Abshir Waldo, Daljir Radio , Radio Daljir

    Radio Daljir By Mohamed Abshir Waldo Jan. 08, 2009 THE SHIPPING PIRACY & THE INVASION OF THE SOMALI SEAS Much of the world’s attention is currently focused on the Somali sea lanes. The navies of big and small powers are converging on the Somali waters in the Gulf of Aden... » read this article
  • K'naan , YouTube

    K’naan (Keinaan, meaning traveller in Somali, born 1978) is a poet and hip-hop artist from Somalia. Born in Mogadishu, at age 13 he left for New York City with his mother and brother and finally settled in Rexdale, Ontario, Canada. Read his views of the Somali pirates as shared with... » read this article
  • Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Pan-African News Wire , Workers World Newspaper

    (Photos added to Abayomi Azikiwe's excellent analysis by Axis of Logic)     Apr 13, 2009 After the execution of three Somalis and the wounding and capturing of another in the Indian Ocean on April 12, a leader of the so-called pirates vowed to avenge the deaths of these youth... » read this article
  • Michael Vazquez , URB

    K'naan, an activist, poet, and rap artist originally from Somalia, shares his views of the Somali pirates with Michael Vazquez, editor of URB. Can anyone ever really be for piracy?  Outside of sea bandits, and young girls fantasizing of Johnny Depp, would anyone with an honest regard for good human... » read this article
  • Report: Somali Monitor , Video: Aljazeera

    An investigation into the murder of Ilaria Alpi who was investigating arms trafficking and the illegal disposal of toxic waste off the coasts of Somalia. (Report and Photos below the video) Somalia’s secret dumps of toxic waste washed ashore by tsunami Source:Timesonline From Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg THE huge waves... » read this article
  • Stephen C. Webster , Raw Story

    A landmark human rights lawsuit, accusing Royal Dutch Shell of complicity in the execution of author and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa some 14 years ago, will proceed to trial in a New York courtroom. The Center for Constitutional Rights and Earth Rights International, along with Mr.  Wiwa's son, allege... » read this article
  • Christof Putzel and Kaj Larsen , Current TV- Vanguard

    Vanguard correspondents Christof Putzel and Kaj Larsen first ventured to Somalia in the summer of 2006 during a brief period of fragile stability. They discovered that peace reigned in the capital for a few weeks after 15 years of bloody civil war in what the world labeled a failed state.... » read this article
  • Credo Mutwa , Credo Mutwa Website

    Biography of Credo Mutwa I was born in Zululand on the 21st July 1921 according to my father. When my father met my mother, he had just lost his wife and a number of children in a terrible influenza epidemic, which had spread through Southern Africa, killing thousands of people... » read this article
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World News
  • Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
    "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas....
  • U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
    The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and...
  • Trans-Sahara Pipeline to send gas to Europe
    Nigeria, Algeria, Niger Seal $10bn Gas Pipeline Deal Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas...
  • US launches major Afghan assault
    US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president. Four thousand marines, backed...
  • DPRK fires fourth short-range missile off east coast
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.     DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
  • Honduras: U.S. friends carry out a coup
    MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
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