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AllAfrica News: Latest This Sunday, December 7, the people of Ghana will go to the polls to elect a new President and National Assembly. This will be the second transfer of power between presidents through the democratic process and the fifth national election held since Ghana ended military rule in 1992. Meanwhile, in the past eight years, Ghana has become one of Africa's success stories. AllAfrica News: Latest WATER woes persisted in Harare yesterday as almost all the city's suburbs, industrial areas and the central business district had no supplies. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean HAVANA, Dec 1 (IPS) - "It all began with the cutting of the ceiba," recalls Isbel Díaz, founder of the project "El Guardabosques" (The Forest Ranger), an environmental initiative that seeks to raise ecological awareness among residents of the Cuban capital and involve them in the protection of their natural surroundings, in particular the city’s trees. Jamaica Gleaner: puerto rico: spurning europe, governments stiffening penalties, limiting appeals Push on for death penaltySAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP):Capital punishment is on the books across the English-speaking Caribbean, and governments are stiffening penalties and limiting appeals. |
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Black Britain News: 'Ugly' barrister walks out of court happy Constance Briscoe's account in a 2006 book titled 'Ugly' in which she painted a childhood of abuse - that she was punched, kicked and beaten by her mother - was not libellous, a court decided today. |
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Danish-African cooperation for green revolutionby Sophia Carlsson In the presence of the Danish Queen and the Prince Consort, the dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, recently signed a visionary partnership agreement with Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania. The Faculty of Life Sciences wishes to create strong regional centres of excellence that may help solve Africa’s food crises and problems with mass unemployment and poverty through long-term binding partnership agreements with selected universities in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Read more |
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Australia: Press blacks out Aboriginal protest over Northern Territory interventionWorld Socialist Website
The real attitude of the media and political establishment toward the desperate conditions facing indigenous Australians, however, was on display less than 24 hours before Rudd delivered his formal apology. Read more |
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Going Ohm with Nicha Douglasby Veronica Henry MyAfricanDiaspora.com is pleased to announce our affiliate relationship with natural beauty brand, Ohm Body.
Founder, Nicha Douglas, is a visionary whose compassion and commitment have encouraged her to take “the road less traveled” and impress change in this world. Nicha says, “Being born to Caribbean parents, I grew up knowing the healing value of organics, herbs, and natural solutions to common problems.” After earning a degree in Biology and a post graduate degree in Naturopathic medicine, Nicha became a holistic practitioner. Read more |
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The Black Haves and the Black Have Nots, America Open for Businessby Lennie Chism Donations to Black colleges, as noted in numerous recent reports, are almost non-existent among Blacks and Black alumni. For decades corporate and foundation donations have kept our nation’s historically Black colleges off life support. In addition, huge pools of wealthy Blacks have graduated from traditionally white colleges. Without any connections to the historically Black colleges, they have little incentive to donate. [I’d like to think they might have at least some tiny incentive] Read more |
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Partner with MyAfricanDiaspora.com and ZCD Foundation to bring life-saving fresh water to Sierra Leoneby Veronica Henry
MyAfricanDiaspora.com is partnering with ZCD Foundation to help bring focus to the problems affecting post-conflict Sierra Leone. ZCD Foundation was founded in early 2008, through the pioneering efforts of Zainab Beckett, a Sierra Leonean residing in Vegas, with the support of her American and Sierra Leonean counterparts. They share similar aims in bringing hope and dignity to the poor in depressed and disadvantaged rural communities and in improving their standard of living. The foundation focuses on the following main activities and projects:
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Over the past week the local media has bombarded Australians with gushing praise for the Rudd government’s apology to members of the “stolen generations”—the Aboriginal and “half-caste” children who were forcibly removed from their parents by government authorities from 1900 to the early 1970s. Lofty editorials, endless commentaries and extensive radio and television broadcasts have hailed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for allegedly “healing past wounds” and “bringing the nation together”.
Several years ago a good friend told me of an incident in which he asked a wealthy white person, “Who will take care take care of the poor whites?” The man answered,” Wealthy white people will take care of poor white people.” My friend then asked, “Who will take care of poor Blacks?” The man said, “God will take care of poor Blacks.” The wealthy white man did not even consider that wealthy Black people would take care of poor Black people. Why is that?