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Rachel Uchitel has told the New York Daily News that she has no relationship with Tiger Woods and that the “girls” quoted in National Enquirer and Star magazine articles are lying. This news come amid rampant online reports that claim Rachel Uchtiel may have been the reason Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, fought [...]
Life and death tales follow Nigeria’s President Yar’Adua to Saudi Arabia, again.… Nigeria President’s health, performance and politics USAfricaonline.com Special report By Chido Nwangwu —– USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com (characterized by The New York Times as the most influential African-owned, U.S-based multimedia networks) established May 1992, our first edition of USAfrica magazine was published August 1993; [...]
South Africa gets out of recession; grows GDP USAfricaonline.com wt wire reports Statistics South Africa has reported that South Africa’s gross domestic product grew by an annualized rate of 0.9% in the third quarter compared with the preceding quarter. This beats analyst forecasts for 0.5% growth and growing concern of the country’s leaders. “The short-term indicators [...]
Somali-American youths join terror network in Minnesota A group of Somali-American youth recruited to fight for an Islamist militia in Somalia were told it would be “fun,” court documents have shown. Some 20 young men — all but one of whom were of Somali descent — have been recruited to leave their homes in Minnesota to [...]
Oprah closes her great show on September 9, 2011; and notes on Oprah and Africa By Chido Nwangwu, Publisher USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston and The Black Business Journal Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine Houston PhotoWorks.TVand USAfrica.TV November 19, 2009: After weeks of speculation, the queen of tv and print media, Oprah Winfrey, is affirming that her world-famous daytime TV talkshow [...]
Soccer: Nigeria lose World Cup U-17 to Switzerland By SAM AUDU On Sunday night, November 15, 2009, Switzerland became the new FIFA Under-17 World Cup when they defeated hosts and defending champions Nigeria 1-0 at a packed Abuja National Stadium. Haris Seferovic gave Switzerland the championship in the 63rd minute when his header from a corner [...]
6 African teams chasing 3 Word Cup spots By DB Peters Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine Johannesburg – Ahead of the final round of African World Cup qualifying matches, there are still three places at next year’s finals in South Africa up for grabs. In Group A, Cameroon are favoured to qualify, with Gabon waiting [...]
Eighteen killed in Ghana gold mine disaster By David Adadevoh (AFP) – 1 day ago ACCRA — The roof of an illegal gold mine in Ghana collapsed killing at least 18 people, including 14 women, in one of the worst mining disasters to hit the African nation, police said on Thursday. Thirty miners were believed [...]
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III delivered the sentence at a packed courtroom in the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va. Prosecutors had asked for 27 to 33 years in prison, while Jefferson’s lawyers said the prison term should be less than 10 years. Jefferson stood stoically as the sentence was read, showing little emotion.
Khartoum – A Nigerian football star on Thursday said he had been sentenced to 40 lashes in Sudan after being wrongly convicted of drunk driving in Khartoum. Stephen Worgu, who signed a reported multi-million-dollar contact with Omdurman club Al Merreikh last year, said he was innocent and determined to win an appeal against the sentence. [...]
The Islamic Education Center is seen in Potomac, Md. on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The center rents this building from the Alavi Foundation, which owns the building but does not run the center. Federal prosecutors filed a complaint Thursday seeking to seize the assets of the foundation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (Jacquelyn Martin, AP / November 12, [...]
The lawsuit says Meshal, a Muslim born to Egyptian parents, traveled to Somalia in 2006 “to enrich his study of Islam.” He was forced to flee to Kenya after fighting broke out in the Somali capital, the lawsuit says. Meshal says he was held in Kenya and repeatedly questioned by FBI agents who threatened to send him to Israel or Egypt unless he acknowledged ties to al-Qaida, the lawsuit charges.
Precious, the movie and astonishing roles of Gabourey Sidibe, daughter of Senegal-born father/cab driver and African-American mother Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine Review of Precious, the movie based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire. By Eric D. Snider (from Sundance Film Festival reviews) The premise of Precious is so unsettling and bleak that no one [...]
World Cup hoopla: South Africa says no emergency to move games Special to USAfricaonline.com There was never an emergency plan to move the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament if South Africa was not ready, chief organizer Danny Jordaan has said. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said two years ago that the United States was among countries [...]
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Somali pirates attack tanker 1,000 nautical miles from Mogadishu Somali pirates on Monday November 9, 2009 attacked a 330-metre-long oil tanker some 400 nautical miles north-east of the Seychelles but were unable to capture the ship, a spokesperson for the European Union’s anti-piracy mission Atalanta said. The pirates fired grenades at the Hong Kong-flagged tanker [...]
Col. Ben Danner said Hasan was shot at least four times and was in critical condition.
Hasan, a 39-year-old man from Virginia, was shot multiple times by Sgt. Kimberly Munley, a police officer who was injured in the shooting, Cone said in a Friday morning press conference. Military officials said Munley was in stable condition Friday.
Cone said that investigators can’t rule out the possibility that terrorism was involved but “the evidence does not suggest that.”
Under Obasanjo, such a powerful political ally of the president would have had little fear of conviction, and virtually no fear that he would face jail time. Hence, George’s imprisonment appears to be a step forward toward the rule of law in Nigeria.
The caveat, as some Nigerians note, may be that President Yar’adua and former President Obasanjo are drifting apart, which has led to speculation that George’s imprisonment may also be part of a political skirmish between the current and former chiefs of state or their respective entourages. They note that former governors James Ibori and Peter Odili, who have escaped prosecution, are current political allies of Yar’adua.
My point, the editorial position of USAfricaonline.com and The Black Business Journal are clear: Africans are demanding and setting aside diplomatic niceties to say that the industrialized nations should not only embrace and put forward detailed commitments reducing carbon emissions but deal with the climatic and environmental consequences of the toxic dumps in Africa inflicted mainly by developed/western countries for more than 120 years, to date.
The principled position of all the African delegates to this November 2009 conference in Barcelona is a reminder that Africans have faced the worst forms of environmental destructions and violations which impact the climate and mortality, especially for children and pregnant women.
USAfricaonline.com notes he has become an icon of courage and recipient of numerous awards including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award. But those recognitions have come alongside a long-running, bitter, public feud between Rusesabagina and Paul Kagame (Rwanda’s president and former head of the Rwandan Patriotic Front).
