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South Africa removes recognition of six traditional kings. By Jean-Jacques Cornish (AFP) PRETORIA — President Jacob Zuma announced Thursday July 29, that South Africa would stop recognising half the nation’s traditional kings and queens, dismissing them as artificial creations of the apartheid regime. The announcement came after a six-year government study into the traditional monarchies, [...]
Obama to hold forum with African youth from August 3-5, 2010 in Washington DC Special to USAfrica, and CLASSmagazine Houston. By Chido Nwangwu, USAfricaonline.com. A group of 100 young African leaders, mainly from the private sector and civil society, will be hosted by the U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington DC as part of the [...]
Influential U.S Congressman Hon. Al Green of the Homeland Security and Financial Services committee who has attended some of the USAfrica Best of Africa events in Houston notes that “Chido and the team at USAfrica really do a first-class job of promoting with class and deep knowledge, the interests of Africans and Americans. Chido’s a great credit to journalism and our communities.”
African Union peacekeepers killed by Somali insurgents. Somali insurgents killed two African Union peacekeepers from Uganda in fierce battles earlier the week, a spokesman for the AU mission in Somalia has said Friday. Peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi are propping up Somalia’s weak Western-backed government as Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab and its allies press for [...]
The Rwandan government uses charges of “genocidal ideology” and “ethnic divisionism” to attack independent critics and often seems more concerned with political survival than with lasting reconciliation, manipulating the memory of the genocide for political gain. For several years I visited Rwanda on human rights research and fact-finding trips and authored reports based on my fieldwork. This tiny, beautiful, ghost-filled country, where 800,000 people were slaughtered while the international community watched, has stayed with me.
“With global resources spread thin, we must focus on expanding proven and cost-effective methods like male circumcision to prevent HIV transmission,” Krishna Jafa, an HIV expert at health aid group Population Services International (PSI), said at an AIDS conference in Vienna.
U.S. Policy toward Sudan not “meaningful”, says John Prendergast of Enough Project. Special to USAfrica multimedia networks, and CLASSmagazine, Houston USAfrica, Washington DC: A leading analyst of United States and Africa international relations John Prendergast of the Enough Project has stated in a report to USAfricaonline.com that U.S. policy is not contributing in a meaningful way [...]
Muslim attack on Christian village in Jos, Nigeria kills 8, about 45 injured AFP: Jos, Nigeria — Muslims attacked a Christian village in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing eight people with machetes and burning seven houses and a church in fresh religious violence, an army spokesman said. The attack followed clashes in eastern Nigeria earlier [...]
Nigerian kidnappers free journalists held for a week. By Joel Olatunde Agoi (AFP) – Nigerian gunmen who kidnapped four journalists last week in the country’s oil-rich south freed them on Sunday without a ransom being paid, the head of the reporters’ union and police said. The July 11 abduction of the newsmen, the second this year, [...]
The Founder & Publisher of Houston-based USAfrica multimedia networks and USAfricaonline.com, Dr. Chido Nwangwu, has “called on Nigeria’s President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to quickly but carefully ensure the safety and release of these Nigerian journalists to their families. It is good for Nigeria’s democracy and reputation that this be seen and treated as both a domestic security and international profile issue. I believe the issue requires urgent but prudent action by the presidency especially regarding the responsibility of government for public safety.”
I’ll forever remember having walked inside and peeped through that historic Mandela jail cell at the dreaded Robben Island on March 27, 1998, alongside then Editor-in-chief of TIME magazine and later news chief of CNN, Walter Isaacson (and others) when President Bill Clinton made his first trip to South Africa and came to Robben Island. Come to the island of scourge and you will understand, in part, the simple greatness and towering grace of Nelson Mandela. At 92, he still embodies those special qualities and more….
Whatever is said, by organising this tournament successfully, South Africa has done Africa proud on the first time of asking. We shall hold this dear for many moons to come….
Islamist al-Shaabab militia claim responsibility for attacks, killings of 74 persons in Uganda; threatens U.S., U.N Special to USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine Houston At least 74 people were killed and dozens injured in late night bombings targeting football fans in the Ugandan capital Kampala, with the Islamist al-Shaabab militia on Monday claiming responsibility for the [...]
74 dead in Uganda bomb blasts Bomb explosions that tore through two bars in the Ugandan capital at the weekend left at least 74 people dead and wounded 65 others, a national police spokeswoman said Monday. Three separate blasts went out in the Ugandan capital – Kampala as residents watched the 2010 World Cup final [...]
Guinea presidential run-off election postponed The second round of Guinea’s presidential election, scheduled for July 18, has been postponed to a date yet to be set, an electoral commission official told AFP on Friday in Conakry. “It all depends on the supreme court, but it will no longer be July 18,” said Pathe Dieng, director [...]
Shell gets N15b oil pollution ruling against its Nigeria operations. Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston. By Chido Nwangwu (in Houston) and Obinwa Nnaji (USAfrica Executive Editor in Lagos). For an oil spill in the 1970 which affected about 256 hectares of land and water areas in the Ejama-Ebubu community in Tai Eleme Local Council [...]
POLLUTION, OIL and NIGERIA: LIQUID GOLD OR PETRO-GAS CURSE? By Chido Nwangwu, Publisher of USAfrica. Special to USAfrica The Newspaper, Houston (first written/published on October 19, 1998) and USAfricaonline.com http://www.usafricaonline.com/chido.petrogas.html updated http://www.usafricaonline.com/2010/07/06/petrogas-pollution-nigeria-chido-october1998 The news report by USAfricaonline.com about the July 5, 2010, ruling by a federal court in Asaba (Delta State of Nigeria) which awarded N15.4 [...]
Jonathan reverses himself on Nigeria international soccer ban Special to USAfricaonline.com Nigeria’s government on Monday July 5, 2010 lifted a two-year ban it imposed last week on its national football team after a dismal World Cup showing, just ahead of a FIFA deadline to do so. The government issued a statement saying the country’s football [...]
Congo fuel truck fire kills 230, many children Sange, DR Congo (AFP) – A fuel truck exploded and set fire to a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing more than 230 people and injuring scores, officials and local residents said Saturday. Flames engulfed dozens of earth and straw constructed homes as villagers, many [...]
President Jonathan, shut them down…. By CHIDO NWANGWU, Publisher of USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston. On Wednesday July 7, 2010, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan’s tangle with the world’s soccer governing body FIFA will see the rugged lines of global soccer cooperation, national sovereign claims and responsibilities intersect and clash, again. Jonathan’s swift hammer fell on [...]
