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Niger’s junta enters as Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, led by Major Salou Djibo.
Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston
NIAMEY: Salou Djibo, leader of the coup that overthrew Niger’s president Mamadou Tandja, is an army major who is virtually unknown to the people of the underdeveloped but uranium-rich west African state.
Born in 1965, the [...]
She said in the 30-second ad that “The images from Haiti are heartbreaking… Homes, hospitals and schools destroyed. Families searching for loved ones. Parents trying to feed their children. But we can all do something….”
HAITI DISASTER: 200,000 may be dead after 7.0 Earthquake; how to help, now…
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Houston, Jan 12, 2010: Merely viewing the images/video of distress and decimation of life and environment, Haiti’s shattering earthquake of January 12, 2010 and its aftershock seem like a filmic creation [...]
A U.S national security official in Washington DC informed USAfrica’s Publisher Chido Nwangwu that “the U.S is not engaging in a random decision. This is a clear, urgent response to the realities of the relationships the young Nigerian man Mutallab had with al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, and possibly elsewhere….”
USAfricaonline.com research shows the network of radical Islam fighting under the recent, general banner of alQaeda have executed attacks, successfully across parts of Africa in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Obama also noted that the Yemen-area group has been more problem for the U.S.
While the older Mutallab sought and gained multiple millions in rewards for his core, long-standing interests and skills in business especially in financial services, the younger Mutallab sought to be a foot soldier for bin-Laden’s troops. Evidently, even the luxury and resources amassed by the older Mutallab could not dissuade his 23 years-old son Farouk from being a jihadist and fighter for Islamic fundamentalism through the violent, toxic mechanisms of terrorism, as alleged from his actions on Christmas day December 25, 2009… minutes of a flight into America’s famous Motor City of Detroit.
Special Report:
Nigerians, abroad and at home, swing from initial denial to harsh reality, reflecting on Farouk Mutallab’s terrorism arrest in Detroit, U.S. USAfricaonline.com developing special report….
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USAfricaonline.com on December 26, 2009 spoke to a very close family friend of the young man’s father [...]
Terrorism?: Nigerian passenger, Farouk Abdul Mutallab, held and charged on Dec 26, 2009 for, allegedly, attempting to blow up plane landing in Detroit
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CRISIS IN GUINEA: Assassination attempt by one of his aides in troubled west African country, Guinea’s junta leader Camara ‘critical’; flown to Morocco….
Guinea’s junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, who was wounded in an assassination attempt, is in a “difficult but not desperate condition,” the president of Burkina Faso has said.
Moussa Dadis Camara, leader of [...]
South African President Jacob Zuma to Zimbabwe for power-sharing talks
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South African President Jacob Zuma is expected in Zimbabwe “later this week” to assess progress on ongoing negotiations to resolve a crisis that has threatened the country’s fragile coalition government, one of the feuding parties said in Harare on Tuesday.
The Movement [...]
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.
Chief George’s subsequent prosecution is evidence that ultimately the law catches up with the bad guys. Cynics will find therapy in the courageous stature of Justice Oyewole whose extraordinary example, in concluding a full trial of such a complicated case in just 14 months, ought to guide other courts where cases of grand corruption are still trapped.
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For foiling kidnap crimes, Onitsha America’s president Dr. Egbunike announces N1milllion to Police command
Special report by Chido Nwangwu in New York
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In a bold and target-specific response to the gallant efforts of the Onitsha Police command in thwarting the criminal, reprehensible, [...]
‘Hosting the Olympic Games should not be a privilege for rich countries,’ Lula said recently in New York. In that sentence, the Brazilian synthesized all his shrewdness, in the effort to help Rio de Janeiro get past Chicago – as well as Madrid and Tokyo – in the race to host the 2016 Olympics.
The world’s tenth-largest economy, Brazil is not a poor country, although it is inhabited by legions of poor people. But playing the ‘third world’ card still pays off at an IOC in which anti-US feelings are rife even in the ‘Obama era.’
None of the groups shown comes out particularly well, but the Nigerians are portrayed as gangsters, cannibals, pimps and prostitutes, while their leader’s name is pronounced Obasanjo — the same as that of Nigeria’s former president. Nigeria has banned cinemas from showing it.
