Ghana: The Way Forward – A Pan-Africanist Appeal

Ghana and Africa need millions of Kwame Nkrumah today to take us through the next stage of our economic independence. But the only way to produce millions of Nkrumah is when the youth study and understand what he has written.

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Normalcy Returns to Mogadishu

It is Friday morning in Mogadishu and Lido beach presents a scene reminiscent of seaside towns around the world. At the top of the beach, women sit with their wares, selling water and ice-lollies from cool-boxes. The middle-beach is dominated by young men playing football using driftwood as goalposts. At the water’s edge, boys and [...]

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Time for Radical Action on South Africa’s Unemployment Crisis

There are at least four million young people without jobs in South Africa. This is the country’s worst crisis, yet some people still say that the ANC has done well with the economy. The new statistics on unemployment are out. There are two very serious problems. The first is that the way that these statistics [...]

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Obama Announces Multi-Billion Investment in African Agriulture

Over forty-five companies have committed to invest over US$ 3 billion in Africa’s agricultural sector as part of the G8′s New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security initiative, US President Barack Obama announced today. The commitments were developed in collaboration with Grow Africa, an innovative partnership led by the World Economic Forum, the African Union [...]

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World Trade Leader Optimistic on Africa’s Economic Prospects

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, recently said tha he is optimistic about Africa’s trade prospects, especially in agriculture, and calls for a new approach to global trade deals after Doha. History has cast a long shadow over Africa’s trade performance, argues Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organisation. Colonial patterns [...]

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South Sudan Set to Acquire Anti-Aircraft Missile Defense Systems

South Sudan will soon acquire anti-aircraft missiles to defend its territory against air attacks it says are frequently carried out by warplanes from neighbouring Sudan, the South Sudanese military said on Wednesday. Since South Sudan became the world’s newest independent nation in July last year, its government has accused northern neighbour Sudan of continuing aerial [...]

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Child Support: Enslaving Black Men

What I am “against” is women hustling their wombs SPECIFICALLY for the sole purpose of collecting a child support check. What I am “against” is child support being limited or perceived as just financial assistance.

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Increase in Life Expectancy Rates For African-Americans

While the gap between life expectancy rates for African Americans and Whites still exists, it has narrowed over the last two decades, according to “Health, United States, 2011,” a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released on Wednesday. Between 2000 and 2009, life expectancy at birth increased more for African Americans than for Whites, narrowing [...]

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Police: Trayvon Martin’s Death ‘Ultimately Avoidable’

Just over two weeks after the fatal shooting, and less than a month before an arrest was made, police in Sanford, Florida, urged prosecutors to take George Zimmerman into custody after arguing his killing of Trayvon Martin was “ultimately avoidable.” This disclosure came out Thursday, part of a wealth of information released that is related [...]

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Minority Babies Now Majority in the US, Surpassing Anglo-Whites

For the first time in history, there were more ethnic minority babies born in the United States than White, according to 2011 census data released on Thursday. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 50.4 percent of children born in a 12-month period that ended July 2011 were Hispanic, Black, Asian-American or from other minorities groups, while [...]

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Africa Must Diversify to Create More Jobs, Says Okonjo-Iweala

Arican countries should rebuild their fiscal buffers and diversify their economies away from commodities in order to protect themselves from another possible global downturn, says Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Despite an unsuccessful bid for the World Bank’s presidency, Nigeria’s charismatic finance minister has much to celebrate. She is a leading light in Africa and [...]

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Ethiopia Secures WB Loan for Kenya Link Electricity Substations

A high-level delegation from the Ethiopian government has secured a loan for the construction of substations for the Ethiopia to Kenya power interconnection project from the World Bank (WB) last week. Confirming that the Bank has approved the loan, Haji Mohammed, head of Public relations for the Ministry of Finance & Economic Development (MoFED) declined [...]

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