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Tribes in Kenya Wage Water War
In the first skirmishes due to global warming, nomads fight for survival.
By Nash Colundalur

Turkana women fetch contaminated water from an underground spring.

As tribal warfare rages over increasingly scarce water and grazing land, armed battles over cattle are becoming more destructive and spreading across national borders.

Turkana, North Kenya—Exhausted by [...]

If this news story is accurate Colonel Gaddafi of Libya has played the “race card” in his visit with Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Italy has been the site of racial turmoil as African immigrants, mostly Ghanaians, were attacked this past spring. I found it unconscionable for Colonel Gaddafi to do this and I would [...]

Academic Tackles Chaos of Elections in Nigeria
By ADAM NOSSITER
ABUJA, Nigeria — Sometime in the next five months, Nigeria will probably have a presidential election.
But as the likely deadline looms, there is no election date, no list of candidates and not even a real list of voters in a country of at least 150 million people. [...]

Tired of reading accounts of Africa through the eyes of outsiders, 14 African writers have set out to document the diversity of their content in a series of books and blogs partly inspired by the soccer World Cup.

One of the contributors to the project, Chinua Achebe

The first World Cup to be held in [...]

New constitution means major changes for Kenya
Friday, 13 August 2010
In a referendum held during the first week of August, voters in Kenya overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, replacing one that was drafted during the country’s colonial era. Among other things, the document sets out a Bill of Rights, creates a [...]

Cape Town — Senegal hopes to begin producing world-class African mathematicians with the first of three Africa-based mathematics training centres, which is due to open in September next year.
The Senegalese government has committed around US$1.3 million and donated a plot of land near Mbour on the country’s coast for the centre, SciDev.Net was told last [...]

Formerly an independent kingdom, Madagascar became a French colony in 1896 but regained independence in 1960. During 1992-93, free presidential and National Assembly elections were held ending 17 years of single-party rule. In 1997, in the second presidential race, Didier RATSIRAKA, the leader during the 1970s and 1980s, was returned to the presidency. The 2001 [...]

United Nations A/RES/64/169
General Assembly Distr.: General
19 March 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
09-47197
*0947197*
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.2 (Part II))]
64/169.
International Year for People of African Descent
The General Assembly, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 which proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity [...]

The Detroit Institute of Arts’s Founders Junior Council & Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh present Artseen: Through African Eyes tommorrow Thursday, July 15, 2010. Come raise money for the Detroit Institute of Arts AND CELEBRATE CHARLES PUGH’S BIRTHDAY. Proceeds to benefit the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sounds like a cool cultural experience and some [...]