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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 [...]

The troublesome economy is worrisome to all of us, but especially for young people! The data, no matter who is reporting it, is abysmal. The Great Recession as pundits have called this economic era is doubly difficult on Black communities; especially our young people who are just now trying to enter the workforce. This recession [...]

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. [...]

Wyclef Jean on Tuesday announced his bid to run for president of Haiti in the country’s Nov. 28 election. Analysts say Wyclef Jean is in a strong position to become Haiti president after René Préval.

Haitian musician Wyclef Jean, right, gives a pack of goods to a woman at a camp for [...]

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 [...]

Below you will find a piece decrying Affirmative Action by U. S. Senator James Webb of Virginia posted in the Wall Street Journal this week. There are many valid different opinions about the role of affirmative action, however, this is not one. What I find ironic about Mr. Webb’s take is that he is the [...]

Thursday
July 15
Source: In These Times
By Michelle Chen
Workers protest at Woodfin Suites Hotel, in Emeryville, Calif.   (Photo by David Bacon)

Across the industrialized world, governments have dreamed up various schemes for reinvigorating deflated economies, from blood-sucking austerity budgets to paying for scrap metal. Nowhere is the desperation more evident than [...]

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 [...]