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  • Global alert over deadly new TB strains
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global alert over deadly new TB strains
    · Disease untreatable with currently available drugs · South African cases raise fears for Aids programme
    Sarah Boseley, health editor Wednesday September 6, 2006
    World health officials last night put out an unprecedented warning that deadly new strains of tuberculosis, virtually untreatable using the drugs currently available, appear to be spreading across the globe.
    The new strains are known as extreme drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB. They (…)

  • Chavez Urges Africa To Unite Against US
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Urges Africa To Unite Against US By Daniel Flynn Sat Jul 1, 2006 3:40 PM ET BANJUL (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Africa on Saturday to forge closer ties with Latin America to combat what he called a threat of U.S. hegemony.
    Chavez, whose repeated criticism of America has raised hackles in Washington, called on an African Union summit to cooperate with Latin America in everything from oil production to university education to counter "colonial" meddling in (…)

  • State Department Memo: "16 Words" Were False
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Sixteen days before President Bush’s January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
    The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded (…)

  • Carnage in the Somali capital
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Confrontations between islamist and pro-American militia made 80 died these last days with Mogadiscio.
    The LULL will have lasted only a few hours hardly. Yesterday, as of the raised sun, the combat which make rage since four days in Mogadiscio between rival militia began again. The confrontations, worst than has known the Somali capital for ten years, would have already cost the life 80 people. According to the Red Cross, deaths are for the majority of civil, victims of the exchanges of (…)

  • Who Wants Peace in Darfur?
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The "Save Darfur" rally today was aired on C-Span. The rally was small — only several thousands according to Reuters ("Thousands March to Stop Darfur Killing," 30 April 2006). And the crowd in attendance was overwhelmingly white. But, boy, it was a professionally-staged photo op, with celebs, politicos, and exiles from Sudan at the podium expertly framed by the U.S. Capitol in the background.
    The timing of the rally was perfect, designed to coincide — and scuttle — the Abuja peace (…)

  • JOE & BOB’S ’ STRANGE ENCOUNTER ’ (1 and 2 ? )
    28 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    How did `Hero ’ Joseph Wilson , the former Ambassador to Gabon, make his rendez-vous with destiny , that fateful encounter with syndicated columnist Robert Novak ? The public record indicates that Wilson met up with Novak , for the first time, on TWO DIFFERENT OCCASIONS .... From the "Politics of Truth", (Chapter 17 ) hero Wilson related this shocking scenario. A friend of his had a chance encounter with Novak in which " The Prince of Darkness " is alleged to have told Wilson’s chum (…)

  • African World Social Forum Meeting Opens
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, Jan 20, (Granma) The African gathering of the Sixth World Social Forum (WSF) opened in Bamako, Mali on Thursday with around 30,000 participants.
    The opening ceremony began with a march from the independence monument to the Modibo Keita Stadium. Aminata Dramane Traere, former minister of culture and Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former general director of the UN Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) were among the participants.
    The 2006 WSF is being held at three (…)

  • Chad angry at World Bank over oil
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chad has reacted angrily to warnings from the World Bank, after its parliament voted to relax controls on the use of its oil revenues.
    The government has accused the World Bank of acting like a coloniser.
    The body lent Chad more than $39m (£23m) to build a pipeline with an estimated total cost of almost $4bn.
    It was on condition that Chad’s churches, trade unions and non-governmental organisations monitored how oil revenues were spent.
    This was meant to guaranteed that oil money was (…)

  • MR. NOUR AND POLITICAL REFORM IN EGYPT
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    The U.S. Government, foreign policy experts, newspaper editorial writers and human rights advocates were virtually unanimous in condemning the sentencing last week of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s chief political opponent to a five-year prison term, but divided on what can be done about it.
    The White House and the State Department issued statements saying they were “deeply troubled” by the conviction and sentencing of Ayman Nour, the runner-up in Egypt’s 2005 (…)

  • Govt to respect gay marriage ruling
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jenni Evans | Johannesburg, South Africa
    The government has noted a ruling by the Constitutional Court on Thursday that same-sex marriages be allowed and will respect the judgement, spokesperson Joel Netshitenze said.
    "The Department of Home Affairs will assess what practical steps will be needed to give effect to the change in the law and make appropriate recommendations to the minister," he said.
    He also noted that the court gave Parliament 12 months to effect the necessary change (…)