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  • Female Africans Take Lead in Prize-Winning Fiction
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jane Ciabattari
    African women are taking over artistic territory once controlled by men and are now telling the continent’s new stories in books and movies. The final article in our eight-part series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
    PRINCETON, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)—Who will tell the stories of contemporary Africa?
    A new generation has emerged since Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe in 1958 wrote the first "African" novel, "Things Fall Apart," detailing the destruction of the Igbo culture by (…)

  • United States of America / Yemen : Secret Detention in CIA "Black Sites"
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "They came to take our father at night, like thieves..." Fatima al-Assad, age 12, daughter of Muhammad al-Assad, who "disappeared" after his arrest in 2003
    "Brother, what is your name, what village are you from?" It was distinctive Yemeni Arabic that greeted Muhammad al-Assad as he stumbled, still hooded and shackled, from the plane at Sana’a. For the first time in nearly 18 months he knew what country he was in. He heard the question repeated twice more, as Salah Nasser Salim ‘Ali and (…)

  • Kucinich Demands IG Investigation Into FBI’s Handling Of Investigation Into Forged Niger Documents
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Drops Investigation Just As Italians Make A Potential Break In The Case; Kucinich Sends Department Of Justice A Letter Demanding Investigation
    WASHINGTON - November 4 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), Glenn A. Fine, demanding an IG investigation of the FBI’s handling of the situation.
    The letter, sent today, states:
    Dear Inspector General Fine:
    I am greatly dismayed to learn that without answering any (…)

  • Forged Niger Documents: Fitzgerald Launches International Investigation
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    =================== Walker’s World: Bush at bay
    By MARTIN WALKER UPI Editor
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
    This suggests the inquiry by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame has now widened to embrace part of the (…)

  • Urgent Stop Charity Mutebwa’s deportation to Uganda
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I stopped eating because I was given a removal letter which was to take me back to Uganda it was on 16 August which was stopped by my solicitor. Today I was given another removal letter to remove me on 18 October.
    "I need you to intervene and help me. I have explained to Immigration my whole story - that I have no home, my family has died and no one to help me in Uganda and that I was tortured and raped.
    "I escaped from government detention and I am not safe if I return to Uganda. (…)

  • Rwandan : World Day Against the Death Penalty
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Paul Kagame
    This letter was delivered on October 10, 2005
    World Day Against the Death Penalty
    Dear...,
    We are pleased and honoured to address you and the Rwandan people. We want to assure you that we are in solidarity with the efforts of all Rwandan citizens who aim to restore justice and human rights after a long period of terrible tribulations in your Country. It is in a spirit of deep friendship and humility that we request that you do your best to achieve, as soon as (…)

  • Union leader accuses Mbeki of betrayal over Aids
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Basildon Peta, in Johannesburg
    South Africa’s senior labour leader has launched a scathing attack on President Thabo Mbeki, accusing him of "a failure of leadership" in dealing with the HIV/Aids pandemic which is wreaking havoc in Africa’s richest country.
    South Africa has the world’s biggest number of people who have HIV/Aids, with more than five million of its 45 million citizens affected. Mr Mbeki’s remarks five years ago that poverty, not HIV, was the real cause of Aids earned him (…)

  • Great Apes Doomed to Extinction for Want of Budgetary Scraps from West
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Treaty offers world’s last chance to save great apes Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor UK Independent
    The agreement sets targets for slowing the loss of great apes and their forest habitats by 2010, and for securing their future in the wild by 2015
    They are man’s closest cousins and they are staring into the abyss. But in one of the most important environmental treaties, hope has been offered to stop the headlong slide towards extinction of humankind’s nearest relatives, the great (…)

  • Where’s Bob?
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now that we know that every line that left the lips of those at the G8 at Gleneagles was a lie and that the words "Mission accomplished, frankly" uttered by Bob Geldof were nothing short of a disgrace - is it not time for Mr Geldof to come down from his cloud and tell us the truth?
    Let’s face it, Saint Bob was quick enough to hijack the long term efforts of a wide range of organisations devoted for years and decades to the cause of the poor. He suddenly crawled from the woodwork on planet (…)