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U.S. Shifts from Military to Civilian-Led Mission in Iraq

Washington — The United States has ended its seven-and-a-half-year-old military operation in Iraq and is shifting to a civilian-led mission to build a partnership with Iraq that will strengthen its government, industry and people, President Obama says. “As our military draws down, our dedicated civilians — diplomats, aid workers and advisers — are moving into [...]

Awareness raising campaign ahead of 2011 UK Census

Ahead of the March 2011 National Census in the United Kingdom, the Office of National Statistics, Local Authorities and other stakeholders have started an awareness raising campaign to encourage local people to take part in the national census in March 2011. One organisation involved in this currently ongoing awareness drive is Community Action Southwark (CAS). [...]

The new scramble for Africa’s minerals, the untold story

125 years ago the Western imperialists including America, Britain, France and Germany met at a round table to carve up Africa into neo-political and neoeconomic entities. This was known as the “Congress of Berlin” that became dubbed: “The Scramble for Afrika” Today the same western powers but now including the other countries from Asia and [...]

Gabon plans to become leading palm oil producer in Africa

President Ali Bongo has vowed to modernise the west African state’s economy. Gabon has signed deals to diversify its economy in an attempt to be less reliable on its dwindling oil reserves. The government has announced contracts with Asian companies worth $4.5bn billion dollars. President Ali Bongo signed the agreements on the eve of the [...]

Nigerian Professor commits suicide after killing wife in Pennsylvania

A 64-year-old Nigerian Professor at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, Chukwudubem Okafor has committed suicide after killing his Jamaican wife over domestic dispute. Joe Vanilla, a detective at the Berks County Coroner Office in Pennsylvania, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone that investigation into the killing on Sunday had been concluded. Okafor and [...]

National Peace Corps Association Announces Round Two Winners for Africa Rural Connect Competition

Beekeeping for cash income and crossbreeding chickens for higher egg yield win top ideas Washington, D.C.─ The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), the nation’s leading nonprofit organization supporting Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace Corps community, announced today the top winners of the second round of the 2010 Africa Rural Connect (ARC) ideas competition. [...]

Accident: Death toll rises to 72

LAGOS—A MAN, his wife, his three children and his mother were said to be among scores of lives that perished, weekend, in a multiple auto crash that occurred along Lagos-Ibadan Express road. A pregnant woman and her two children were also among those burnt beyond recognition in the accident even as unconfirmed report put the [...]

Undercover-anglers stop slaughter of whales on Faroe Islands

As soon as pilot whales are sighted in the waters off the Faroe Islands the hunting frenzy takes hold of the about 48,000 inhabitants. Boats are launched and pods of whales are herded into the next official hunting bay. There in the shallow waters the killers are waiting, who are overwhelming the helpless animals with [...]

Scramble for and re-partitioning of Africa – Asymmetric relationship

(THE CASE OF SIERRA LEONE BETWEEN THE TWO POWERS- USA AND CHINA) INTRODUCTION: This paper will attempt to critically scan through the dependence theory, and show how best the concept of asymmetry with Sierra Leone in between the skyrocketing interests from the world’s two leading powers’ (USA & China), is best applicable. (Photo: Brima Patrick [...]

Nigeria: Corruption Fueling Police Abuses – Government Should Rein In Extortion, Embezzlement, and Related Abuses

(Lagos) – Widespread corruption in the Nigeria Police Force is fueling abuses against ordinary citizens and severely undermining the rule of law in Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch called on Nigerian authorities to take immediate steps to improve budgetary transparency in the police force and to investigate [...]

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