Student leader Maxwell Dlamini out on bail
President of the Swaziland National Union of Students, Maxwell Dlamini, has been released on bail today [3. February]. The money for the 50,000 Rand bail (€5000) – the largest bail ever in Swazi legal history –was raised by Maxwell’s father, Nimrod Dlamini, and local and international solidarity movements. Maxwell Dlamini was detained, allegedly tortured and forced [...]
A call for justice – Sierra Leone’s Attorney General must act now as innocent farmer is detained without trial
The Publisher and Managing Editor of the Sierra Leone Daily Mail online Newspaper, Mr Foday Morris Ceesay, has launched a campaign to fight for justice for all concerned in Rokel Village, Tainkatopa Makama, Safroko (TMS), Constituency 51, in the Port Loko District of the Northern Province of Sierra Leone where there has taken place a [...]
Urgent Appeal: $7.7 Billion urgently needed to save desperate human beings around the world
Just for comparative purposes, it is estimated that the U.S. has spent some $4 trillion spent on its war on Iraq, while the world spends well over 1,6 trillion dollars a year on weapons. At the same time, the nine nuclear-armed nations will spend in 2011 an estimated US$105 billion maintaining and modernizing their nuclear weapons, according to Tim Wright, [...]
Polluters win and the people lose as the Durban climate talks end
DURBAN, South-Africa, December 11, 2011 – African Press Organization (APO) – On the closing of the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban Greenpeace today declared that it was clear that our Governments this past two weeks listened to the carbon-intensive polluting corporations instead of listening to the people who want an end to our [...]
Malawi’s “Occupy Parliament” campaign fails
Lilongwe District Commissioner Paul Kalilombe Monday afternoon denied to grant permission to civil society leaders to hold a five day vigil dubbed “Occupy Parliament” at parliament building in Malawi’s Capital City, Lilongwe. Kalilombe did not give reasons for refusing to give the civil society groups a go-ahead to camp at the legislative house where members [...]
At last, African culture in mainstream thinking
The “City Forum on Culture and Development,” a policy orientated venture held in Accra to openly strategize the African culture for African progress reveal the increasing attention being given to the African culture.. For almost 50 years, the African culture, either because of colonialism or bad intellectual savvy by African elites, has not been purposely [...]
Author Ngozi Achebe speaks on the state of African literature at UBC
Dozens of Canadians, Africans and student members of Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI) recently descended upon the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada for a dialogue about the state of African literature organised by the Nigeria-Canada Friendship League in association with the AAI where Dr. Ngozi Achebe, author of Onaedo: The Blacksmith’s Daughter and the niece of [...]
Policy research supremo Abdulai Bayraytay weds his longtime sweetheart Zainab Bah in Sierra Leone
One of Sierra Leone’s finest and distinguished public Servants, Mr. Abdulai Bayraytay, who has been at the forefront in helping shape the country’s foreign policy as professional adviser to the Foreign Minister, has walked down the aisle with his long term sweetheart Zainab. The management and staff of this medium hereby extend warmest congratulations to Abdulai Bayraytay as he weds Zainab [...]
African ‘mercenaries’ are executed in cold-blood by rebels in Libya
The fighting in Libya is taking a new twist as rebels engage in despicable atrocities with reports of summary executions as they hunt for ‘mercenaries’ who they alleged aided and supported Gaddafi’s forces. The ‘mercenaries’, mostly from sub-saharan Africa, were said to be violently massacred in revenge for their role in the ongoing conflict. It [...]
Friends neglect Obasanjo at book launch
A man knows his worth among friends when he organizes a party. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria might have many enemies to reconcile with. It was gathered by Newstime Africa, that Obasanjo who ruled Nigeria from 1999-2007 as a civilian president, apart from being a military president during the 70s, and also the Chairman [...]
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