International
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Global news coverage with a focus on Africa and the diaspora.
Zimbabwe Fights To Control Foot And Mouth Disease
Zimbabwe Fights To Control Foot And Mouth Disease HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA)-Zimbabwe government agriculture officials said they had intensified efforts to control a raging foot and mouth disease that...
U.S. Not Alone in Election Crises
PORT OF SPAIN (IPS) -- Observers from the Commonwealth have arrived in this southern Caribbean country to monitor the Dec. 11 polls amid complaints from the main opposition party that the upcoming...
Donor Pullout Casts Shadow Over Zimbabwean Land Reform
HARARE, Zimbabwe (IPS) -- Zimbabwe's fallout with the Danish government over the nation's chaotic land reform and unstable political situation could further weaken the already precarious economy....
Development: Early Childhood Focus Of 2001 UNICEF Report
UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) -- Investment in early childhood care and development is one of the most effective methods to fight poverty, HIV/AIDS, conflict and inequality in the developing world, the U.N....
New Foundation Established to Boost Democracy & Progress in Africa
A new foundation, named after former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has been established in Chicago to provide support for democracy in Africa and scholarships for African...
Suspected Kenyan Gangster Thought Dead Shocks Police, Morgue Attendants
NAIROBI (PANA) - Confusion, shock and panic gripped mortuary attendants and police officers in one of Kenya's agricultural towns recently when a suspected gangster who had been presumed dead and...
Internet Opportunity Conference
Former Chicago Bulls Star Craig Hodges host a FREE conference on the Internet for Virtual Business Center 2000 (VBC2000) a Wisconsin based Internet Company. The Conference is for business owners,...
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The Detroit chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will honor U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo with this year's Freedom and Justice Award...
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (PANA) - The death toll among UN peacekeepers in Sierra Leone has risen to 12 with indications that six corpses freshly discovered are members of the force. Uncertainty had...
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, May 23 (IPS) -- The sole provider of telecommunications services in the region for more than a century, British telecom giant Cable and Wireless PLC is going to...
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) effectively stopped Ward Connerly's plan to place an anti-affirmative action measure on the November ballot in Florida this...
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Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) today said the latest vote in the South Carolina House of Representatives to remove the...
IMF Restores Sudan's Membership
KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA)- Sudan has restored its full membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the Bretton Woods institution suspended the country's membership in 1993 over debt...
A Disappointed Nigeria Prepares For Clinton
Nigeria had anticipated that Okinawa would produce more concrete pledges of help, especially given the one-year crusade by President Olusegun Obasanjo for debt cancellation for heavily indebted...