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As Africa rises up against colonial powers, the EU launches second security mission in Mali to try to preserve their rule

As Africa rises up against colonial powers, the EU launches second security mission in Mali to try to preserve their rule

The European Union on Tuesday agreed to launch a new mission to boost police and national guard forces in Mali, its second operation in the vast African nation threatened by…

African News: Morocco jails British paedophile for 20 years: NGO

African News: Morocco jails British paedophile for 20 years: NGO

A Moroccan court jailed a British man for 20 years Tuesday for kidnapping and attempting to rape three young girls, a rights activist at the trial told AFP. Robert Bill,…

African News: African soldiers help 1,000 Muslims flee C.Africa to Chad

African News: African soldiers help 1,000 Muslims flee C.Africa to Chad

African peacekeepers escorted more than 1,000 minority Muslims fleeing attacks by mainly Christian militias in the Central African Republic to neighbouring Chad, police told AFP on Saturday. "Not a single…

African News: 14-year-old Nigerian bride kills husband, two friends with rat poison-laced wedding feast

African News: 14-year-old Nigerian bride kills husband, two friends with rat poison-laced wedding feast

A 14-year-old Nigerian girl whose parents forced her to marry a 35-year-old man was arrested after she allegedly killed the man and his friends with a rat poison-laced wedding meal.…

Uganda police accuse HIV/AIDS project of gay ‘recruitment’

Uganda police accuse HIV/AIDS project of gay ‘recruitment’

Police in Uganda have accused a US-funded AIDS project that they raided last week of paying young men to become homosexuals, a report said Thursday. Quoting a police statement explaining…

The “Tom” of America’s white elite(Pres. Obama) orders another African nation invaded — US Marines headed to Chad park to fight poaching

The “Tom” of America’s white elite(Pres. Obama) orders another African nation invaded — US Marines headed to Chad park to fight poaching

A small team of US Marines are to head soon to Chad's Zakouma National Park to train local forces in the fight against the poaching threatening the area's elephant herds.…

African News(Energy Independence): Hanergy Solar Developing 400 MW PV Plant In Ghana

African News(Energy Independence): Hanergy Solar Developing 400 MW PV Plant In Ghana

Hanergy Solar is currently in the process of developing a 400 MW PV power plant in Northern Ghana, according to a recent press release. The project is still in its…

And you thought Mandela brought equality…Only 1 in 5 South African executives are black: study

South Africa's workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, said a report published…

Western Bio-terrorism: West Africa Ebola outbreak among ‘most challenging’ ever(WHO)

West Africa's Ebola unprecedented outbreak is among the "most challenging" for health workers since the deadly disease emerged elsewhere in Africa four decades ago as the suspected death toll topped…

African News: Guinea raises Ebola death toll to 95

African News: Guinea raises Ebola death toll to 95

Guinea's government raised the death toll in the Ebola epidemic raging through its southern forests and capital to 95 on Monday. The health ministry added nine deaths to the toll…

Rwanda to former colonial power France: Own up to your genocide and massacres in Africa

Rwanda to former colonial power France: Own up to your genocide and massacres in Africa

Greetings, France needs to admit role in 1994 genocide: Rwanda A Rwandan girl visits the graves of some of the 800,000 people killed in the 1994 genocide. (File photo) Rwanda…

Anglo corporations are using food as a weapon to make S. Africans bow: Hunger, anxiety as South African mining strike wears on

Anglo corporations are using food as a weapon to make S. Africans bow: Hunger, anxiety as South African mining strike wears on

Miner's wife Nomfanelo Jali hasn't been able to serve her family meat in a month and increasingly struggles to put anything on the table at all, as South Africa's long-running…

West Africa mobilises against Ebola epidemic

West Africa mobilises against Ebola epidemic

West African countries mobilised Friday against an epidemic of haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives in Guinea with more suspected cases in Mali, Liberia and…

Drought worsens food crisis in poverty-stricken Haiti

Drought worsens food crisis in poverty-stricken Haiti

The World Food Program sounded an alarm Friday over arid conditions in northwest Haiti that have worsened an already dire food shortage in this impoverished country. "The situation is worrying,"…

Western biological warfare in Africa: Mali reports three suspected Ebola cases

Mali said Thursday it had detected three suspected victims of Ebola, the deadly disease that has killed 84 people in Guinea. "Three suspected cases of haemorrhagic fever have been detected…

Their end has arrived and they’re trying to trick Africa into a Union with them: France, Germany unveil new partnership at EU-Africa summit

Their end has arrived and they’re trying to trick Africa into a Union with them: France, Germany unveil new partnership at EU-Africa summit

African and European leaders held crisis talks Wednesday on the "terrifying" violence in the Central African Republic, where peacekeepers have been unable to stop a deadly spiral of Christian-Muslim strife.…

There will be no sustainable peace as long as Israel is in Palestine…Kerry scrambles to save his torpedoed Mideast peace effort

There will be no sustainable peace as long as Israel is in Palestine…Kerry scrambles to save his torpedoed Mideast peace effort

US Secretary of State John Kerry was scrambling Wednesday to save his faltering Middle East peace efforts, after both Israel and Palestinians delivered him a stunning slap in the face.…

S. African pupil dies after alleged teacher belt beating

S. African pupil dies after alleged teacher belt beating

A South African teacher is facing a possible murder charge following the death of a student he allegedly beat on the head with a belt, the education department said Wednesday.…

African News: Fear stalks Ebola-hit southern Guinea

African News: Fear stalks Ebola-hit southern Guinea

Life goes on for the people of the Ebola-hit Guinean city of Gueckedou, but their defiance masks widespread terror of the invisible menace stalking their dusty streets. The southern city's…

Africa…Five new Ebola cases in Guinea in 24 hours

Africa…Five new Ebola cases in Guinea in 24 hours

Five new cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been recorded in Guinea in the past 24 hours, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The total number of suspected and…

How can the EU authorize military action in Africa, when she does not have a unified military?….This is a NATO invasion of Africa

How can the EU authorize military action in Africa, when she does not have a unified military?….This is a NATO invasion of Africa

Hundreds of residents of the Central African Republic capital Bangui were still fleeing on Tuesday after an attack in which Chadian soldiers fired into a crowd, killing at least 24.…

African News: South African credit history amnesty takes effect

African News: South African credit history amnesty takes effect

A South African law requiring lenders to erase defaulters' credit history took effect Tuesday despite protests from banks and opposition parties that branded the move as populist vote-buying. Credit bureaus…

Western nations Biological warfare in Africa? Liberia confirms spread of ‘unprecedented’ Ebola epidemic

Western nations Biological warfare in Africa? Liberia confirms spread of ‘unprecedented’ Ebola epidemic

Aid organisation Doctors Without Borders said Monday an Ebola outbreak suspected of killing dozens in Guinea was an "unprecedented epidemic" as Liberia confirmed its first cases of the deadly contagion.…

EU seeks to divide Africa, Sudan says as Bashir denied invite(But this is nothing new)

Sudan on Sunday accused the European Union of trying to divide Africa after the EU refused to invite President Omar al-Bashir to a major summit this week. Bashir is wanted…

Guinea battles to contain Ebola as death toll rises

Guinea battles to contain Ebola as death toll rises

Guinea raced Sunday to contain a spiralling Ebola epidemic spreading from its southern forests to the capital Conakry, as the death toll rose to 78 and neighbouring Senegal closed its…

Guinea battles to contain Ebola as Senegal closes its border

Guinea battles to contain Ebola as Senegal closes its border

Guinea kept up its efforts on Saturday to contain an Ebola epidemic which has killed dozens spreading from its southern forests to the capital Conakry, as neighbouring Senegal closed its…

(Video Incl.)It’s hard for them to give up their prey. — French, UK, and USA Troops to Africa

(Video Incl.)It’s hard for them to give up their prey. — French, UK, and USA Troops to Africa

Greetings, It’s hard for them to give up their prey. They have ruled Africa under colonial imperial dictates for some time now and they refuse to go back to Europe…

103 Ebola cases registered in Guinea as deadly virus hits capital, neighboring states

103 Ebola cases registered in Guinea as deadly virus hits capital, neighboring states

Greetings, 103 Ebola cases registered in Guinea as deadly virus hits capital, neighboring states Photo: EPA Guinea’s capital Conakry was on high alert on Friday after a deadly Ebola epidemic…

Ebola ‘a regional threat’ as contagion hits Guinea capital

Guinea's capital Conakry was on high alert on Friday after a deadly Ebola epidemic which has killed dozens in the southern forests was confirmed to have spread to the sprawling…

Mugabe to boycott EU-Africa summit after wife not invited

Mugabe to boycott EU-Africa summit after wife not invited

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe will boycott next week's mammoth EU-Africa summit after his wife was not invited, a foreign ministry official said Friday. "We are no longer going to the…