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Rwanda’s President Says He’ll Run For A Fourth Term And Doesn’t Care What The West Thinks about it

on September 20, 2023

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NIGERIA: SLAVERY IS NOT AN OPTION.

on September 20, 2023

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Speaker McCarthy Is Running Out Of Options To Stop A Shutdown As Conservatives Balk At A New plan

on September 18, 2023

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Biden White House Strategy For Impeachment Inquiry: Dismiss. Compartmentalize. Scold. Fundraise.

on September 13, 2023

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Republicans call for impeachment inquiry into Biden – a process the founders intended to deter abuse of power as well as remove from office

on September 12, 2023

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An Attack On Democracy, From Racial Voter Suppression To Invalidating Elections Altogether

on August 30, 2023

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An Assault On American Democracy And Our Responsibility To Stop It

on August 28, 2023

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Biden Is ‘old,’ Trump Is ‘corrupt': AP-NORC Poll Has Ominous Signs For Both In Possible 2024 Rematch

on August 28, 2023

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Mug Shot Of Donald Trump During Speedy Booking At Atlanta Jail Shows Scowling Former President

on August 24, 2023

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The Backslide Of Democracy In West Africa

on August 24, 2023

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EXPLAINER: Why Is A Police Raid On A Newspaper In Kansas So Unusual?

on August 14, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: Biggest Takeaway: The Health Of Our Democracy Requires A Restoration Of Our Press

on August 03, 2023

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Rwanda’s President Says He’ll Run For A Fourth Term And Doesn’t Care What The West Thinks about it

FILE — President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame walks along Downing Street to a meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in London, Thursday, May 4, 2023. Rwanda’s president says he will run for a fourth term next year and declares that “what the West thinks is not my problem.” President Paul Kagame made the announcement in an interview with the French-language publication Jeune Afrique published on Tuesday, Sept. 19. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file) BY IGNATIUS SSUUNA AND CARA ANNA KIGALI, RWANDA (AP) — Rwanda’s president declared he will run for a fourth term next year, saying that “what the West thinks is not my problem,” after the United States and others criticized the earlier lifting of term limits to extend his rule. President Paul Kagame made the announcement in an interview with the French-language publication Jeune Afrique published Tuesday. The 65-year-old Kagame has been president since 2000 and was declared the winner of the previous election in 2017 with more than 98% of

Keeping Your Cool In A Warming World: 8 Steps To Help Manage Eco-Anxiety

BY KAREN MCGRUDER In a world facing environmental challenges unprecedented in human history , it’s no surprise that eco-anxiety – a pervasive worry about the current and future state of our planet – has become an increasingly prevalent mental health issue. As people witness the devastating impacts of climate change , deforestation and loss of biodiversity , it’s only natural to feel overwhelmed and disheartened . I happen to live in Phoenix, Arizona, a “ heat apocalypse ” city with dwindling water supplies , so I have some skin in the game. But amid doom-and-gloom predictions, there is hope. As a therapist and clinical social work professor, I have seen firsthand how paralyzing eco-anxiety can be, and I’m dedicated to finding solutions. Here are a few evidence-based tips to tackle your climate woes. What is eco-anxiety? Eco-anxiety is a broad term that encompasses dread about environmental issues like pollution and disposal of toxic waste, as well as climate-specific fears, such

Genocide Fears In Darfur Are Attracting Little Attention − Have Nations Abandoned Their Responsibility To Protect Civilians?

BY MIKE BRAND Mass atrocities are once again plaguing the people of Darfur, Sudan , with talk of a genocide taking place. Twenty years after genocide began in the region, recent conflict and targeted violence have forced over 5 million people to flee their homes across Sudan in just five months. In Darfur, non-Arab unarmed civilians have been hunted down and massacred, according to eyewitnesses and survivors. Women and girls have been subjected to systematic rape, sexual violence and trafficking . With genocide and crimes against humanity once again taking place and so little international attention, one wonders if the international community has completely turned its back on a decades-old commitment to protect civilians from mass atrocities, known as the “ responsibility to protect .” I’m an adjunct professor of genocide studies and human rights at the University of Connecticut , and the question of how the international community should confront genocide is an issue my students

NIGERIA: SLAVERY IS NOT AN OPTION.

BY PROF. PAT UTOMI This is a freedom manifesto for the captured people of Nigeria offered in autobiographical form… I invoke the Spirit of Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jnr, and Nelson Mandela in calling for isolation of the captured State in Nigeria with sanctions as we called for under Abacha… I shall commit to a non-violence resistance to the usurpation in Abuja even as I insist that Nigeria is more deserving of invasion to restore democracy than Niger is. Beginning from age 17 as an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria I have rallied resistance against injustice. My early cry for doing things right peaked with my calling out students at UNN to protest police killing of University of Ibadan Student, Kunle. Given the emotions of the times when UNN students lost three years as they watched friends and family die like chicken while UI students were in class during the Civil war was a hard sell. But we joined forces with Bassey Ekpo Bassey and founded the Students Democrat

Mexican President Defends Inclusion Of Russian Military Contingent In Independence Parade

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A contingent of Russian soldiers march in the annual Independence Day military parade through the Zocalo of Mexico City, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Monday defended the participation of a contingent of Russian soldiers in a military parade over the weekend. The presence of the Russian contingent in the Independence parade Saturday drew criticism because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine . Mexico has condemned the invasion but has adopted a policy of neutrality and has refused to participate in sanctions as it continues to buy 2020-vintage COVID vaccines from Russia. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador noted that a contingent from China also participated, and said that all the countries Mexico has diplomatic relations with were invited. López Obrador acknowledged the issue became “a scandal,” but attributed it to his ongoing spat with the news media, which he believes is against him. “The Chinese wer

Bidenomics: Why It’s More Likely To Win The 2024 Election Than Many People Think

BY CONOR O'KANE Joe Biden has come out fighting against perceptions that he is handling the US economy badly. During an address in Maryland, the president contrasted Bidenomics with Trumpian “MAGAnomics” that would involve tax-cutting and spending reductions. He decried trickle-down policies that had, “shipped jobs overseas, hollowed out communities and produced soaring deficits”. Changing voters’ minds about the economy is one of Biden’s biggest challenges ahead of the 2024 election. Recent polling data suggested 63% of Americans are negative on the US economy, while 45% said their financial situation had deteriorated in the last two years. Voters are also downbeat about Biden. In a recent CNN poll , almost 75% of respondents were “seriously” concerned about his mental and physical competence. Even 60% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning respondents were “seriously” concerned he would lose in 2024. This appears a great opportunity for Donald Trump. He’s the clear favourite am

Sickle Cell Disease Can Be Deadly, And The Persistent Health Inequities Facing Black Americans Worsen The Problem

BY DIANA J. WILKIE The pain from a heart attack is so bad that – if you can imagine – it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of pain begins before their first birthday and continues intermittently for a lifetime. Too often these people receive inadequate help managing their pain, a critical health disparity that persists 113 years after sickle cell disease was identified . I am a professor of nursing , and my research focuses on managing pain in sickle cell and cancer patients. I also am a member of the Lancet Haematology Commission, which recently published a report showing paths forward toward worldwide health equity for patients with sickle cell disease . Here are some key challenges and opportunities I have seen for helping sickle cell patients cope with this disease. The biology of sickle cell disease Sickle cell disease results from genetics – more specifically, the

Libya Was Mired In Chaos And Corruption. For Years, Warnings The Derna Dams May Burst Went Unheeded

Victims of the flash flood are buried in Derna, Libya, on Sept. 15, 2023 BY SAMY MAGDY CAIRO (AP) — The warnings were clear but went unheeded. Experts had long said that floods posed a significant danger to two dams meant to protect nearly 90,000 people in the northeast of Libya . They repeatedly called for immediate maintenance to the two structures, located just uphill from the coastal city of Derna. But successive governments in the chaos-stricken North African nation did not react. “In the event of a big flood, the consequences will be disastrous for the residents of the valley and the city,” Abdelwanees Ashoor, a professor of civil engineering, wrote in a study published last year in the Sabha University Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences. The warnings came true in the early hours of Sept. 11, when residents of Derna woke up to loud explosions before floodwaters pounded the Mediterranean city. They found that two dams had broken, unleashing a wall of water two stories high th

Biden Exhorts World Leaders At The UN To Stand Up To Russia, Warns Not To Let Ukraine ‘Be Carved Up'

President Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations Assembly in New York, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) BY AAMER MADHANI AND SEUNG MIN KIM UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden made his case before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the world must remain united in defending Ukraine against Russian aggression, warning that no nation can be secure if “we allow Ukraine to be carved up” as he tries to rally support for Kyiv’s effort to repel a nearly 19-month-old Russian invasion that has no end in sight. The U.S. president called on world leaders to not let support for Ukraine diminish, arguing that Russia is counting on countries to grow tired of prolonged conflict in Kyiv which will “allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence.” Russia alone is standing in the way of a resolution, Biden argued, saying that Moscow’s price for peace was “Ukraine’s capitulation, Ukraine’s territory and Ukraine’s children.” “I ask you this: If we abandon the core principles o

UN experts say Ethiopia’s conflict and Tigray fighting left over 10,000 survivors of sexual violence

A Tigrayan refugee rape victim who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray sits for a portrait in eastern Sudan near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, March 20, 2021. U.N.-backed human rights experts say that war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace deal signed nearly a year ago to end a devastating conflict that also engulfed the country’s Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence — mostly women and girls. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File) BY JAMEY KEATON GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace deal signed nearly a year ago to end a devastating conflict that has also engulfed the country’s Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence — mostly women and girls. The experts’ report, published on Monday, comes against the backdrop of an uncertain future for the team of investigators who wrote it: The U.N. Human Ri

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: 2015: Leadership and Sins of Nd'Igbo

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: BIAFRA: Relative Discourses

I signed up because I had little experience in Africa, after having served in the United Nations forces in Congo. Also upset about what happened in Biafra and Czechoslovakia, I did not want to stand next to and just watch.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: JULIUS KPADUWA

The problems that confront Imo State are really not unique. It is the same problem that confronts almost every state in Nigeria, and it's one of economic development. The primary thing or my clear vision for the people of Imo State will be getting all the able-bodied men and women back to work, so that we can begin to have the quality of life that has so far eluded the people of Imo State.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Where We Met

But seeing a Nigeria headline on my screen it then occurred to him I must either be a Nigerian or perhaps a curious minded fellow who is reading to find out about the notorious Boko Haram, if they have captured more of their victims, or if there's an ongoing battle between the insurgents and the nation's security forces. Elevating my head up and starring at each other, I told him I was Igbo

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Otokoto Saga Interview

Now, the main question is about eleven year old Ikechukwu Anthony Okonkwo whose head was found dripping with blood with the convicted murderer Innocent Ekeanyanwu on a police tip-off inside a traveling commercial bus at Eziama in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE AMBROSE EHIRIM-CHIKA UNIGWE INTERVIEW

Every writer has to be able to live in the head of her characters. I had to make myself a blank blackboard for the characters to inscribe their lives on me. I had to wipe off that board every time a new character had to be created and totally surrender myself to that new character.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: THE SYLVESTER MENSAH STORY

The idea of writing a book had always engaged my thoughts based on reflections and the desire to share my experiences. The motivation was however triggered after reading the book of a gentleman l consider the busiest in Ghana, H. E. John Dramani Mahama

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: DR. APOLLOS NWAUWA

Contrary to what many think, the Igbo Diaspora is not really a homogenous, coherent group. Like other ethnic nationalities in the USA, the Igbo Diaspora consists of peoples from all walks of life separated by everything and only united by the fact that they are all Igbo. Serious social class disparity exists between them; therefore, presenting a united front in influencing or engineering actions at home continues to be a challenge.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: OZO'S KENI SAINT GEORGE

It was indeed a very boisterous, purpose driven, well-to-do Royal family. I come from a lineage of Royals and a well groomed family unit. My Father, Chief George Ozuloke, was a Court Judge for all of 18 years. He was both a Christian and Animist. He had 7 wives of which my mother was the first. I went to St. Martins Primary School and later to a wonderful School – Abbot Secondary Grammar School in Ihiala, my town. I even did a stint in Ihiala Seminary trying to be a Catholic Priest

Sovereign National Conference: A Symposium

A sovereign nation is born when, out of civilization, any such populations of human assemblage pledge loyalty and confide their trust to a governing body which they elect to oversee to their security, welfare and yes, to their happiness. The ensuing system of governance thrives and becomes sustainable by the wishes of the people whose interests it caters for.

ARETHA FRANKLIN (1942-2018)

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In the fourteen years of said democracy, things that never happened in the past - the way it had now turned out - started happening at an alarming rate and spooky by its nature.......Click on image to read full story

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