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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: Plato.
Wise men’s old sayings are often just as applicable today. Plato’s words could just as well have been Nostradamus’ predictions and description on...
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The viability of an effort endorsed by the United Nations to halt the trading of the so-called blood diamonds that have fueled conflicts across Africa is on the line...
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I was going through my emails and came along a photo of a dying kid who has gone for days without food and is short of some energy to even cry, the only reachable...
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South Africa’s winning bid to host the 2010 World Cup wasn’t much of a contest. The bid was confined to Africans nations since the continent is the only one...
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As the Ukraine and Thailand became more aware of Western opportunities, more distant places are still ready to send their poor and...
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Deputy PM, Israel Minister for Nuclear Energy and Intelligence Dan Meridor had confirmed PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow, taken place during ten hours on 7...
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Champion Caster Semenya, ‘is hermaphrodite’was factully stated in these pages by M. Kerjman:
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Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that “significant” rainfall has lashed the...
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A forty-old Muscovite begs doctors to back his little brother’s size to original 15 centimetres as a 25cm appendage distracted females.
“If we could, we would...
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Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia’s capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study.
Africans...
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Italian coastal patrol vessels were searching the Mediterranean today for the bodies of 73 African migrants believed to have died on a dinghy that ran out of fuel...
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Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty, often in shanties dwarfed by fire-belching...
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Up two flights of stairs in a musty apartment in central Madrid is where an African man with a face as white as chalk has placed his hope for the future.
In early...
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Anyone who has ever worked at the States Department will tell you that by just inviting them to the White House, some African leaders will hand over to you the key to...
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The Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamonds” informed a whole generation of moviegoers how illicit trading in diamonds fuels oppression of native people in...
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It was Brazil’s President Lulu da Silva who remarked that while it was the blue eyes and blond of the Western world, it was the brown people whom were paying the...
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Engaging in selling and buying products and services while in africa is a nightmare! Most of the big E-commerce websites like paypal still do not allow users in these...
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This recession might just make a visit to Timbuktu more attractive than usual. As the rate of the pound edges closer to Euro parity, demand for exotic holidays could...
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Kampala — TRAGEDY struck Pader district yesterday when seven family members were burnt to death by a bush fire in Ojile village in Pajule, Aruu county.
The seven...
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“I put a lot of salt in the vegetables when I am cooking to limit my children from eating a lot.” These are the words of a woman trying to feed her...
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The election of Barack Obama as President of the US continues, as with what is happening all over the world, to be a hot subject in the Angolan press.
I was among a few...
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This route, the myth goes, is the descent into dictatorship, the free-fall into hunger and poverty and the collapse of institutions such as an independent and vigorous...
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The political events in South Africa over the last week have been historical –- a relatively ’smooth’ change of presidency without bloodshed in Africa! No doubt...
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THE future of the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), better known as the Scorpions, South Africa’s special unit fighting organised crime and corruption, has...
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It is difficult to ignore the dramatic events in Zimbabwe. I am frequently asked by overseas colleagues and visitors: Why would South Africa escape the fate or even...
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