Racist attitudes lie deep within the Russian psyche and are growing even worse now, said Aleksandr Brod, director of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau, a private group that monitors discrimination. The driving force, he said, is the proliferation of white-supremacist skinhead groups, which enjoy widespread support and are fueled by nationalist political groups and publications.
There are now some 200 nationalist publications around the country with racial overtones, he said. In parliamentary elections earlier this month, a dozen parties campaigned on extremist nationalist agendas, with considerable success.
"There were students inside banging on the glass, calling for help," he said. "I took a close shot of the hands banging on the glass, and then their hands just went down the glass, sliding like that, and they were gone."The university, which now has 12,000 students, opened as Patrice Lumumba University in 1960 to serve students from countries the Soviet Union supported in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Although the fire is officially described as an accident, most minority students are convinced that it was arson. They say that for weeks, both before and after the fire, bomb threats forced students into the cold streets during the class day or in the middle of the night.
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THE STEEP PATHS OF DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA - Legitimacy of the State and ethnic solidarities
vs.
Unyielding Contempt of Nationalities - "House Negroes", the Black Africa’s Wreckers
WAR AND TERRORISM
If there is anybody happier today, it is Saddam Hussein. As Iraqis are being killed daily by the hundreds along with young American soldiers, the lesson that is imposing itself is that Iraq was safer under Saddam's dictatorial regime.
The Reagan administration -- like many former republican administrations before it in Congo with Mobutu, in Haiti with Duvalier, and in other countries with similar dictators - created the monster Saddam Hussein by supplying him
with the means of terror he utilized to terrorize Iranians and his own people.
For Private Grasping Interests, Ruling Rightwing Hardliners Get Thousands Americans and Iraqis Killed
Other Americans who tried to oppose the war on Iraq were threatened, blackmailed, labeled "Them", Anti-American, anti-patriots, terrorists, sympathizers of the French; until no evidence was found that Saddam possessed any WMDs or was a threat.
Our newsroom was not less subject of such threats. Read more
BLACK CIVILIZATION
in Antiquity News and Egypt Antiquity
with daily evidence of the anteriority of African civilization. Especially works of Cheik Anta Diop and of Moustapha Gadalla at Tehuti.Org, or know about the Edwin Smith Papyrus
EGYPT BELONGS TO AFRICA
by Conrad W. Worrill at NBUF
3 AM MAGAZINE
BBC News 03/28/2004
Former Rebels Call for President's Resignation after Killings
Black Population Terrorized by Both Arab Raids and Local Rebel Lootings
Concern over the Plight of
African Migrants
Why Must We Demand the Restoration of President Aristide?
Legal Process Should Not Be Trumped by Political Disagreements
The white House's international allies or henchmen, from Saddam Hussein to Ossana bin Laden, are proven to have become the U.S. worst enemies. But yet the U.S. administration is not eager to stop creating further similar threats to the American people. In Haiti or Venezuela, the support given armed gangs to destabilize the democracy - that the Caribbean people demand and strive to build - would sooner or later end up, like in the Middle East, into an anti-American sentiment and terrorism in the Caribbean.
Michael Jackson's Lost Treasures -- His Loss, Our Loss
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Africa
* Eastern Africa
* Southern Africa
* Central Africa
* Western Africa
* Northern Africa
* Algeria * Angola
* Benin * Botwana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi * Cameroon
* Cape verde
* Central African rep
* Chad * Comoros
* Congo Brazza * Congo DRC
* Cote d'Ivoire
* Djibouti * Egypt *
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea * Ethiopia
* Gabon * Gambia
* Ghana * Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Kenya * Lesotho
* Liberia * Libya
* Madagascar * Malawi
* Mali * Mauritania
* Mauritius * Morocco
* Mozambique * Namibia
* Niger * Nigeria
* Reunion
* Rwanda
* Sao Tome & Principe
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* South Africa
* Sudan
* Swaziland
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* Western Sahara
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe
Congressional Black Coucus Press Release
It is time to impose our African values into American federal and state laws. Black Americans should claim the right to polygamist marriage and the polygamist marriage certificate, the abolition of the laws that only recognize a one- or two-parent family, and a total revocation of all administrative laws and rules that award public assistance only to single parents.
An Open Letter of Ramsey Clark to the UN Secretary Koffi Annan
At this very moment when the Republican White House imposes its decision to export the American democracy, notably to Iraq, it is troubling to find out that the American political system itself is undemocratic. The allegations of electoral frauds and the court sentences that enthroned George W. Bush as the American president in 2000, the policies of lies, deception and empire building adopted in defiance of the people’s opinion, and the circus currently unfolding during the 2004 election campaigns, show nothing less than an absence of democracy in the U.S.
Muslim fundamentalist uprising raises fears of terrorism
Policeman gets 17 years for killing French journalist
ABIDJAN, 22 January (IRIN) - A military court in Cote d'Ivoire jailed a policeman for 17 years on Thursday for the murder of a French journalist who was shot dead at point blank range while he waited outside police headquarters to interview a group of detainees who were about to be released.
18 killed as ethnic clashes continue in ''Wild West''
'Cold Mountain' freezes out black history in Civil War
An article published by
San Francisco Chronicle
Government Gets First Payment of Oil Exports
History will record that the country of the Americans was the target of barbaric and deadly terrorist attacks on September 2001. Unfortunately the leadership of that most powerful country in the world was the poorest ever, lacking the ability to find the appropriate responses to the growing use of terror by way of political language. The White House tenants composed of Christian fundamentalists and far right conservatives excelled in stupid decisions, creating the actual dangerous threat Americans would face in the future decades.
National carrier grounded, top officials dismissed
Presidents of Nigeria and Ghana see progress to resolve crisis
Russian tanker seized with suspected stolen oil
LAGOS, 22 October (IRIN) - Nigeria is holding a Russian ship and its 22 crew members for carrying 11,300 metric tons of crude oil suspected to have been stolen from the southeastern oil-rich Niger Delta region, the navy said on Wednesday.
French journalist shot dead by policeman
ABIDJAN, 22 October (IRIN) - Jean Helene, the correspondent of Radio France Internationale (RFI) in Cote d'Ivoire, was shot dead by a policeman on Tuesday night while he was waiting outside police headquarters in Abidjan to interview 11 political detainees who were about to be
released, a French embassy spokesman said.
"Kondengui is a hell… The big hold-up men are mixed with simple pickpockets. When they come for the first time for vagrancy, they come back the next time for murder. They are creating vagrants and criminals at Kondengui." Former head of Radio television Siantou (RTS) channel tells his martyrdom at the central prison of Yaounde. Read More
Robert Baer, former CIA agent publishes a book in French. Intervew with RFI
Exodus From Fighting Around Totota Continues
Read more
“Jeremy Binnie, Middle East editor of the Jane's Sentinel Security Assessments magazine, said protecting expatriate workers from suicide attacks was very difficult, and the focus must be on capturing the terrorists before they can carry out further atrocities” . "It is greatly more secure, housing foreign workers in compounds, but how do you stop a jihadi (Muslim militant) truck bomb or suicide attack?" Binnie asked. "Short of putting up heavy machine gun posts, it is really tough. It is better to be proactive in hunting down the bad guys." However, the big guys in Washington lack funding to achieve Binnie’s dream. Instead, the additional $80 billion the Congress awarded the Bush administration last month will be expensed, not for any war on terrorism, but for “weapon procurement”, for more wars, leading to increased hatred, anti-American sentiment, and terrorism.
The Dirty Work of ELF Business in Africa before Courts
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