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In the aftermath of President Barack H. Obama’s whirlwind tour of Ghana this July, Ghana’s Information minister, Ms. Zita Okaikoi, was reported to have caviled the state-run Ghana Television (GTV) for woefully failing to capture […]

Nairobi, 11 September, 2009— Ugandan police have used excessive force during clashes with rioting supporters of a local monarch in which at least 10 people died, according to a human rights watchdog. The clashes erupted […]

So far, the one major American social critic and commentator who has constructively put the Gates-Crowley Affair into perspective is Frank Rich, the longtime theater reviewer for the New York Times. In an article poetically […]

Two weeks after the fact, many quite prominent Americans – writers and intellectuals – continue to weigh in on the Gates-Crowley Affair. The latest of one such major contributor is Mr. Bob Herbert, columnist for […]

Niamey, 3 August, 2009— Threats and warnings continue to be traded by supporters and opponents of a constitutional referendum scheduled for 4 August, which has put hundreds of millions of aid dollars in doubt – […]

A lot of thoughts run through my mind as I watched the key players in the July 16, 2009 Cambridge, Mass., domestic arrest of the renowned Harvard University professor that was widely beamed around the […]

Rome, 31 July, 2009— The humanitarian air service run by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is struggling to keep its planes flying in parts of Africa due to a dramatic shortage of funds. The […]

I was not the least bit unamused when the legendary Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was recently shown on television handcuffed by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police. It was actually the alleged crime for […]