http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/africa/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:42:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418614/posts It is a vision most mainstream Canadian church leaders can only dream of: Sunday mornings in which parishioners dance and sing through three-hour services. Seminaries overflowing and unable to keep up with demand for pastors as the number of the newly baptized rises. The dream is a reality in such places as Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda, where there is an explosion in Christianity. In the past decade, this demographic surge has started to spill out of Africa, as well as Asia and Latin America, in the form of missionaries to the West, a trend influencing everything from styles of worship... Holy Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418614/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:42:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417422/posts As I read the news this morning that the Copenhagen climate conference had failed to sign a binding treaty to heal the climate by cutting carbon emissions, I felt a growing sense of despair. My despair was not for the benighted climate and unborn humans. Rather, it was for Africans. Here was a brand new reason for African governments to demand financial reparations from the "First World" instead of focusing on how to improve African's capacity to thrive in a world of climate change. The Sudanese UN Ambassador and Chairman of the G-77 (poor and slightly prosperous countries) delegates to... The Timbuktu Next http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417422/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:32:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2415346/posts Religious leaders yesterday condemned homosexuality as they led thousands of Christians in prayers to mark Christmas Day. Bishop of Kampala Archdiocese Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, who led celebrations at Rubaga Cathedral, told hundreds of Christians that homosexuality is immoral and forbidden. “The Catholic bishops of Uganda applaud the government’s effort to protect families and the church teachings remain clear. Homosexuality acts are immoral and evil and are against the divine laws of nature,” he said. He added: “The church condemns homosexuality because we were created in God’s image and we must remain that.”The archbishop attacked donors whom he accused of forcing... The Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2415346/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:44:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416810/posts NOTE: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-take-certain-actions-under-african-growth-and-opportunity Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Proclamations The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 23, 2009 Presidential Proclamation - To Take Certain Actions Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act A PROCLAMATION 1. Section 506A(a)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the "1974 Act") (19 U.S.C. 2466a(a)(1)), as added by section 111(a) of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (title I of Public Law 106-200) (AGOA), authorizes the President to designate a country listed in section 107 of the AGOA (19 U.S.C. 3706)... WHITEHOUSE.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416810/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:11:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416009/posts Not many Nigerians would have summoned the courage to do what Alhaji Umaru Mutallab did by reporting the suspected terrorist tendencies of his son to the United States. When the business mogul suspected the extremist views of his son, he reportedly alerted the US authorities. Considering his towering profile in the corporate Nigeria, many believe Mutullab took a very brave step that many business men of his ilk would not have taken. They would have rather kept quiet instead of making such report that may tarnish his image, business and future political career. However, as fate would have it, that... This Day (Nigeria) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416009/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:05:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416011/posts A Strafford County woman with gastrointestinal anthrax is in critical condition in an out-of-state hospital. State health officials say the infection may have been caused by naturally occurring spores carried in African instruments used at a monthly drum circle at United Campus Ministry at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. The woman is the state's first confirmed case of anthrax infection in more than 50 years. The last cases occurred in 1957, when nine employees of Arms Textile Mill in Manchester were infected. Union Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416011/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:15:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415421/posts It was a Christmas gift to Kenya this week when four northern white rhinos were relocated from the Czech Republic back to the wild in Laikipia. A Boeing 747 transported two males, Sudan, 37, and Suni, 30, and two females Najim, 20, and her offspring Fatu, 9, in containers specially equipped for the tw-tonne animals. They were then driven out of Nairobi to Ol Pejeta Conservancy. The relocation of the four rhinos — half the known population of the extremely rare animal left in the world — is seen as handing them a lifeline. Rhino experts believe that releasing the... Saturday Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415421/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:51:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415225/posts   Anambra 2010: ‘The world is watching Nigeria’ By ZIKA BOBBY Friday, December 25, 2009 Ahead the 2010 governorship election scheduled to hold in Anambra, the international community has focused its attention on Nigeria. Chairman of the Awka Development Union of Nigeria, based in the Netherlands, Obi Ochije, who stated this during a telephone conversation with Daily Sun, said the outcome of that election would determine how the international community sees Nigeria. “Nigerians who are living abroad are all interested in the election billed to hold early next year in Anambra. That is one election that will determine whether Nigeria... Daily Sun Nigeria http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415225/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:25:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415223/posts Envoy decries illegal migration to Holland From Laolu Akande (New York) and Abiodun Fagbemi (Ilorin) POUNDED at home and desperate to keep hope alive, Nigerians are among the top nationalities fleeing their own country and seeking asylum in industrialized nations, according to the United Nations (UN). Meanwhile, the Ambassador Plenipotentiary of Nigeria to The Netherlands, Dr. Nimota Akanbi, has deplored illegal movement of many Nigerians into The Netherlands. Although Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia were three most affected countries, Nigeria was still grouped among the other "main countries of origin of asylum seekers" in mostly western nations as at the second... NGRGuardian News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415223/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:58:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414746/posts It's a safe bet that most of those surprised with diamond jewelry over the holidays did not pause long, if at all, to consider where their new gemstones came from. "Santa's elves" is a good enough answer for most people, and even those who are aware that some diamonds have been known to come from African war zones may not have given the matter much thought this year. "Conflict diamonds," also known as "blood diamonds," are rough stones mined at gunpoint by slaves and prisoners for the enrichment of those holding the weapons. They were a cause célèbre at the... Foreign Policy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414746/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:06:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412633/posts A Ugandan legislator who proposed the highly contested Anti-Homosexuality Bill insists the measure is being misconstrued. "There has been a distortion in the media that we are providing death for gays. That is not true," ruling party MP David Bahati said on BBC. "When a homosexual defiles a kid of less than 18 years old, we are providing a penalty for this." The bill, which is currently being debated by a parliamentary committee, has drawn global attention from gay rights advocates and religious leaders alike, many of whom are condemning the legislation for promoting hatred and handing down severe penalties... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412633/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:49:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411618/posts For the first time, three Al-Qaeda operatives have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking as a means of raising funds to support their terrorist activities. The international terror group has increasingly been turning to this form of activity, although its spread to Africa is a new twist in the pattern, according to evidence gathered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The agency has long been concerned about the group’s ties to the heroin trade in Afghanistan – but according to DEA director Michele Leonhart, the current case reveals a “direct link” between the terror group and drug traffickers... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411618/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:12:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2411078/posts While huge segments of Christendom go apostate by baptizing practicing homosexuality as divinely blessed, Christianity based upon the Bible as divine revelation not to be tampered with is flourishing in Africa. RenewAmerica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2411078/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:16:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410610/posts Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed narcotics and terrorism charges on Friday against three West Africans they identified as associates of Al Qaeda and a related terrorist group. While the United States Drug Enforcement Administration has long maintained that Al Qaeda has been involved in drug trafficking, officials at the agency said the case represented the first time such charges had been brought against people linked with the group. The three men — identified as Oumar Issa, Harouna Touré and Idriss Abelrahman — were arrested on Wednesday in Ghana and flown to the United States on Thursday night, law enforcement officials... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410610/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:07:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410454/posts On this, the last day of the climate change summit in Copenhagen, reports about Africa inadvertently reveal more about the conference's real purpose than dire predictions of future calamity. When it was proposed that $10 billion be allocated to Africa, which boasts about 14% of the world's population and produces only 2% (some say 4%) of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, African delegates raised hell. They even staged a walk-out, which was an empty gesture. The $10 billion verged on the insulting, and speaking for others, Ethiopia's PM Meles Zenawi said $50 billion should be paid by way of compensation... Toronto Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410454/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:13:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409368/posts Copenhagen - Africa has demanded a start-up fund of $10 billion per annum for the next three years to help curb the effects of climate change.Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who is leading the African delegation at the climate change summit in Denmark, on Wednesday said the money would be used to fund, among other things, forestry projects and other ambitious adaptation and mitigation needs. He made it clear to the thousands of delegates attending the meeting that this was not a request but a demand. BUA News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409368/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:12:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409309/posts Entire Eritrean national football team has gone missing after failing to board a flight home following a match in Kenya. Only the squad's coach and one other official arrived back in Eritrea after the team was knocked out in the quarter finals of the CECAFA tournament for east and central Africa. The Eritrean national football team pose for a group photo before the start of the match against Tanzania, at the Nyayo National stadium in Nairobi The twelve players are believed to be hiding somewhere in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where there are tens of thousands who have fled Eritrea's... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409309/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:33:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408761/posts LESBIANS in South Africa are being dragged off the street and raped to "correct" them, it has been claimed. ky News has found evidence of widespread abuse against the lesbian community, resulting in a new trend of so-called "corrective rape." In the the township of Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town, a group of women said they live in fear for their lives. All of them claim to know someone who has been violently dragged off the street and raped because she had come out as a lesbian. " There is always that threat that you are going to... NewsCore http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408761/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:01:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407783/posts Obesity is becoming more common among poor city dwellers in Africa because of easier access to cheap, high fat, high sugar foods, scientists said on Tuesday. Researchers looking at data from seven African countries found the number of people overweight or obese increased by nearly 35 percent between the early 1990s and early 2000s and the rate of increase in obesity was higher among poor people. "Given the chronic nature of most diseases associated with obesity and by extension the huge cost of treatment, the prospects look grim for the already under-funded and ill-equipped African health care systems unless urgent... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407783/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:13:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407085/posts Copenhagen Climate Talks Suspended after Africa Walk Out2009-12-14 15:01:17 Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after the African group withdrew co-operation. African delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by the Danish host government to sideline talks on more emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol. As news spread around the conference centre, about 200 activists responded with chants of "We stand with Africa - Kyoto targets now". It is unclear how matters will proceed now, though informal talks are likely, the BBC reported. Blocs representing poor countries vulnerable to climate change have been adamant that... Novinite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407085/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407021/posts SIRAKANO, Uganda — At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control. "I delivered all these children because I didn't know there was another way," said Adongo, who started on a free quarterly contraceptive injection last year. Surrounded by her weary-faced brood, her 21-month-old boy clutching at her faded blue dress, she added glumly: "I fear we are already too many in this family." (snip) Under President George W. Bush, the United States withdrew from its decades-long role as a global... McClatchy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407021/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:15:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406859/posts One Muslim male was put in a pit, dirt up to his chin, then stoned in the head till dead. Stone sizes are stipulated by the Koran—not too big as to bring quick end. Allah be praised. faithfreedom.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406859/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:15:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406785/posts Call it a stimulus, paying off a debt, but it's time to call it a work in progress. If the Federal Government is going to prop up the richest of the rich, isn't it time to add up the losses that Blacks have incurred during their time in America? Supporters of slave reparations argue that there is no equal opportunity for African Americans nor has there ever been. Systematic discrimination deprived African Americans of equal chances and deserved justice and parity. The clear lack of parity is seen in the recent instances of bailouts for the rich and distain for... The Final Call http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406785/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:14:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406488/posts I have read the media in the past week with splashes like “Uganda puts case at climate change summit” and columnists saying “What do scientists mean when they talk about global warming?” Specifically, one article with such a message as “it’s grassroots activists and not politicians who will influence change” got me thinking about what politicians are doing in Copenhagen. Developing countries, especially the African ones, are seeking inter alia, reparations by developed nations to poor nations, but I can’t help thinking that this entire environmental arena is a grand political theatre. Sound science has been thoroughly corrupted with petty... The Kampala Sunday Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406488/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:20:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405884/posts Note: The following text is a quote: December 11, 2009 286 arrested in ICE's largest ever enforcement surge targeting criminal aliens 2 convicted rapists and armed robber among those captured in 3-day California operation LOS ANGELES - Nearly 300 foreign nationals with criminal records have been removed from the United States or are facing deportation following a three-day enforcement surge in California, making it the biggest operation targeting at large criminal aliens ever carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). During the operation, which concluded late Thursday, ICE officers located and arrested a total of 280 criminal aliens... ICE.gov - News Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405884/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:11:21 GMT