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CAMEROON Amnesty International charges government of murders In late February 2008, members of the security forces killed as many as 100 civilians, some of whom were involved in riots that erupted in many major towns, including the capital, Yaoundé, in Cameroon. The people were demonstrating against escalating cost of living, low wages, and plans by the government to amend the constitution and remove a provision that bars President Paul Biya from standing as a presidential candidate in 2011. Photographs that Amnesty International has seen suggest that some of the victims were shot in the head at point blank range and could therefore have been arrested. Amnesty International is concerned at the killing by prison guards of at least 17 prisoners, on the 29 and 30 June 2008, at New Bell prison in Duala, Cameroon.

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PILLARS OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION 1- Communalism Community not only defines the individual but also especially acts as her/his support and guide throughout an existence otherwise known as tumultuous and often perilous. The smallest, but also the most significant community is family. For the community to play its essential role of protection and guide of the individual, African Wisdom prescribed fundamental rules based, not on Human Rights, but especially on Human Duties, some of which were taken up in late 1222 by the Mandé hunters in their Charter as follows: "Each one should take care of her/his fellow Man, Each one should venerate her/his parents, Each one should educate his/her children, Each one should provide for the needs of her/his family members… Each one should take care of the lands of her/his fathers. By Fatherland, country, or lands of the fathers, It is necessary to also and especially understand people…” African Civilization celebrates Humans Rights only when each one respects these Human Duties, retranslated for some, still in the Mandé Charter as the Islamist slavery yoke drew to a close in the Mali, as follows: "… Each one has from now on her/his self-determination Each one is free of her/his acts In the respect of the interdicts, of the laws of the Fatherland” African communalism is to be opposed to Western individualism. Solutions to the individualism’s incalculable misdeeds in contemporary society are generally found in the African Wisdom that had inspired the Western Civilization, in Communalism.

WORLD How to Solve Africa's Food Crisis The little that is left of domestic food markets in Africa is ruined by the inflow of cheap or free food aid. Africa can feed its own people—the problem is that it has never been allowed to try to succeed.

US farm bill "too little, too late" for developing world Concern Worldwide chief executive Tom Arnold told IRIN: “[The farm bill] is not going to help the situation on food aid nor will it help to make any deal in the World Trade Organization talks more likely. Overall, from a development viewpoint, it would have to be seen as a setback.”

CAMEROON – NIGERIA Interview with the group claiming responsibility for the attack that killed 21 soldiers “General” A. G. Basuo: “force will meet with force” if Cameroon decides an all-war to control Bakassi “The (11/12/2007) attack was MEND… if you want the proof, just wait for the next two to three weeks for another attack.”

African Media CAMEROUN Postnewsline NIGERIA Vanguard Punch Guardian Financial Standard Daily Independent Biafra Nigeria World GHANA Ghana News Accra Mail The Chronicle Graphic Showbiz Ghanian Newsrunner SOUTH AFRICA The Mercury City Press Mail & Guardian Independent Online Cape Times Daily News The Herald Sunday Times Society News NAMIBIA The Namibian ZIMBABWE Daily Mirror Daily News Independent The Standard ZAMBIA Zamnet The Post LIBERIA The Analyst News Connection News KENYA Daily Nation Kenya Times UGANDA The Monitor New Vision

What if this group were in the pay of the Cameroonian government which, after the embarrassing, additional recent attack, desperately needs to show a group as the responsible for the 11/12/07 attack ?

U.S. – MOCK JOURNALISM Questioning the coverage of Iraq and presidential candidates It appears that perhaps this industry has forgotten what it is supposed to do when a multi-year congressional investigation concludes that a sitting president sent the U.S. military to kill hundreds of thousands of people, create irreparable environmental damage and cause millions to flee to neighboring regions, in addition to the thousands of Americans who lost their lives and the tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of wounded troops whose lives will never be the same.The media doesn't seem to think this is one of the biggest stories in modern history.

USA – KENYA OBAMA FATHER’S TRAGEDY FIGHTING JOMO KENYATTA Long-lost article by Obama's dad surfaces Obama senior, who returned to Kenya after his Harvard years, soon became a public critic of Kenyatta’s growing favoritism toward the Kikuyu tribe...the paper takes a gently mocking tone to the Kenyatta government’s key, controversial statement of economic policy, titled “African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya.” Kenyatta said... because he could not keep his mouth shut, he would not work again until he had no shoes on his feet,”

CAMEROUN Biya Crowned President For Life Troops Deployed To "Enforce" Amended Constitution Opposition Accused Of Striking Deal With Gov't The Social Democratic Front, SDF, and the Cameroon Democratic Union, CDU, have been accused of striking a deal with government over the recent constitutional amendment. Fru Ndi, who had earlier said at a press conference that his party could not champion the struggle to pre-empt Biya's life presidency, later recommended a constitutional conference when the rest of the country was against any amendment of the 1996 Constitution.

USEFUL LINKS 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 AFRICANA STUDIES by Dr. Manu Ampin

The Republican Peril: Dialectic for Democratizing Sovereignty (Paperback) by Ndzana Seme Amazon.com Paperback format: $22.95 iUniverse Paperback format: $22.95 iUniverse Adobe online read only format: $6.00 (save 74%) Barnes & Noble (soon)

The Republican Peril:  Dialectic for Democratizing Sovereignty (Paperback) by Ndzana Seme (Author) Amazon.com Paperback format: $22.95 3 used & new from $18.22 iUniverse Paperback format: $22.95 iUniverse Adobe online read only format: $6.00 (save 74%) Barnes & Noble (soon} Editorial Reviews Book Description This book spotlights the dangers republics bring to world societies. Far from being models for their values extolled as freedom, individualism, and rule of the law, contemporary republics are demonstrated to be as many oligarchies dominating defenseless and unorganized people. Is freedom, just like rule of the law, a luxury or a public good that everyone can enjoy? Are individualized people more or less likely to participate in political activity? Who is actually exercising sovereignty when "people's representatives" preferably serve the interests of their corruptors? Well known, falsely obvious responses do not satisfy many other similar questions about republicanism. The book shows how aristocracies perpetuate traditions of shadow rule and string pulling behind republican leaders, councils, and political regroupings. Their ruling members implement secret oaths and evil philosophies, impoverishing societies and steering countries into wars, terrorism, and mass destructions. Analysis of the Order of Skull and Bones, with offshoots such as both Bush presidents, shows how and why aristocratic secret fraternities produce political and business devils. Finding ways to democratizing the exercise of sovereignty may be a necessity, not a question of choice.

THE STEEP PATHS OF DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA - Legitimacy of the State and ethnic solidarities vs. COMMUNAL FEDERALISM Unyielding Contempt of Nationalities - "House Negroes", the Black Africa's Wreckers WAR AND TERRORISM

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