Korean Geologist Discovered Diamond Deposits
A Korean geologist has recently discovered massive diamond deposits in Cameroon, central Africa. The discovery draws particular attention as the reserves in the areas of Mobilong and Limokoali are presumed to reach 736 million carats, equivalent to five times the world's annual total diamond production.
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Obama expands health agenda, but not funding
At a time when many Americans are preoccupied with the economic crisis on their doorsteps, President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve US$63 billion for global health over the next six years.
Indictment of Anti-Castro Militant Could Boost U.S.-Latin Ties
U.S. to Lift Some Cuba Travel Curbs
SCNC Claims Met with Denial, Contempt and Terror
A State that is embodied by individuals like Ahmadou Ahidjo and Paul Biya is not the kind of State the Southern Cameroons people can stand. Nor can French speaking Cameroonians stand the neocolonial State. There may be serious concerns that the SCNC elite so active in advocating secession, drafting constitutions and equating Southern Cameroons to Kuwait with a jealous eye on the Bakassi oil reserves may fight only to get their own individual share of the “national cake” within the plutocratic class currently ruling the country, and just using English speaking, ordinary people as their voting cattle; in which case they would just be incubating another neocolonial nightmare. Though, the facts show that they hold and have made a legitimate case.
Pensylvannia judges accused of jailing kids for cash
For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that lasted only a minute or two, and then sent off to juvenile prison for months for minor offenses.
The explanation, prosecutors say, was corruption on the bench.
In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.
BLACK CIVILIZATION
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EGYPT BELONGS TO AFRICA
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AFRICANA STUDIES
by Dr. Manu Ampin
Qaddafi, as New African Union Head, Will Seek Single State
President Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya was named chairman of the African Union on Monday, wresting control of a body he helped found and has long wanted to remake in his pan-African image.
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Dissent violently repressed in Cameroon
Security forces quelling demonstrations against the rising cost of living and low wages in Cameroon, February 2008.Cameroon's government has routinely used killings and torture to repress political dissent, according to a new Amnesty International report.
Corruption in State Services of Transportation, case of Meme
This is, among so many cases of abuses by Cameroonian authorities all covered with impunity by Paul Biya’s Regime, a typical case of corruption and embezzlement of public funds. Whether a law exists or not in the domain, any public official holding any kinds of power would create his/her own fief with arbitrary rules aimed at building individual fortunes. The power to arrest an individual or to seize a property is the ultimate means to the office holder’s access to any wealth desired. This is because the appointment of a public official by Paul Biya is always a reward for the beneficiary’s demonstrated support to his regime either in terms of defrauding elections or of voicing indefectible support to the head of State and combat against the opposition. Such a public official considers his/her public position as his share of the “national cake.” Obviously to achieve his/her ends, innocent individuals are terrorized, brutalized, harassed, and constrained to pay taxes and charges according to the office holder’s whims and greed.
THE STEEP PATHS OF DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA - Legitimacy of the State and ethnic solidarities
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COMMUNAL FEDERALISM
Unyielding Contempt of Nationalities - "House Negroes", the Black Africa's
Wreckers
WAR AND TERRORISM
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