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GUINEA Public misery behind support for Guinea coup, says ex-PM Guinean soldiers who seized power this week in a bloodless coup won the support of ordinary citizens because they were mired in poverty despite late president Lansana Conte's 24-year reign, a former premier said Sunday.

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SOUTH AFRICA Miriam Makeba dies after collapsing on stage Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for more than 30 years under apartheid, died after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76...

CAMEROON 'Limbe Pirates' Captured In Another Bank Robbery SONARA, SCDP, Songloulou Electricity Site Targeted . Cameroonian Ministers, Nigerian Network Implicated.The network comprises a huge Nigerian group working in tandem with and sponsored by some Cameroonian ministers and other highly placed government officials. CAMEROON-NIGERIA Bakassi's displaced in flux, peninsula vulnerable "People who said they are from Bakassi may have come from other parts of Cameroon and Nigeria that historically at one point was a part of Bakassi, and while historically correct, the contemporary outline of Bakassi is different; people [in Cameroon] may have thought they could qualify for housing they heard Nigerian authorities were reserving for the displaced, or Nigerian authorities themselves report higher numbers in an effort to get more funding from the federal government."

U.S. – ELECTION 2008 Obama’s Administration Likely to be Superpowerful Building upon his community organization experience, Barrack Obama has successfully established an unprecedented grassroot organization.

Democratic candidates for the open seats in the House and the Senate have been duplicating Obama’s field strategies on the local level and using excess money from the Obama’ presidential campaign to compete. Those Democratic candidates are poised to give Democrats a very strong majority in the House and Senate, which would grant the Obama administration filibuster-proof powers to implement all Obama policies.

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

AFRICA – U.S. – MALARIA The Winnable Eradication Battle Presidential candidate Barrack Obama is committed to eradicating malaria in Africa and in poor countries within the next seven years. Bill Gates, through his Bill & Melinda Gates

Foundation, on the track of many other non profit organizations, is currently pursuing the same goal in Africa, after successful tests in Mozambique. Estimate for malaria eradication in Africa is about $9 billion a year for two or three decades to make and distribute the necessary vaccines, drugs and equipment, notably insecticide sprayed bed nets. It looks like Obama’s challende is winnable if ever he is successful engaging the Congress and the U.S. to support his initiatives. For, it appears that both new insecticides and vaccines are the way to go for a total eradication of the disease in the world. The U.S. had won the battle between 1947 and 1951 mainly through DDT insecticide sprays on home walls and fields. Insecticide sprayed bed nets carry the promise of a similar result.

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UNITED STATES Obama’s Plans to Fight Poverty in Africa Is it legitimate to think that Barrack Obama as President of the United States would dissociate himself from Africa and behave instead like prior European American Presidents who have been privileging Western interests over African interests in their foreign policies? Even fellow Democrats may hate him

Obama’s strongest commitment is eliminating the malaria disease within the next seven years, which will be achieved through two important projects: the Small and Medium Enterprise Fund and the Health Initiative 2020. He is committed to a goal of an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He will embrace the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015 by fighting corruption, which he will make a human rights issue. Obama believes that terrorism and poverty have ties. His other commitment is that he will work to erase the global primary education gap by 2015 by establishing a two billion dollar Global Education Fund. He has demonstrated a passion to help indigent people, on the footsteps of his father and his mother. Yet African skeptics still warn that Obama is not one of theirs.

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

U.S. - ELECTION 2008 Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft' A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office.

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