Special To The Black Star News August 20,2018 0  New York Attorney General Underwood. Photo-ag.ny.gov New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood led a new brief in her lawsuit to block the Federal Communications Commission’s illegal rollback of net neutrality, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to vacate and reverse the FCC’s order. Underwood leads a coalition of 23 attorneys general in the lawsuit, which filed earlier this year. “A free and open internet is critical to New York – and to our democracy... | Barbara Crossette August 20,2018 0  Kofi Annan. Photo-un.org Kofi Annan, possibly the most beloved UN secretary-general, died on Aug. 18, 2018, at age 80, in Bern, Switzerland. After he left the UN in 2006, he joined The Elders, a group that uses diplomacy to resolve intractable problems. THE ELDERS Kofi Annan, the seventh and probably the most popular and widely respected secretary-general the United Nations has ever known, died unexpectedly in Bern, Switzerland, early on Saturday morning, Aug. 18. His death... | Uganda: Calls for Global Sanctions on Regime by Amsterdam & Partners, U.K firm Retained by Bobi Wine Special To The Black Star News August 20,2018 0  Ugandan dictator Gen. Yoweri Museveni. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, an opposition Member of Parliament of Kyadondo East constituency in Uganda who is most widely known as the pop musician “Bobi Wine,” has retained the international law firm Amsterdam & Partners LLP following his violent arrest on August 14, 2018 while campaigning in the North Western town of Arua following clashes with ruling party cadres. “Mr. Kyagulanyi’s arrest was not only a politically motivated act of... |
Colin Benjamin August 20,2018 0  Omarosa continues exposing the Swamp man and bigot-in-chief. Photo Gage Skidmore--Flickr. Former senior White House adviser Omarosa Manigault-Newman's book title “Unhinged” perfectly characterizes the contemptible conduct of the current racist resident of the White House; his schizophrenic tyrannical tendencies represent “a clear and present danger.” Manigault-Newman is proving to be a major headache for Donald Trump. Her recordings are further unmasking his White House as what... | Amii Omara-Otunnu August 19,2018 0  Main page picture shows Robert Kyagulanyi and family. Smaller picture shows him with wife, Barbara; a.k.a Barbie. Photos--Facebook. Success Museveni envies and resents. The brutal assaults on, and incarceration in military barracks of, Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, by Uganda military and police forces on August 13, 2018 marks a watershed in the country’s politics and might be the beginning of the end of Gen. Yoweri Museveni's... | Marc Morial August 17,2018 0  Ron Dellums. Photo--wikimedia.commons [Tribute To A Justice Fighter] From the outside looking in, my interest in public service may appear preordained. I grew up during the height of the civil rights movement. I was as familiar with the names and achievements of civil rights heroes as sports fans are of their favorite teams and players. I was raised by activists. My father, Ernest “Dutch” Morial, who served as the first African-American mayor of New Orleans, and my mother,... |
John Muto-Ono p'Lajur August 17,2018 0  MPs heading for remand to Gulu Central Prison inside a prison lorry “We call for the unconditional release of our colleagues arrested in Arua. We also urge religious leaders, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the International Community to join us in the struggle of ending the violations of human rights” “As a country, we have to put our foot down and say enough is enough. An attack on one of us is attack on all of us. Uganda belongs to all of... | Mamadou Niang August 17,2018 0  Samir Amin. Photo: Flickr-Karie-Sofi Jenssen [Tribute] Samir Amin, the prominent African scholar of development economics has died in Paris on August 12, 2018. He was 86 years old. His death triggered a wave of reactions on social networks, from politicians, economists and alumni alike. Abandoning the sacrosanct institution of private property in preached in Western orthodox "liberal" economics and envisioning another socio-economic system has been at the core of the... |
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The Ebola crises in West Africa is another occasion where the whole world gets to see inept leadership in many African countries.
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