Special To The Black Star News June 22,2018 0  The tremendously talented Super Eagles. If they play timid one more time they will be home enjoying egusi. Nigeria stands at the bottom of Group D in the World Cup tournament but could catapult to second place out of four teams with a win over Iceland today. The Super Eagles last Saturday seemed timid in their opening game with Croatia yielding an own goal by Oghenekaro Etebo and then handing a gift penalty with one of the most irrational fouls ever. All defenders nudge... | Special To The Black Star News June 22,2018 0  Uganda's Museveni. Photo: Facebook. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni should stop making statements that denigrate and threaten the press, and ensure that his government does not take actions that conflate journalism with terrorism or national security threats, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. On June 11, while attending the funeral of ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) legislator Ibrahim Abiriga, Museveni and NRM Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba... | Special To The Black Star News June 21,2018 0  Eric Vassell, father of Saheed Vassell, delivers 20,000 petitions to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office at City Hall. Nearly three months since officers of the New York Police Department ( NYPD) killed unarmed Saheed Vassell in Crown Heights, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization – Color Of Change – joined Vassell’s parents and local community organizations to deliver a petition signed by 20,000 people demanding transparency from Mayor de Blasio. The petition... |
By KfabsKorner June 21,2018 0 By the time I got there, for an OU Alumni event, the evidence remained…..red and white confetti in the streets and pressed up against buildings, a sea of folks donning the colors & an undeniable buzz in the air! It. Had. Happened! For Washington Capitals fans still in disbelief that their team had shaken off the proverbial monkey & captured the Stanley Cup….nothing says seeing is believing, like a parade winding through the streets of your city!! Meanwhile, on the other... | Abdul Mohammed June 21,2018 0  Eritrea's Isseyas Afeworki has not yet responded to Ethiopia's offer. Peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea is needed for the peoples of both countries, and for the Horn of Africa as a whole. Twenty years after the bloody war erupted in May 1998, peace is long overdue. But the starting point for that peace must be a broad vision of our shared history and our common future. At a time when the region faces unprecedented threats from a world order that is turning against the principles of... | Special To The Black Star News June 21,2018 0  Betty in anguish. [Editorial] Ugandans and friends of Uganda are very concerned about the continuous arrests, torture and intimidation of opposition Members of Parliament and activists in particular the regime's campaign against pro-democracy lawmaker Betty Nambooze. Under the... |
Special To The Black Star News June 20,2018 0  Trump. President Zero after signing the Executive Order halting the child-snatching regime of his "zero tolerance" immigration policy. After more than 2,300 children were ripped from their families as undocumented immigrants crossed the borders into the United States since May, President Trump finally abandoned the inhumane regime that has been condemned universally including by Amnesty International. Even Republican lawmakers sensing how... | Malcolm X June 20,2018 0  Malcolm X shown with Oxford Union President Eric Abrahams who was a Jamaican student. Photo: Teresa Stokes-Flickr [From The Archives] Excerpted from Malcolm X's presentation at the Oxford Union Debate on December 3, 1964. Mr. Chairman, tonight is the first night that I've ever had an ... |
Over the last few days, during this observance of the first anniversary of the execution of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, were now hearing chants of Weve got to fight back and We are ready for war.
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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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