By Nvasekie Konneh July 23,2017 0  Candidate Brumskine. Photo-Facebook. [Commentary] For most part of the 1990s during its civil war Liberia was a basket case of violence, child soldiers, sexual violence, mutilation of war opponents, and so on and so forth. Billions of dollars worth of properties were destroyed and more than 200,000 people were killed and tens of thousands of Liberians sought refuge in many parts of the world, including the U.S. After a decade of war the first free and fair... | Amii Omara-Otunnu July 24,2017 0  Gen. Museveni--after 31 years and failure on major yardsticks what's left to market? [Commentary] On January 25, 1986, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his ethnically constituted National Resistance Army (NRA) overthrew the ineffectual military junta led by General Tito Okello, which had itself earlier in July 1985 ousted the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) government under the leadership of Milton Obote, plunging Uganda into unabated... | Eric Kashambuzi July 22,2017 0  Decades after the founding of the Organization of African Unity, now superceded by the African Union (AU), development for continent remains elusive The world is confronted with serious challenges of backwardness, unemployment and underemployment, vulnerability, inequality, insecurity, exclusion, mass poverty and its offshoots of hunger, disease and illiteracy whose solution require an integrated multi-sector and coordinated approach. In search for a... |
By Kwame Nkrumah July 25,2017 0  Nkrumah on the cover of Drum magazine. (Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first prime minister and president wrote this in 1965 as the introduction to his book of the same title. Nkrumah's introduction is more informative than some entire books with respect to the African condition then and now. Read the essay carefully for a better understanding of your country in terms of its relations with itself and the outside world. Several African presidents can readily be identified today from a reading... | New York Sues Trump Administration for Delay in EPA rule meant to protect against Chemical Accidents Special To The Black Star News July 24,2017 0  Schneiderman. Photo-Twitter The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued for illegally delaying a vital rule meant to protect communities, workers, and first responders from dangerous chemical accidents, by a coalition of 11 state attorneys general, led by New York's Eric T. Schneiderman. The rule – the Accidental Release Prevention Requirements or the “Chemical Accident Safety Rule” – makes critical improvements to Congressionally-mandated protections... | Alexandra Jacobo July 23,2017 0  Photo: Epicharmus/Flickr A new report, published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) this week, shows that while wages for American workers have essentially remained stagnant for decades, CEO pay has soared at an “outrageous” clip. A study by the Pew Research Center (PRC) in 2014 found that economic analyses show a “lack of meaningful wage growth.” Looking at five decades worth of government wage data, PRC showed that wages have been flat or even falling since the 1970s,... |
John Muto-Ono p'Lajur July 26,2017 0  Ntagali LAMWO,Uganda--Fourty years after the murder of a revered and courageous priest by Uganda's then notorious dictator Gen. Idi Amin, a church named in his honor will soon be completed. Archbishop Stanley Ntagali of the Province of the Church of Uganda has revealed that the Church is in the final stages to complete the construction of Janani Luwum Church House by the end of 2017, four decades after the project was initiated by the late Archbishop... | By Traci Blackmon July 24,2017 0  Traci Blackmon. Photo-Twitter. [Witness For Justice] Genesis 39:19-20: When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he burned with anger. Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. Over the last couple of weeks I have engaged in civil disobedience in the Senate building on Capitol Hill while speaking out in opposition to the proposed revisions to our nation's... |
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.
That weve reached this dangerous place in the fight against police abuse was...
Last week a New York Police Department officer was suspended after a video emerged showing him kicking a suspect being arrested, now a group of NYPD officers are being investigated for bringing down Sandra Amezquita a...
The Ebola crises in West Africa is another occasion where the whole world gets to see inept leadership in many African countries.
There have recently been many postings on social media critical of the United States for deploying military personnel and medical workers to West Africa in...
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