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It is not enough to promise, we must act to #endAIDS

December 2, 2016 Global Author#endAIDS, Dr Ishwar Gilada, Drug resistant TB, Mahatma Gandhi

(CNS): Mahatma Gandhi had once said, “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning”. Gandhi’s thought resurfaced after listening to Dr Ishwar Gilada, President of AIDS Society of India (ASI). He could not have been more sincere in demanding… Read More

Decision Makers Middle East

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: To Where?

December 1, 2016 Global AuthorDr. Alon Ben-Meir, Isaac Herzog, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian Authority, President Abbas, Yesh Atid led by Yair Lapid

The following presentation is one I have just made in front of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs as part of a hearing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The two other speakers who joined me are French Special Envoy Pierre Vimont and Fernando Gentilini, EU Special Representative to the Middle East Peace Process. Thank you so much for giving me… Read More

Leaders OP-ED

SAINT FIDEL CASTRO OF AFRICA

November 28, 2016 Global AuthorAlgeria’s Ahmed Ben Bella, Angola’s Agostinho Neto, Castro is Saint, Congo Kinshasa’s Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, Guinea’s Sekou Toure, Kwame Nkrumah, Mehdi Ben Barka, Mozambique’s, Nelson Mandela, Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere

From standing up for African liberation to fighting against western imperialism, Fidel Castro is to Africa what Saints are to the Catholic Church. For many in the west, especially the United States of America, Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba who passed way this weekend at the tender age of 90, is a tyrant in the league of Adolf… Read More

Ex-Presidents Leaders

The funeral rites of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz (Aug 1926 – Nov 2016)

November 26, 2016 Global AuthorFIDEL CASTRO DEAD, Fidel Castro Ruz

CUBA, 26 November 2016 .- The Organizing Commission of the Central Committee of the Party, State and Government for the funeral rites of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, informs the populace that as of 29 November, from 09:00 until 22:00, at the José Marti Memorial, the population of the capital may present themselves to pay their respects in tribute… Read More

Decision Makers Ex-Presidents Leaders

Fidel Castro, Cuba’s longtime revolutionary leader, Friend to Africa Dead at 90

November 26, 2016December 1, 2016 Global AuthorFIDEL CASTRO DEAD, Nelson Mandela

Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader, respected in many African Countries, friend to Nelson Mandela who famously proclaimed after his arrest in a failed coup attempt that history would absolve him, has died aged 90. and YES to the Chagrin of US, FIDEL CASTRO will be mourned today. Castro’s brother and the nation’s President of several years, Raul, announced his death… Read More

Ex-Presidents

Mandela and Fidel: What is not being said

November 26, 2016December 1, 2016 Global AuthorANC, CIA, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, South Africa

THE death of Nelson Mandela has precipitated a torrent of interpretations on his life and work, all of which present him as a disciple of pacifism and a kind of Mother Teresa of South Africa. This is an essentially incorrect, and premeditated, image, promoted to obscure the fact that after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, the African National Congress (ANC)... Read More

Lifestyle OP-ED

Prophetic Christianity and its ‘Doom-contents’ in Africa

November 25, 2016 Global AuthorLesego Daniel of Rabboni Ministries, Lethebo Rabalago, self proclaimed pastors, self-proclaimed prophet, South Africa, South Africa’s Commission

The image of a South African pastor spraying his congregation with a pesticide called Doom during a ‘healing session’ has sparked a wave of outrage on the social media. This self-proclaimed prophet, Lethebo Rabalago, heads a church called Mount of Zion General Assembly in Limpopo province. A member of his congregation had an eye infection and he used the insecticide… Read More

Biographies Central Africa

Rwanda Government demands Malawi extradite Vincent Murekezi accused of Genocide

November 25, 2016 Global AuthorEmmanuel Vincent Murekezi, extradite Murekezi., Fautsin Nkusi, Rwanda Genocide, Rwandan National Prosecutor, Vincent Murekezi

LILONGWE: Barely a day after Malawi government through the Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security cleared a Malawian of Rwandan origin Vincent Murekezi of having a no hand in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, authorities in Rwanda have declared that the man is indeed a genocide suspect hunted by the government. The Rwandan National Prosecutor, Fautsin Nkusi, confirmed to Malawi’s… Read More

Decision Makers Southern Africa

Malawi bucks trend says it will remain in International Criminal Court (ICC)

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 Global AuthorAfrican Union Members, International Criminal Court (ICC), Malawi, Mia Seppo

BLANTYRE: Malawi government to the chagrin of many African Union Members, has received much applause from the international organization for making a decision to remain a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at a time many African countries are withdrawing their membership from the body seen as biased against them. According to the Maravi Post the government officially communicated… Read More

Decision Makers Leaders World

United Nations, US election 2016 reveal deep gender divides

November 24, 2016 Global AuthorBarack Obama, former Prime Minister of Portugal., HE Mr. Antonio Guterres, UN Elections, United nations, US election, US President

Progress doesn’t follow a straight line. It zigs and zags, and sometimes it moves forward and sometimes it moves backwards or moves sideways. I am a firm believer that ultimately it moves in the direction of justice, and more prosperity, and more freedom, and more inclusion. — Barack Obama, US President, November, 2016 Read More

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