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Africa: Why Are World Leaders Turning Their Backs On the Continent?
[OSI] The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the most important and effective financial facility addressing AIDS. It has saved and prolonged millions of lives. Yet at this precise moment when the global community should be doing all it can to support the Fund, it is under the most serious assault it has endured in its ten-year history.
South Sudan: Juba Looks South to Export Oil
[African Arguments] Across South Sudan demonstrations have been held in support of President Salva Kiir's decision to shutdown its 350,000-barrel daily oil production.
Rwanda: ICC Rejects Aisha Gaddafi's Request to Submit Information
[Hirondelle] The Hague - The International Criminal Court has rejected Aisha Gaddafi's request to submit information about her brother Saif al-Islam, stating it was "misplaced" and contrary to court procedures."

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Nigeria: IMF role in fuel subsidy removal?
IMF role in the recent fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria No matter how the Nigerian present economic team chooses to shade, equivocate or obfuscate it, International Monetary Fund (IMF) played a significant role, if not an upper hand in the removal of fuel subsidy in the poverty stricken Nigeria. It is no longer news neither is it a surprise that IMF has been interested in the removal of fuel subsidy since 2009. The evidence to this assertion has been...
President Obama Boosts Al Green's Sales Almost 500 Percent
Obama's singing of 'Let's Stay Together' at Apollo Theater last week upped sales of iconic 1972 hit. Sure, clean energy, the return of manufacturing, a boost in education spending and saving the domestic car industry are awesome ways to revive the American economy. But another tactic President Obama might consider is more singing. Because a week after the falsetto singer-in-chief unleashed his version of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together"...
Nigeria: Attacks in Kano and Bauchi State
Press Statement Victoria Nuland Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC January 24, 2012 The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in the city of Kano and Bauchi state in Nigeria over the past several days. We extend our condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of this senseless violence. We call for a full investigation of the attacks and for those responsible to be held accountable. This...
AFRIPOL PERSON OF THE YEAR: ELON MUSK
ELON MUSK: AFRIPOL PERSON OF THE YEAR Elon Musk is the co-founder and CEO of Pay Pal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors and Chairman of SolarCity. Elon Musk, a South African immigrant to United States is an African success story. Born and grew up in South Africa during days of Apartheid. Musk, a young man of great vision and emerging intellectual rejected the Apartheid system and migrated to North America to pursue his dreams and visions. "Musk was born and...
Pictures - Nigeria's Christmas attacks claims 25
Nigerian Blasts Mar Pope's Christmas Peace Appeal Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas pleas for peace around the world were brutally ignored in Nigeria, where an explosion Sunday claimed by Muslim extremists ripped through a Catholic church during Mass. Authorities say at least 25 people were killed by the explosion at the St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, near the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Boko Haram, a radical Muslim sect waging a sectarian fight...
Pictures - Shell biggest oil spill in Nigeria
Nigeria coast braces for biggest oil spill in 13 years Nigerian authorities were putting emergency measures in place on Thursday to prevent an oil spill from a Royal Dutch Shell facility, the biggest leak in Nigeria for more than 13 years, washing up on its densely populated coast. Tuesday's spill, which Shell said happened while a tanker was loading oil, has led to the complete shutdown of the company's 200,000 barrel per day (bpd) Bonga facility,...
Dim Ikemba Ojukwu in Pictures
Images of a GREAT African- Ojukwu "The death at the age of 78 of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, former leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra, removes a charismatic, larger-than-life figure from the Nigerian political scene. Although deeply controversial in his lifetime, he will be missed in Glimpse at Martin Lurther King Memorial
The celebration of the Civil Right Icon: late Rev. Martin Luther King "The memorial sits on the National Mall between memorials honoring Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. It includes a 30-foot (9-meter)-tall sculpture of King and a 450-foot (137-meter)-long granite wall inscribed with 14 quotations from his speeches.The sheer size of the sculpture of King sets it apart from nearby statues of Jefferson and Lincoln, which are both...