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Victory for the Egyptian People: Mubarak Steps Down!

The dictator has fallen, let peace prevail!

(SALEM / CAIRO) - The people have done the unthinkable- they have toppled the presidency of Egypt.

The Maghreb Revolution; Is It Also an Indictment on Globalization?

Propping up a regime like Hosni Mubarak’s without a serious attempt at reforming it should not have been undertaken after Shah Pahlavi of Iran.

(UGANDA) - The recent string of revolution in North Africa reawakened a vicarious revolutionary spirit in many of us.

Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant. Our commitment to one another, to human rights, and the ability to learn should always keep us connected no matter the severity and complexity of problems.

17-Years in Jail for One Woman Journalist, Seven Years for Another

The two women have been detained since last July.

(RWANDA) - Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the pigheadedness and cruelty of the Rwandan judicial system.

An extremely long jail sentences was just handed down to two women journalists, Agnes Uwimana Nkusi, the editor of the privately-owned bimonthly Umurabyo, and Saidath Mukakibibi, one of her reporters.

How Discrimination Saved Me From the Queensland Flood

I cannot resist thanking the bigoted and racist Australian officials for discriminating against me and my family thus unwittingly sparing us from being surely displaced again.

(DARFUR) - While nature has expressed her anger towards mankind, no phenomenon has set me glued to the TV like the deluge in Queensland, Australia.

Despite hearing of similar other disasters in my lifetime or even having been amidst one, the catastrophe in Queensland is the second one to captivate me next to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, United States.

Haiti and The Earthquake? What About War In The Congo?

65% of the rapes in the Congo involve girls, and 10% were under the age of 10.

(CLEVELAND) - As the world pauses to observe the tragedy in Haiti, it also makes sense to pay attention to what is taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; home of the world's bloodiest war since World War II.

Here, people have buried more than 30 times the number of people killed in last year's earthquake in Haiti.

Africa: Faces in Words

Important insights from last week, not to be missed...

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant.

Fiftieth Anniversary of U.S. Orchestrated Assassination of Congo`s Patrice Lumumba

We will never know what would have happened in the Congo or Africa or elsewhere if he had survived. But the United States saw to it that he never had a chance.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Émery Lumumba. This Congolese independence leader and legally elected PM of the Republic of the Congo helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960.

Ten weeks later, the US helped orchestrate a coup of Lumumba's government. Lumumba was then imprisoned and murdered.

Man Becomes `One With Snake` Survives Cobra Bites

"When I am bitten by a cobra it is nothing for I become one with the snake. That is why I do not die" - Snake man

(CHICAGO) - Of all the countries I've traveled, and all the people I've met, few experiences have been as intriguing, thought-provoking, and frankly, as disturbing, as my chance encounter in West Africa with a man I only knew as the "snake man."

While in West Africa during 1999 I spent three weeks in the country of Ghana. Ghana is what remains of what was once a great African empire known as the Ashanti.

In Defence of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Petition criticizes mislabeling of one of the world's greatest peace leaders...

(TEL AVIV) - Tutu's life has been lived in the spirit of "never again" - the ultimate lesson of the Holocaust.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has publicly criticised Israeli policy towards Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank. He has also criticised Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians. These criticisms are well-known.