Tag: africa
member name: Savo Heleta
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April 11, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Blogcritics Magazine on April 10, 2008
For me, Nelson Mandela is a hero, a saintly figure, a role model.
In contrast, the United States government still considers . . .
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November 06, 2008 09:22 AM EST --
How could the Republicans pick someone like Sarah Palin to run for for vice-president? Really, she has no knowledge or qualities to be a politician on a national or international stage.
According . . .
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October 04, 2009 02:42 PM EDT --
Greetings from Juba and South Sudan!
I arrived in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on Saturday, October 3, and will stay here for seven days.
Since March 2009, I'm working on South Sudan Executive . . .
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June 13, 2008 05:18 PM EDT --
Written by Savo Heleta
Published in Blogcritics Magazine on June 13, 2008
For decades, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Libya was regarded in the West as a pariah state and one of . . .
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March 08, 2009 10:30 AM EDT --
The British are angry. Their prime minister, Gordon Brown, traveled all the way to Washington and Barack Obama couldn't take a few days off to entertain him and give him some nice presents.
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July 01, 2009 07:52 AM EDT --
The Rwandan Parliament is currently discussing a draft law which would "require the sterilization of all individuals with intellectual disabilities."
Human Rights Watch said the proposed law was . . .
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June 06, 2009 04:56 AM EDT --
Over the last few decades, God has reappeared around the world as a "political sidekick, ready to justify whatever is required."
This very accurate statement is from a book titled "The Collapse . . .
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September 02, 2009 04:49 AM EDT --
As a white person living in South Africa for a number of years, I find the recent decision by the Canadian immigration board panel to grant Brandon Huntley, a white South African man, refugee status due . . .
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January 24, 2009 08:36 AM EST --
As one of the leading Nigerian newspapers, Vanguard , reported in a front-page article on Friday, the police in the Nigerian Kwara state detained a goat as an armed robbery suspect.
According . . .
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December 14, 2008 07:24 AM EST --
"I am happy to say that we have arrested cholera," said Robert Mugabe in a televised address to the nation on Thursday, December 11, and added that now there is no need for the . . .
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August 16, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
Kimani Nganga Maruge, Kenya's and world's oldest primary school pupil, has died at the age of 90.
He held the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to start primary school at the age . . .
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August 26, 2009 02:01 AM EDT --
60,000 children die in South Africa annually, according to a new report released this week.
As the Mail and Guardian writes , "some of the major causes of childhood death listed in the report include . . .
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January 13, 2008 02:16 PM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Sudan Tribune on January 13, 2008
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25558
What is wrong with Africa? Why is the largest number of failed . . .
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January 05, 2009 08:39 AM EST --
On December 31, 2008, the United Press International published an article by Martin Sieff , titled "2008 in review: The 'lost' stories the media missed."
In the article, Sieff writes . . .
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June 25, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
Last night's 2-0 victory over the European champions Spain is seen as the greatest win for the United States soccer team since they beat England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup .
At the same time, this is . . .
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April 25, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
African dictators, tyrants, and alleged war criminals are very likely to regret the April 2009 election victory of the African National Congress and its president, Jacob Zuma, more than the South African . . .
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June 05, 2009 08:46 AM EDT --
For years now the humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa and probably the world.
Yet hardly anyone cares about this.
The issue of Somali piracy, however, has recently attracted global . . .
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June 20, 2009 06:36 AM EDT --
No, I'm not talking about a war.
I'm talking about football, or as it's known in America, soccer.
North Korea has recently qualified for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. The United States . . .
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August 02, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
Lives of people in the small southern African country of Lesotho are being endangered so the people in America and Europe can get cheaper jeans.
A factory in Lesotho that makes jeans for Gap and Levi . . .
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May 22, 2008 05:57 AM EDT --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Blogcritics Magazine on May 21, 2008
Poor townships and informal settlements around the South African city of Johannesburg exploded in xenophobic violence two weeks . . .
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