Egypt's political storyteller Gulf News | Were it not for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who signed Naguib Mahfouz to join her growing repertoire of developing world writers at Doubleday, few English-readers would have discovered the Arab Honoré de Balzac. Though a widely-read author in Egypt and the Arab world, his political contribu...
Britain sends South Africa 42m condoms in HIV fight before World Cup The Guardian | • Host nation has one-in-five rate of HIV/Aids among adults | • Plea for an extra billion condoms before football fans descend | A teenage prostitute holds on to her one remaining condom as she waits for a truck driver to pick her up at one of the many truck stops on the main road from Cape To...
Nigeria: Explosions Heard During Amnesty Talks The New York Times | Filed at 6:39 a.m. ET | LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Twin explosions rocked a government building in Nigeria's restive and oil-rich Niger Delta region Monday, only minutes after a militant group promised to attack amnesty talks being held there, a govern...
SAfrican Youth Leader Convicted of Hate Speech The New York Times | Filed at 5:52 a.m. ET | JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A court has found the youth leader of South Africa's governing party guilty of hate speech. | The Johannesburg Equality Court convicted ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on charges of hate speech ...
Political Levers Lock Into Gear Early in Election Year The New York Times | CAIRO — Egypt’s parliamentary elections are still months away, but the arrests have already started. Related | Times Topic: Egypt | The authorities have locked up hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a routine signal that vote...
Feature: Cheapening Nkrumah's name and image Joy Online It seems that quite a number of people now agree that Ghana's first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, deserves the recognition he was given and continues to be given in Ghana especially over the past one year, for what he did for Ghana and Africa. | The ...
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State Visit Revives a History of Stereotypes The New York Times | As the gilded, horse-drawn carriages processed down the Mall and through the gates of Buckingham Palace, escorted by equestrian guards bearing swords, most Londoners were probabl...
Mandela's ex-wife denies interview The Boston Globe | JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela's former wife denied yesterday that she had given an interview to a British newspaper in which she was quoted sharply criticizing the antiapartheid icon. | The London Evening Standard had quoted Winnie Madikizela-Mande...
Winnie vs Nadira: what did happen? Independent online | Next » 1 2 | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has broken her silence and denied saying that Nelson Mandela sold out to the whites and that Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is a cretin. | "I did not give Ms Naipaul an interview," Madikize...
Pacquiao's Challenger Clottey Follows in Footsteps of Warriors The New York Times | ARLINGTON, Tex. — Even here, with Saturday’s welterweight title fight in Cowboys Stadium, with nearly 45,000 seats sold, with Manny Pacquiao defending his latest world championship, the fight that fell apart looms over the proceedings. ...
Nigeria Urged to Investigate Religious Violence ABC News By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Writer | JOS, Nigeria March 9, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press | A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo Nahawa village, about 15 km (9 miles) to the... A woman cries during a funeral for victims in the Dogo Nahawa village, about 15 km (9 miles) to the capital city of Jos in central Nigeria, March 8, 2...
McEwan, Vargas Llosa headline Hay literary festival Jan. 28-31 in sultry Cartagena Star Tribune | BOGOTA - Colombia's colonial port of Cartagena intoxicates the director of Britain's Hay Festival literary franchise, whose fifth annual gathering in the Caribbean city's walled ramparts takes place next week. | "The parties in Cartagena are lavish and joyful. There's something thrilling about dancing with new ideas in your head all day, the...
