Who is Going to Crash the Summit? As the 64th U.N General Assembly meeting winds down, international attention has shifted from New York to Pittsburg in Pennsylvania. So, the talk of “crashing the party” by protest groups and movements gains another level of attention. The talk about nuclear disarmament, global climate change, and the world…
Photos:One.org The ONE organization, a grassroots campaign organization against extreme poverty and preventable diseases, is asking leaders of the G20 nations, now meeting in Pittsburg, to hold the next G20 summit in Africa. Today, the organization sent out an email asking everyone to take action and pressure these leaders to hold the next G20 meeting…
Africa in the mix: The G20, Africa and the U.N Photos: MCC, the U.N and G20.org This week, leaders from around the world began gathering in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. This gathering, now routine for the U.N., has been taking place since 1945 when the U.N was founded. It…
Rocky Mountain News to publish final edition on Friday, according to The Denver Post. As if we have not already had enough of this trend, the announcement Thursday that the Rocky Mountain News will publish its final edition Friday did not come as a complete shock. At least, some of us thought the Rocky would find…
U.S. President Barack Obama has called it “the worst financial crisis in our life time.” You can call anything you like; the crisis of a generation, the trickle-down effects of the sub-prime mortgage lending mess, or whatever, but the global financial crisis is hitting not only the United States but all countries around the world. It may…
At a meeting of the 12th ordinary session of the assembly of the heads of state and governments of the African Union (AU) on February 2, representatives elected Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as the new AU chair. Gaddafi’s role as chair would be to help set and implement the AU’s agenda during the period for which…
In yet another setback to bringing lasting peace to Zimbabwe, Reuters News Service reported Monday that there is a deadlock in negotiations between the ruling ZANU PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change(MDC) on the terms of implementation of the September 2008 power-sharing agreement. Both sides are currently at a regional summit to…
These days, all roads lead to Washington, where senator Barrack Obama will be inaugurated on January 20 as the 44th president of the U.S. The expectations of what Obama will do for Africa are high. Whether Africa will gain from an Obama presidency or not is the subject of much chatter on many African blogs,…
The interesting news being reported by from Bloomberg News is that beleaguered Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has agreed to a constitutional amendment that will create the posts of a prime minister and two deputy prime ministers in Zimbabwe. The plan is that Movement for Democratic Change(MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai will become prime minister, if current…
Vote for Africa’s own Yohaness Gebregeorgis as CNN hero of the year. This story has not filtered much into the local media in Colorado but I take this opportunity to bring it up. After reading about Yohannes Gebregeorgi’s story many times, I am now compelled to do something about it. If you have heard all the commercials…
