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Spoof Predictions for 2010 and Beyond

Bill Baker | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Goldman Sachs, George Soros, Predictions, Fidel Castro, Usps, United Nations, West Africa, Financial Crisis, Joe Lieberman, Al Gore, Israel, Cuba, Global Warming, Gold, Politics News
Bill Baker

With levity the object, we provide herewith an implausible alternative to the usual fare from the financial establishment, which disturbingly seems possible in these unsettled political and economic times.

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The Sway Machinery Seeks to Connect Disparate Worlds at The Festival in the Desert

Modiba | Posted 12.18.2009 | World

Read More: West Africa, Global Music, Sway Machinery, World Music, Music, Mali, World News
Modiba

by Marc Gabriel Amigone The Touareg people, nomads from the south of the Sahara in Northern Mali, West Africa, have a longstanding tradition of comi...

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Guinea Rapes, Killings Cause "Deep Outrage", Says U.S. State Dept

Reuters | 55 Mins Ago | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: West Africa, Sexual Violence, Rape, Guinea, Guinea Attacks, Guinea Rape, Africa, Guinea Rapes, Guinea Rapings, Rapes, Guinea Raped, Rapings in Guinny, World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United States has "conveyed deep outrage" to the government of Guinea over a violent military crackdown on a protest rally la...

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Judge To Decide If 9-Year-Old Liberian Refugee Will Stand Trial In Arizona Rape

AP | By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 11.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Rape, Attorney, Crime, Children, Camelview Elementary School, Liberia, Dawn Bergin, 9 Year Old, Boys, Arizona, Teacher, Judge Bergin, Phoenix, Teens, Africa, West Africa, West Phoenix, Liberian Boys, Teacher Testimony, Art Merchant, Judge Dawn Bergin, Toya Abrams, Liberia Refugee, Refugees, Shed, Home News

PHOENIX (AP)-- A 9-year-old boy charged in the gang-rape of an 8-year-old Liberian girl sobbed in court Monday as his teacher testified that he rarely...

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West Africa: Flooding Claims 187 Lives, Says UN

AFP | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: West Africa, Sierra Leone, Natural Disasters, Ghana Flooding, Africa, West Africa Flooding, Ghana, Sierra Leone Flooding, Foreign Affairs, World News

DAKAR (AFP) Flash floods have claimed 187 lives and affected 635,273 people in west Africa since the rainy season started in June, the UN Office for t...

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221 Missing After Sierra Leone Boat Capsizes

AP | CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: West Africa, Sierra-Leone, Africa Sierra Leone, Africa, Sierra Leone Boat Capsize, Sierra Leone Africa, Sierra Leone Boat, Sierra Leone, Boat Capssizes, Shenge, Freetown Sierra Leone, World News

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — More than 200 people, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays, were missing and feared dead Thursday, a d...

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Floods Hit 350,000 In West Africa: UN

AFP | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Natural Disasters, Natural Disasters Africa, Guinea, Burkina Faso, West Africa Natural Disasters, Africa, Ghana, West Africa, Flood Deaths, Senegal, Floods Africa, Niger, Benin, Africa Deaths. West Africa Floods, World News

Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that "significant" rainfall has lash...

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Why Africa Matters

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaeda, China-Africa Relationship, US Africa Relations, Democracy, Guillaume Soro, Cote D'Ivore, Democracy in Africa, Al Qaeda, Laurent Gbagbo, Al Qaida, Africa, West Africa, Somalia, China, Cote D'Ivoire, World News
Rev. Jesse Jackson

We ignore Africa at our peril. The African continent will only become more important in the future, and the whole world has a stake in what happens there.

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Obama Ghana Trip: 10,000 Police To Be Deployed

AP | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: West Africa, Obama in Ghana, Africa, Ghana, Ghana Obama, Accra, Obama Cape Coast, Obama Ghana, Obama Accra, World News

ACCRA, Ghana — Authorities in Ghana say they will deploy more than 10,000 police in this West African nation to boost security for President Bar...

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Hollywood, Bollywood and now Nollywood

Lola Olley | Posted 04.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: West Africa, Nollywood, Independent Film, Nollywood Foundation, Nigeria, Dvd, Nigerian Film Industry, Film, Cinema, Emeka Mba, Entertainment News
Lola Olley

After the United States and India, West Africa has become the birthplace of the world's third largest film industry in terms of production.

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Cocaine Smuggling To Europe Increasing From West Africa

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

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VIENNA — Cocaine smuggling to Europe is dramatically increasing through West Africa, posing a substantial threat to the stability of a region al...

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Global Cocaine Trade Moves Into West Africa

GlobalPost.com | Tristan McConnell | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: West Africa, Globalpost, West Africa Drug Money, Africa, Ghana, Un Office on Drugs and Crime, West Africa Cocaine, Ghana Cocaine, Ghana Drug Trade, Cocaine, Cocaine Trade, World News

ACCRA, Ghana -- West Africa is an unlikely center for the international cocaine trade. It is not a producer of the drug nor is it a consumer, as the...

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Lansana Conte: Political Turmoil After Death Of Guinea's Leader (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: Africa Democracy, West Africa, Guinea, Africa, Africa Politics, Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare, Military Coup Guinea, Video, Lansana Conte, Death of Lansana Conte, Conte, Guinea President Lansana Conte Video, Lansana Conte Video, Lansana Conté, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Huffington Post Coup, Lansana Conte Guinea Video, Guinea Leader Dies Vedio, World News

Scroll down for video, photographs, country profile Update: 12/24 3 pm: The leader of the military group that claims to have staged a coup in Guine...

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Guinea: Military Group Says No Elections For 2 Years

AP | ABOU BAKR and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: Guinea Leader, Conakry, Lansana Conte, West Africa, Guinea, Africa, National Council for Democracy and Development, Military Coup Guinea, Guinea Troops, Guinea Military Coup, Guinea Coup, World News

CONAKRY, Guinea — The leader of a coup in Guinea and several thousand soldiers paraded through the capital Wednesday as cheering crowds screamed...

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Traveling Through West Africa With President Clinton

Mark Leon Goldberg | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Foundation, Malaria, Clinton Foundation, West Africa, Liberia, Bill Clinton Africa, Politics News
Mark Leon Goldberg

At a public ceremony with President Clinton that included a number of Liberian politicians, the President announced a new Clinton Foundation sponsored anti-Malaria program for the country.

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