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Oil Slick From Massive Spill in Nigeria Threatens Coastline, May Be Largest Spill in a Decade

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 27 (News Report) - Communities along Nigeria’s Niger Delta have been put on alert following a major oil spill from the oil giant, Shell. The massive oil slick is making its way to the Nigerian coast, threatening local wildlife and massive pollution along the shore. Much of the available information about the spill comes from the company responsible for it, Royal Dutch Shell, which says less than 40,000 barrels have leaked so far. But Nigeria’s National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency says the spill could be three times as large. It comes just four months after the United Nations said it would take 30 years and around $1 billion for a small section of the delta to recover from environmental damage caused by Shell and other companies.

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"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks U.N. Summit

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 09 (News Report) - A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic check from the stage -- a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it's done," Appadurai said. "So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep [emissions] cuts now. Get it done." [includes rush transcript]

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At Durban Summit, Leading African Activist Calls U.S. Emissions Stance "A Death Sentence for Africa"

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 06 (News Report) - We continue our week-long coverage from the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 17 in Durban, where negotiators from more than 190 nations are in their final week of key talks on fighting climate change. The future of the Kyoto Protocol is in doubt as is the formation of a new Green Climate Fund. With the talks taking place in South Africa, special interest is being paid to how the continent of Africa is already being heavily impacted by the climate crisis. We speak to Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria and Chair of Friends of the Earth International. He is author of the new book, "To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and Climate Crisis in Africa." “We are still in a situation where the negotiations are being carried out on a big platform of hypocrisy, a lack of seriousness, a lack of recognition of the fact that Africa is so heavily impacted,” Bassey says. “For every one degree Celsius change in temperature, Africa is impacted at a heightened level. This is very much to be condemned.”

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The Road to Durban: Tracking Global Warming's Devastating Impact Across the African Continent

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 05 (Special Report) - For more on the impact of climate change on the African continent and an update on the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 17 talks, we're joined in Durban by John Vidal, environment editor for The Guardian. Vidal has just returned from a journey between Africa's two most industrialized countries — Egypt and South Africa. His route included one of Africa's poorest nations, Malawi — its newest, Southern Sudan — and its hungriest, Ethiopia. He visited some of the continent's most remote tribes in Uganda and Kenya, and coastal areas here in South Africa. For all of these countries, the stakes of what comes out of COP 17 are high. "It was a terrifying journey of reality," says Vidal. "Very little science has been done, but there is absolutely no doubt about the consequences — which are going to be very much hotter temperatures, making it almost impossible to live in many areas, huge effects on the poor people." [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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How the U.S. Government uses its media servants to attack real journalism

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jul. 17 (News Analysis) - Earlier this week, the truly intrepid investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill published in The Nation one of the most significant political exposés of the year. Entitled "the CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia," the article documented that the CIA uses and effectively controls a secret prison in Mogadishu, where foreign nationals who are rendered off the streets of their countries (at the direction of the U.S.) are taken (along with Somali nationals) to be imprisoned with no due process and interrogated (by U.S. agents). Although Somali government agents technically operate the facility, that is an obvious ruse: "US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners" and are "there full-time," Scahill reported.

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Jeremy Scahill Reveals CIA Facility, Prison in Somalia as U.S. Expands Covert Ops in Stricken Nation

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Jeramy Scahill - Jul. 13 (Special Report) - In a new investigative report published by The Nation magazine, independent journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reveals the CIA is using a secret facility in Somalia for counterterrorism as well as an underground prison in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Scahill says the CIA is training a new Somali force to conduct operations in the areas controlled by the militant group, Al Shabab, and in Mogadishu. While a U.S. official told The Nation that the CIA does not run the prison, he acknowledged the CIA pays the salaries of Somali agents.

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Famine in Somalia, Horn of Africa Described as "Worst Humanitarian Disaster in the World"

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jul. 13 (Special Report) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has issued an urgent appeal over the crisis in Somalia, where more than 11 million people are in need of life-saving assistance as they face the worst drought in decades. The United Nations describes the Somali drought as the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, and a top U.N. official Valerie Amos urged the world to make the link between climate change and the drought. The extended drought is forcing an estimated 3,000 people a day from Somalia to neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia. We speak to Yves van Loo in Nairobi of International Committee of the Red Cross in Somalia, who was in Mogadishu just two weeks ago. We also speak to investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill who recently returned from assignment in Somalia.

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Red Cross Provided With Location of Secret Somali Prison Used by CIA

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman - Jul. 13 (News Report) - Democracy Now! correspondent and The Nation investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill provides an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson with the location of the secret prison used by the CIA he uncovered in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, which the Red Cross says it didn't know existed. "There are scores of people that have been held without charge in this basement and some for more than 18 months," Scahill says. "The Red Cross should be insisting on access to the prison, which is within [a] Somali government compound."

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Fuel Fix » Transocean rig off Africa taking on water updated

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

fuelfix.com - By Harry R. Weber, Dina Cappiello - Jul. 06 (News Report) - The owner of the rig that sunk in the massive Gulf oil spill last summer was having problems today with another one of its deepwater drillers — this time off the coast of Africa.

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DSK Accuser's African Connection

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Christopher Dickey - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - pride of place goes to the photograph of Fofanah and Alpha Condé, who was elected last November as president of Guinea, the country from which DSK’s accuser immigrated and requested political asylum. Condé, as it turns out, also has extensive ties to major political players in France, including people close to—wait for it—both President Nicolas Sarkozy and Strauss-Kahn, who had been expected to be the incumbent’s main challenger in next year’s elections. You can see why the conspiracy-minded French find the case so fascinating.

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Amidst Poverty and Human Rights Abuses, Equatorial Guinea Builds Lavish City To Host African Union

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - Jun. 23 (News Report) - African heads of state are convening today in Equatorial Guinea for a week-long African Union summit. There has been a wave of arrests leading up to the summit, with police detaining an estimated 100 people. Human Rights Watch reports Equatorial Guinea is rife with politically motivated harassment, arbitrary detentions and unlawful killings. The country’s government also faces criticism for spending an estimated $830 million to build a city for the summit, with luxury villas for visiting diplomats, an artificial beach and a golf course. Equatorial Guinea's dictator Teodoro Obiang has led the country since 1979. Despite his human rights record, Obiang has maintained relations with the United States and many U.S. firms, including ExxonMobil. We speak with Tutu Alicante, executive director of EG Justice, a U.S.-based organization dedicated to promoting the rule of law, transparency and civil society participation in Equatorial Guinea.

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Harvard, Vanderbilt, Spelman Exposed For Taking Part in “African Land Grab”

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 20 (News Report) - A new report raises questions about the connection of Harvard, Vanderbilt and other U.S. universities to European financial interests buying or leasing vast areas of African farmland. Called “Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa,” the report by the Oakland Institute claims farmers in Africa are being driven off their lands to make way for new industrial farming projects backed by hedge funds seeking profits and foreign countries looking for cheap food. We speak with Anuradha Mittal, the executive director of the Oakland Institute. “We have heard about the role of these private hedge funds in food speculation and speculation of food prices because they control commodities” says Mittal. “But when they start buying even the means of production, they control labor, large tracks of land, they control water, it is the kind of vertical integration of the food system we have never seen before.”

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What I Saw in Sudan

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

blogfordarfur.org - By Daniel Sullivan - Apr. 14 (News) - I traveled to the town of Malakal just a few days after a militia attack that resulted in 30 deaths, several burnt buildings, and the displacement of over 100 orphans caught in the fighting. The devastation was a stark reminder of the ongoing militia tensions in the South and the troubling indications that those tensions are being stoked by the North.

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Human Rights Concerns Continue After Capture of Ivory Coast Strongman Laurent Gbagbo

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Apr. 12 (News Report) - Supporters of the internationally recognized Ivory Coast president, Alassane Ouattara, have captured strongman Laurent Gbagbo, ending a four-month standoff that left hundreds dead. Gbagbo had refused to leave office since the country’s presidential election in November, which the United Nations says Ouattara won. Although the political standoff has come to a close, Ivory Coast remains in deep turmoil. At least 1,000 people are thought to have died, and around one million people have fled their homes during the fighting. Many of the displaced have little access to food and shelter and live in dire conditions. Thousands of Gbagbo supporters remain armed and on the streets.

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Pygmies

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Survival International - Apr. 08 (Special Report) - Across the forests of central Africa, forest peoples have lived by hunting and gathering for millenia. But in the past few decades their homelands have been devastated by logging, war and encroachment from farmers. With expansion of protected areas in response to these problems, their livelihoods have become increasingly impossible and their strong ties to their forests are under strain. The ‘Pygmy’ peoples of central Africa are traditionally hunter-gatherers living in the rainforests throughout central Africa. The term ‘Pygmy’ has gained negative connotations, but has been reclaimed by some indigenous groups as a term of identity. Primarily though, these communities identify themselves as ‘forest peoples’ due to the fundamental importance of the forest to their culture, livelihood and history. Each is a distinct people, such as the Twa, Aka, Baka and Mbuti living in countries across central Africa, including the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda and Cameroon. Different groups have different languages and hunting traditions. Although each community faces different threats and challenges, racism, logging and conservation are major problems for many, all contributing to serious health problems and violent abuse.

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Jeremy Scahill and Ex-DIA Analyst Joshua Foust on "The Dangerous U.S. Game In Yemen" & CIA Ops in Libya

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill, Joshua Foust - Mar. 31 (News Analysis) - Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Yemen on Wednesday as part of the unwavering protests for the resignation of U.S.-backed President Ali Abdullah Saleh. We speak to independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, who argues the U.S. secret war has unintentionally played a significant role in weakening Saleh's regime; and Joshua Foust, who recently left his post as Yemen analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency. We also get their reaction to the latest news CIA operatives are on the ground in Libya as part of a covert Western force to aid the U.S.-led bombing campaign.

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How Western Corporations Have Been Helping Tyrants Suppress Rebellions in the Arab World

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Timothy Karr - Mar. 31 (Special Report) - Springtime in the Arab world is looking bleaker now that despots in Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen and reactionary elements in Egypt have gained an upper hand against the pro-democracy protesters who have inspired the world. And the Internet, hailed sometimes in excess as a potent tool for these movements, has itself come under increasing fire from these and other autocratic states seeking to crush popular dissent.

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Violence escalating in Ivory Coast

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Andy - Mar. 19 (News) - At least 25 killed in attacks by Gbagbo supporters on Abidjan suburb. Andrew Meldrum Violence in Ivory Coast has worsened in Abidjan, the country's biggest city. The suburb of Abobo has had two days of attacks by supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, the president who lost the November election but refuses to give up power. His followers are blamed for mortar attacks which have killed more than 25 people in Abobo on March 17 and 18. Abobo is known as a bastion of support for Alassane Ouattara, who won the poll. The United Nations expressed shock over the attacks on civilians. Gbagbo has given conflicting messages. He has called on his supporters to "neutralize" rebels, which is widely seen as an incitement to the violence that has hit Abobo. But Gbagbo has also said he is open to negotiations with Ouattara. The long-running crisis in Ivory Coast is taking a human toll and is hurthing the country's economy, which was just beginning to recover from the civil war of 2002-2005. The fallout from Ivory Coast is spreading beyond its borders as thousands of refugees flee the violence. Ivory Coast's crisis is also having a serious impact on the West African region's economy. The International Monetary Fund warns of "serious risks" from the power struggle in Ivory Coast, reports Reuters. The IMF "expressed deep concern that the ongoing political crisis in Ivory Coast poses serious risks — in particular, through trade and financial sector linkages — and that the spillovers for the region could be severe should the crisis persist," the IMF said. The fund's report on the eight-nation West African Economic and Monetary Union also cautions that rising global food and fuel prices could fuel inflation and hurt the region's poor. It is the IMF's first analysis of the economic impact from Ivory Coast's political stand-off on the rest of the region, which also includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. Ivory Coast is the world's top cocoa grower. While it is still the giant of the economic zone, Ivory Coast's share of regional output has fallen from 45 percent in the 1980s to 30 percent now, after years of economic stagnation. The international community has called for Laurent Gbagbo to step down as Ivory Coast's president, declaring that he lost a Nov. 28 election to rival Alassane Ouattara. The IMF said the crisis in Ivory Coast had intensified in recent weeks with "significant negative fallout for domestic financial and economic activity." Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:13 -0400 read more

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Thousands of Migrant Workers Stranded at Libyan Borders and Ports As Violent Clashes Spread: Video Report by Anjali Kamat in Benghazi

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Anjali Kamat - Mar. 07 (News Report) - Since forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi began violently cracking down on the popular uprising weeks ago, many of Libya’s migrant workforce attempted to flee the country. Of Libya's estimated 2.5 million foreign workers, the United Nations estimates that at least 200,000 workers have fled the country since the fighting began—and that number is expected to double. Thousands of workers are congregating at Libya’s border with Egypt, Tunisia and along its port towns, creating a humanitarian crisis where shelter, food, sanitation and transportation is desperately needed. Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat speaks with migrant workers in the port town of Benghazi and to Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director for Human Right Watch. Special thanks to videographer Yusuf Misdaq who contributed to this report.

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Hopes of Peaceful Revolution in Libya End as Opposition Prepares for Long Battle Against Gaddafi Forces

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Anjali Kamat - Mar. 07 (News Report) - Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi's regime has launched a counter-offensive in the attempt to retake several cities captured by opposition forces in a popular uprising that began Feb. 17. Gaddaffi's forces are attacking opposition fighters with helicopter gunships, fighter planes and tanks in several cities, including Bin Jawad, Tobruk, Ras Lanuf and Misrata. Meanwhile, the United Nations is launching an appeal to help 600,000 people within Libya who are expected to need humanitarian aid. We go to Benghazi to speak with Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat.

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Thousands Feared Dead in Gaddafi’s Crackdown on Libyan Uprising

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Anjali Kamat - Feb. 25 (News Report) - The United Nations is warning thousands of people may have been killed in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s assault on the growing popular uprising across Libya. The United Nations is also warning Libya’s food supply network is on the brink of collapse. Deadly clashes are ongoing as anti-government forces close in on the capital city of Tripoli.

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“We’re Witnessing the Violent Lashings of a Dying Beast”

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Hisham Matar - Feb. 23 (News Report) - Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi vows not to leave the country as opposition protesters take control of key cities. After a week of demonstrations, thousands of protesters have been killed or injured by pro-Gaddafi police and hired mercenaries, and more than a thousand people are missing. For more on Libya, we are joined from London by Hisham Matar, a renowned Libyan novelist. He is the son of a prominent Libyan dissident and he is currently helping to run an ad-hoc news desk informing the Western media of events occurring in Libya. “The world now is watching the massacre and history will hold the international community responsible,” Matar says. “Not only are we watching an unelected dictatorship massacring its own people, we are watching a dictatorship that the world has profited from its close relationships with.”

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In Arab World US Hegemony Is Only Dented

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Tariq Ali - Feb. 22 (News Analysis) - The refusal of the people to kiss or ignore the rod that has chastised them for so many decades has opened a new chapter in the history of the Arab nation. The absurd, if much vaunted, neocon notion that Arabs or Muslims were hostile to democracy has disappeared like parchment in fire.

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The Great Arab Revolt

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Juan Cole - Feb. 22 (News Analysis) - The Arab world’s presidents for life and absolute monarchs are quaking in the aftermath of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. Arab politics had been stuck in a vast logjam for the past thirty years, from which its crowds are now attempting to blast it loose. The protesters put their fingers on the phenomenon of the vampire state and concluded that before anything important could change, they had to put a stake through its heart.

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Algeria: Protesters hurt as police try to halt demonstration

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By John Liebhardt - Feb. 20 (News Report) - Several people were injured as police and pro-government gangs in Algeria confronted protesters while trying to break up a demonstration organized by human rights Organizations and other civil society groups in Algiers on Saturday, February 19. There are conflicting reports on the number of protesters who came to May 1 Square for Saturday's demonstration. Al Jazeera English reported that hundreds of protesters turned out while a human rights groups placed the number at 5,000. Police used sheer numbers and occasionally clubs in an attempt to keep downtown Algiers open to traffic. The relatively low numbers of protesters — at least compared to last week's demonstration that brought an estimated 10,000 protesters and 26,000 riot police — were blamed on the fact the government has banned large demonstrations. The country's train service was almost completely shut down.

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NewsTrust - Africa - Most Recent Stories: News (Independent)

Oil Slick From Massive Spill in Nigeria Threatens Coastline, May Be Largest Spill in a Decade

"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks U.N. Summit

At Durban Summit, Leading African Activist Calls U.S. Emissions Stance "A Death Sentence for Africa"

The Road to Durban: Tracking Global Warming's Devastating Impact Across the African Continent

How the U.S. Government uses its media servants to attack real journalism

Jeremy Scahill Reveals CIA Facility, Prison in Somalia as U.S. Expands Covert Ops in Stricken Nation

Famine in Somalia, Horn of Africa Described as "Worst Humanitarian Disaster in the World"

Red Cross Provided With Location of Secret Somali Prison Used by CIA

Fuel Fix » Transocean rig off Africa taking on water *updated*

DSK Accuser's African Connection

Amidst Poverty and Human Rights Abuses, Equatorial Guinea Builds Lavish City To Host African Union

Harvard, Vanderbilt, Spelman Exposed For Taking Part in “African Land Grab”

What I Saw in Sudan

Human Rights Concerns Continue After Capture of Ivory Coast Strongman Laurent Gbagbo

Pygmies

Jeremy Scahill and Ex-DIA Analyst Joshua Foust on "The Dangerous U.S. Game In Yemen" & CIA Ops in Libya

How Western Corporations Have Been Helping Tyrants Suppress Rebellions in the Arab World

Violence escalating in Ivory Coast

Thousands of Migrant Workers Stranded at Libyan Borders and Ports As Violent Clashes Spread: Video Report by Anjali Kamat in Benghazi

Hopes of Peaceful Revolution in Libya End as Opposition Prepares for Long Battle Against Gaddafi Forces

Thousands Feared Dead in Gaddafi’s Crackdown on Libyan Uprising

“We’re Witnessing the Violent Lashings of a Dying Beast”

In Arab World US Hegemony Is Only Dented

The Great Arab Revolt

Algeria: Protesters hurt as police try to halt demonstration

Fuel Fix » Transocean rig off Africa taking on water updated