 - More blowback from the war on terror | Salon News
 11:13am  (2 reviews) politics, terrorism, africa, news, torture http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/1...- Ishmael, a 37-year-old shepherd from the Ogaden region in Ethiopia, looked at me with tears in his eyes. Ethiopian forces -- who had already killed his mother, father, brothers and sisters -- murdered his wife days after they were married. They then slaughtered his goats, beat him unconscious, and slashed his shoulder to the bone, he said.
In December 2006, Ishmael crossed through Somalia into Kenya, heading for the nearest refugee camp in search of medical care. But when he didn't have enough money to pay a 1,000 shilling ($15) bribe, the Kenyan police bundled him into a car and took him to Nairobi. Less than a month later, he was herded onto an airplane with some 30 others, flown to Somalia and handed over to the Ethiopian military -- the same forces that he previously fled.
Ishmael is a victim of a 2007 rendition program in the Horn of Africa, involving Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and the United States.
- BBC NEWS | Africa | Somalian ghost city wracked by war
- 11:09am (2 reviews) africa, news, war, world-news http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/765177...
- Years of conflict in Somalia have left large parts of the country in the hands of warlords while its capital, Mogadishu, is contested by Ethiopian-backed government forces and armed insurgents.
The city has been abandoned by at least half of its residents. The BBC's World Affairs Correspondent, Mark Doyle, sent this report from a war zone few Western journalists dare to visit.
- life
- Oct 9, 4:52am
 (38 reviews) africa, poverty, social-justice, justice http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/jn/slides/g... - Sudan, 1993 - Famine victim in a feeding center.
- Keep Our Commitments
- Oct 8, 3:44pm activism, aids, africa, poverty, global http://www.one.org/keepourcommitments?rc...
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- News - South Africa: Sasol faces R3,7bn price-fixing penalty
- Oct 2, 7:35am (1 review) africa http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=...
- Angela Hayden: Ory Okolloh: The making of an African activist
- Aug 30, 10:28am (2 reviews) activism, africa, blogging http://www.angelahayden.com/2008/08/ory-...
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Ory Okolloh is a blogger and open-government activist. She runs Mzalendo, a pioneering civic website that tracks the performance of Kenya's Parliament and its Parliamentarians. With a vote tracker, articles and opinion pieces, the site connects Kenyans to their leaders and opens the lid on this powerful and once-secretive body.
- Truthdig - Reports - AIDS and the Myth of the Oversexed Negro
- Jul 25, 7:14am (1 review) aids, health, africa, media, stereotypes http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2008...
- A depiction of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," Sarah Baartman, a Khoisan woman who was paraded around Europe in the 1800s as a sideshow and an alleged example of the oversexed African.
- Blue Planet Run Foundation Provides Hope at African Women and Water Conference...
- Jul 15, 8:50am (2 reviews) africa http://ecoworldly.com/2008/07/11/blue-pl...
- Blue Planet Run Foundation taps into the deeper running issues African women face when they lack access to water. The first ever African Women and Water Conference was recently held at the Greenbelt Center (home of Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai's, Greenbelt Movement to plant trees). Annette Faye, a representative of BPRF's Peer Water Exchange reports her findings:
- Coconut Shell Flapper Bag at Global Girlfriend
- Jul 14, 7:53am (1 review) activism, shopping, africa, micro-grants http://www.globalgirlfriend.com/gifts/it...
- With each Coconut Shell Flapper Bag purchased, Global Girlfriend will fund 1.0 percent of a microgrant for a woman in a rural community in Africa to launch a small business, through Camfed.
- Nubian Cheetah
- Jul 13, 4:52pm (2 reviews) entrepreneurship, africa, social-entrepreneurship http://nubiancheetah.blogspot.com/
- Nii Simmonds
Washington DC, United States
Nii was a fellow at TED Global 2007 conference in Arusha, Tanzania. He speaks at frequent events and conferences throughout the year about technology, outsourcing, ecommerce, globalization, and social-entrepreneurship in Africa. His Blog, Nubian Cheetah seeks to inform those who have an intrinsic interest in Africa's development with regards to ICT, technology, business, venture capital and social entrepreneurship.
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