The poster, “Culpepper”, who makes the accusation that API is somehow linked to Stormfront is the same poster who posted the initial post in that thread, in which he claims that API is just a WordPress site that posts articles from African Press Agency and a link to a “fraudulent” charity which mimics the (bland, unimaginative) name of a “real” one (and Culpepper posts a link to the “real” one, which I’ve never heard of despite living near its claimed address, and which has “events” and “news” sections on its site with nothing more recent than a year ago and nothing upcoming, plus it sounds like they never really did much but hold expensive cruises and golf outings where people tell themselves they’re doing something really worthwhile because “it’s for charity”, plus there a conspicuous lack of so much as a peep anywhere on the site or the “gift form” that the outfit has tax-deductible non-profit status, plus this “real” charity’s e-mail address is a Hotmail account). The “fraudulent” charity “Culpepper” refers to appears to be at least as legit as the “real” one. And first he’s saying that API’s history consists largely of republishing African Press Agency stories, but then he suggests it’s controlled by Stormfront (though offers not one iota of backup for that assertion). Why would Stormfront be wasting its time giving wider exposure to news articles put out by the African Press Agency, via some Norway-based blog? API may well be full of excrement, but I think “Culpepper” is too.
API seems to have existed for at least a couple of years, and none of the blogosphere sources I bumped into that have been digging dirt on it have found anything beyond a blog masquerading as a real news-gathering/dissemination outlet. If API hatched this whole thing themselves, it’s way out of character for them, so I really doubt they did. They seem to be mainly about scoring cheap hits for their blog by reposting articles from the African Press Agency, and probably also about scoring some free catered lunches around Oslo by claiming to be “journalists” from “African Press International”. So I’m sticking with my guess that somebody hoaxed them, and I’d love to know who. Though the boring truth might be that it’s the work of the apparently legitimate (as much as anything in Africa is) African Press Agency, which got fed up with its articles being ripped off, and decided to have some fun while shutting this pesky blog down.
Thanks for the additional information.
I was unsure what to make of that accusation, and did not want to apply that odious label to anyone without knowing that it was absolutely true.
I think that you may be correct; that they were hoaxed. If they were, they need to admit it and get on with it and not drag it out any further as if they are a legitimate site, they aren’t doing themselves any good at this point.