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Four months ago, Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo had a choice: step aside peacefully after losing an election or drag his country into war. To help persuade him to leave, US diplomats explored the possibility of Gbagbo, a former history professor, being offered a position at US colleges, including Boston University, according to congressional aides and State Department officials familiar with the effort. Hilary Renner, a press officer for the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, said that State Department officials reached out to a number of Gbagbo’s aides, friends, and associates in the weeks after the Nov. 28 election...

NEW YORK – Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died Friday, just days before the book described as his life's work was to be released. [snip] Two decades in the making, the nearly 600-page biography is described as a re-evaluation of Malcolm X's life, bringing fresh insight to subjects..." ... The book is based on exhaustive research, including thousands of pages of FBI files and records from the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department.

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 4:59 PM Yup. You can tell they’re cousins. Obama’s cousin Odinga likes to clean the slate too. In 2006 Barack Obama took a trip to Kenya on the taxpayer’s dime. While visiting Kenya as a guest of the government Obama campaigned for socialist Raila Odinga, who claims he is Obama’s cousin. Odinga’s opponents said Odinga was using Obama “as his stooge.” Here’s the video: Later Odinga was accused of starting genocide after the the death toll from tribal violence over a disputed 2007 election passed 1,000. Now Odinga is clearing the...

EXCLUSIVE. It seems that Obama might have borrowed his "Together We Thrive" slogan from Kenyan Prime Minister and fellow Luo clansman Raila Odinga. Odinga used the highly similar slogan "Fairly we share, together we prosper" in his party's 2007 manifesto and his campaign literature. The slogan conveys a plan for redistributing power and wealth to the lower economic classes in Kenya. This plan is explained in detail in Odinga's literature and that of his party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). The relationship between Obama and Odinga is a close one. According to this Wikipedia page: In a January 2008 BBC...

The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 15, 2010 Statement by President Obama on the International Criminal Court announcement Today, as the International Criminal Court announces the names of six suspects alleged to have participated in the post-election violence that threatened to tear Kenya apart three years ago, I encourage all Kenyans take a moment to reflect on the tremendous progress their country has made since those dark days. Together, you have been working to reconcile your communities, to reform your institutions to better serve the public good, and to put your country on a...

THE US Department of Defense is lab-testing technology that could make it easier automatically to sift through a vast pool of private communications, including international telephone phone calls, in a similar manner to using an Internet search engine. THE US Department of Defense is lab-testing technology that could make it easier automatically to sift through a vast pool of private communications, including international telephone phone calls, in a similar manner to using an Internet search engine. The technology, called "SemanticForests", is a software program that an alyses voice transcripts and other documents in order to allow intelligent searching for specific...

A gay rights activist has criticised Kenya's prime minister for threatening a crackdown on homosexual people. David Kuria from the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya told the BBC that Raila Odinga's comments would encourage people to extort money from gay and lesbian people. On Sunday, Mr Odinga warned that men or women found engaging in homosexual acts would be arrested. It was believed to be the first time he has made such comments. Mr Kuria told the BBC's Network Africa programme that he did not know why Mr Odinga made the comments. He said most African leaders who condemned...

Parliament dealt a blow to the drive for a new constitutional order when it voted to reject a list of people to sit on two key implementation commissions. MPs said the list for the implementation committee lacked regional balance and said it should be returned to the principals. They gave the same treatment to the Revenue Allocation Commission. The failure comes with dire consequences, opening the door for any member of the public to move to court to request for dissolution of Parliament. Mr Justin Muturi, a former MP who is also a lawyer, said: “The principals have done their...

A government watchdog has issued a report saying it found no evidence that the Obama administration illegally funded groups seeking to legalize abortion in Kenya for the first time with changes to the constitution -- a conclusion that immediately was blasted by one of the administration's top critics on the issue. Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, the top Republican on the House Africa panel, said the report by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inspector general was "poorly researched, superficial, incomplete and a whitewash." "This was not a well-researched investigation," he said in a written statement. "We had...

President Obama on Thursday praised the passage of Kenya's new constitution, which was approved by an overwhelming majority amid claims that the United States improperly meddled in promoting passage of the document, which contains controversial abortion language. [snip] Obama applauded the Kenyan people for approving the document and conducting a "peaceful, transparent and credible" vote. [snip] But the administration has come under fire from a few House Republicans for its role in the referendum. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., last month accused the White House of illegally funding a campaign to approve language that would loosen restrictions on abortion in Kenya....

An investigation by three Republican congressmen has revealed the Obama administration has secretly spent $23 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars in Kenya to fund a "Yes" vote on a constitutional referendum scheduled for Aug. 4 that would increase access to abortions in Kenya and establish legal status for Islamic law tribunals. Meanwhile, trusted sources in Kenya tell WND that the White House has used Vice President Joseph Biden's trip to Kenya in June and the office of U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael E. Ranneberger to put out the message that passage of the referendum would enable the White House to...

McCarthy says Obama's foreign dealings as senator possibly illegal In a new best-selling book connecting Islam and Obama-style socialism, a former top terrorism prosecutor chides the national media for failing to investigate Barack Obama's "borderline criminal" activities in Kenya as a U.S. senator. Andrew C. McCarthy, the former U.S. attorney who investigated the American embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, charges that Obama interfered in Kenya's internal politics possibly in violation of the Logan Act. The centuries-old law bars Americans who are "without authority of the United States" from conducting relations "with any foreign government ... in relation to any disputes...

Kenya's Church leaders have blamed the government for a grenade attack at a rally on Sunday that led to six deaths. The explosions at a Nairobi prayer meeting campaigning against a draft constitution caused a deadly stampede. After an emergency security meeting, Prime Minister Raila Odinga confirmed it was a grenade attack and said a top police team was investigating it. All but a handful of ministers in the shaky coalition government are backing a "Yes" vote to the draft charter. The rally was organised by Christian groups opposed to a draft constitution because it retains recognition of existing Islamic...

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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) was assassinated 44 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1965, because of his attempt to internationalize the African American struggle for self-determination. Malcolm would have been 84 years old on May 19, 2009. Africans in New York City have made a pilgrimage to Malcolm’s gravesite every year since Feb. 21, 1966. While it is unlikely that U.S. President Barack Obama will acknowledge Malcolm’s joining the ancestors, people from Cape Town to Nova Scotia and Brazil to Brixton definitely will. Unlike other U.S. presidents, President Obama knows who Malcolm was and what he stands for. Like many...

Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki has asked eight senior officials to step down pending inquiries into two corruption scandals. One involves the reported loss of $26m in a subsidised maize scam. The other centres on the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the education ministry. President Kibaki has asked the officials to vacate their offices for three months to allow for inquiries into the allocation of public funds. Four of the officials are permanent secretaries. Just hours before Mr Kibaki's move, two of the officials - both senior aides of Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga - had announced they...

The US spy chief, Mr. Leon Edward Panetta, left Kenya on Sunday after a four-day visit during which he is said to have held talks with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, The Standard daily reported here on Monday. Panetta, who is the Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the world's leading spying agency, arrived in Kenya a day before controversial Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abdullah Faisal, was secretly put on a chartered South African gulfstream jet and deported to his native country. However, the police were said to reluctant to link the spymaster's presence in the country to...

Source link If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, D.C., which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed. A McCain "win" will not be illegitimate because I disagree with his policies, but because he himself has rendered it illegitimate. He and his campaign and allied supporters have sought to illegally remove hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls, fraudulently registered...

A mob in central Kenya has beheaded two suspected members of the Mungiki, a gang itself famous for decapitating its victims, police say. The two young men were beheaded and had their fingers chopped off... Twenty-one men who had been charged over the April violence were freed on Friday alongside former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga. Once a pseudo-religious group of dreadlocked youths who worshipped spirits in Mount Kenya and embraced rituals such as female circumcision, the Mungiki has evolved into an extortionist gang notorious for beheading its victims.

The US has imposed a travel ban on a senior Kenyan government official for obstructing efforts to rid the country of corruption. Johnnie Carson, the US state department Africa chief, said he was considering bans on three other officials - but declined to release any names. Kenya agreed to carry through reforms after 1,300 people died in post-election violence last year. But the US believes some officials have deliberately been blocking the reforms.