For US Jim Yong Kim, Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala now unlikely to replace Zoellick at the World Bank
President Obama’s surprise announcement, Friday, of South Korean-born US academic, Jim Yong Kim, as the United States Nominee for World Bank president stayed growing hopes of seeing the Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala succeed Robert Zoellick after 30th of June this year. Former Colombian finance minister, Jose Antonio Ocampo, and Okonjo-Iweala have been the top [...]
FARC terrorists kill Colombian soldiers, threaten US police advisors
A Colombian army captain and ten soldiers were killed in an ambush by narco-terrorists from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Saturday, according to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence analyst specializing on Latin America. FARC also threatened American law enforcement advisors assisting the Colombian forces. The terrorist ambush occurred near the Colombian-Venezuelan border [...]
NYPD counterterrorism operation on Muslims continues to ignite angry debate
A classified New York City Police Department undercover/surveillance operation concentrating on Muslim-owned businesses, mosques and Muslim students on college campuses has created an enormous — and unexpected — firestorm with civil rights groups and Muslim organizations claiming that the NYPD police detectives crossed the line separating civil rights and homeland security. Attorney General Eric Holder’s [...]
U.S. to probe cross-border money laundering with Mexico
During his meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Mexico City on Monday, President Felipe Calderon told Biden that the only way to win Mexico’s “war with the drug cartels” combat organized crime gangs as well as arms trafficking along the border. He also included in his list of priorities the ceasing of rampant [...]
More Hokum From the Folks who Bring us the “Global War on Drugs”
The White House has been floating a new concept in its war on drugs—Colombia as an “exporter of security.” The phrase has popped up in government statements several times just over the past week. Actually, this isn’t the first time. Then Defense Secretary Robert Gates praised Colombia as an “exporter of security” back in April [...]
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Food speaks the language of Tradition and Culture
Execution of at least 10 prisoners postponed until Saturday
Aeras, GSK deal to Advance TB Vaccine research
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Kenya’s Professionals call for a supreme natural resource law
Africans innovators called to participate in Project Incubator Award
Israel goes to the polls in two or three months
Morsi’s 100 days, a performance which is viewed with mixed feelings
Syria: Arrest of prominent human rights defender Mr Khalil Matouk
