Monthly Archives: January 2017

Indigenous Namibian groups sue Germany for ‘genocide’

Current African News, History Modern

re posted from                             Presstv.com

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/01/06/505040/Namibia-Africa-Germany-genocide-lawsuit

Indigenous Namibian groups sue Germany for ‘genocide’

Fri Jan 6, 2017 9:44AM
This image, likely dating to 1904-08, supposedly shows severely abused prisoners-of-war from the Nama tribe lined up to be photoed at a German concentration camp in Namibia.
This image, likely dating to 1904-08, supposedly shows severely abused prisoners-of-war from the Nama tribe lined up to be photoed at a German concentration camp in Namibia.

Representatives of two indigenous groups in

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Nkrumah on the significance of the Congo for Africans

Current African News, DRC

re posted from                          Rising Continent

https://therisingcontinent.com/2017/01/01/nkrumah-on-the-significance-of-the-congo-for-africans/#more-7010

Nkrumah on the significance of the Congo for Africans

Posted on January 1, 2017

“It is incumbent on us to take our stand by our brothers (and sisters) in the Congo in the full knowledge that only Africa can fight for its destiny

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Burundi Government Targeted Again-minister assassinated in Bujumbura

Burundi, Current African News

re posted from                                 PressTV

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/01/01/504337/Burundiminister

Burundi minister assassinated in Bujumbura

Sun Jan 1, 2017 8:8AM
Burundi’s Minister of Environment Emmanuel Niyonkuru was shot dead on his way home on January 1, 2017. (File Photo)
Burundi’s Minister of Environment Emmanuel Niyonkuru was shot dead on his way home on January 1, 2017. (File Photo)

Burundi’s environment minister has been assassinated in the capital Bujumbura. This is the first high-profile killing

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