Best Of Both Worlds: Angelique Kidjo, Peter Buffet Team Up To Support African Girls
Angelique Kidjo is not just another African legend. She is one with a difference, and her illustrious music career has shown that music is not just for recreation, but also an instrument of emancipation for both artists and the people around them. With A Song for Everyone, Angelique and Buffet drive home this message while enjoying their passion.
Plane Crash Sparks Row Between Ethiopia And Lebanon… as victims sue Boeing
Ethiopia and Lebanon are locked in a dispute over circumstances surrounding the death of 90 people after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 flight crashed into the Mediterranean Sea a few moments after leaving Beirut International Airport last month.
COVER UP: Cholera Case Raises Questions About UN’s Role In Zimbabwe
A former UN official claims his warnings of a coming calamity were stifled by a UN bureaucracy intent on keeping good relations with Zimbabwe’s dictator, Robert Mugabe. In the 11 months between August 2008 and July of last year, nearly 100,000 Zimbabweans came down with cholera in the first countrywide epidemic of the disease in modern history.
MEGA RECALLS: Toyota’s $100m “Win” Opens Floodgates To Lawsuits
The tide is turning against Japanese car-maker Toyota after confidential company correspondence submitted to the U.S. government revealed that the company had cut corners and saved $100 million by avoiding vehicle recalls.
Russians Stick To “Offensive” Aboriginal Dance
RUSSIAN world champion figure skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin will do a virtually unchanged version of the “Aboriginal dance” that has offended Australian indigenous groups in today’s original dance section of the ice dancing competition in Vancouver.
Bredenkamp Lands Illinois Golf Course In Legal “Twilight Zone”
Marion, Illinois – Until recently, people here had little reason to know the name John A. Bredenkamp or anything about his past, a tale worthy of a James Bond villain, filled with allegations of international arms deals, blood diamond trades and ties to despotic regimes in his native Africa. Bredenkamp had visited Marion just once, nine years ago, to look over the Bermuda grass fairways and 96 sand bunkers at the Kokopelli Golf Club he was about to buy.
LOCKED UP: Safe Haven Turns To Hell For African Asylum Seekers In Austria
VIENNA: Austrian government officials are up in arms over the issue of housing Nigerian and other African asylum seekers, with the government saying no village or city can be found to build a third asylum center for refugees.
Google Buzz Takes The Cheese Out of Facebook’s Mouth
GOOGLE’s latest feature, Google Buzz, is a social networking coup d’etat, and looks set to snatch the cheese right out of Facebook’s mouth. Launched on February 9, 2010, Buzz is designed to integrate with Gmail and provide a platform for Gmail users to share media content, links and make status updates.
MILK SCANDAL: China Milk Scam Rebounds
China has found another 170 tons of tainted milk powder in an emergency crackdown that has made it increasingly clear many products discovered in the country’s 2008 milk scandal were repackaged for sale instead of destroyed.
MINING DISPUTE: Police Seize 29kg Diamonds
HARARE- A 29-kilogram consignment of diamonds from Zimbabwe’s controversial Chiadzwa diamond field has disappeared after being removed on Thursday night by police from the central bank, in violation of orders by the country’s supreme court, lawyers said at the weekend.
ARMS FRAUD: BAE Systems Pays $450m To Settle Bribery Charges
BAE Systems is to pay up to $450m (£288m) in fines after it pleaded guilty to false statements and accounting practices, notably over deals with Saudi Arabia and Tanzania, in a landmark settlement between the defence giant and the US and UK authorities.
The Serious Fraud Office also dropped proceedings last night against Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, who was charged with making illegal payments to government officials to win jet deals for BAE just last week.
Botswana recalls Zimbabwean diplomats
Botswana this week recalled two senior diplomats based in Zimbabwe as the diplomatic row over three Batswana rangers arrested for entering Zimbabwe illegally escalated. The government of Botswana said it would recall its defence and intelligence attaches by the end of the month and asked that Harare withdraw its defence and Central Intelligence Organization personnel from its Gaborone embassy by the same date.