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The Yara Prize honors leadership for the future of farming

 

The Yara Prize 2014 is being awarded to Professor Tekalign Mamo Assefa. Currently state minister and adviser to the Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture, Professor Mamo has long been a key contributor to the country’s food security, soil health, and natural resources programs.

Oslo, Norway (PRWEB UK) 26 August 2014

For 2014, the Yara Prize Committee has focused on the future of farming in Africa. Special attention has been given to food a

Beauty Africa Exhibition & Conference 2014 perfect platform to empower, inspire & educate women about beauty.

he Beauty Africa Exhibition & Conference is launching for the first time in Lagos, Nigeria this year. Beauty Africa is organised by Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions and will be held at the Eko Hotel & Suites on 7-9 October 2014. Global beauty experts at the event will discuss the hottest topics, trends and innovations within the beauty, hair care, skincare, spa and wellness industry in A

First and foremost, we want to express our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Michael Brown – another young black man, another victim of violence.  While the details surrounding his death are still unclear, the fact remains that a mother and a father lost a son and the Ferguson community lost the possibility that his life could bring. We want to reiterate President Barack Obama'searlier sentiments calling for peace and an end to the violence in Ferguson. Though there is a clear feel

• Obama's Immigration Policies are Biased Against Immigrants from Africa‏

Investigative reporter Charles Piller comments in The Nation on how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation investment portfolio subverts its international good works

Susan Desmond-Hellman, new CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, inherits an investment portfolio that has placed more than $2.5 billion in a rogue’s gallery of arms dealers, alcohol manufacturers, and oil and mining companies, among others – all doing great harm in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world, precisely where th

Was being brown Michael  Browns problem?

It was a warn sunny day in July of 1999. The city was Fort Wayne, a medium sized town in the northeastern corner of Indiana. My mother saw me off and wished me well, as I drove due east to visit a college in an effort to ascertain a basketball scholarship. Paying for college was not even an option. If it were not for this great nation, and it’s commitment to higher education, I would have never been able to attend.

I am the son of a single mother, who wor

WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE STOPPED BY THE POLICE 

• Stay calm and in control of your words, body language and emotions.
• Don’t get into an argument with the police.
• Never bad-mouth a police officer.
• Remember, anything you say or do can be used against you.
•  Keep your hands where the police can see them.
•  Don’t run.
•  Don’t touch any police officer.
•  Don’t resist even if you believe you are innocent.
• If you complain at the scene, or tell the police they’re wrong, do so in a non-confrontational way that w

|By Nkwazi Mhango| What must Africans expect from the just concluded US-Africa summit? If anything, the “milestone” summit epitomized the big man syndrome that’s been going on since independence. The summit duration was not enough to exhaust all important issues such as parity in business, terrorism and America’s conduct in Africa.

It is ironic that while dictators such as Equatorial Guinea’s Theodoro Nguema Obiang were invited, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe wasn’t invited. Why is democracy important

August 18, 2014

THE FERGUSON RIOTS, ETC.

I guess everyone knows by now that I am very disappointed with President Obama for his lack of effort to be a voice for the human rights of African Americans, as he has been for Israelis and Gay Rights advocates.  In truth Blacks have been persecuted in this country under his watch, and it has taken – not the deaths of Black men at the hands of White police officers and the recent barbaric beating of a Black woman, but rather it has taken (after six years)

This may have a profound impact on public school students - an impact that will disproportion

• The Non State Actors Reparations Commission Inc. - Barbados

Celebrating our Cultural Heritage - Confronting our Challenges

Spiritual Healing Ceremonies

• Breaking the cycle of pain, shame, anger, fear and self-hatred 5th to 12th October 

Introduction

The Government of Barbados is being asked to host a week of activities for spiritual healing from the effects and legacies of slavery and colonisation for people of the Caribbean and Americas Territories from 5 - 12 October 2014, with October 12 as an “In

Finally, President Obama extended an invitation to African nations to participate in a Summit.  It was rather short but yet it was a summit. He invited 52 of the 54 nations – omitting Sudan and Zimbabwe which he declares as being wicked.  I have seen no official news reports about the number that actually responded.  I heard anywhere from 40 to 50. One thing is certain.  This event was historical and has put the African continent on everyone’s mind.  Seeing thousands of people filling up many of

In Separation There Is Unity 
By Takuna Maulana EL Shabazz, C.C.B.E. Representative
The terms Unity and Separation on the surface appear to be diametrically opposing concepts. However, when applied for specific reasons under certain circumstances, separation is the only means to unity. Costly lessons of history regarding the interpretation of these two concepts should serve to instruct, as well as empower Black people to better analyze the present realties, in order that we may become wiser and

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What can Black people do to address th

‘Ragin Cajun’ Tarnishes H.B.C.U. Image! 
        ‘Southern University Betrays Black Community'

By: Takuna M. EL Shabazz, C.C.B.E. Representative 

The Community Council of Black Elders (C.C.B.E.) is a network of progressive multi talented, resourceful and conscientious Black Men and Women who value the concept of self-determination. As an independent community based organization and advocacy group out of Lafayette, LA., we are committed to advising/counseling, producing and/or researching available

I am so mad! “Who are you mad at” I ask myself. I am mad at them AND us! I am mad at all of the young girls who fell for the okeydoke that boys in heat tell them to satisfy their sexual curiosities. I’m mad when the girl’s best friend or mother suggests that they get an abortion and they say “No I plan to take care of this baby by myself.” But they have no idea how. I’m mad at the mothers who don’t talk to their daughters honestly and far enough in advance (age 8) about how our bodies will betra