Remember the Slave Trade?
By Joanna Ewart-James, Freedom United Call for action to end the slave markets., Today is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. As we remember the awful suffering of enslaved people historically and celebrate…
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Africa Focus: The British Royal Wedding, Feelgoodism and the Colonial Jumbie
By Tyehimba Salandy From Trinicenter Ten years ago, British ‘royalty’, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visited the Caribbean and locals prostrated before them. Local leaders made arrangements for them to play the Steelpan and the sacred Rastafarian Nyabinghi drums….
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OPINION: It’s time for the good of humanity to invade Venezuela
From Jolly Green Whilst Dr Ralph E Gonsalves [DREGs] is getting so fat that he is approaching the point of human self combustion. The people of Venezuela are starving and babies and old people dying. The president of Venezuela lives…
Enslavement of African migrants in Libya
From CARICOM The Community Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), at its first sitting of 2018, expressed concern at the reports of the dehumanizing situation of African migrants in Libya being auctioned into slavery by criminal elements. Ministers…
This World Abolition Day – all eyes on Libya
From Freedom United “They took people and put them in the street, under a sign that said ‘for sale’” Shamsuddin Jibril, from Cameroon.[1] It’s World Abolition Day and, as you read this, traffickers are selling migrants and refugees in make-shift…
Syria’s mass hangings get little response
By Nina Agrawal Los Angeles Times From Arkansas online The Syrian government commits an atrocity, and the United States and the United Nations denounce it. Then nothing else happens. Experts say the pattern will likely continue with the revelation last…
Migrant crisis: ‘Hundreds dead’ in shipwrecks off Libya
From BBC More than 200 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, migration officials say. The UN refugee agency was told the news by survivors brought ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa, spokeswoman Carlotta…
Drone warfare makes more terrorists than it kills
By Bonnie Kristian, RealClearDefense From Business Insider In April, President Obama called his 2011 intervention in Libya the “worst mistake” of his presidency, and it’s not a bad candidate for the title. But beyond any one specific conflict, Obama’s tenure has…
Misguided U.S. foreign policy fueled terrorism
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist From The Dallas Weekly They were young and largely impoverished. To find work, they had migrated from their native Egypt to a mid-coastal city in Libya, an unstable country that in recent years has become…
Jihadists steal commercial jets, raise 9/11 Fears
By Cathy Burke From newsmax Jihadists have stolen several commercial jetliners in Libya, raising concerns with intelligence officials about 9/11-style terror strikes as the 13th anniversary approaches, some reports say. The Algerian news site al-Fadjr on Aug. 6 said 11…
