BBC News – Hillary Clinton blames Nigeria leaders for extremism.
However far the leap between facts, at least Sec. Clinton is bringing attention the the desperate living conditions Nigerians face. The government must be held accountable for its past lack of action and pressed to improve the country’s quality of life, especially for the 70% of [...]

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Mr. Thomas Deve noted that poverty is an all-embracing thing and the press should concentrate on small things, instead of the big ones.
He stressed that journalists should work with survivors of injustice and look at the message and ask questions, without making value judgment.
“The media is to be a barometer to measure the quality of [...]

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President Obama has been a part of working to raise awareness for the suffering of the Sudanese people since he was the Illinois Senator and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. He supported legislation and sanctions, and made strong statements against the government of Sudan who are responsible for orchestrating horrific attacks, rapes, burning [...]

“Continued deleveraging by world financial institutions, combined with a collapse in consumer and business confidence is depressing domestic demand across the globe, while world trade is falling at an alarming rate and commodity prices have tumbled,” IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Write and call your officials to let them know you support maintaining foreign aid to developing countries. The following information from Modernizing Foreign Assistance provides information about what is happening to the billions of people living on less than $2 a day, and the people who will slide into this level of extreme poverty, if [...]

A lot of people as me why I am so passionate about working for Africa. I often relate the analogy of the starfish on the beach, and I am walking on the shore throwing each of them back into the sea. Who cares, and why am I continuously picking up individual starfish? This action matters [...]

The ONE Campaign has provided a form thank you note to Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown for extending an invitation to the African Union to join the Group of 20 Summit. This is an important development as this brings the African voice to the discussion table with the countries that have so far shaped the [...]

Uduaghan, Soludo And Nigeria Without Oil
02/13/2009
- Nigeria holds a special place in my heart, so I am pleased to hear this issue being discussed at high levels. The possibility of development and growth would end without evaluating and implementing alternative means to generate state income.
Mass child soldier release in Democratic Republic of Congo
02/13/2009
MDC nominee ‘on [...]

allAfrica.com: Congo-Kinshasa: Ugandan Rebels Continue Devastation, NGO Say
02/11/2009
Worldwide Crisis: The Geopolitics of Food Scarcity – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News
02/11/2009