Africa unite or die — Muammar Gaddafi

ACCRA  - Declaring himself a “soldier for Africa”, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on the continent on Saturday to unite under a single government so it could compete in a globalize world.

Speaking on the eve of an African Union summit in Accra, Gaddafi said AU leaders had not yet achieved the dream of unity voiced half a century ago by Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, founding father of African independence.

“For Africa, the matter is to be or not to be,” the Libyan leader told a cheering audience of students, activists and local Muslim leaders at the University of Ghana.

100 Nigerian doctors to return from Cuba
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

ONE hundred Nigerian doctors are to graduate from Cuban medical schools and return to Nigeria in August.

The Cuban Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Elio Olivia, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja that the students had been studying in Cuba for the past seven years.

He said it had always been the policy of the Cuban government to train people in different fields, especially in the medical profession.

“Nigerian medical students are graduating this August and they are very happy about it,’’ he said.

Jamaican ghetto upholds Marley legacy

“If he hadn’t become a singer, he would have definitely become a great footballer” — Marley’s friend Cutty

I remember when we used to sit/ In the government yard in Trenchtown…/ And then Georgie would make the fire lights/ And it was logwood burnin’ through the nights/ Then we would cook cornmeal porridge/ Of which I’ll share with you…

These days, people in Trenchtown, a gritty, violence-wracked district of Kingston, don’t gather around logwood fires, sup on communal broth and sing songs any longer.

Life has moved on in Bob Marley country.

African states oppose US presence

Guardian Unlimited
The Pentagon’s plans to create a new US military command based in Africa have hit a wall of hostility from governments in the region reluctant to associate themselves publicly with the US “global war on terror”.

A US delegation led by Ryan Henry, the principal deputy undersecretary of defence for policy, returned to Washington last week with little to show from separate consultations with senior defence and foreign ministry officials in Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti and with the African Union (AU).

The politics of the mûngîkî, by Grace N. Wamue
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What have “the politics of the Mûngîkî” to do with power in religion? Not much at first hand, but quite a bit if one stops to think about it. Why is the Government not happy with this sect which is trying to persuade people to go back to the religion of their ancestors? For obvious reasons: the Mungiki represent, dressed up in the garb of religion, the power of those who are discontent with the present political order in Kenya, an order which people of the main stream religions have helped to perpetuate. If this power it not to get out of hand, it will be unwise to ignore what this sect is trying to get across.
Origin and History of the Mûngîkî
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From Times Online
June 6, 2007
Health alert over HIV drug

HIV sufferers who take the antiretroviral drug, Viracept, should contact their doctors immediately, British health officials said tonight, after the medicine was found to contain a substance that can cause cancer.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and European regulators said that batches of Viracept across the EU had been tainted by a “genotoxic” or potentially cancer-causing chemical.

The drug’s manufacturer, Roche, issued a statement saying that Viracept tablets on sale in Europe and across the world had been found to have “a strange odour” and that subsequent tests had shown the presence of methane sulfonic acid ethylester, which is classified as carconogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

HIV/AIDS infection theory challenged

A longstanding theory of how HIV slowly depletes the body’s capacity to fight infection is wrong, scientists say.
HIV attacks human immune cells, called T helper cells. Loss of these cells is gradual, often taking many years.

It was thought infected cells produced more HIV particles and that this caused the body to activate more T cells which in turn were infected and died.

Imperial College London modelling suggests that, if that was true, cells would die out in months not years.

The Imperial findings have been published in journal PLoS Medicine.

Genetic Evidence of the Nigerian and Ethiopian Origin of the Ancient Greek
Edited By Jide Uwechia from cited Sources

The Benin Haplogroup or Haplogroup 19 Common In Africans, Greeks and Albanians

There are at least four distinct African, (known as Senegal, Congo, Benin, Bantu Hbs Haplogroups) and one Asian chromosomal backgrounds (haplotypes) on which the sickle cell mutation has arisen.

Advocates smouldering over boy’s pot suspension

Advocates for a suspended Saskatchewan high school student are demanding a probe into the boy’s treatment after his research into the effects of marijuana triggered a storm of controversy and harsh punishment.

New Democrat MP Libby Davies is among those concerned that 15-year-old Kieran King was suspended, forced to miss his final exams, and threatened with police action despite the fact he says he has never used, or even seen, the drug.

In a news release, Davies called for an investigation into Wawota Parkland School Principal Susan Wilson’s actions in the case. The MP also said the Grade 10 student’s research into cannabis in comparison to alcohol and tobacco is reasonable.

Mungikis…the Dread lions of Kenya

Mungiki Elder sent to prison by the Kenyan State

The former leader of Kenya’s outlawed Mungiki movement has been jailed for having an illegal gun and cannabis possession.

John Kamunya, alias Maina Njenga, was sentenced to five years in jail by a Nairobi court for possessing a gun and nearly 5kg of marijuana.

After the sentencing, his two wives became hysterical, weeping profusely and protesting the injustice of the Kenyan government.

Kamunya, now a “Christian convert”, was last month freed on another charge of recruiting Mungiki members.