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Somali pirates have accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and are demanding an $8m ransom for the return of a Ukranian ship they captured, saying the money will go towards cleaning up the waste. The ransom demand is a means of "reacting to the toxic waste that has been continually dumped on the shores of our country for nearly 20 years", Januna Ali Jama, a spokesman for the pirates, based in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, said."The Somali coastline has been... (continue reading)

HIV 'Agent' Sees African Strength as Weakness
April 13, 2009
by T. West
CART/AfriSynergy


I recently attended the conference, HIV/AIDS: The Impact Among Women of Color, organized by AARTH. It was a beautiful sunny day, something the Seattle, Washington area doesn't see too often this time of the year. The conference was well attended by women of various persuasions and ethnicity. African Americans, Ethiopians, Somalis, Sudanese, Kenyans and others were present. Some were medical... (continue reading)

Is most of the noise about Iran being such a great threat to America much of the same hype about Iraq? If so, who's behind this hype and what do they stand to gain from America's resources such as weapons, men and women, and money being deployed?