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London – Pictorial Report of the Second Massive YPFDJ-UK Biddho Concert
London – Pictorial Report of the Second Massive YPFDJ-UK Biddho Concert
Birmingham – Pictorial report of YPFDJ Biddho Tour, Eritrean youth’s colorful and energetic display of patriotism at its highest
Sheffield – Pictorial report of YPFDJ Biddho Tour, Eritrean youth’s colorful and energetic display of patriotism at its highest
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State Department Report on Human Rights: an Exercise in Duplicity
Shabait – Press Release
As usual, the 2009 “Country Reports on Human Rights” issued by the US State Department is replete with unsubstantial, politically motivated, accusations and double standards. Factual inaccuracies aside, what finds one more intriguing is the omission in this annual report, as indeed was the case in previous years, of any “appraisal” of the human...
Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa
March 10, 2010 |
Mail & Guardian / By John Vidal – alternet
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.
Awassa, Ethiopia — We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty...
Interview with Hip Hop artist Y-O (Yonas Semere Michael) and Thurzday
U-N-I Interview: SXSW 2010
by Anneliese Curtis Place – Mar 17th 2010 – Spinner
U-N-I are hip hop artist pioneering the new sounds of today. The duo, Y-O and Thurzday, met in 1999 at St. Bernard High School in Westchester, California. They recognized each other's talents on the basketball courts and during freestyle cipher battles in the school's cafeteria. Their life-affirming...