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19 Sep 2011 11:00 Africa/Lagos IBM Boosts Africa Expansion With New Angola Office New subsidiary demonstrates company's increased footprint in key growth markets PR Newswire LUANDA, Angola, Sept. 19, 2011 LUANDA, Angola, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced the opening of a new branch office in Luanda, as part of the company's continued geographic expansion to increase its presence in key growth markets in support of its global strategy. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110919/NY69873-a ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110919/NY69873-b ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) The Angolan arm is part of a broad programme of investment that IBM is making in Africa and follows the recent opening of new locations in Dakar, Senegal and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This gives IBM a direct presence in more than 20 African countries, including South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria....

Hunger is eating up the poor children in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya while children in America and other developed nations are over fed and obese. ~ Orikinla Osinachi, Nigerian poet and blogger 22 Jul 2011 16:15 Africa/Lagos UNICEF: Horn of Africa is a "Crisis for Child Survival" Children's agency massively scaling up operations to respond to urgent needs PR Newswire NEW YORK, July 22, 2011 NEW YORK, July 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With famine now declared in two regions of Southern Somalia and malnutrition rates at emergency levels in arid and semi-arid regions across the Horn of Africa, nearly 720,000 children are at risk of death without urgent assistance. In total 2.23 million children in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are estimated to be acutely malnourished. "This summer has been an unspeakable nightmare for millions of children in the Horn of Africa," said President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl Stern. "We cannot control the weath...

Media Roundtable Discussion with Justin Chadwick, Director of the Movie, The First Grader from George Wada on Vimeo . Justin Chadwick's remarkable film The First Grader is our movie of the month and when you see it, you would be be thrilled to agree with our choice. Read the synopsis for a start. Kenya, 2003: A radio DJ announces that the Kenyan government is offering free primary school education to all. Maruge (OLIVER LITONDO), an 84 year-old villager, hears this and decides he wants to educate himself. Arriving at his local school, with a newspaper clipping about this change in policy, he meetsJane (NAOMIE HARRIS), the school’s principal, and expresses his desire to learn. Her colleague Alfred (ALFRED MUNYUA), in an effort to get rid of him, tells him all pupils need two pencils and an exercise book. The next day, Maruge returns, telling Jane he wants to learn to read. He has a letter from the “Office of the President” that he wants to understand. Exasperated, she tells him t...

As Queen Elizabeth 2 ends her own first visit to Ireland, President Barack Obama begins his own. President Barack Obama He will be one of eight hundred thousand Americans expected to travel to Ireland this year, but his is perhaps the most historic one, because he is actually going back to his ancestral roots. Yes, Barack Obama is also Irish. Most people know him as a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, whose mother Ann Dunham Stanley came from Wichita, Kansas of mostly English descent with the roots of her family tree going as far back as Germany, Wales and of course Ireland where Obama will be welcomed with open arms in Moneygall, County Offaly the birthpace of his great-great-great grandfather Falmouth Kearney (who emigrated to the US in 1850, because of the potato famine). Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, was a descendant of one of Kearney's daughters, Mary Ann Kearney, and Jacob William Dunham. So, the Irish can also claim him and how amusing that would be to his kith and kin from h...

Infinity TV brings Modern Times Group to Nigeria The new satellite pay-TV station Infinity TV has brought the Modern Times Group (MTG), to Nigeria with the launch of four pay-TV channels in Africa. The company released the details of the Viasat History, Viasat Nature, Viasat Explorer and Viasat Crime channels at the first press conference on Friday February 25, 2011, at the Sofitel Hotel in Ikoyi, Lagos. Viasat is the brand for the digital satellite TV platforms operated by MTG, a leading international entertainment broadcasting group with over 50 million subscribers and attracting over 125 million viewers in 31 countries worldwide. The channels have award winning documentaries such as Nature’s Babies , Untamed Europe and Winter in Yelowstone on Viasat Nature Channel. Visual History… Bringing History to Life , Gladiators: Back From the Dead , The Somme and The Black Death on Viasat History Channel. Star Wars Tech , Toughest Career Jobs and Escape To The Legion on Viasat Explore...

Before Noon EST (17:00 UTC ) Tuesday , January 20 , 2009 A fictional account of factual people, places and occurrences on the American presidential election in 2008. The titanic contest between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain in the November 4 presidential election is making headlines all over the world. The majority of Americans have had enough of the Republicans madness in the eight years of the nightmarish maladministration of Dubya . How did the American son of an African from Kenya become the most sensational Democrat in the history of America? His picturesque contrast to Senator Hillary Clinton made all the difference. I believe that if Barack Obama contested the Democratic nomination with another American woman and not Hilllary Clinton, the story would have had a different ending today. He is what I call a political smart Alec or politically correct American politician from Chicago. He fished in the troubled waters of the Clintons and turned the sharks against the...

21 Apr 2008 19:01 Africa/Lagos Kenya's Crisis: Lack of Land Rights Contributes to Conflict in East Africa, Say Natural Resource Experts at Wilson Center WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lack of land and property rights are key factors in East African conflicts -- including the current political crisis in Kenya -- where ethnic rivalries are often rooted in battles over land. But securing access to land can help prevent violence and promote peace, as well as improve a country's environmental, social, and economic prospects. At the Wilson Center on April 23rd, Peter Hetz and Gregory Myers will examine land and conflict in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Sudan, with a special focus on Kenya. Peter Hetz, the vice president for technical operations at ARD, Inc., will discuss the relationship between property rights and conflict. Gregory Myers, a natural resource management specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development, will focus on natural resource manageme...

23 Mar 2008 17:04 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: Cover: When 'Barry' Became Barack Newsweek Reconstructs Time When Obama Moved from Using 'Barry' to Formal Barack and Impact it Made on Him 'It was when I Made a Conscious Decision: I Want to Grow Up,' Obama Says NEW YORK, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- When Sen. Barack Obama moved from using the name Barry to Barack, his formal name, it was part of his almost lifelong quest for identity and belonging -- to figure out who he is, and how he fits into the larger American tapestry. Part black, part white, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, with family of different religious and spiritual backgrounds -- seen by others in ways he didn't see himself -- the young Barry was looking for solid ground. At Occidental College, he was feeling like he was at a "dead end," he tells Newsweek, "that somehow I needed to connect with something bigger than myself." (Newsweek: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080323/...

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of Nigeria I am posting this press release by the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for reference, since it was released before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, dismissed the suits of former military ruler, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and upheld the fraudulent election of "President" Umaru Yar'Adua in the April 2007 presidential poll . 23 Feb 2008 23:00 Africa/Lagos Atiku Abubakar: Africa's Fraudulent Elections: A Non-Violent Alternative Africa's Fraudulent Elections: A Non-Violent Alternative A statement by former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar In advance of a decision by a Nigerian tribunal on February 26 on whether the 2007 election of the President was legal, former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar delivers a statement. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-...

Barack Obama at a political campaign rally . BEING BLACK IS NOT ENOUGH The fundamental existence of the African American is defined by the African American experience. You cannot be an African American without an African American experience. Being black and with an American citizenship is not enough. How can a biracial citizen of America who was never raised as an African American and does not have the natural African American experience suddenly be an African American? What if Barack Obama's White mother raised him up in Indonesia and he became an Indonesian citizen before returning to the US, and later became an American citizen? We have Nigerian Americans, South African Americans and so forth, who were born and bred in the US, but they are not African Americans. If you were born to an African father and a White American mother, but your African father is not an American citizen, you are first and foremost an African and not an African American. If you were born by an African...

Beyond Nevada: Beware of Barack Obama « on: Today at 06:13:31 AM » “¿Cómo-Se-Llama?” or “What’s-His-Name?,” ~ Dolores Huerta, farm-worker heroine whilst talking to reporters why the Latinos supported Hillary Clinton to win the Nevada Caucuses Saturday, January 19, 2007. Hillary Clinton won and she was quite humble about it. Barack Obama is a bad loser. I doubt whether he is truly a Democrat or just trying to take the Democrats for a ride to fulfill his ego-centric African American Dream to become the first black president of the United States. He lies that he is a "Uniter", but was privy to a Memo to blackmail the Clintons as "racist" in South Carolina and has divided the Democratic Party into blacks for Obama and blacks against the Clintons. I am a black African and I read the malicious Memo, signed by the Obama camp in South Carolina. They even lied that Bill Clinton was disrespecting Nelson Mandela of South Africa. I was involved in the mobilization of the Africa...

Barack Obama and Raila Odinga in Kenya . You have to read this investigative report on Barack Obama’s Support for Raila Odinga .

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton The Political Hypocrisy of Barack Hussein Obama’s Demagogy in His Desperation to Win South Carolina Democratic Primary I have been seeing and reading reports of the misguided insinuations of the Barack Obama camp on the remarks of the Clintons on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr and the history of the Civil Rights Movement. I am not surprised, because I know the hypocritical political tactics of Senator Barack Hussein Obama and how he is going to manipulate racial sentiments among the African Americans in South Carolina and other states to turn them away from voting for Senator Hillary Clinton. Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race January 12, 2008 01:15 PM Read the full memo: Subject: MUST READ: Key S.C. figure takes issue with Clintons SHUCK AND JIVE Clinton Supporter Andrew Cuomo, Referring To Obama, Said "You Can't Shuck And Jive At A Press Conference. All Those Moves You Can Make With The Press Don't Work When You're In...

Kenya needs Barack Obama more than America. Obama should honour the will of his late father by returning to his fatherland and become the President of Kenya. I do not even know why Africans would do anything to deny serving their fatherland to play to the gallery of America. Yes, Oprah Winfrey is bona fide Afrcan American since Kunta Kinte, but this Barack Obama guy is only an African American by default. His father was Kenyan, born and bred and died in Kenya and by our African tradition, the first son must live and carry the heirloom of the Kenyan Father in Kenya and not claiming another fatherland, because he looks down on his own fatherland in Africa. Obama should come back home. All African immigrants should be sent back to Africa to join proud Africans like Orikinla to develop Africa. Barack Husseiin Obama, come back home to Kenya. We need you more than America. Come back and become the chief of your father's village and marry more wives. The only African Americans I recognize...

There were hot exchanges between the supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over The Oprah Winfrey show in Iowa , South Carolina, and New Hampshire . The following is the summary of my comments on the washingtonpost.com , Huff Post News and Topix . Oprah Winfrey and Senator Barack Obama need a reality check, because they are politically naïve and unrealistic. Barack Obama does not really know what it means to be the President of the greatest nation on earth and the challenges of leading the world. I have been well informed on the global role of America on earth, so, I can say who is capable of becoming the next President of the United States of America and that American patriot is, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, proud wife, mother and role model for American girls and women. Oprah Winfrey is neither a wife nor a mother and has no clue on raising children; talk less of leading a nation. I am disappointed that a black woman who refused to marry and does not want to have...