What do you know about the Ethiopian election 2005 the tragedy part?
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No I don't. Wish you had left a link...sounds interesting.
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I definitely do know about the genocide in Darfur. In fact, yesterday I went to the Save Darfur Rally in Washington, D.C. to urge the President to take stronger measures in ending the violence and rapes in the Sudanese country. I also have donated money and will continue to donate, which is important since the U.N. is running out of money for the cause and supposedly is cutting half of it's food rations for the country because of lack of funding.\n\nDuring the rally, I also got a t-shirt. I plan to wear the T-shirt, which will hopefully strike up a conversation with someone who doesn't know about what's going on in Darfur because many people don't know about it.\n\nLastly, I pray for the people in Darfur. What better way to help than calling on a higher power.
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Verdict of History\nThis Day (Lagos), 18 October 2000\nLagos—Last weekend former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, came on the centre stage, once again. In Jos, Plateau State his associates put together a three-day symposium with the theme, The Babangida Regime: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. \n\nAt the symposium were those men who served in Babangida's government. Leading the orchestra was the then chief of general staff turned vice president, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu. Then there were Hamza Abdullahi, Alex Akinyele and Uche Chukwumerije, all ministers in that government. There were also retired military officers some of whom did say they could follow Babangida to battle blindfolded - John Shagaya, John Inienger, Tunji Olurin, etc. Not left out were palace advisers like Sam Oyovbaire and a coterie of court historians. The purpose of the symposium was simple - to defend the programmes and policies of the Babangida administration, revise the nation's history and reposition the self- styled Maradona as a leader with vision. \n\nThe temptation was there to ignore the symposium considering the fact that the participants therein were yesterday's men who have been so completely forgotten, if not irrelevant, that they are today looking for attention and relevance. A symposium to reclaim Babangida if not the devil himself could only provide a convenient platform to get the needed attention. But then Babangida's signature was too prominent on the symposium to be ignored. The former president was not physically present at the symposium; he delivered a dinner speech entitled, We have reengineered Nigeria. A master of philosophical obfuscation, Babangida attempted very strongly to explain away the present democratic dispensation as the consummation of his administration's vision and the realisation of its goals. Nigeria is today a democracy. I am happy... that our vision for which I had invested all of my energy and tasked my colleagues even beyond endurance, has been fulfilled, he asseverated in self-glorification. \n\nBabangida made some other claims. He said his government did not deliberately go out of its way to abridge anybody's rights. Whenever an infringement of rights occurred, it must have been an error, not deliberate. He said his vision was to build a democracy that would endure. He asserted that his presidency has changed Nigeria irrevocably, that the country has been so reengineered that today we all live in a new Nigeria. He contented that his regime faced so many challenges some of which generated the kind of momentum that were neither fathomable nor within human control. Statecraft in essence is about taking decisions and solving problems. Both require courage, resolve and nerves; but more especially foresight and fortitude, Babangida said. He gave the impression that while he was not lacking in all these, his administration did make some mistakes, just as any mortal would have done. In accepting responsibility for every mistake of his government, he said he expects the understanding and magnanimity of Nigerians. In every line of his speech Babangida valiantly tried to rewrite history, using a combination of half-truths, meaningless phrases and outright lies. \n\nBabangida's desperation is hardly surprising. Throughout his eight-year reign, he was very concerned with his place in history. Everything he did and said he had an eye on the verdict of history. Luckily for him, as military president he had enormous goodwill. He charmed the nation with his toothy smiles and confused the people with the constant twists and turns in his social engineering policies that Nigerians practically ate from his hands. But then Babangida mistook his heroism for immortality; he assumed that popularity was synonymous with sainthood. He overreached himself, dribbled the people once too many and annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential elections. It is a measure of Babangida's perfidy tha
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Are you kidding...you think Americans care what's happening in Rwanda?...Most couldn't even find it on a map!\n\nI see you had to get that from the BBC.....it's a shame, but you don't really hear about that on the news here....do you?\n\nsad,sad,sad
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I thought the disease was wealth by greed .... and does ignorance breed rapacity ? those are the diseases to me.No \nonly free thinking and the return of the vote can help.\npeace out!
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I am assuming you are referring to Phnom Penh (the city in Cambodia) - do you have any more specifics like a time frame? There have been a lot of incidents that have happened over the years - I can help if you've got a little more info. Feel free to e-mail me at sofgrant@hotmail.com and I'll do what I can.
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ELECTIONS-NICARAGUA:\nThe Sandinistas Are Back\nJosé Adán Silva\n\nMANAGUA, Nov 6 (IPS) - They swore they would return. And today, 16 years after losing their grip on power in national elections, Nicaragua's Sandinistas appear to have made it back, according to the preliminary results from Sunday's elections. \n\nThe leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front's (FSLN) presidential candidate Daniel Ortega took 40 percent of the vote, while the right-wing Eduardo Montealegre of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) and José Rizo of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC) garnered 33 and 20 percent, respectively, the Supreme Electoral Court announced after 40 percent of the votes were tallied. \n\nUnder Nicaraguan law, Ortega needs either 40 percent of the vote, or just 35 percent and a five-point lead over his nearest rival, to avoid a run-off. \n\nThe news that Ortega was ahead prompted FSLN supporters to take to the streets to celebrate, with flags, t-shirts and signs bearing Ortega's image, while singing protest songs and election jingles. \n\nInternational election observers sent by the Organisation of American States (OAS), the European Union and the Carter Centre (led by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter) said the elections went smoothly and were clean and transparent. \n\nOnly the mission of observers sent by the White House issued a statement reporting "anomalies". \n\nTwo local non-governmental election monitoring groups, the Institute for the Development of Democracy, and Ethics and Transparency, issued their own parallel counts, based on information gathered by more than 12,000 observers. \n\nAccording to their results, former president Ortega (1985-1990) will score a first-round victory. \n\nEthics and Transparency gave Ortega 38.5 percent of the vote and a nearly 10 percent lead over Montealegre, said the group's president, Pablo Ayón. \n\nThe watchdog group said Montealegre took 29.5 percent, Rizo 24 percent, and Edmundo Jarquín of the Sandinista Renewal Movement, a dissident faction of the FSLN, 7.4 percent -- similar to the 7.5 percent reported by the official tally. \n\n"We understand that some candidates have doubts and say they might have actually performed better, but our results, which no one can object to, will not be affected by the ‘irregularities' that were mentioned," Ayón told IPS. \n\nThe Institute for the Development of Democracy, meanwhile, said its findings showed that Ortega was ahead with 39 percent of the vote, while Montealegre took 29 percent and Rizo 25 percent. \n\n"These are not official results, but we have all of the elements necessary to reliably state that these tendencies will not budge," Mauricio Zuñiga, the head of the Institute, told IPS. "It must be recognised: Ortega won." \n\nSo far, the ALN and PLC candidates have refused to accept either the official or unofficial results, and have not ruled out the possibility of a "surprise" in the final count. \n\nMontealegre is demanding a vote-by-vote recount -- something that is not provided for in Nicaragua's election laws. \n\nThe ALN candidate said that according to his own tally and those of "serious organisations," the outcome points to the need for a second round, and protested that "irregularities" were committed. \n\nRizo also called for a recount, even though the final tally has not even been completed. \n\n"The PLC can't lose like this, the counting of our rural votes has not been completed, and we are not going to accept any winner until the very last vote is counted," said the party's spokesman Leonel Téller. \n\nThe 60-year-old Ortega first seized power in 1979 after the FSLN guerrillas overthrew the brutal Somoza family dictatorship -- which ruled the country for 40 years -- and established a revolutionary junta. \n\nIn 1984, Ortega ran for president and won the elections in the midst of a bloody
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It wasn't related to an election, but when a friend of mine came back to school from a two week vacation, a bunch of kids met him at the front door with a bunch of balloons and a sign that read, "Congrats on Finishing Rehab!"\n\nHe was soo pissed.
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I found these 2 articles that will hopefully help.  You should honestly check out www.allafrica.com they have a lot of Africa's papers conglomerated.\n\noff our backs, July-August 2005 v35 i7-8 p4(2) \nKenya: all-women village thrives. (news)(Brief Article) Priya Verma; Sara Schoenleber; Carol Anne Douglas; Rachel Pleatman; Jen Mainville; Annsley Chapman; Jennifer Chapin-Harris; Tess Mueting. \nFull Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 Off Our Backs, Inc. \n\nSeeking to escape domestic violence, rape, forced marriage, and other abuse, several dozen women have founded a matriarchal, women-only village that is drawing both economic prosperity, and hatred and jealousy of local men. \n\nThe village of Umoja, meaning "unity" in Swahili, was founded 10 years ago on an abandoned plot of land among dry grasslands. Their dung-and-mud huts are built in a circular pattern and house several dozen women in a thriving and happy village. The women have built a cultural center, a camping site for hikers destined for the nearby Samburu National Reserve, and a business making and selling traditional beadwork necklaces. \n\nIn response local men tried founding their own, men-only village and tourist center. The tourism plan flopped and the men have turned to spying on the women's village, filing a court case to try and shut down the village, and physically attacking the women. The village leader, Rebecca Lolosoli, has even received death threats after attending the recent United Nations world conference on gender. \n\n"We do not have peace in the village now. These men are so angry because we have money and we do not give them any," said Lolosoli. \n\n--info from Worldpulse Magazine 7/05, news.telegraph 8/1/05 \n\nnews compiled by Priya Verma, Sara Schoenleber, Carol Anne Douglas, Rachel Pleatman, Jen Mainville, Annsley Chapman, Jennifer Chapin-Harris and Tess Mueting \n\nAfrica News Service, March 24, 2005 pNA \nSpeed Up Empowerment of Women, Kenya Urged. \nFull Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 Africa News Service. News Provided by Comtex. \n\nNairobi, Mar 25, 2005 (The East African Standard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A Ugandan Member of Parliament Ms Miriam Matembe has challenged the Kenya Government to commit itself to the regional instruments agreed upon by other African countries that recognise Affirmative Action for women. \n\n"As a member of the Pan African Parliament, it saddens me that Kenya is not moving in line with the African Union by not having a woman in the regional parliament. The AU recognises that there can be no meaningful development without women's participation," she said. \n\nKenya has not ratified the AU Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa that was adopted in 2003. \n\nThis protocol is a regional supplement the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women. \n\nIn her opinion, as long as Kenya remains reluctant to streamline policies and laws that promote gender equality it will be difficult to catch up with developments in Uganda and Tanzania. \n\n"How can we enter regional integration when our laws, policies and political systems are not harmonised?" she posed. \n\nCopyright The East African Standard. Distributed by All Africa Global Media(AllAfrica.com) \n\nNews Provided by COMTEX (http://www.comtexnews.com)
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Try this....\n\nhttp://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2139/Halie_Selassie_Ethiopian_ruler
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One giant dropped ball.  No country on the planet seemed to really give a damn when it happened.  Now it's all political face saving and hypocracy.  I would just be glad that anything is being done.  The "justice" could easily be as forgoten as the actual act.
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Well i should ask you, about the killings that the the LTTE has done for the last few years of cease fire! and what about the bomb in the ancient city of anuradhapura which killed 70 school children? this war is not between Tamils and Sinhalese, but between the LTTE leader ( who threw a lavish b'day party in London for his daughter, when he is recruiting child soldiers in Sri Lanka) who wants to retain his power and the Sri Lankan Government, the truth about the photograph's should be dealt with carefully, and i wish to urge to those who read not to throw your self but to search for facts before!
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The War in Iraq, Immigration, Taxes, law and order, New Prime Minister, Sleaze, the Economy.\n\nThe election isn't for a while so the issues are likely to change but currently its in the order listed if you knock on doors.
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Wow! I wasn't aware that everyone knew about the terrorist attack prior to it happening.\n\nDemocrats & the Liberals would have you believe that it was only the government that knew.\n\nCan you guys get your stories straight please. Its no wonder you are all so messed up with your thinking, you can't even coordinate consistancy with your lies.
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This is about Sudan.\n\nSad Sad. http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060408/OPINION/604080307/1004/NEWS
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Coffee trade...\nhttp://www.brewbar.com/ethiopia.htm\nWeblog...\nhttp://madeinethiopia.net/saveethiopia/\nNews...\nhttp://www.journalismnet.com/africa/ethiopia.htm
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This would be my chance  to give the  world a serialised  story  of the  true state of affairs in Africa , issues   on governonce , cultures  and  the people .\n\nReasons  being that in most cases  i  have  watched with  great disbelief  the amount of untruth printed  and  televised  in the mainstream media giving  the outside  world  a  very  dark picture of  actually is the true  status in  Africa.\n\nIf  only  i could get such a  chance .