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Your Black News Headlines: 12/18/2008
Your Black News Headlines: 12/15/2008
Racial Gap In Colon Cancer Deaths Widening
Mysteries In Jennifer Hudson Murders Unraveling
Christian Missionaries Accused Of Preying In Morocco
Zimbabwe To Block Western Efforts At UN Security Council
ANC Dissidents Launching New Party Ahead Of South Africa Vote
Lawmaker Encourages Black Barber Shops To Provide Health Check-Ups
Your Black Health: On World AIDS Day, Activists Renew Struggle Against Deadly Virus
It has been 20 years since the first World AIDS Day drew attention to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Today, with some 33 million people living with HIV, World AIDS Day and events like the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, taking place in Senegal, December 3-7, remain “extraordinarily important for those who are trying to fight AIDS in this world,” says Shanta Devarajan, Chief Economist for the World Bank’s Africa region.
AIDS is increasingly seen as not only a health problem, but society’s problem, says Devarajan. “We need 
all the resources and all the mechanisms that we have in society to fight AIDS.”
HIV/AIDS Increasingly a Development Priority
Finance ministers and heads of state in hard-hit Sub-Saharan Africa, such as Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, are increasingly making the battle against HIV/AIDS a top priority, he adds. South Africa has rolled out one of the biggest antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programs in the world. [...]
While HIV prevention efforts are paying off, with behavior change noted particularly among young people. For every two people in Sub-Saharan Africa gaining access to treatment, five become newly infected. This ratio must change [...]
Your Black World Headlines: 11/25/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 11/19/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 11/18/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 11/17/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 11/12/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 11/11/2008
Italy’s P.M Calls Obama ‘Suntanned’
Malaria Vaccine Trial Begins In Africa
Death Toll Rises In Haiti School Collapse
Obama Victory Energizes White Supremacists
Blood Pressure Disparity Kills 8,000 Blacks Annually
Your Black World Headlines: 11/10/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 11/4/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 11/3/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 10/30/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 10/29/2008
Your Black World Headlines: 10/28/2008
Police Seek Clues In Hudson Deaths
Landmark Victory In Niger Slavery Case
Charles Barkley To Run For Governor’s Office
Gabrielle Union Addresses Breast Cancer In Ghana
Police Chief Says Isiah Thomas Lying About Overdose
Lil Wayne Signs With Roc Nation In Multi-Million Dollar Deal
Your Black World Headlines: 10/27/2008
Black Scholar Disheartened By CNN’s New Hughley Show
Africa Leaders Meet To End Zimbabwe Political Conflicts
Obama Expresses Concern Over Hudson Murders
Haiti Potentially Debt-Free By Mid-2009
Voter Purging Taking Place In Across Country
Your Black News: Another Darfur War Looming In Sudan?
A disputed region in Sudan could turn into another conflict to rival that in Darfur, a think-tank has warned.
The International Crisis Group said the main political parties and the international community needed to deal with the crisis before polls in 2009.
“South Kordofan is a Sudan in miniature, with heavily armed African and Arab tribes living side by side,” ICG’s Fouad Hikmat told the BBC.
The state was bitterly contested during the north-south war that ended in 2005.
A peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the southern rebel movement ended one of Africa’s longest and bloodiest conflicts, with the two parties supposed to share power and the country’s oil wealth.
But the situation in Southern Kordofan, which lies to the north of the border of South Sudan and borders Darfur, could be the domino that tips over the peace in the south, and possibly, the entire country, the ICG says.
In a report entitled Sudan’s Southern Kordofan: The Next Darfur? it says the main northern and southern political parties – President Omar al-Bashir’s NCP and the ex-rebel SPLM – have been “dangerously engaged in ethnic polarisation” in advance of elections [...]
Your Black World Headlines: 10/21/2008
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Your Black News: Africans Widely Oppose Africom Despite Black Commander
A new command takes over all U.S. military operations in Africa Wednesday, a program that many on the continent fear has a hidden agenda skewed by the war on terror and a self-interested scramble for resources.
Africom is also facing skeptical U.S. lawmakers who slashed its budget by a third last week and said the command’s rollout over the last year had been “badly bungled.”
Before Africom was created one year ago, American military programs on the continent had been divvied up among three other commands more concerned with NATO and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The new command is inheriting responsibility for a Centcom-run base in Djibouti, where 1,800 troops are deployed to keep Horn of Africa terror networks in check. It also takes over European Command’s Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Initiative and dozens of other military and maritime training programs.
“Africans believe Africom is aimed at promoting America’s interests, not Africa’s,” said Wafula Okumu, a Kenyan analyst at South Africa’s Institute for Security Studies. Most Africans don’t trust their own militaries, which in places like Congo have turned weapons on their own people.
“They don’t trust Africom, either, because it’s a military force,” Okumu said. There is also “a suspicion America wants to use us, perhaps make us proxies” in the war on terror…
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Your Black World Headlines: 09/18/2008
Secret Service Investigating New Threats Made Against Obama
Jesse Jackson Campaigns Against Election Fraud
Number Doubles For People Needing Aid In Africa
Malaria In Africa Intensifies: A Million Dead
Report Says Unwed Mothers Face Constant Disparities Due To Race
Denzel & Shaq Are New Faces of Boys Club
Rep. Charles Rangel To Face Tax Collector
Jada Pinkett To Star As Nursing Director In New TNT Series
Detroit To Celebrate Motown’s 50th Anniversary With Festivities
Your Black Life: Bird Flu Outbreak In Togo Turns Deadly
Tests performed after an outbreak of bird flu in the West African nation of Togo have confirmed the presence of the virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, state media said Monday.
The virus was detected at a poultry farm housing more than 4,500 birds in the village of Agbata outside the capital, Lome, according to the government.
The presence of the deadly strain raises special concern because it has the potential to infect humans. At least 235 people have died of bird flu worldwide since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.
However, the disease remains hard for humans to catch, with most cases linked to contact with infected birds. But scientists worry the virus could mutate to a form that spreads more easily among people…
Your Black News Headlines: 12/17/2008
Two-Parent Black Families Pose Growth
Southern Africa Launching Aid To Zimbabwe
Blacks Targeted By Advertisers For Fatty Foods
Black Journalists Take Hard Hit In Financial Crisis
Michael Vick May Be Moved To Halfway House Soon
Oprah Inks 3-Year Deal With HBO For TV/Movie Projects
New Summit To Discuss Ethnic-Minorities’ Health Disparities