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While West African countries weigh a military solution to the Mali crisis, Islamist group Ansar al-Din has turned to the internet to muster support. The group's media official, Sanda Ould Bouamama, recently held a series of discussions on global jihadist forums, including the "Ansar Al-Mujahideen Network". The Touareg Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaeda in the [...]
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While West African countries weigh a military solution to the Mali crisis, Islamist group Ansar al-Din has turned to the internet to muster support. The group's media official, Sanda Ould Bouamama, recently held a series of discussions on global jihadist forums, including the "Ansar Al-Mujahideen Network". The Touareg Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaeda in the [...]
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Most recollections of the earliest European interactions with Africans portray Africans as brutes or Tarzan like characters that needed taming and civilizing. Notwithstanding accounts of brutal practices like human impaling that cannot be challenged, it was inaccurate to ascribe such brutality as specific to African culture excerpt perhaps that Africans were among the last people to disavow such practices.
So it was up to King cobra to remind us that there are still some among our contemporaries that are yet to give up dehumanizing fellow human beings through acts of corporal ill treatment and subservience.
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Not a headline you would expect from FCNL; yet that is what we hear and see everyday in the drumbeat that defense contractors and their lobbyists are marching to here in Washington.
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No man is an island - yet creative industries are often critised for not exploiting social opportunities enough. The advent of social media-reducing the distance to key connections from 6 degrees to 1 tweet away is revolutionising our lives and how we create business opportunities. For the first time ever - at the GoDown Arts [...]
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We live in the Anthropocene era. Think about that for a minute. "The influence of human behavior on the Earth's atmosphere in recent centuries is so significant as to constitute a new geological era for its lithosphere."
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Zambezi Airlines recently announced that it is taking back to the skies after ceasing operation for 7 months. The airlines says it has learnt its lesson. The plan is to operate a fleet of CRJ200 aircraft, with initial service covering Lusaka, Harare, Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg, Ndola and Lubumbashi. More detail via Daily Mail.
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Eita, Being an old Rhodes University student, the National Arts Festival is something which I used to take for granted. I attended it almost every year during my stay in, what was fondly referred to by many of us as, the 'Gspot'. Since I finished up there in 2009, I have not been back since. [...]
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WOZA women spent 48 hours in the hell hole that is Bulawayo central police station cells. During that time the police hid two of them away in an office denying access to them. Police officers lied that they had rushed Sibongile Lumbile to hospital, instead they ignored her breathing problems and made her sit hidden [...]
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