South Africa removes recognition of 6 kings; dismisses them as apartheid creations
South Africa removes recognition of six traditional kings. By Jean-Jacques Cornish (AFP) PRETORIA — President Jacob Zuma announced Thursday July 29, that South Africa would stop recognising half the nation’s More...
Obama holds forum with African youth August 3-5 in Washington DC
Obama.USAfrica.Man-of-the-year.Houston-based-multimedia Obama to hold forum with African youth from August 3-5, 2010 in Washington DC Special to USAfrica, and CLASSmagazine Houston. By Chido Nwangwu, USAfricaonline.com. A More...
CNN International profiles work of USAfrica’s Chido Nwangwu
Chido.Nwangwu.CNN-intvw-profile-june2010.USAfrica2 VIDEO of the CNN International broadcast/profile of USAfrica and CLASSmagazine Publisher Dr. Chido Nwangwu on July 28, 2010, at 2.45PM U.S EST (New York time), More...
African Union peacekeepers killed by Somali insurgents
African Union peacekeepers killed by Somali insurgents. Somali insurgents killed two African Union peacekeepers from Uganda in fierce battles earlier the week, a spokesman for the AU mission in Somalia has said More...
Memories of Genocide and Rwandan government’s abuse of authority. By Prof. Chi Mgbako
Memories of Genocide and Rwandan government’s abuse of authority By Prof. Chi Mgbako Special to USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagaine, Houston. As the August 2010 presidential election looms, it is More...
CIRCUMCISION: African men line up in battle against HIV infections
Circumcision could halt 4 million new African HIV cases By Kate Kelland in Vienna (Reuters) – More than 4 million new HIV infections could be prevented in eastern and southern Africa by 2025 if male circumcision More...
U.S. Policy toward Sudan not “meaningful”, says John Prendergast of Enough Project
Sudan-president-omar-al-bashir-charged-as-war-criminal U.S. Policy toward Sudan not “meaningful”, says John Prendergast of Enough Project. Special to USAfrica multimedia networks, and CLASSmagazine, More...
Muslim attack on Christian village in Jos, Nigeria kills 8, about 45 injured
Muslim attack on Christian village in Jos, Nigeria kills 8, about 45 injured AFP: Jos, Nigeria — Muslims attacked a Christian village in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing eight people with machetes and burning More...
Nigerian kidnappers free journalists held for a week
Nigerian kidnappers free journalists held for a week. By Joel Olatunde Agoi (AFP) – Nigerian gunmen who kidnapped four journalists last week in the country’s oil-rich south freed them on Sunday without More...
KIDNAPPED: African journalists call for release of Nigerian journalists
USAfrica’s Publisher, African journalists call for release of kidnapped Nigerian journalists July 16, 2010: The Founder & Publisher of Houston-based USAfrica multimedia networks and USAfricaonline.com, More...
Why I celebrate Mandela’s life, struggles and works. By Chido Nwangwu.
Nelson-Mandela-with-the-World-Cup2010-trophy Why I celebrate MANDELA’s life, struggles and works. By Chido Nwangwu, Founder & Publisher of USAfricaonline.com and USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston. Special More...
Lessons of 2010 World Cup as Africa shines with South Africa’s outstanding hosting of championship
southafrica-worldcup2010-stadiums-sandtonshtl2010 Lessons of 2010 World Cup as Africa shines with South Africa’s outstanding hosting of championship. By Nicholas Sengoba Special to USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com More...
Islamist al-Shaabab militia claim responsibility for attacks, killings in Uganda; threatens U.S., U.N
Islamist al-Shaabab militia claim responsibility for attacks, killings of 74 persons in Uganda; threatens U.S., U.N Special to USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine Houston At least 74 people were killed More...
74 dead in Uganda bomb blasts; 1 American, many injured
74 dead in Uganda bomb blasts Bomb explosions that tore through two bars in the Ugandan capital at the weekend left at least 74 people dead and wounded 65 others, a national police spokeswoman said Monday. Three More...
Guinea presidential run-off election postponed….
Guinea.westafrica.election25jun10.afp-pix Guinea presidential run-off election postponed The second round of Guinea’s presidential election, scheduled for July 18, has been postponed to a date yet to be More...
Shell gets N15b oil pollution ruling against its Nigeria operations.
Shell gets N15b oil pollution ruling against its Nigeria operations. Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston. By Chido Nwangwu (in Houston) and Obinwa Nnaji (USAfrica Executive Editor in Lagos). For More...
POLLUTION, OIL and NIGERIA: Liquid Gold or Petro-Dollars Curse?
POLLUTION, OIL and NIGERIA: LIQUID GOLD OR PETRO-GAS CURSE? By Chido Nwangwu, Publisher of USAfrica. Special to USAfrica The Newspaper, Houston (first written/published on October 19, 1998) and USAfricaonline.com http://www.usafricaonline.com/chido.petrogas.html updated More...
Jonathan makes u-turn on his Nigeria-FIFA international soccer ban
Jonathan reverses himself on Nigeria international soccer ban Special to USAfricaonline.com Nigeria’s government on Monday July 5, 2010 lifted a two-year ban it imposed last week on its national football More...
BrkNEWS… Congo fuel truck fire kills 230, many children
Congo fuel truck fire kills 230, many children Sange, DR Congo (AFP) – A fuel truck exploded and set fire to a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing more than 230 people and injuring scores, More...
President Jonathan, shut them down
President Jonathan, shut them down…. By CHIDO NWANGWU, Publisher of USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston. On Wednesday July 7, 2010, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan’s More...
Ghana loses World Cup tie to Uruguay via penalties
Ghana Black Stars fumbled a closing minute penalty kick and shot poorly in the penalty shoot-out following a 1-1 tie to lose the World Cup quarter finals against Uruguay. Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogle +1EmailPinterestStumbleUponPrintDiggMoreReddit More...
Nigeria’s 2011 elections and realities facing INEC’s Attahiru Jega.
Nigeria’s 2011 elections and realities facing INEC’s Attahiru Jega. By Benjamin Aduba Special to USAfricaonline.com In a well written article published by Economic Confidential, a writer Law Mefor asks More...
Obama’s economic recovery solution requires revolutionary technological innovations. By Blaize Kaduru
By BLAIZE KADURU, Chief Economist of USAfrica multimedia networks and CLASSmagazine, Houston. Houston, July 1, 2010: First of all, let me stipulate my main point: the Obama stimulus package is bound to fail More...
Burundi’s incumbent President wins flawed, one-man presidential election with landslide
Burundi’s incumbent President wins flawed, one-man presidential election with landslide Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine The Burundian National Electoral Commission on Wednesday evening said More...
