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AFRICA

USAfricaonline.com goes richly interactive with new look, content….

"The importance of this latest interactive re-positioning of USAfricaonline.com is to fully tap into the advantages of the digital world to benefit our ...

By USAfricaLIVEOctober 2, 20090

SPORTS

Rio de Janeiro wins bid for 2016 Olympic Games..

'Hosting the Olympic Games should not be a privilege for rich countries,' Lula said recently in New York. In that sentence, the Brazilian ...

By USAfricaLIVEOctober 2, 20090

AFRICA

Banking on Africa: the examples of Kaberuka and Sinon

The goal of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is to create sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries ...

By USAfricaLIVESeptember 30, 20090

BUSINESS

Femi Kuti brings the roof down at Chicago’s Ravinia music festival

Can't Buy Me, a song that addresses the sugar daddy syndrome, was greeted by cheers.... When he sang his anti government song, ...

By USAfricaLIVESeptember 30, 20090

AFRICA

Nigeria’s troubled banking system and need for CBN reforms

Nigerian banking is being pulled from the crisis and profligacy of the past 5 years inflicted by bank executives and some failings on ...

By USAfricaLIVESeptember 30, 20090

POLITICS

Awofeso: Nigeria’s odyssey and the diffident leadership of President Yar’Adua

In these closing months of 2009, Nigeria's predictably dire future will need to be re-assessed to decide the ultimate political question of whether ...

By USAfricaLIVESeptember 30, 20090

AFRICA

Oprah picks Nigerian author’s short stories

Uwem notes that: "I was inspired to write by the people who sit around my village church to share palm wine after Sunday ...

By USAfricaLIVESeptember 30, 20090

HEALTH

Democrats who voted against public OPTION got $19 million from healthcare firms, lobbyists

Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) alone accounts for nearly $8 million of the total. In addition, five of his former staff members ...

By USAfricaLIVESeptember 30, 20091

AFRICA

Suleiman: I am Hungry, Please Re-brand me

I am Nigeria. Malaria, typhoid and many other preventable diseases send me to hospitals which have no doctors, no medicines and no power. ...

By USAfricaLIVESeptember 30, 20090

Guinea’s dictator Camara apologizes: claims “atrocities” by “uncontrollable elements in the military….”

The brutal events have drawn international condemnation. Camara said: "Very frankly speaking, I'm very sorry, very sorry...."Even I, as head of state in ...

By USAfricaLIVESeptember 30, 20093