Nigeria to use intel from U.S. reconnaissance flights to fight jihadists
Nigeria's air force will take the lead from the United States after Washington's Christmas Day strikes on jihadists, making use of US reconnaissance flights to aid its own strikes, a…
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Poetry: The Rainy Season.
USAfricaPOETRY: THE RAINY SEASON By Chris Chinwe Ulasi Special to USAfricaonline.com What’s on your mind, these pelting rains, borne of Nature’s generous appetite, whose wet soul I would like to…
Poetry: The Music in my heart….By Nkem Ekeopara
Download the original attachment 4 poems for publication in Class The Music in my Heart My honey-coated tunes to your ears Come not from the twisting of my tongue Nor…
Somalia’s president meets with members of Minnesota’s Somali community; warns radical recruiters here in U.S
Speaking through an interpreter, President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said the problems in Somalia are not clans fighting each other, but rather a “foreign idea” trying to take hold. A…
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 community and readers. With this initiative, USAfrica…
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 synthesized all his shrewdness, in the effort…
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 (RMCs), thereby helping to reduce poverty. This…
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, Se Were, the crowd was really ready for…
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 the part of the regulators. Hence, more…
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 or not Nigeria will continue on its…
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 Mass, by the Bible, and by the…
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 -- including two former chiefs of staff…
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. So my wife gives birth with candle…
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 this very tense situation, cannot claim to…
Africa Action, ECOWAS condemn Guinea’s killing of 160 “peaceful demonstrators”
"They were raping women publicly. Soldiers were shooting everywhere and I saw people fall" Mouctar Diallo, opposition activist
U.S. AfriCom’s commander Ward: no plans to move hqs to Africa
Washington has no plans "for the foreseeable future" to move the headquarters of U.S. Africa Command - nor any of its military components - to the continent, AfriCom chief Army…
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