WASHINGTON – With just hours to go until Kenyans vote on a new Constitution, World Congress of Families, Managing Director Larry Jacobs announced the results of a successful petition drive “In Support Of The ‘No’ Campaign – Kenyans Opposed To The Pro-Abortion Constitution. Africa has been targeted by international population control groups for legalized abortion despite a 47% drop in Kenyan fertility and projections that show a declining population in the next 50 years. It’s reported the Obama administration has spent over $30 million to promote the Constitution that will open the door to a reduction in the black population.... Continue Reading
“I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world, as partners with America on behalf of the future we want for all of our children. That partnership must be grounded in mutual responsibility and mutual respect.” said the USA President Barack Obama in Accra, Ghana, July 2009 In 2010, seventeen countries across sub-Saharan Africa celebrate fifty years of independence. In honor of this important historic moment, in acknowledgement of the extraordinarily young demographic profile of the region, and as part of an effort to forge strong, forward-looking partnerships in the years ahead, President Obama is hosting a forum... Continue Reading
ABUJA – “Despite the difficulties inherent to the low level of infrastructure, Africa is far from being kept out of the global network. Internet represents a great hope for educated youth. The withholding of information by the ancient and powerful is even heavier than the libraries are almost empty. Internet therefore seems to many as a great opportunity for the South”. These are the words of Mr Aboubakari Baba Moussa, Director of Energy and Infrastructure of the African Union (AU) at the opening ceremony of the expert’s session of the Third AU Conference of Ministers in charge of Communication and... Continue Reading
Washington – President Barack Obama criticised Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe on Tuesday and warned Africa not to repeat the mistakes that betrayed the hopes of an “independence generation,” which included his own father. “I’ll be honest with you. I am heartbroken when I see what has happened in Zimbabwe,” he said at a White House event to discuss the continent’s future. Obama invited 115 young Africans, selected as the region’s future leaders, to take part in a three-day forum marking the 50th anniversary of independence in many of their countries, while looking toward the next 50 years. As America’s first... Continue Reading
Hip-hop, more than most pop genres, is something of a pulpit, urban fire and brimstone garbed in baggy pants and backward caps. So it’s little wonder that one of the music form’s icons, Haitian-American superstar Wyclef Jean, is the son of a Nazarene preacher — or that he likens himself, as a child of the Haitian diaspora, to a modern-day Moses, destined to return and lead his people out of bondage. Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake, which ravaged the western hemisphere’s poorest country and killed more than 200,000 people, was the biblical event that sealed his calling. After days of helping... Continue Reading
