Thomas Hagan, the only man who admitted his role in the 1965 assassination of iconic black leader Malcolm X, was paroled Tuesday.
Hagan was freed a day earlier than planned because his paperwork was processed more quickly than anticipated, according to the New York State Department of Correctional Services. read more
Abuse charge against Catholic priest roils Kenya: By TOM ODULA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
After three young men and a boy told police last June an Italian priest had been sexually molesting them for years at a shelter for poor children, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in Kenya announced the church would investigate thoroughly.read more
United States government stopped emergency enhanced airport screening measures against Nigerians. It explained that the measure lacked sustainability and was creating image problems for it globally. read more
Mandela and his Ethiopian Military Training Instructor Col Wakenu
Nelson Mandela and his law partner Oliver Tambo in Addis Ababa 1962
[“In 1962, Mr. Nelson Mandela secretly travelled to Ethiopia for military, political and spiritual training. Haile Selassie’s Ethiopian army, on the orders of Haile Selassie himself first trained and armed Nelson Mandela in his struggle against apartheid South Africa. On the personal orders of his Majesty, the Ethiopian Colonel in charge of Mandela’s military training gave him a gun with which he was to bring down the ignoble and unhappy apartheid regime still thriving at that time in South Africa. Mandela went back to South Africa to continue his struggle. The rest is history. The subject of the News-story that follows below concerns that very gun that Haile Selassise provided Nelson Mandela… ” – Editor’s Note: per Rasta Livewire]. read more
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade announced his country was taking back military bases held by former colonial power France at midnight as the country marked 50 years of independence Sunday.read more
When John Paul II died five years ago the crowd that packed St Peter’s Square for his funeral clamoured “Santo subito (Saint now)!” in a spontaneous tribute to the charisma of the Polish pontiff.read more
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