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...Minister Robert Mugabe helped "liberate" the people of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe from white rule 30 years ago, but since then he has led them into an abyss of misery. His only goal has been to hang on to power - and while the Western world is shocked by his abuses, no other African leader has had the gumption to unequivocally condemn his tyranny and misrule. Allan de Sousa, Lisbon...
DIED Former civil rights attorney Revius Ortique Jr. was a serial pioneer: the first African-American justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, he was also the first black member of the Louisiana house of delegates; president of the National Bar Association, an organization of black attorneys; and chief judge on Louisiana's civil district court. Ortique, a New Orleans native, also served on commissions and boards at the pleasure of five U.S. Presidents...
Naughton's next tea leaf came last fall when a relatively moderate bishop defeated Rwandan hardliner Emmanuel Kolini to succeed Akinola as head of the African Anglican group CAPA. "Even within Africa," argues Naughton, "we saw the emergence of a large group of bishops who disagree with Episcopal Church on homosexuality but think Akinola and his American friends present a far greater threat to the Communion...
...member of the Faculty in all cases, was created “around the end of the term of the last faculty Dean of Harvard College,” by no “accident.” Though Hammonds is tenured in both the History of Science and African and African American Studies departments, she comes to the College's top post from the University's central administration, while Harris, like those who previously took served as dean of undergraduate education, has been praised for his role within the Faculty...
...Zimbabwe's former colonial power, Britain - are constrained from acting against Mugabe by the uncertain results of their own foreign policy interventions elsewhere, and by Mugabe's accusations that they are behind a plot to overthrow him and recolonize Zimbabwe. Despite increasing complaints about Mugabe's behavior from other African leaders, the most influential power in the region, South Africa and its President, Thabo Mbeki, has been ineffective in its efforts to temper Mugabe's excesses. Zimbabwe will now most likely be left to rot behind a wall of international sanctions that will bite its people far harder than...