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...Libya An ICC Rebuke African Union leaders jointly declared on July 3 that member states would defy the International Criminal Court's order to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was charged in March with committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the A.U.'s chief, said the ICC, based in the Hague, represents a "new world terrorism" and blamed prosecutors for targeting the continent. Several African states, including Botswana, have expressed discomfort with the A.U. declaration and said they would uphold ICC orders...
...long been unable to come to any consensus on how to handle Darfur, with deep divisions in the Security Council about whether and how to send a peacekeeping force there. Wirth praises Ban's diplomatic skills in finally getting Security Council approval for a joint U.N.--African Union peacekeeping force for the region...
...schools graduate within that time frame. Students from middle-class or wealthy families are nearly five times more likely to earn a college degree as their poorer peers are. In 2007, 66% of white Americans ages 25 to 29 had completed at least some college, compared with 50% of African Americans and 34% of Hispanics...
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr., professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies, was arrested on Thursday at his Cambridge home for disorderly conduct, according to a Cambridge Police Department report...
...really bananas—they're poor imitations of what real ndizi, picked from the tree and sold in a village marketplace, are like. My homestay baba grows avocadoes and oranges in the backyard, so we have some with almost every meal. Chapati, which is basically a thin, African version of naan, is delicious (at least until you're forced to consume six of them by your overbearing mama, who insists that you aren't eating enough food). And I have even started to develop a fondness for rice and beans – which is good, because...