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Founded last year, it's Africa's first such event, and it's sponsored and supported by the Dutch, French and U.S. embassies, global corporations like Nestlé and environmental groups like the Ghana Wildlife Society. Last year around 1,000 attended, including Kofi Agbogah, a scientist from Ghana's Water Research Institute: "The great thing about the festival was that people saw [the movies] on the screen and immediately understood the politics and complexity of the issues. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks...
...Princeton and Stanford will cede Kofi Agawu and Claudine Gay, respectively, to Harvard...
...piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners access to a trial. Most...
...confirmation, John Bolton, 57, became U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after President Bush installed him via a recess appointment last August. Blunt and outspoken, he chatted with TIME's Elaine Shannon and Romesh Ratnesar about being part of the bureaucracy, Iran's nuclear program and who should succeed Kofi Annan...
...SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN HAS CALLED ON THE WEST TO STEP UP EFFORTS TO STOP THE KILLING IN DARFUR. IS GENOCIDE THE RIGHT TERM FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING? Sounds right...