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AllAfrica News: Latest

"Lifting up successful models" of democracy in Africa encourages more democracy on the continent, President Barack Obama told AllAfrica Thursday, explaining why he chose the West African nation of Ghana as the first sub-Saharan African country he would visit next week as President of the United States.

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AllAfrica News: Latest

No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed.

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AllAfrica News: Latest

A day ahead of this year’s African Union summit in Libya, the 11th meeting of the forum of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) took place in the sweltering seaside town of Sirte. Reports emerging from those who attended threw up few surprises and some lingering concerns.

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IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean

HAVANA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Cuba and the United States are poised to resume talks on migration issues any time now, although the five Cuban agents imprisoned in the U.S. remain "a formidable obstacle" to normalising bilateral relations, according to Cuban parliament president Ricardo Alarcón.

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IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jul 3 (IPS) - Haitian Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis assumed office in September 2008. Born in the southern city of Jérémie in 1947, she left Haiti with her family in 1964 following a pogrom by dictator François Duvalier against his perceived enemies in her town.

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Jamaica Gleaner: THE BAHAMAS - Financial Services group to aid industry

NASSAU, Bahamas: A Financial Services Authority is to be created to better regulate the industry in The Bahamas as the sector across the region comes under closer scrutiny. Minister of state in the Ministry of Finance...

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Black Britain News: Michale Jackson is dead aged 50

US celebrity website TMZ.com is reporting that Michael Jackson has died of a cardiac arrest. Tributes pour in on Colourful Radio as I write this.

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Afro-Latinos in Bolivia

Activists hope that Bolivia’s new Constitution, which legally recognizes Afro-Bolivians for the first time, is just one of many new gains for blacks across Latin America.

by Sara Miller Llana

While this country's indigenous population has been on the march for new rights, Bolivians of African descent still find themselves living on the sidelines of society. There are no black legislators or justices; their history is left out of school text books; they are not even specifically counted in the census.

"When we go into the city, they think we are Venezuelans or Colombians," says Reina Ballivian, a resident of Tocaña, a tiny community made up mostly of Afro-Bolivians in the lush Yungas Valley. "It's hard to convince them that we are black and Bolivian." Read more

Brooklyn Kids Give Back in South Africa

It's late Sunday morning inside a cavernous Salvation Army Church in Soweto, South Africa. Services, complete with African and traditional music, have just finished and a catchy drum beat with a distinctly American hip-hop sound is coming from the stage.

The group of teenagers dancing around the drums is 8,000 miles and an 18-hour plane ride from their New York home. They are mostly from Bushwick, Brooklyn -- a community of about 109,000 people only five miles from Manhattan. Read more

Afro-Latin Americans

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