June 20, 2012
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allAfrica.com: Africa: What Does China Want in Africa?.
Recent stories about China’s growing interest in Africa are worth commenting on. For China, Africa is a source of cheap coal and oil, two vitally important resources for its energy needs. As for African states, China is the ideal commercial partner that seldom slaps special political pre-conditions upon its readily available suppliers, and regularly gives the continent diplomatic backing. …
June 20, 2012
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United States’ new sub-Saharan African plan: trade not aid.
The Obama administration is signalling that the US is changing the way it does the aid business, promoting bilateral trade rather than one-way grants and loans.
June 15, 2012
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4,000 people from 110 countries delighted to receive Irish citizenship via @independent_ie.
SOME had come looking for work and found love as well. Others had found love over the internet and crossed the ocean to settle in Ireland. How all of the 4,000 people who officially became Ireland’s newest citizens yesterday came to set foot on Irish shores may have varied. Yet, they all had something in common, they had already become just a little bit Irish.
June 11, 2012
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THE DANGEROUS folly of attempting to ban the public wearing of the veil has been highlighted by events in recent days in Belgium. The arrest of a young woman last week for breaching the country’s ban on the full face veil predictably provoked a riot, followed on Tuesday by an inflammatory intervention by the Flemish nationalist far right, certain to spark further violence. Vlaams Belang, a party with neo-Nazi roots, has offered a €250 reward to anyone who reports a veiled woman to the police.
June 8, 2012
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Britain moves on forced marriages.
Forced marriage is “little more than slavery”, British prime minister David Cameron said as his government announced plans to make it a criminal offence.
Parents who force their children into a marriage will face jail in what Mr Cameron said was a “clear and strong message” that the practice would not be tolerated.
June 5, 2012
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Poverty rate higher for non-EU nationals.
CONSISTENT POVERTY is higher among non-EU nationals living in Ireland than Irish nationals a report by the Economic and Social Research Institute has found. The Annual Monitoring Report on Integration 2011, published today, found that consistent poverty was almost twice as high among non-EU nationals than among Irish people living in Ireland.
May 29, 2012
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“Africa – a Place Where You Will Make Money, Not Lose Money” – IPS ipsnews.net.
If African countries continued to rely on external funding, they would be turned into “choice-less democracies”, he warned, because dependency on foreign aid means that political and economic agendas are partially set overseas.
May 16, 2012
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Kenyan bishop to sue RTE over Mission to Prey via @independent_ie.
A THIRD cleric is taking legal action against RTE claiming serious defamation as the fallout from the ‘Mission to Prey’ programme continues.
The Irish Independent has learned that papers were lodged earlier this week at the High Court by Kenyan Bishop Philip Sulumeti.
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