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Pope celebrates African identity


When Pope Benedict XVI. is received on Friday inaugurated by Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos at the airport in Luanda to celebrate the young people in Sambizanga, a slum of the capital, for more than six hours. Shortly after sunrise, heated local music stars thousands of young people a. Repeatedly interrupting "Papa, Papa" calls the rhythms. "It's like a miracle, the Pope comes to us and will bless us," said Julieta. On Sunday they will all be here like this, the 81-year-old Pope's largest church in the city holds.

about a lack of enthusiasm for his trip to Africa, Benedict can not complain. As in Angola, the Cameroon capital Yaounde cheered in tens of thousands of the faithful when the Pope on Thursday in a stadium mass. For many, he found the right tone: "Africa is a continent of hope, which is threatened by the tyranny of materialism." For such sentences, a buffer for the plight of the mostly poor visitors, they cheer. A report from the Vatican goes even further: It says multinational forces exploited the continent together with unscrupulous politicians. "This is a process on behalf of Modern African want to destroy identity anticipates "

leave such items as position of the pope, the Catholic Church in Africa is. More African identity is to help in the fight against Islam as the booming Pentecostal churches live Although sometimes the most Catholics in Africa. 149 million will .. be it was 30 years, one third, but despite this increase, the competition is growing even faster: 147 million, the Pew Forum assessed the evangelical Christians in Africa also, Islam, its adherents are estimated to grow to 400,000 - not thanks to a financed from Saudi Arabia and Libya missionary movement. While preaching Benedict XVI. at a meeting with 22 Cameroonian imams tolerance and End religious disputes. But in the fall of Rome scheduled Synod for Africa will also advise how the Catholic Church can save the power in their future continent.

means are all cheering the Pope on his first visit to Africa: Opposition supporters accuse him of criticizing the result of human rights violations and corruption ostracized regime of President Paul Biya is not clear enough. "We are seeing here in Cameroon, a decline of values," said opposition leader John Fru Ndi. "We need a fresh start spiritually winged."

Many civil rights groups in Cameroon have their roots in the Catholic Church. But the pope also used his visit at the Presidential Palace all in order to bless President and his family. In Angola, where oil money disappears and the mass of the population is hungry, critics fear a similar speechless pope. And while people comment on the Pope to condoms not very disturbing, activists are angry. "In what century the Pope actually lives," asks AIDS activist Alain Fogueres. "Use of 100 Catholics, but at least 99 condoms, and that's a good thing."

(Copyright with the daily newspaper, 21/03/2009)

Blueprint For Building Guineapig Hutch

sell continent highest bidder


Words of Comfort had IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the finance ministers and officials from the Tanzanian port town in Africa no choice: "Even though it's taken until the crisis in Africa: it is, and its consequences will be heavy." Strauss-Kahn said his warning at the summit of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which began on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam. "Africa is the upturn and millions are impoverished again," said the IMF chief. Even the previously feared halving of the African economic growth to 3 per cent was hardly hold, said Strauss-Kahn.

feel richer nations especially Africa, the crisis for months. Hands Wrestling governments seek new sources of revenue - and have one of the last coveted resources found on them is still for sale: land. Because mining and Oil prices have fallen, investors and tourists and fail to transfer African immigrants less money from abroad to their home, which offers mainly from Asia and Arabia seem more attractive. In a few weeks, the Saudi Group Hadco will enter in his fields in Sudan, the first harvest. Vegetables, wheat and fodder in 10,000 hectares of land will help to meet the increasing demand for food for years in Saudi Arabia. For the country to the fertile banks of the Nile Hadco has unconfirmed information indicates $ 95 million dollar lease payment to the government in Khartoum - and more money will follow. Sudan's government has said the Gulf states already 900,000 hectares of the best farmland agreed to a 99-year lease. Officially, this is confirmed in Khartoum, however no one. For the sale of agricultural land to foreign investors is among the citizens, almost everywhere in Africa, mainly small farmers, not particularly popular. The highest of the Korean conglomerate Daewoo will also, who wants to grow feed corn in Madagascar and oil palms. 1.3 million hectares, the government has provided the impoverished island nation for it. In Kenya's Tana River Delta to 40,000 hectares of land will be leased to the Gulf state of Qatar - the cultivation of fruits and vegetables. A quarter of savings expected over the world price, the governments that extend almost to the leases its territory. Of "neo-colonialism" speak for critics as the British environmentalist George Monbiot. "Before, the rich nations gunboats and glass beads are used, today there are lawyers and checkbooks," says Monbiot. "The West wants to escape with all the force of the impending food crisis, even if that means that people are starving somewhere else."

But these comments do not share all. The food expert of the UN Environment Programme, Christian Nellemann, stresses lead it no other way to manage the available arable land better. "We must ensure also that, more than half of harvested goods lost during transport and storage," says Nellemann. "But we . Need to increase crop yields, if we want to stay in the face of population growth, the impending food crisis "

Mary Fosi, Secretary of State in Cameroon's Environment Ministry begs formally for investors". The main thing, someone develops our agriculture "Of course it would be nicer if Cameroon support would get to build his own farm, Fosi said. "But we can pick and choose not."

(Copyright with the daily newspaper, 03/11/2009)

Beautifulagony

fatal shots during rush


Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua is known, no leaf to make the mouth. So thought hardly anyone anything he Duke on Thursday at a press conference on the renowned human rights activist Oscar Kamau Kingara and organization. "The Oscar Foundation is a facade, on the Mungiki sect is money and support procured from abroad," Mutua foam, while followers of the Mungiki militia in the streets of the capital Nairobi and elsewhere in Kenya against the police and their systematic shootings demonstrated that Kingara had uncovered. A few hours after the press conference Mutuas Kingara and his colleague John Paul Oulu were shot in their car when they in broad daylight in the middle of Nairobi were stuck in traffic.

"Under the circumstances, one has to Kenya Police for the murder suspect," was the horrified UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston few hours later to tell in a statement. The Australian-man UN calls for an independent education with the help of South African and British specialists. Only a week before Alston had submitted a report on how death squads in Kenya in 2007, hundreds of Mungiki members were killed. His informants included the two human rights activists, who are now dead.

The very day that Alston presented his report, did he have been afraid. "They can monitor us and threaten witnesses, in one case, the inhabitants of an entire displaced persons camp of the threatened withdrawal of food for the event that you talk to us. "Alston said at that time also by a letter from President Mwai Kibaki, who was very worried." I can not be sure that our witnesses will remain undisturbed. "

police spokesman Eric Kiraithe dismissed yesterday Friday accuser, Kenya's police have to do with the murder. "They were criminals, the student unrest would foment." After Kingaras death, had students and security forces, street battles and delivered into the night. A student was shot by the police. Yesterday was the tense situation further.

What Kingara and Alston had revealed in their reports, is a mafia-like system in the Kenyan police. With head shots in 2007 within a few months more than 500 young men were shot. Put behind it a death squad called Kwe Kwe, "which murdered in consultation with the Police anyone who could possibly be a member of Mungiki. The Mungiki, a banned youth militia of the Kikuyu people in Kenya, to which President Kibaki belongs, are uncomfortable: the mafia-like transition, the protection money blackmailed and terror can be exercised for cash, defaulting debtors like to propose the heads. And yet, as stressed by human rights Kingara always, they too have a right to a fair trial.

(Copyright with the daily newspaper, 07/03/2009)