Tag: africa
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South Africa: Occult Crime Unit Is Offensive to Common Sense and Morality
from allAfrica.com: Decades after its formation, the Occult-Related Crime Unit (ORCU, founded by Kobus “Donker” Jonker in 1992) continues to waste public resources, misdirect police attention, and stigmatise young people who are by and large more misunderstood than malignant. Amongst all the crimes that we can speculate police in this unit might have seen, there’s…
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Man Answers Cell Phone While Pastor Is Casting Out His Demon
from examiner.com: Do you think cell phone usage is interrupting the flow of the Spirit in church services today? As in the case of an African man who was getting a demon cast out by the pastor when his cell phone went off. The man answers the phone and things get ugly. The video was…
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For Rapid Growth, Africa Is the New China
from theglobeandmail.com: The latest hot investing sector to bottom out: Emerging markets. Once a favourite of investors amenable to living on the knife edge of risk and reward, emerging markets have been dragged down by their slowing economic growth. Many strategists suggest investors forget about emerging markets for now and instead put money in developed…
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Why Every World Map You’re Looking at Is Wrong
Africa, China, India Distorted Despite Access to Accurate Satellite Data* from dailymail.co.uk: Take a look at a map today, and you’re likely to see that North America is larger than Africa, Alaska is larger than Mexico and China is smaller than Greenland. But in reality China is four times bigger than Greenland, Africa is three…
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Ben Affleck to Testify Before Congress as Africa Expert
from blacklistednews.com: With a vicious spate of mass killings plaguing the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Senate panel is calling on experts to appear before U.S. lawmakers next week. One of them is Hollywood actor and serial activist Ben Affleck, The Cable has learned. Affleck is slated to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations…
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Muslims Flee Christian Militias in Central Africa Republic
from goddiscussion.com: Christian militias are brutally attacking Muslims in Bangui with both villages and towns being affected. Whole villages are being deserted as Christians are burning and looting Muslim’s houses and mosques. Now, tens of thousands of Muslims are fleeing the violent areas and into neighboring countries in hopes for safety.
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DiamondsAreEvil.com DiamondsAreEvil Jewelry Company Takes Stand Against Diamonds
from dailytexanonline.com: Two years ago, Texas A&M students Michael Murphy and Meredith Butler decided to start using scraps of wood from leftover architecture projects to make intricately designed pieces of jewelry. The couple vowed against the culture created by the diamond market, which shaped the idea of Diamonds Are Evil… Diamonds Are Evil pieces are…
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Israel, No Longer a Haven, Sends Africa Migrants to Prison
from csmonitor.com: Some 20,000 African migrants flooded the streets of central Tel Aviv over the last two days, chanting “Freedom!” and “We are refugees!” in their first major pushback against Israeli policy since they began illegally crossing into Israel from Egypt about eight years ago. The unprecedented protests and a three-day labor strike by the…
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Failed Monsanto GMO Corn Pushed on African Countries with Help from Bill Gates
from naturalsociety.com: Even if you aren’t opposed to genetically modified crops (with all this information, how couldn’t you be) and even if you like Bill Gates and his ventures (but with all this information, how could you), this latest should be enough to get you perturbed. And if you are anti-GMO and knowledgeable of the…
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“Lost” Fortresses of Sahara Revealed by Satellites
from news.nationalgeographic.com: Real-life “castles in the sand” made by an ancient culture have been revealed in the Sahara, archaeologists say. New satellite photographs show more than a hundred fortress settlements from a “lost” civilization in southwestern Libya. The communities, which date to between about A.D. 1 and 500, belonged to an advanced but mysterious people…
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Exclusive: (AFRICOM) US Armed Forces Piloting Drones From Bases In Germany
from StratRisks.com: The targeted killing of presumed terrorists by drones in Africa has been largely conducted from US military bases in Germany, an investigation by German TV channel ARD’s “Panorama” and the Süddeutsche Zeitung has revealed. Particularly involved in running the drone missions are the Stuttgart-based US military high command for Africa (Africom) and the US Air Force’s Air…
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Google Drones Launch In Africa
The World Wildlife Fund and Google are teaming up to deploy a fleet of anti-poacher UAVs in Africa. The goal? Survey and stop rhino poachers.

