As we are in the post poll crisis the question to ask is, “What does the future hold for the Internally Displaced Children who number 100,000 plus of the 350,000 plus Kenyans declared homeless.

In February John Holmes, UN Head of Humanitarian Assistance said that the children will need a lot of counseling to regain their normal status.
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The name Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna ignites contempt from foes, admiration from followers, and “idunno” from people who know nothing about him.

For Cuba’s elite who are still reeling about the 1959 revolution, Che’s popularity in death is a sore point.
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(ajz) The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for the arrest of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, for alleged war crimes in Darfur. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in a statement on Monday that al-Bashir had "masterminded and implemented" a campaign to wipe out three ethnic groups in Sudan. Moreno-Ocampo's call for an arrest warrant to be issued against al-Bashir is the first instance where the arrest of a serving head of a state has been requested at the ICC. The prosecutor "has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe that [al-Bashir] bears criminal responsibility in relation to 10 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes," the statement said. But Khartoum immediately dismissed the move against al-Bashir, saying the court had no jurisdiction over its citizens.  More...

(blackvoices) The leading edge of today's "black power" movement isn't at the front door of Barack Obama's campaign headquarters. It's a little further south, as in the countries of Central and South America. These days it's the Afro-descendientes (people of African descent) in Latin countries who are stepping up. The Afro-Latins are experiencing a newfound pride in their African heritage and demanding their fair share of recognition and rights from society and government. "Soy negro Y orgulloso, " "I'm black and proud" could be the anthem of this awakened constituency.  More...

(ap) Blacks will outnumber whites in Brazil this year for the first time since slavery was abolished, but the income gap between the two groups may take another 50 years to bridge, according to a government study released Tuesday. The government's Applied Institute of Economic Research said Brazil, which has the world's second-largest black population after Nigeria, is decades away from racial equality despite public policies aimed at decreasing the gap. Blacks generally earn 50 percent to 70 percent less than whites, and hold only 3. 5 percent of management positions at Brazil's 500 largest companies, according to the labor-union statistics institute Diesse. A 2004 study by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro found the income gap between whites and blacks in Brazil was wider than in apartheid-era South Africa.  More...

(boston. com) US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the veteran lawmaker from Massachusetts who is the last surviving brother in the legendary Kennedy family, has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, his doctors said today. Specialists in Boston and around the country said the information released indicated that Kennedy has terminal cancer and might have only a limited time to live. Kennedy's doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, who had been investigating the cause of a seizure that led to Kennedy's hospitalization this weekend, said that preliminary results from a brain biopsy indicated the seizure had been caused by a tumor in the top left portion of his brain.  More...

(Jamaica-gleaner) Since the start of April, Haiti has been experiencing protests over rising food prices. However, these protests became violent this past week. The protests have been triggered by rising food prices, both as a result of international factors such as oil price and grain price increases and the impact of bad weather on agriculture, creating shortages in production and consequently, an increase in agricultural and food prices. The price of rice in Haiti has doubled from US$35 to US$70 for a 120-pound pack. Gasolene has risen three times in the last two months.  More...

(ajz) What ever else the mind-numbing killing of Benazir Bhutto in Thursday’s suicide attack will mean for Pakistan’s future, there is little doubt that politics in this south Asian country will never be the same again. Bhutto's death was like a chronicle foretold. She had escaped a bigger suicide attack upon her return from exile in Karachi two months ago - a manifestation of the threat to her life, which extremists had pledged to carry out before her arrival. These threats emerged after much publicised talks of a power-sharing deal with General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, which would enable her to return home and participate in the elections in exchange for allowing the beleaguered general to get himself re-elected as president. While the opposition resigned en masse from the parliament to block Musharraf's re-election in a year that saw a rejuvenated judiciary challenge the president's authority, Bhutto’s Pakistan People's Party merely abstained from voting providing the general an easy run.  More...

(npr) Last week, French aid workers were arrested in Chad for attempting to remove more than 100 children for placement in Europe. Eleven of the workers remain in jail, facing accusations from Chad that kids they billed as orphans in fact had families that wanted them back. Officials with the French charity, Zoe's Ark, say they were trying to give the kids a better life. That doesn't sit right with Chadeans, who object to the idea that their African children would be better off in European homes. Lisa Marie Rollins, founder of Adopted and Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora, wrestles with so-called baby lifting and the impact of transracial adoption.  More...

(africannews. com) The horrifying sight which traumatized shoppers and office workers in the centre of Luxembourg City last week has now been labelled as a protest against racism. The Belgian woman of Congolese origin who set herself alight in the middle of Place d’Armes told witnesses that she was doing it to protest against racism, moments before she carried out the desperate act which has left her in hospital fighting for her life. Maggy Delvaux-Mufu, a mother of three in her forties, alerted several national newspapers late on Tuesday morning last week that she would be burning herself alive on place des Martyrs at 12. 45 am, before setting out accompanied by her husband to walk through the centre of town to her macabre rendezvous.  More...

(mediabistro) A cable insider tells TVNewser HOT (the largest cable operator in Israel) took CNN off the air from both their digital and analog platforms at 11:30am local time (5:30amET) this morning. It was replaced with FOX News Channel. (BBN Editor: There is a back-story on what led to the move. View source for the information. Israel joins Iran, North Korea and Myanmar as nations that don't carry CNN).  More...

(newsweek) America is quietly expanding its fight against terror on the African front. Two years ago the United States set up the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership with nine countries in central and western Africa. There is no permanent presence, but the hope is to generate support and suppress radicalism by both sharing U. S. weapons and tactics with friendly regimes and winning friends through a vast humanitarian program assembled by USAID, including well building and vocational training.  More...