An interview with Dr. Paul Oquist Kelly, Minister Private Secretary to the President for National Policy Tortilla con Sal via toni solo Tortilla con Sal : Nicaragua’s 2007 development plan worked out by the government had various aims, principally promoting economic growth, promoting employment, reducing inequality and reducing poverty levels. Here we are now towards…
Remembering Ahmed Ben Bella
The first president of independent Algeria (1963-1965) Ahmed Ben Bella passed away on April 11th, 2012 at the age of 96 years. At the time of his death we are reprinting the interview he granted us in Geneva on April 16, 2006. – Silvia Cattori Ahmed Ben Bella is one of the great figures of…
Death Toll Rises As Clashes Continue In Southern Libya
Editor’s Note: The Reuters report states 147 people have been killed. Monitoring reports through twitter, estimates of the dead exceed 500, which is far more credible. Special forces and the Misrata brigade took a heavy beating in Sabha today and the leader of the Misratah brigade was executed in the town’s center. ~Alexandra TRIPOLI (Reuters)…
Qatar Purchases 49% Of Libya’s Once Sovereign State Bank
Libya’s Bank of Commerce and Development (BCD) has agreed to sell a 49 percent stake in itself to the Qatar National Bank (QNB) for an undisclosed amount. The decision was made by BCD shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held in Benghazi yesterday. BCD chairman Jamal Abdelmalek said the agreement would result in an increase…
Ahmed Ben Bella Inspired Millions Around The World
Algerian leader made monumental contributions to the African Revolution Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Ahmed Ben Bella, 95, passed away on April 11 leaving a legacy of struggle for national independence, state building and democratic processes in the 20th and 21stcenturies. His name became legendary during the 1950s when he and other Algerians initiated the movement…
Kim Il Sung On The Need To Develop The Non-Aligned Movement
Editor’s Note: NAM Website About NAM Member States Libya 360° On the occasion of Kim Il Sung’s 100th birthday, I am blogging this very important speech where he strongly promotes the unity of all anti-imperialist Global South forces. Definitely worth a read, if for no other reason than to challenge your prejudices about the People’s…
PAIGC Statement on the Military Coup in Guinea-Bissau
African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape – Verde National Secretariat of the Central Committee Permanent Committee of the Political Bureau PRESS RELEASE Gathered today, April 14, 2012, in Bissau, at the National Headquarters of the Party, under the chairmanship of Comrade Commandant, Manuel Saturnino Domingos Costa, First Vice-President of the Party, the Permanent…
Algeria Lays First President Ahmed Ben Bella To Rest
Pan-African News Wire Algeria buried its first post-independence president Ahmed Ben Bella, hailed as an anti-colonial hero and the father of the nation, in a sombre and rain-drenched ceremony yesterday. Ben Bella, who died on Wednesday at age 95 following a recent hospital stay for respiratory problems, was laid to rest in the Martyrs’ plot…
Nord-Sud XXI Tribute To President Ahmed Ben Bella
President Ahmed Ben Bella: A Rare Hero and an Unique Inspiration On Wednesday, April 11, 2012, President Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria’s first president and the hero of its independence passed away at age 95. This iconic figure passed away in Algiers, the capital of the country he immensely loved and whose freedom he cherished at…
Islamists in Tripoli Order Women To Fully Cover Their Bodies
Ashraf Abdul Wahab Tripoli Government officials have said they know nothing about a group of uniformed young men who appeared on the streets of the capital on Sunday carrying a slogan on their jackets proclaiming them to be members of Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Tripoli Branch. On Sunday they…
UN Convoy Attacked In Benghazi
A United Nations convoy was targeted on Tuesday with Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on Board while traveling through the Libyan city of Benghazi.tripoli benghazi map The spokesman for the U.N. Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Hua Jiang, said an explosive device was thrown at the convoy at around 2:30 p.m. local time. He…
Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal
RussiaToday Full interview. RT has become the first TV channel in the world to speak to former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal since he was removed from death row in January. Abu-Jamal will spend his life behind bars. Considered by many to be a flagrant miscarriage of justice, the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal has…
