African Great Lakes Observer

  3 African leaders cancel trip to U.S. over Ebola outbreak; Obama still plans summit   The U.S. issued a travel warning Thursday for three African countries hit by an outbreak of deadly Ebola, but the   White House   said President Obama will go forward with a summit in   Washington   next week featuring African leaders. The   State Department   issued the travel warning for   Sierra Leone ,   Liberia   and   Guinea , the three countries hit hardest by the worst Ebola outbreak in history. But   White House   press secretary Josh Earnest said Mr. Obama has no plans "at this point" to alter or cancel the summit schedule, set for Monday through Wednesday. The   White House   is billing the conference as the largest gathering of African leaders ever in   Washington , including some representatives from the nations where the contagion is spreading. Mr. ...

  ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "FSDDC democratiechretienne@yahoo.fr [Democracy_Human_Rights]" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr> To: "democratiechretienne@yahoogroups.com" <democratiechretienne@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, 31 July 2014, 21:11 Subject: *DHR* OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA / by EUGENE DIOMI NDONGALA-English version   OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA / by EUGENE DIOMI NDONGALA par FreeDiomi le 31 juillet 2014   OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Kinshasa, 7/27/2014 Mr. Président,                       I am writing to you in the name of freedom of speech, civil and political freedoms, as universal values flouted in Democratic Republic of Congo.        ...

The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: The Case for Doing More in Congo Editor’s Note: The   U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit blog series   is a collection of posts discussing efforts to strengthen ties between the United States and Africa ahead of the first continent-wide summit. On August 4, Brookings will host “The Game Has Changed: The New Landscape for Innovation and Business in Africa,” at which these themes and more will be explored by prominent experts.   Click here to register for the event . As leaders prepare to gather for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit next week in Washington, there is welcome news from the forgotten continent:  While there remains considerable turbulence and a more dispersed threat from Islamic extremists than ever before—from Nigeria to Mali, Libya to Somalia, and now even Kenya—overall security trends on the continent are in fact favorable. Mortality rates from all kinds of warfare have been approximately cut in half in recent years. The Af...

  It is all about discrimination on grounds of race. Institutional racism in the UK is everywhere.It is part of British culture. HSBC closes some Muslim groups' accounts Continue reading the main story Related Stories 'I got Islamic compliant mortgage' Watch HSBC bank has written to Finsbury Park Mosque and other Muslim organisations in the UK to tell them that their accounts will be closed. The reason given in some cases was that to continue providing services would be outside the bank's "risk appetite". The wife and teenage children of a man who runs a London based Islamic think tank have also been contacted. HSBC said decisions to close accounts were "absolutely not based on race or religion". "We do not discuss relationships we may or may not have with a customer, nor confirm whether an individual or business is, or has been a customer. "Discrimination against customers on groun...

http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1552/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=82407   US-Africa Summit: Join Us for a Peaceful Demonstration You are invited to a Peaceful Demonstration to advocate for Good Governance and Human Rights in Africa   When:    Wednesday, August 6th 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Where:    Bernardo de Galvez Statue, Memorial near the State Dept in Washington, D.C.       (Location: Virginia Ave & 22nd St NW, straight east of Kennedy Center) Metro:  Foggy Bottom Station on the Blue and Orange Lines  ( Download the flyer )   Leaders from Africa will gather in DC for the US-Africa Summit on August 4-6, 2014. We, the civil society, the African Diaspora, the friends of Africa and human rights advocates want to press for democratic reforms, the strict respect of constitutional term limits and human rights across Africa.  Conctact:  bazemo@afjn.org or call 202-817-3670 Looking forward to seeing you t...

USAmerican Government Surveillance - Threatens Journalism, Law and Thus Democracy: Report Interviews with dozens of leading journalists and attorneys found that U.S. government overreach is eroding critically important freedoms by Lauren McCauley, staff writer (CommonDreams) The impunity with which the American government spies on journalists and attorneys is undermining the American people's ability to hold their leaders accountable, thus threatening the core of our democracy, charged a joint report published Monday by two leading rights organizations. The report— With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy , published by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch —draws from extensive interviews with dozens of top journalists, lawyers and senior government officials. What the authors found is that recent revelations of widespread government surveillance have forced many professionals to...