By Bashe Said

African-born people living in Minnesota make up one percent of the population; yet this group account for 11% of new HIV infections according to Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) HIV Surveillance Report 2006. As of December, 5566 person in Minnesota are assumed alive and living with HIV/AIDS of which 678 persons are African-born.

By Tansa Musa

Yaoundé - A court in Cameroon jailed nine former state employees for between 15 and 35 years on Thursday for embezzlement in a second high-profile case against corrupt members of veteran President Paul Biya's ruling party.

A large group of senior state officials were arrested in February 2006 in a crackdown on graft that Biya ordered under pressure from international donors concerned by widespread corruption in the Central African country.

By Shey Peter Mabu

Our common future is undeniably threatened. The threats which range from poverty and disease to disasters and terrorism are indeed too many to be handled by a few. Hence, the need for global action, since one of them, climate change directly affects the future of mankind on our planet.

By Alfred Wasike

Uganda is to send an official protest note to MONUC, the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for seizing a Heritage Oil exploration vessel on Lake Albert on Monday.

“We have protested in the strongest terms to MONUC because of their provocative conduct. The seizure and commandeering of the boat, and the interrogation of the oil exploration staff, need to be explained,” minister for regional cooperation Isaac Musumba told The New Vision yesterday.

MADRID (AFP) — US President George W. Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq war, according to a transcript published Wednesday of a conversation he had with former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.

In the transcript of a meeting on February 22, 2003 -- a month before the US-led invasion of Iraq -- published in El Pais newspaper, Bush tells Aznar that nations such as Mexico, Angola, Chile and Cameroon must know that the security of the United States is at stake.

By Ndze Ntuv Evaristus Tunka

The Minnesota Department of Transportation in a statement announced that it may hold off repairs and other road construction projects in the metro area in other for the commencement of the I-35W Bridge reconstruction. Department officials say, unless the state legislature consents to it spending funds up until now not apportioned by the federal government.    

By Carole Gombakomba
Washington
19 September 2007

Nominated U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe, career diplomat James D. McGee said in a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday that he would continue to press Harare for democratic reforms but would seek to reopen dialogue with the government.

McGee told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations he would pursue the same pro-democracy agenda in Zimbabwe as his outspoken predecessor, Christopher Bell, but would try to re-engage the government of President Robert Mugabe.

 By Ntuv Tunka

ANJ Online - 9/18/07 -

Washington based U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) visited Twin Cities to forge and promote local partnerships with some of the non-profit organizations serving in the immigrant communities to improve on healthy living amongst refugees and immigrants, who before coming to the states have little or no idea about the importance of living a healthy life in a very hectic and busy life in States. It is a part of the USCRI’s outreach activities nationwide.

By Ntuv Tunka

A community Forum examining the clinical issues and prevalence of HIV/AIDS and new immigrants was held at the Haille Q. Brown Community Center in St. Paul. The forum which was specifically for all immigrants and refugee service providers was organized by the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in partnership with the Minnesota Aids Project.