Tanzanian born journalist-economist-cum-author, Swallehe Msuya died peacefully in his Minneapolis home and his body will be flown to his home town back in Africa for a burial soon. 
"This comes as a shock and blow to the African Community. We have just lost one of our best and brightest newsman" said African News Journal's Ntuv E. Tunka. "...... and I am sure, everyone who knew Mr.Msuya feels the same way." 
Also, Tom Gitaa of Mshale who spoke to Bashe Said earlier expressed the same feeling. "It is extremely sad and unbelievable"  Tom told Bashe that he is trying to reach out to his family members here in Minnesota and see what we can do to help .
" It came as a shock and left me speachless; hearing this sad news " said Petros Haile of African Global Roots.     

There are more and more people contacting the African News Journal about Swallehe Msuya and we will be responding to everyone of them.

Photo: Mr.Swallehe holding his latest novel 'the Kitchen Party" on  its launch day; last Summer at the 1st Cup Cafe in Minneapolis.

13 Community-Based Organizations to Receive FY 2009 Funding 
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas today announced a total of $1.2 million in grants for 13 organizations to support citizenship preparation programs for legal permanent residents (LPRs). This announcement falls on Constitution Day and Citizenship Day—established by Congress in 2004 to mark the anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

 Acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, author of the 1958 classic “Things Fall Apart” has been named to a professorial chair at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
 
Achebe, 78, will serve in Brown’s Department of Africana Studies. “We are honored and thrilled to welcome Professor Achebe to Africana studies and to the Brown community,” Tricia Rose, the department’s chair, said in a statement.

In a Press release sent to the African News Journal by the Children's hospital contains valuable information for the community and anyone concern about the H1N1 flu issues and in it hospital explains how and where to find help in the event it strikes out with anyone you know. 
The fallowing is the full press release and it began: 
As you plan your continued coverage of H1N1, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is prepared to serve as a resource to talk about what people should do if they or their children get sick as well as prevention measures and vaccination.

 By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
The vast majority of Sub-Saharan Africans who live outside of the continent are in exile. For these Africans, their condition may either be self-imposed or forced by the prevailing conditions in the continent. And the general conditions in the continent are not healthy or enriching, or conducive to personal growth and happiness.
Although conditions differ from one country to another, by and large what we have is a continent where a sizeable number of the people - especially those between the ages of 18 and 45 - cannot wait to go into exile. They cannot wait to get out of their respective countries. Nigeria is an archetypal example of a country where, if embassies assured travel visas, 70 per cent or more of the college students will leave of their own volition.

Two University of Minnesota units, the Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center (UROC) and the Office for Business and Community Economic Development (BCED), are partnering with the Minnesota Multicultural Media Consortium (MMMC), a community-based media group, to propose development and improvement of 11 computer labs throughout underserved neighborhoods in the Twin Cities as part of President Obama’s federal stimulus plan.

A Norwegian-based biofuel company is the latest international company reportedly evicting dozens of farmers in northern Ghana in order to plant jetropha, a non-food crop whose seeds contain oil used for biofuel. Biofuel Africa Ltd is claiming ownership of 56 acres of prime farm land and, residents say, forcing out the inhabitants of seven farming villages in Tamale district.
Mumud Alhassan Adam, 50-year-old father of five, lost his eight-hectare plot where he grew maize and rice. "I went to the farm one day but I realized somebody else was on the farm and then I was told the land had been sold off," he said in a press interview.

Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba exulted Monday after he was acquitted of misappropriating half a million dollars in public funds, in a trial seen by some as a test case of anti-corruption efforts.
 
'Those who thought I was a thief should know now that I am innocent,” Chiluba declared after the verdict.
 
A parallel case against Chiluba and 19 associates held in a British court, tried by the Attorney General of Zambia, had found the former leader guilty of funneling $45 million for his own expenses.

By Bukola Oriola

Winners’ Chapel International, Minnesota, the twin cities branch of the Living Faith Church popularly known as Winners’ Chapel has concluded plans to commence morning service every Sunday.
Acting Pastor in Charge, Pastor Olumide Joseph Ajayi told African News Journal (ANJ) in an exclusive interview recently that the leadership of the church from its headquarters in Nigeria with the support of the North America Acting Pastor David Adeoye gave him the go-ahead to begin a service here in Minnesota.

By Michael Arnst

In 2005, the Internal Revenue Service audited three hundred Minnesota Somalis because of one fraudulent Somali tax preparer. At the time, an IRS spokesperson, Janet Oakes was quoted in a Star Tribune article, warning, “They need to be as careful in choosing a tax preparer as they would a doctor or a lawyer, because they're entrusting them with their personal information.” Since then, several Twin Cities non-profits, both Somali- and American-led, have tried to repair and rebuild the relationship between the Somali community and government officials. 

By Swallehe Msuya

Congressman Keith Allison back from Sudan and Kenya where he joined an advocacy group to bring to the spotlight the DARFUR and Southern Sudan plight, has called on America to have a domestic voice for Africa where African problems are addressed.Speaking at the Masjid an Nur Mosque on 1729 Lyndale Avenue North Minneapolis today,