Young males show largest increase in cases !

The number of new HIV cases in the state increased by 13 percent in 2009, marking a 17-year high, according to a new preliminary report from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). There were 368 HIV cases reported in 2009, compared with 326 cases in 2008.

“This increase in cases tells us that HIV/AIDS remains a significant health threat in Minnesota, and we need to take steps to strengthen our prevention efforts,” said Dr. Sanne Magnan, Minnesota Commissioner of Health.

SAINT PAUL – Saint Paul Police Chief John Harrington announced Wednesday that he won’t be seeking another term as chief of the police department. 

A native of the southside of Chicago, Chief Harrington joined the department in 1977 and was named chief in 2004. 

Mayor Chris Coleman praised the chief’s leadership, especially in community policing and domestic violence. 

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By  Alemayehu G. Mariam

“Ethiopia is the country of the future,” Birtukan Midekssa would often say epigrammatically. Ethiopia’s No. 1 political prisoner is always preoccupied with her country’s future and destiny. Her deep concern for Ethiopia is exceeded only by her boundless optimism for its future. For that reason, her maxim echoes not only a manifest general truth, but also makes a profound and complex historical argument that calls for a paradigm shift in the way we understand contemporary Ethiopian politics and envision the future.

By Chinua Akukwe

One of the most intriguing issues in Africa’s development is the role of Africans in the Diaspora. Despite credible and significant efforts to create or carve out a role for Africans in the Diaspora to play a major, formal role in Africa’s development, the impact on the ground has been largely small-scale, focused on family and neighborhood interests, and largely outside the purview of government structures and operations. 

On Nov. 22, the local liberian community went to the polls to show democracy in motion. They elected new board of directors in an election held in their newly acquired community center in Brooklyn Park. Exactly, month later, Dec. 22, the new board members sworn in.