By Omari Jackson

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. December 23, 2010: African immigrants and refugees have been asked to seek citizenship, to avoid problems that are often tied to one’s immigration status.

The publication of confidential diplomatic cables on the website Wikileaks gave ammunition to some African leaders who have complained, without previous proof, of U.S. interference in their country.
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe for example, learned from the cables that the U.S. is leading efforts to remove him from power.
 
In the leaked memos, former U.S. ambassador Christopher Dell wrote that the U.S. was taking a leading role to bring Mugabe down and that former colonizer Britain could not do the job because it was hamstrung by its colonial past.

U.S.-based professors Cornelius Eady, Okey Ndibe and poet, dramatist, activist Micere Mugo, were among the distinguished writers and poets at the annual week-long ‘LitFest’ in Nairobi organized by the prize winning Kenyan author Ngugi was Thiong’o. It was Mugo’s first trip to the land of her birth since her exile in 1982.

Lack of Funding to Save Jobs During Construction Spurs University Avenue Businesses to Action
St. Paul, December 10, 2010 – With only months until light rail construction begins on University Avenue, businesses express increasing anger and frustration at the continuing lack of urgency by officials to provide compensation funding to save jobs and businesses threatened by the impending construction. 

More than $2 million paid to providers improving the health of UCare’s Medicare, Medicaid, and
Minnesota Senior Health Options (MSHO) members.

UCare’s Pay for Performance (P4P) program paid $2,160,750 to clinics and care systems across Minnesota for their performance in key quality-of-health measurements achieved in 2009. The payments recognized and rewarded providers for superior or improved performance in measurable key areas for care delivered to members of UCare’s Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP), including MinnesotaCare and Prepaid Medical Assistance Program (PMAP), UCare’s Minnesota Senior Health Options (UCare’s MSHO), and to members of UCare’s UCare for Seniors Medicare Advantage plan.