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Crew of 42: Mel Watt “Inclined” to Run, Don Payne to Run Despite Cancer.

Crew of 42: Pres Obama Endorses John Conyers. Yes, That’s News.

Roll Call: California Democratic Party Endorses Hahn Over Congressional Black Caucus Member Rep. Laura Richardson.

AlterNet: Dear Israel Lobby, We Give Up -- Please Give Us an Acceptable Way of Insulting You. Critics of Israel's far-right government and its enablers at home aren't even allowed to throw a sharp elbow.

Greenwald/Salon: U.S. media takes intense propaganda lead on Iran over U.S. government this time.

Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: Government health care OK for politicians, but not us.

Hill: Lobbyists sue Obama administration after being booted from boards.

Reuters: Even as he greets China's VP in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Pres. Obama is quietly overhauling U.S. economic policy toward Beijing, & looking for new ways to extract results on issues such as market access & currency manipulation.

Williams/The Hill: Republicans seek wedge issue for 2012 election – but without luck.

Tom Joyner: A Letter to Roland: Make It Right.

ThyBlackMan: Roland Martin, Yes Why Tom Joyner is GLAAD.

Prince/Journal-isms: Joyner Urges "Sincere Apology" From Martin. Morning Radio Jock Says Not to Be Like Tavis Smiley.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Sen. Emanuel Jones, chairman of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, is proposing changes to the HOPE scholarship that would make the wealthiest Georgia families ineligible for it.

Jackson/Washington Post: Roland Martin, CNN, GLAAD and the silence of Black leaders.

Hood/Chicago Tribune: Chicago Teachers Union accuses CPS of discriminating against African-American teachers.

Hood/Chicago Tribune: Chicago Teachers Union, community members ask court to stop school closings and turnarounds.

Los Angeles Times: In L.A., California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris calls settlement 'tremendous victory'.

Scheer/TruthDig: Elections Are for Suckers.

Bolton/Hill: Senate Dems grow optimistic about Obama chances in 2012.

Morial & Murguia/Politic365: Urban League, La Raza Praise $25 Billion Mortgage Settlement.

Garland/Loop 21: Twitter Comes to the Support of Roland Martin in CNN Suspension.

Redding News Review: Roland Martin gets support from Blacks.

AP: Alabama immigration law opponents want state's carmakers to help fight for repeal.

Zuylen-Wood/The New Republic: Why Did Liberal African-Americans in Rhode Island Help Pass a Voter ID Law?

Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: Many are like Romney — ‘not concerned’ about very poor.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The city of Pittsburgh would pay $75,000 and Jordan Miles would drop parts of his federal police brutality lawsuit under a partial settlement to be put before city council Tuesday.

Paybarah/Capital New York: Sharpton says he's 'very concerned' about the NYPD and Muslims‎.

Tom Ridge & James Woolsey/NY Daily News: Kelly a ‘Ray-cist’? What a smear. Attacks on the police commissioner for anti-Muslim bias are wrong.

Burke/Politic365: Unity9PAC, a political action committee aimed towards electing and encouraging members of the “Divine 9″ sororities and fraternities to run for elective office is about to formally launch.

Forward: Muslim Fears Forgotten But Israel Anxieties Remain on Obama.

Forward: Jews Shift Toward GOP, Survey Claims. Pew Poll: Jews Move to Republican Column Since 2008.

Sharpton/Black Voices: Silence Is Not an Option.

Lee/Huffington Post: 'African Americans For Obama' Launched By President's Campaign To Rally Black Voters.

Fulwood/The Grio: Why Jan Brewer will motivate Black voters for Obama.

Watkins/News One: Are Black People the New Political Orphans of America?

Ryan/ABC News: Attorney General Eric Holder Disgusted by Personal Attacks at Fast and Furious Hearing.

Clauss/Chicago News Cooperative: Black Political Clout Still Strong Despite Population Decline.

The Grio: Rev. Al Sharpton in heated exchange with Gingrich supporter, Rick Tyler; checks him over Racism (Video).

Barnette/Politic365: “Gainful Employment” Rule Threatens Black, Hispanic Matriculation.

Burke/Crew of 42: House GOP Moves to Repeal Part of Health Care Reform.

Lyons/Salon: Obama’s “post-partisan” strategy. His rhetoric about consensus politics has sent the GOP off the deep end. Maybe that was the point.

Tri-State Defender: Transportation awaits those seeking government-issued photo IDs to vote. Now that the calendar has flipped to 2012, Tennessee’s new voter photo ID is in full effect & those who want to cast ballots must have govt-issued photo ID.

Harkinson/Mother Jones: Occupy Oakland's Black Panther Roots.

Hill: Rep. Darrell Issa threatened to hold Attorney Gen. Holder in contempt of Congress if the nation’s top cop doesn’t hand over Justice Dept documents relating to the "Operation Fast & Furious" gun-trafficking case within nine days.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: With threat of primary looming possibly against Russ Carnahan, Rep. Lacy Clay posts best fundraising quarter of the year.

CBS DC: In rally, Black leaders say Va GOP voter bills evoke Jim Crow, poll taxes.

Fayetteville Observer: Marcus Robinson's lawyer argues statistics show Blacks kept off juries in Racial Justice Act hearing.

Prince/Journal-isms: 5 More Latino Journalists Flown to Israel. Jewish Group Sees Chance to Influence Hispanics.

Jacobson/Legal Insurrection: Rep. Allen West being redistricted out of existence in effort led by Romney Florida spokesman.

Hancock/Kansas City Star: Missouri Black caucus vows to fight worker discrimination bill. Legislation in Missouri would make it harder to prove cases against former employers. (Sen. Shalonn “Kiki” Curls, pictured, President of Black Caucus).

Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: Challenge campaign of insults, slurs vs. Obama.

Stewart/Black America Web: Florida's Black Voters Go Unnoticed for Now.

Gordy/The Root: Can a Web App Help Voters Get Photo ID?

Oakland Tribune: Almost 400 arrested in Oakland Occupy protests.

Lessig/Nation: After the Battle Against SOPA—What's Next? The fight against SOPA awakened a giant. But do Internet activists know how much power they have and what they need to do now?

Ali/Roll Call: Muslims Struggle to Find Suitable Candidate.

Williams/The Hill: '12 racial code words obscure real issues.

Persaud/Amsterdam News: Much ado about nothing. With the presidential elections now less than 10 months away, a lot was made recently of the Obama administration's proposed change to the process for certain waivers for the undocumented.

Amsterdam News: NY Prisoners Counted Differently, But Still Not Voting. Now that they'll be counted in their hometowns rather than where they're incarcerated, state inmates could shift district lines.

Mathis/BAW: Threatened Now, Jan? Just Wait 'til November.

Slack/Politico: Jan Brewer tarmac tiff touches nerve in Black community.

Salt Lake Tribune: Rep. Brad Galvez’s state resolution would encourage the adoption of a legal & commercial system to make gold & silver more functional as currency. Last year he sponsored legislation to make it legal tender.

Bloomberg: Moody’s Investors Service cut the debt ratings of six European countries including Italy, Spain and Portugal and revised its outlook on the U.K.’s and France’s top Aaa ratings to “negative,” citing Europe’s debt crisis.

Kelly/Fortune: A secretive hedge fund legend prepares to surface. On the heels of weak performance in 2011, Louis Bacon has to reveal information about $15 billion Moore Capital to the SEC—and he's not happy about it.

Volcker/Financial Times: Foreign critics should not worry about ‘my’ rule.

CNBC: Retail Sales Not as Strong as Expected; Import Prices Rise.

Ewing/NYTimes: Economists Warn of Long-Term Perils in Rescue of Europe’s Banks.

Arends/Smart Money: The Real Reasons the Rich Are Moving Cash to the Caymans.

Chicago Tribune: Charter National Bank & Trust fails.

Chang/Forbes: China Is Hoarding Copper. Why?

Bloomberg: Bond Buyers Bet U.S. Debt Yields Stay Low.

Miami Herald: Miccosukee Indians: We owe the IRS nearly $26 million, and our lawyer Dexter Lehtinen is to blame.

Independent UK: With the turmoil in Syria, Nicolas Karout, a gold seller in Damascus, says he is seeing a roaring trade in gold sovereigns. "In the past 10 months I have sold more gold coins than my father and grandfather sold in their whole lives."

Parent & Hogan/Reuters: Iran paying for grain with gold, oil - traders.

Guardian UK: Nat Rothschild loses libel action against Daily Mail. Banker had sued Associated Newspapers over what he claimed were sustained and unjustified attacks in a May 2010 story.

Taibbi/Rolling Stone: Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining. Bankers have failed so spectacularly at that job in the last fifteen years that they’re lucky that God himself didn’t come down to earth and boot their asses out of their new condos.

Farrell/MarketWatch: Doomsday Capitalists’ winning strategy. How you can profit from the end of civilization.

Campbell/Businessweek: MF Global's Collapse Has Ranchers Steamed. They complain that CME's $100 million fund won't protect them when the next commodities broker collapses.

Lewis/Forbes: What Is The Best Kind Of Gold Standard System?

Spruell/MSN Your Money: Three Essence readers -- a teacher, an accountant and an entrepreneur -- give up the goods on how to afford the things you love.

Ellis/CNN Money: States seek currencies made of silver and gold.

Martens/Counterpunch: (How 60 Minutes Blew the Story) Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD.

Morgenson/NYTimes: One of the largest companies that provided home foreclosure services to lenders, DocX, has been indicted on forgery charges by a Missouri grand jury — one of the few criminal actions taken up for improprieties against homeowners.

NYTimes: Homeless Families, Cloaked in Normality.

Washington Post: For some Black women, economy and willingness to aid family strains finances.

Zumbrun/Bloomberg: Bernanke Says He Won’t Tolerate Inflation to Boost Employment Gains.

Schaefer/Forbes: Retail Investors May Get A Small Slice Of Facebook's IPO Pie.

Wyatt/NYTimes: S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks.

Shreveport Times: Even after a court settlement ordering the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay Black farmers for past discrimination and to offer more loans, Black farmers said Thursday that they still can't borrow money. (Rep. Roy Burrell, pictured).

Cox/CNBC: Fed's Low Rates Killing Credit, Slowing Recovery says Bill Gross of Pimco.

Reuters: Jobless claims fall, jobs market slowly healing.

Crudele/NYPost: Another shoddy job on employment numbers. More people are unemployed or underemployed than are being reported. And the figures jump around in very random fashion.

Hulbert/MarketWatch: Should gold bugs in February bet on shares of bullion over the shares of gold mining companies?

Arends/MarketWatch: Getting back to the gold standard. Jim Grant says gold, not paper currency, is the future.

NYTimes: From Founders to a Decorator, Facebook Will Enrich Many.

Velde/CNBC: S&P Warns of Cuts; Another US Downgrade Coming?

Johns/Forbes: Is Now The Time For A Young Person To Buy A Home?

Andrews/Black Enterprise: Will Marriage Help or Hurt LeBron James’ Brand? Weighing the pros and cons of marriage and a prenup on a NBA star's tainted brand.

Ross/Black Voices: Foreclosure Crisis Erases Hard-Won Wealth, Dreams Even In Center Of Black Affluence.

World Of Wallstreet: Gold Reserves Now A National Security Issue For The World's Governments.

USA Today: Black segregation from other racial groups has hit its lowest point in more than a century — declining in all 85 of the nation's largest metropolitan areas — but social and income inequality persist.

Warner/Telegraph UK: Is the West finished? Perhaps not quite.

Reuters: Gold back in vogue, posts biggest gain since August.

Emmott/Financial Post: Jobless Europe: Unemployment highest since birth of euro. Economists worry about social unrest as jobless rate hits 20% in Greece, 23% in Spain and 10.4% across the eurozone.

Bersin/Forbes: The End of a Job as We Know It.

Cendrowski/Fortune: Ethanol's food-fuel dilemma. Demand for corn ethanol is raising food prices. What's needed is a policy change.

Brantley/Grio: To tithe or not to tithe? Black churches vulnerable in economic downturn.

Davidson/USA Today Money: U.S. cattle herd smallest since '52. Consumers face higher beef prices this year due to smaller U.S. cattle supply.

Klein/BusinessWeek: One-Percenters Want to Buy the Corner Bakery. Smarting from poor returns in the markets, ultrawealthy individuals plan to increase their investments in small businesses.

Godt/MarketWatch: India’s gold-tariff hike may fail to boost rupee.

Eavis/NYTimes: U.S. Banks Tally Their Exposure to Europe’s Debt Maelstrom.

Chang/Forbes: Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?

Lenzner/Forbes: Gold Is The Hottest Currency In The World.

Sullivan/NYTimes: When Safe Bonds Don’t Yield Enough to Retire On.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Steelers' Mendenhall might not be ready for 2012.

PBS NewsHour: 'Slavery by Another Name' Relays the Unknown By Most Until Recently & Forgotten Stories of Post-Civil War Slaves. 'Slavery didn't end when we all have been taught that it did,' says Blackmon.

Black Enterprise: Director Sam Pollard Discusses ‘Slavery By Another Name’. Spike Lee collaborator explores the parallels between slavery and the industrial prison complex in new documentary.

Deggans/Tampa Bay Times: With debut of Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC continues slow diversification of anchor ranks.

Garland/The Atlantic: In Memphis Classrooms, the Ghost of Segregation Lingers On.

The Grio: Floyd Mayweather tweets Jeremy Lin is overhyped because he's Asian.

Star Ledger: Whitney Houston's childhood friends in N.J. knew she was destined for success.

DuBois/Fortune: How Alvin Ailey keeps dancing. Artistic director Robert Battle describes the challenges and payoff of keeping his modern dance company fresh and relevant.

Life & Times: First 5 New Pics of Blue Ivy Carter.

Wilson/Washington Post: History of Black hospitals examined. Today, Howard University Hospital in the District remains the only Black-owned and -operated hospital in the country.

Detroit Free Press: Scared Detroiters wage quiet war against neighborhood drug dealer -- and win.

Black Enterprise: Alicia Keys Takes Broadway By Storm. With the Broadway hit Stick Fly, the singer/songwriter carves out a new lane for herself and others on stage.

Parker/The Insider: Mo & Kita Break Their Silence About Terrell Owens.

Russell Simmons/Global Grind: They Got It All Wrong About Hov.

The Grio/AP: 50 Cent visits famine victims in Somalia, Kenya.

All Hip Hop: Nate Dogg’s Estate Sued For Hundreds Of Thousands In Medical Bills.

Sheridan/Philadelphia Inquirer: Sixers show they're a good team, no matter the opponent.

Koehn/Nanaimo Daily News: Black pioneers helped shape Nanaimo's history.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Recalling Jonny Gammage: Play about a Black man's death at police hands is wrenching.

Black Voices: Nick Cannon: 'I Used To Be A Fast-Food Junkie,' Now Completely Healthy.

Akintunde/The Root: That's the Funny Thing About Race. Key and Peele belong to a new breed of Black comics who use universal humor to tackle the topic.

Charlotte Post: The South’s Oldest Historically Black College campus bounces back from tornado. Repairs made, Shaw University is recovering.

AJC/AP: 'They use you up': Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett suing NFL over concussions.

Winnipeg Free Press: Pam Grier blames marginalized audiences for lack of African American film roles.

Letters of Note: To My Old Master by Jourdan Anderson. (A letter from a former slave in 1865 to his former master which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated).

CBS News: Don Cornelius' son Tony says dad called him before death.

Jamaica Observer: Will Ne-Yo's move help Caribbean acts?

Jamaica Gleaner: Prince Harry To Visit Usain Bolt At Racers Camp.

TMZ: Don Cornelius died with 2 life insurance policies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the ex-wife he hated will get all the money.

Scott/No Warning Shots Fired: Key and Peele: Coonin' Ain't Comedy.

Time: Pacquiao vs. Mayweather: The Fight of the Century Ain't Gonna Happen Again.

NY Daily News: Rapper Ja Rule, serving two years for gun possession, finds new posse behind bars. Jail pals include disgraced politician Alan Hevesi and former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski.

Fox News: Vanity Fair takes heat for placement of African American actresses on 'Young Hollywood' cover.

Long/Afro-American: Red Tails and Black Justice: Thurgood Marshall’s Battle against Tuskegee.

Washington Post/AP: Maya Angelou hosts radio special, hoping for time when Black History Month no longer needed.

Cosby/BAW: Fewer Internet Options for Blacks in Mississippi.

Witherspoon/The Grio: Denzel Washington: 'Safe House' star discusses struggles of Blacks in Hollywood.

TMZ: Don Cornelius -- who famously created "Soul Train" was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, CA home this morning, he was 75. He died from a gunshot wound to the head and officials believe the wound was self-inflicted.

PGA: Son of African-American golf pioneer shares insight on growing game‎.

Suggs/Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Males a distinct minority at HBCUs.

Suggs/Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Recruiting, retaining Black men in the University System of Georgia.

Sherwin/Independent UK: Black British actors told to head for Hollywood if they want big roles.

Jones/BAW: Twelve-Year-Old on Mission to See Slave Honored.

Health Day: Nurturing Moms May Help Their Child's Brain Develop. Study found toddlers with loving mothers had more growth in key brain area.

Martin/NPR: Native Americans As Slaves, Slave Owners In North.

Williams/Washington Post: Baratunde Thurston can teach you ‘How to Be Black'.

Wreksono/SoJones: ‘American Idol’ Producer Wants Al Green, Obama Duet.

Final Call: Hype, half-truths and prophecy: Is the year 2012 End of the World? Are any of the predictions true or important for our survival?

News One: Gayle King: Oprah Is Not Blue Ivy’s Godmother.

Victorian/Madame Noire: Morgan Freeman and E'Dena Hines: Is this relationship odd, questionable or dead wrong?

Charleston Post & Courier: Rejoicing 175 years: Local Black Catholics marking historic anniversary of St. Patrick’s.

Millner/MyBrownBaby: Birthing While Black: This African American Mom’s Experience Was Anything But VIP.

McWhorter/The Root: Segregation Is Down. Great News, Right? But was it ever really a bad thing that Black people lived together?

Curtis/Washington Post: SAG Awards: From Hattie McDaniel to Viola Davis, still winning for playing ‘The Help’.

Washington Post: After ‘The Wire’ ended, actress Sonja Sohn couldn’t leave Baltimore’s troubled streets behind.

Afro-American: Black Clergy Igniting Support for HBCU Equality Lawsuit.

Turner-Trice/Chicago Tribune: Little Black Pearl art center is a jewel for North Kenwood neighborhood.

ThyBlackMan: Being a Maid, Black Hollywood…

Bowean/Chicago Tribune: New year, new hair: Chicago woman advocates for return to natural hairstyles, with a big chop first. For some, the close-cropped haircut is liberating.

Chicago Tribune: Black teen says 3 boys committed racist attack. Police charge suspects who allegedly put noose around victim's neck, held knife to his throat.

LA Times: SAG Awards: Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer on acting, injustice and awards-season frenzy.

LA Times: Classic Hollywood: Pioneering Black actors helped pave the way. Ethel Waters ('Pinky'), James Baskett ('Song of the South') and James Edwards ('Home of the Brave') were among the first.

Baltimore Sun: Addressing negative stereotypes of Black men, yearlong program reaches end. But organizers hope Baltimore-based Black Male Identity Project extends to other cities.

WLOX Mississippi: The $23 million question is whether or not a former high school for African Americans is a historic building. The 33rd Avenue School in Gulfport which now houses Job Corps was once an all Black school during the years of segregation.

Newton/The Root: The Man Who Bailed Out MLK. This Unsung Hero was a bail bondsman for civil rights activists as well as a radio pioneer.

Sudan Tribune: The United States (US) President Barrack Obama’s 2013 budget proposal, released on Monday incorporated the possibility of relieving Sudan’s entire debt owed to it if certain conditions are met.

Cham/Africa Review: Leaked letter alleges President Ernest Bai Koroma's hand in UN envoy's (Michael von der Schulenburg) exit in Sierra Leone.

Africa Review/AFP: Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said Monday he hoped an upcoming conference in London on the war-torn country would produce a "Marshall Plan" to end two decades of chaos.

Glain/Washington Post: In Egypt’s pocket (pita) bread, signs of economic weakness. “If a country is unable to provide its own food, it is not worthy of the name,” says Mohammed Barghash, who chairs Cairo’s As-Salam Agriculture Association.

Warah/Daily Nation: Why latest foreign ‘re-colonisation’ project of Somalia is doomed to fail.

Miami Herald: U.N. Security Council travels to Haiti. A delegation arrives Monday in Haiti at a time when the relationship between Haitians and the U.N. peacekeeping mission is uneasy.

Xinhua: President Evo Morales on Thursday accused the U.S. of spying on his & other Latin American countries. The Bolivian president said the spying is done under the cover of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) & other NGOs.

Al Jazeera: UN delegation arrives amid Maldives unrest. Former president Mohamed Nasheed awaits arrest as top UN envoy appeals to "all actors" to avoid violence.

Hirondelle News: Aisha Gaddafi Requests Full Investigation On Her Father's Death. The United Nations' commission of inquiry on Libya is expected to release its second report in May 2012.

Antigua Observer: St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony says his cabinet will engage in discussions to decide the merit of joining the Hugo Chavez led Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA).

El Universal: Venezuelan Oil exports to China in 2015 are to match current oil shipments to the US.

Sudan Tribune: South Sudan in talks with Texas Company on oil pipeline. They're to explore options which would serve as an alternative to the one passing through the territories of Sudan.

Akosile/This Day Live: A new World Bank report has disclosed that African countries are losing out on billions of dollars in potential trade earnings every year because of high trade barriers with neighbouring countries.

Francis/This Day Live: MEND Attack: Amnesty Office Ready for Probe, Says Kuku. (MEND leader, Henry Oka, pictured).

Mail & Guardian: One more time: Nationalisation isn't policy, says Zuma.

Molele/Mail & Guardian: ANC Youth League president: It is Juju or no one. As its NEC lekgotla kicks off, the ANC Youth League remains determined that Julius Malema will not be replaced, even if his suspension takes effect.

The Citizen: Tanzania mobile phone subscriptions climb by 10 percent.

Naidoo/Mail & Guardian: Shabangu hammers final nail in coffin of nationalization.

Sudan Tribune: Qatar loans Sudan $2 billion amid slipping currency.

Nimmo/Infowars: Arab League Report Provides Evidence CIA, MI6, Mossad Behind Violence in Syria.

NYTimes: U.S. Sending Commander to Repair Ties With Pakistan.

Democracy Now: U.S. Accused of Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan.

NYTimes: Democracy groups financed by America have long been viewed with suspicion, but never has a government gone as far as Egypt’s.

Mail & Guardian: State of the Nation: Zuma adopts Chinese model. A new focus on infrastructure, similar to the Chinese model of state capitalism, will be the centrepiece.

Press TV: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran will stand by and support any nation or group that chooses to stand up to Israel.

Boston Globe/AP: Lawyers for former Pres. Charles Taylor have asked a U.N. war crimes court for permission to reopen their case, saying a recently published Security Council report could clear him of charges he committed atrocities in Sierra Leone.

Liberian Observer: Plantain sellers at the main Red Light market in Paynesville City, outside Monrovia, say they are sustaining losses than gaining profit from the locally produced commodity.

Dominican Today: Despite their economic limitations Venezuela and Dominican Republic are the nations which have most contributed to Haiti’s reconstruction, the ambassador from Caracas affirmed Thursday.

Dominican Today: Immigration registers 380,000 Haitians, eyes solution to “stateless”.

Nyathi/Africa Review: Zimbabwe Pres. Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party has attributed the typhoid outbreak that has affected 1,500 people in the capital Harare to biological warfare and Western sanctions.

Cham/Africa Review: UK Appoints Envoy to Somalia. Matt Baugh named ambassador as William Hague becomes the first British Foreign Secretary to visit Mogadishu in 20 years.

Barasa/Daily Nation: UK Foreign Secretary Hague to visit Kenya in horn of Africa tour. Mr Hague is the first high ranking British official to visit Kenya since the Kibaki-led coalition govt took office following the 2007 post-election violence.

Bauer/Mail & Guardian: The ANC Youth League says there's no point in promoting nationalisation at the Mining Indaba because it will be non-negotiable once it becomes policy.

Sudan Tribune: The United Nations on Wednesday disclosed that it asked the head of the Darfur Peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) Ibrahim Gambari to avoid repeating unnecessary encounters with the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir.

All Africa: Senegal: U.S. Legal Firm Helps Wade Fight for Third Term.

NYTimes: Russia Stands in Way of U.N. Call for Assad to Step Down.

Prensa Latina: US Actor Sean Penn Named Ambassador At Large For Haiti.

All Africa: AU Calls for African Free Trade Area By 2017.

East African: Rwanda is investing $852,100 to revamp the operations of local industries as it seeks to boost its domestic production and competitiveness in the export market.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/AP: The Hershey Company says it will invest $10 million in Ivory Coast to reduce child labor and improve the cocoa supply in the West African nation.

Zimbabwe Herald: Let's stand up to West. President Mugabe has warned that recolonisation of Africa might take place if leaders fail to handle issues as the continent's founding fathers used to do.

Daily Nation/AFP: The African Union on Tuesday extended the mandate of its top official Jean Ping after an election, in which he was challenged by South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, deadlocked.

Korea JoongAng Daily: The Black community in Dallas has been protesting a gas station run by a Korean-born U.S. citizen in a Black neighborhood, taking issue with what they claim were racial remarks by the station’s owner against a Black customer.

Guardian UK: Clinton and Hague back Syria plan at UN. Resolution calling for Assad to quit wins support of 10 security council members needed to force vote.

Martin: The Hypocrisy Of America’s Cuba Policy.

Miami Herald/AP: UN says Duvalier must be tried for Haiti abuses.

Tanzanian Citizen: Britain wants the Tanzanian government to act on land conflicts pitting villagers against British farmers in Babati District, Manyara Region. (British High Commissioner to Tanzania, Ms. Diane Corner, pictured).

Miami Herald: Haiti president now says no pardon for Duvalier.

NYTimes: Use of Drones to Protect U.S. Embassy Stirs Iraqi Outrage.

Bloomberg: Sarkozy Should Not Attempt to Legislate Turkey’s History.

Gismatullin/Bloomberg: The world’s next great oil finds may be buried under a layer of salt more than two miles beneath the seabed off Africa’s Atlantic coast.

LaGrone/Oakland Local: A critical look at Occupy Oakland (Community Voices).

Page/Chicago Tribune: Where did Haiti's aid go?

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