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This might not be the thread but have y'all hear that people are trying to claim Ethiopians aren't black? Whenever it gets brought up that the western stereotypical look for blacks(big lips, wide noses) aren't true for all, people start claiming that the people who don't fit those stereotypes aren't black. Now it isn't hard to believe that people are so ignorant that anything that doesn't fit their perception is wrong in their eyes but I can't believe they can look out and see how diverse Asians, Caucasians and Hispanics are then say that the people on the largest land in the world all have a specific look. shyt got me heated.

Its just CAC racism. Black folks hold every type of look imaginable. Just in my family there's all types of thin thick lips. Big nose small nose. They cause confusion so you second guess reality. Just tune them cacs out.
 

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What is this about? :lupe:


Kenyan women breh :noah: , East Africa in general :noah: the hottest chick I ever went out with was Kenyan, and that's including, but not limited to women of Dominican, Romanian, Viet, Colombian, Greek, and Japanese origin.
 

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Positive Stories From Africa

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Ethiopia earns $456 million from gold exports

Ethiopian gold exports rose to 12.35 tons during the reported period compared to 12.32 in the previous year.

World Bulletin / News Desk

Ethiopian earnings from gold exports have dropped during the last fiscal year, earning over $456 million from the metal, an Ethiopian official said Saturday."The revenues decreased by over $122million compared to the amount the country earned during the same period in the previous year," Abdurahman Se’id, spokesman for the Trade Ministry, told Anadolu Agency.He said that Ethiopia earned over $456 million from exporting gold during the last fiscal year, which ended in July."The decrease in the revenues resulted from the plunging gold price in the world market," he said.He, however, said that Ethiopian gold exports rose to 12.35 tons during the reported period compared to 12.32 in the previous year.Ethiopia exports gold to the world market through traditional miners and big companies as MIDROC Gold Mine PLC, which is owned by the Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi, ASCOM, an Egyptian company, and NYOTA Minerals Ltd. an Australian-based company.While MIDROC is working in southern Ethiopia, NYOTA Minerals Ltd is working in western Ethiopia. A domestic firm called Ethiopian Mining Company is also engaged in gold mining in the northern Tigray State.ASCOM has recently found gold reserve in Benishangul Gumuz regional state, southwest of Ethiopia."Nearly $194 million of the revenue was secured from mining companies while the rest from small-scale enterprises engaged in traditional mining," Bacha Fuji, communication director with the Mines Ministry, told AA.Bacha said in addition to gold exports, Ethiopia is also exporting gemstone, tantalum and opal to different countries."The country is working to export more minerals and earn increased foreign currency during the current budget year,” Bacha said.
 

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Clearly, they patented it. :mjlol: Hopefully nigeria finds a way around the verbage of saying they cured a patented cac made virus.
unlikely.
the way they'll have the law and research setup, they'll have it so that whoever is working on it will have their career ended...
plus i'm sure with the right amount of money they got moles and snitches in there knowing exactly what's going on

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africa produced cure of the aids virus in the early 90s but it "disappeared". they are quick to run their mouth in the media and big pharma gets there to buys it or whatever they do with it...


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maybe because of the cure aids virus they now patent these new viruses..
 

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unlikely.
the way they'll have the law and research setup, they'll have it so that whoever is working on it will have their career ended...
plus i'm sure with the right amount of money they got moles and snitches in there knowing exactly what's going on

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africa produced cure of the aids virus in the early 90s but it "disappeared". they are quick to run their mouth in the media and big pharma gets there to buys it or whatever they do with it...


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maybe because of the cure aids virus they now patent these new viruses..
This shyt is so sick.

No you have to let our virus kill your people because legally we own it.


Murderers have rights.
 

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This shyt is so sick.

No you have to let our virus kill your people because legally we own it.


Murderers have rights.

gotta watch these cacs. they got terrorism killing the arabs and disease (/terrorism), or just playing africans against each other for their shyt.


or if it's a real breakthrough just offer the scientists a few thousand dollars a year to work on some research lab in boston. then throw them in some dumb as liberal college as a professor to teach a curriculum that doesn't make sense.
 

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Somalia accuses Norwegian oil explorer DNO of destabilising country

NAIROBI, Sept 3 Wed Sep 3, 2014 1:13pm EDT


(Reuters) - Norwegian oil company DNO and other small explorers are destabilising Somalia, the African country's petroleum ministry said on Wednesday, warning it may lodge complaints against these firms to the United Nations Security Council.

DNO has been prospecting for oil in Somaliland, a break-away territory of Somalia. The company did not respond to telephone and email requests for comment but in July a senior official said DNO would not engage in any activities that threaten peace in Somaliland.

Somalia has been riven by conflict for more than two decades as rival warlords and Islamist militants have fought for control of the Horn of Africa country.

The Somali Petroleum ministry said companies signing overlapping oil contracts and striking deals with regional governments were "adding fire to conflicts".

"These small companies are destabilising the country and destroying the international community's effort to build the peace and the security of the country," it added.

The ministry in a statement singled out DNO, saying the company is "planning to introduce armed militiamen in areas already in conflict and thereby stoking old feuds which resulted in internal displacement and harming the innocent and the most vulnerable people".

The ministry did not provide further details or any proof for its accusations.

"We are warning those companies that the Somali government will lodge complaints with their respective countries and the United Nations Security Council," the ministry added.

Around a dozen companies, including many multinational oil and gas majors, had licenses to explore Somalia before 1991, but since then Somaliland and other regional authorities have granted their own licenses for the same blocks.

Somali officials last months met representatives of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and BP for the first time since 1991, the ministry said.

The government said it wanted the oil majors to provide a timeline for their return to Somalia.

East Africa is rapidly emerging as an exciting oil and gas province after discoveries in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.

But U.N. monitors in July warned Western commercial oil exploration in disputed areas of Somalia and discrepancies over which authorities can issue licenses to companies could spark further conflict in the African nation. (Writing by Drazen Jorgic; editing by Susan Thomas)
 

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The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo Trailer
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Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi and His Four Wives Cause A Scene In Stratford, London

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi and his 4 wives caused a little commotion when they shopped recently in London,Westfield.
The wives treated their husband to a relaxing manicure whilst onlookers posed for pictures with Nigeria's foremost Royal.

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They later watched a movie at VUE cinemas.

Nigeria's popular Uk based music mixer DJ Abass was also spotted bowing to the King.

http://princezzofnaija.blogspot.com/2014/09/alaafin-of-oyo-oba-lamidi-and-his-four.html
 

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INTERVIEW-Angola's $5 billion sovereign fund nearing African, global private equity-style deals
Wed Sep 3, 2014 2:24pm BST

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* Wealth fund has set up special purpose vehicles for investment

* Looking for opportunities including companies in US, Europe

* Chairman says fund also targeting energy, mining, real estate

By Chris Vellacott and Karin Strohecker

LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Angola's fledgling sovereign wealth fund has identified direct investments in sub-Saharan Africa, and is poised to start deploying up to a third of the $5 billion it has been endowed by the government, its chairman said.

Jose Filomeno dos Santos said the fund had set up a series of special purpose vehicles to identify opportunities in commercial infrastructure, energy, mining, agriculture and real estate.

He was speaking to Reuters in London as the Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA), set up in 2012 to invest Angola's oil wealth, announced it now has assets of $5 billion following a final top-up of $1.35 billion made in June.

The fund will also deploy another third of its endowments, around $1.66 billion, to "opportunistic" investments around the world, seeking to buy up companies with a focus on sectors that could complement its activities in Angola and elsewhere in Africa.

"This is interesting for a fund such as ours because we have a need to attract talent and a need to bring technology to the (African) continent," he said.

Such targets might include "companies that maybe are based in saturated markets in Europe and the United States that could be refocused to investing in our region of the world," he said.

Another third of the fund's assets are being deployed to liquid financial assets - fixed income and equities - in developed markets, though dos Santos did not disclose what those investments were.

According to audited results for 2013 released on Wednesday, the fund had total assets of around $3.65 billion prior to the final top-up, and allocated $24 million to set-up costs during the year.

Dos Santos said future endowments to the fund would depend on how much was left over from a specific government account fed by oil cash worth roughly $3.65 billion a year aimed at financing fiscal stability measures. The remainder will be transferred to the fund.

"We would hope that at least half of that figure would be transferred to us, but it is really what is available," he said.

Dos Santos, the eldest son of long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, declined to identify specific acquisition targets being eyed by the fund or the vehicles it has set up, saying that was commercially sensitive information.

However, the fund has signed up to an IMF-backed set of guidelines on best practice and transparency for sovereign wealth funds and investments will be disclosed after they have been made, he said.



NO INVOLVEMENT IN BESA

Dos Santos said he was approaching the final year of a three-year term as the head of the fund but had no plans to enter politics in Angola, Africa's biggest oil producer after Nigeria, and hoped to remain in finance, either with the fund or in a similar role.

He also said the fund had not been involved in Luanda's intervention in the Angolan unit of troubled Portuguese lender Banco Espirito Santo.

Angola put the local unit into administration in August as part of a series of "extraordinary overhaul measures" following Portugal's announcement of a 4.9 billion euros rescue plan for the parent company.

Shareholders and investors in Banco Espirito Santo and the owner-family's other companies have lost more than 10 billion euros, making this one of Europe's biggest corporate collapses ever.

Banco Espirito Santo Angola (BESA) is a major financial player in Angola, with close ties to the ruling elite. "We have not been involved," said dos Santos.

As most of FSDEA's funds have not yet been invested, they are being kept at one of the 10 large global custodian banks, he said. He did not disclose the name of the custodian, but a source close to the fund said it was Northern Trust. (Editing by Susan Fenton)
 
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