“In 1988, in a town called Luwero, I was changed. There amid the banana plantations of a 79-year-old widow who had outlived six of her seven children… There amid the fruit stands where, with grim irony, vendors displayed rows of human skulls the same size as the pineapples scattered among them… There amid a shocking […]

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By David McKenzie (CNN) — What’s happening in Madagascar? Supporters of opposition leader Andry Rajoelina attend a rally in Antananarivo on Monday.  Marc Ravalomanana resigned as Madagascar’s president after weeks of bitter and deadly political clashes. The military handed power to Andry Rajoelina, the 34-year-old former mayor of Antananarivo. Rajoelina and Ravalomanana have been engaged […]

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 Now UMA has got “facebooked”!! Add our group to your facebook profile and be part of this wonderful community.   http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70746460444   http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70746460444   http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70746460444 Your comments and suggestiong are welcome. yours, +UMAfrica Team

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 Hello everybody.  My name is Filipe Fukumoto and I’m currently typing from Brazil. I’m a Global Coordinator for UMA and one of the members of the team that will be heading to South Africa and Mozambique in Jul’09.  Back in Jan’08 while out on a Mission Trip in the northeast brazilian waste/hinterland (pic below) I was […]

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Photo via samaritanspurse.org Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, met Wednesday, March 4 with President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, reports Michael Ireland chief correspondent, ASSIST News Service. In a statement released to the media, Mr. Graham said: “We had a frank discussion on religious freedom, human rights, […]

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“16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; …”

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CNN) — The International Criminal Court at the Hague issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be charged by the permanent war crimes court. Bashir is charged with seven counts of […]

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March 2, 2009 From Times Online Tristan McConnell, Nairobi The President and head of the army in Guinea-Bissau were killed in tit-for-tat murders that have plunged the West African “narco-state” into crisis. President Joao Bernardo Vieira and General Tagme Na Waie died in separate incidents only hours apart. General Na Waie was killed in a […]

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(CNN) — The president of Guinea-Bissau was assassinated Monday, a day after a powerful explosion killed the head of the west African country’s military, the prime minister said. Circumstances of Joao Bernardo Vieira’s death are unclear. It was not immediately clear how President Joao Bernardo Vieira, 69, died. Prime Minister Carlos Gomes confirmed the death […]

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