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...streaming through the open doors of a large, airy farmhouse set at the far end of a guarded estate outside Libya's capital, Tripoli. Trays of dates and almonds are laid out in the living room, where the owner of the house, relaxed in a traditional North African robe and slippers, sips orange juice freshly squeezed from the fruit trees outside. All is a picture of prosperity and calm...
...country where most people have only ever known his father's rule, Saif says Libyans have grown impatient for change. Last February, when President Gaddafi ended his one-year term as the head of the African Union, the organization passed a resolution giving itself the power to expel or impose sanctions on leaders who seize power through force. The message was not lost on Libyans. "In black Africa, we see real democracy, real elections, real parliaments, real constitutions," Saif says. "Why don't we have the same as them...
...capital. Those who addressed the press conference and recounted heartrending tales of relatives killed in prison were shouted down by security officers in the audience, according to news reports. "There is no possibility for real political organizing, so people are chipping away at the corners," says Heba Morayef, North African researcher for Human Rights Watch. Saif, she says, "is the only person who can stand up to his father...
Mukasa said that groups such as IGLHRC are making connections with gender activist groups in Africa to define an African trans movement...
Some may remember that Steele, the first African American party chair, was elected by members of the RNC over paler selections like South Carolina RNC Chair Katon Dawson or Michigan RNC Chair Saul Anuzis, for what some considered to be racial reasons. Many believed that the party’s logic was as follows: The pick of an African American like Steele or former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, in the wake of President Obama’s historic election, could mitigate the growing perception of the Republican Party as composed of Southern white males. This alleged belief that...