tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85936358037596375392024-01-16T12:10:43.942-08:00Socio Economic NetworkSocio-Economics is the study of relationship between economic activities and social life. It is a multidisciplinary components involving theories and modules from sociology and economics for human dignity among others. However, socioeconomists focuses on social impacts and political activities that affects economic changes, or causes that impact a society. The Goal to Socio/economic study is to bring about improvement on socioeconomic development environment…Give Opinion or DiscussJudy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.comBlogger1369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-61006585648576690652016-05-17T01:05:00.000-07:002016-05-17T01:05:31.618-07:00Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-87511558849711455842015-08-23T07:07:00.000-07:002015-08-23T07:07:12.470-07:00SPLM-IO New Zealand Chapter’s congratulatory message on the signing of compromise peace agreement <br />
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22<sup>nd</sup> August 2015</div>
<i>Re: SPLM-IO Chapter in New Zealand sends Congratulatory Message to
the Chairman of SPLM-IO and C-in-C of SPLA Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon
for signing IGAD-Plus Compromise Peace Agreement</i><br />
Mr. Chairman,<br />
<b>New Zealand, August 22, 2015 (SSNA) --</b> The SPLM-IO chapter in
New Zealand takes this rare opportunity to congratulate you for the
courageous, resolute, and successful step you have taken to sign the
IGAD-Plus compromise Peace Agreement on 17<sup>th</sup> August 2015 in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It has been the belief of the SPLM-IO and
ordinary citizens inside and outside the country that the conflict -
imposed on the people of South Sudan by Salva Kiir Mayardit who
instigated it through hate speech that culminated in Juba Genocide on
15-18 December 2013 – must be brought to an end through peaceful
mechanism. Unlike President Salva Kiir who wrongfully opted to only
witness rather than signing, your signature before mediators, witnesses
and stakeholders to the peace process shows not only your seriousness in
the pursuit of peace but your commitment to it.<br />
Although the root causes of the conflict have never been addressed
thoroughly throughout the negotiating process by IGAD-Plus mediating
team, the issues pertaining to such causes have been given some answers
directly or indirectly in the Agreement signed. For one, the
demilitarization of Juba – our national capital – gives limited space to
“Dutku beny”, which devised methods of mass murder and carried out the
Genocide, to repeat the previous devilish act. It will be the interest
of any concerned citizen living in Juba that the national capital must
be free of state-sponsored mass murderers, the same murderers who turned
Naath backyards into graveyards. The city will be policed by
international intervention force to clock the crooks operating on the
Government’s behalf. Another protective clause in the Agreement is the
assurance that the SPLA will be separate and will manage its affairs
parallel to the government’s army. A separate SPLA army is the sure way
to quickly respond if Juba stirs up 15<sup>th</sup> December 2013.<br />
Mr. Chairman,<br />
Even though the Agreement has not adequately addressed the concerns
why the people responded with arms in what was self-defense that later
on evolved into the People’s Movement to correct corrupt practices
implanted by Salva Kiir for years, it’s enough to say those concerns
should be let go for now for the sake of peace. This chapter registers
its appreciation for the SPLM-IO peace negotiating team led by Gen Taban
Deng Gai. The negotiation was nail-biting, painstaking, and jaw
breaking process since the beginning. Some grounds were lost, some were
compromised, and a few more gained on the process in respect to what the
SPLM-IO stands for, but it’s unfortunate that the other side of the
conflict didn’t reciprocate in a manner that South Sudanese people and
the world want. Gen Taban Deng Gai’s team, and yourself deserve the
praise for the well job done!<br />
Mr. Chairman,<br />
As you sell this peace to the people, specially in the SPLM-IO
controlled areas, you will be met by the invisible voices who condemned
this peace before it materialized. Among these voices are two top
deserted generals and prominent politician who conned communities in the
United States of America and departed with large sums of money to form
his Movement. This community has the pleasure to advise not to lend them
your attentive ears because they are not threat to peace as their HQs
are in foreign countries. They live in hotels which they change
frequently for fear of public resentment. They are fugitives who don’t
represent anybody’s interest apart from their families and close
relatives. Responding to them will be distraction from the mission –
peaceful settlement of South Sudan conflict.<br />
In summary, you have been on record all along that this senseless war
created by Salva Kiir Mayardit due to his hate for Naath as a tribe
will be brought to end through peaceful means; that the barrel of the
gun is the last resort. Your signature on the Agreement on 17<sup>th</sup>
August 2015 reaffirms your position in this conflict. The members of
this community pray that Salva Kiir – who happens to be the biggest
actor in this peace – should heed to the reasonable calls both at home
and in the Diaspora to realize this peace by jetting back to Addis Ababa
and ink his genuine signature on it. It’s impossible for one to run
away from his/her shadow, he has no good history to polish should he
miss this chance. Your flocks are in the right direction of your
shepherdship, congratulations for bringing peace home!!<br />
<b>Signed:</b><br />
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Mr. Makuey Rambang</div>
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For/SPLM-IO Chapter in New Zealand</div>
<a href="mailto:splm.io.nz@gmail.com">splm.io.nz@gmail.com</a><br />
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<br />Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-42140351263385747492015-08-23T06:53:00.001-07:002015-08-23T06:55:34.973-07:00EXPOSE UGANDA GENECIDE: Fact sheet on Uganda's President Yoweri Museven.....Why is Uhuru dancing the "Sugar" DANCE?<br />
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in my community we say, if you see somebody walking with a thief, he is
also a thief. This is why you will never see Kagame or Kikwete next to
the two. Only in the war torn countries you will see the presos
surrounding M7 as their mentor. Did you know the style of execution
of PEV was the same as what happened in Rwanda in 1994? Who had coached
those people? Find out who did it so that you can know Come 2017,
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:30 PM, 'Judy Miriga' via Progressive Kenyans <span dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53805"><<a href="mailto:progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53804" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">I agree with Rose Ikirima,</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53817" style="line-height: 115%;">Fact
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President Yoweri Museveni are facts that must face legal adjudication,
if Human
habitation under property rights for Survival and Nature preservation
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livelihood of the people of Great Lakes of East Africa must be protected
against destruction and Human Rights Abuse, crime and Violation where
political holocaust, peoples' resources, property rights Abuse and
cattle theft with Land Grabbing are committed. The
peoples' Democratic Constitutional rights under trust of tenure is an
obligated mandate that require to be observed and complied with, that as
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">From
creating human disturbances, crisis, genocide messes in Uganda, Congo,
South Sudan and now striding into Kenya, is a tall-order which must
keenly be observed as totally unacceptable.</span></div>
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to save the situation, Museveni belongs to the International Criminal Courts of justice for justice
to be seen to have been done, and that the International European Community,
i.e. the UN and AU with the African Diasporas community including the whole world must unite to call for the
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 1:51 AM, 'khaguli maurice' via Progressive Kenyans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What you need to know about President </span></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Museveni</span></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and Uganda under Museveni's rule</span></span><br clear="none" /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br clear="none" /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Crimes Against Humanity I</span></span>The Ugandan government failed to protect northern Ugandans when they needed it most. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/19/wuganda19.xml" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni</span></a> is responsible for orchestrating genocide in Northern Uganda, where he has incarcerated nearly <a href="http://www.david-kilgour.com/mp/Ugandan%20IDP%20Camps%20&%20Children.htm" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">two million people in concentration camps</span></a>, euphemistically known as “protected villages.” <a href="http://www.who.int/hac/crises/uga/sitreps/Ugandamortsurvey.pdf" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Read a report by the Govt. of Uganda, WHO, UNICEF and others (pdf version).</span></a><br />
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hands of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) or government forces, and over
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">2. </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53966" style="font-weight: bold;">Crimes Against Humanity II</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br clear="none" /></span>In 2005, Museveni’s government was found guilty by the <a href="http://www.icj-cij.org/presscom/index.php?pr=995&pt=1&p1=6&p2=1&PHPSESSID=fafa7414e02589bf0f636ca38af1cdf5" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">International Court of Justice</span></a>
for committing grave war crimes in the DRC, including: the invasion and
plundering of the natural resources of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo and of fomenting ethnic cleansing. <a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/icj/2007/0726ugandapayup.htm" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Uganda was ordered to pay the DRC $6-$10 billion</span></a>.<br />
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in the world. Yet, donor countries including the US, keep donating
money to the regime without holding Museveni accountable for <a href="http://www.globalintegrity.org/reports/2006/UGANDA/notebook.cfm" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">corruption</span></a>.<br />
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4. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lawlessness I</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br clear="none" /></span><a href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/11/ugandas_tyrant.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">President Museven</span></a><a href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/11/ugandas_tyrant.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">i</span></a>
has no respect for international laws. He came to power using child
soldiers and continues to coerce children into joining his armed forces
to sustain his regime <a href="http://news.amnesty.org/pages/SVAW_biog_China_keitetsi" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53858" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53857" style="color: #2288bb;">(See China Keitetsi’s story).</span></a><br />
<u><span style="color: #2288bb;"><br clear="none" /></span></u>5. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lawlessness II:</span> Locally, President Museveni does not respect the rule of law: <a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/03/05/uganda15449.htm" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">he used soldiers to invade the nation’s High Court</span></a>
twice to intimidate judges, has exhibited complete disrespect for human
rights, and bribed Ugandan Parliamentarians to amend the constitution
to remove presidential term limits. <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0223/p06s02-woaf.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">The removal of term limits</span></a>
places Museveni as a de facto life president. Museveni has also been
involved in land grabbing without the consent of the owners.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">6. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Militarism</span></span>President
Museveni is a militarist who has no interest in dialogue to solve
political problems. In 1985 he scuttled the Nairobi Peace Agreement
mediated by President Moi of Kenya. Numerous attempts at peaceful
negotiation between the LRA and the Government of Uganda were disrupted
by Museveni’s actions, namely: 1994 and 2004 peace negotiation mediated
by Betty Bigombe, the 1988 negotiation mediated by Acholi elders, and a
2003 initiative mediated by the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace
Initiative. To date, Museveni has not shown much commitment to the
current Juba Peace talks mediated by South Sudan--recently spearheading
the creation of the <a href="http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/585886" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53975" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53974" style="color: #2288bb;">Arusha agreement with the DRC</span></a>, which stipulates the removal of the LRA from the DRC within 90 days.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5PFkIFfTTKseyyi6qrtkn8GCq5TSZ-0aPHZk4BUKo3VsntPjPh7YAE_9bdo3ukt5rL4YH-gJguhnp9bGpgfyt-WWxphp09iHBG7leCS59hn1UJZ15gGlkbTpddlitSEjhcs8CXnCdMA/s1600-h/yoweri_museveni_1.jpg" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" data-id="4ad4ccc9-4be2-34c5-6947-bfeded2f6a6a" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5PFkIFfTTKseyyi6qrtkn8GCq5TSZ-0aPHZk4BUKo3VsntPjPh7YAE_9bdo3ukt5rL4YH-gJguhnp9bGpgfyt-WWxphp09iHBG7leCS59hn1UJZ15gGlkbTpddlitSEjhcs8CXnCdMA/s200/yoweri_museveni_1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">7. </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53863" style="font-weight: bold;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_53862" style="font-weight: bold;">Rampant Human Rights Violations</span></span>Recently, <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200710101052.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_54091" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_54090" style="color: #2288bb;">Uganda's ambassador to the UN blocked a report</span></a> by the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Louise Arbour, from being tabled in the UN's General Assembly. Arbour <a href="http://newsfromrussia.com/print/world/74014-0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_54089" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_54088" style="color: #2288bb;">has been vocal about human rights violations by the UPDF</span></a> in the past. <a href="http://www.humanrightshouse.org/dllvis5.asp?id=5819" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_54087" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_54086" style="color: #2288bb;">The report</span></a> detailed extensive human rights violations by the Ugandan national army in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda. <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/english/docs/Ugandareportfinal.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_54096" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440333344865_54095" style="color: #2288bb;">Read the report (pdf version).</span></a><br />
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<b>New York/Washington, DC, August 20, 2015 (SSNA) --</b> The United
States on Wednesday circulated a United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
draft resolution against South Sudan, saying the resolution will impose
targeted sanctions including arms embargo on the violence-wracked
nation if Salva Kiir refuses to sign the IGAD-Plus’s compromise peace
agreement by September 1.<br />
The move comes a day after US threatened to pursue UN-backed punitive measures against the young nation.<br />
The resolution will slap travel bans on people who stand in the way
of the peace. The proposal also requires member states of the
international community to freeze assets and funds of individuals who
are also believe to be hurdle to peace.<br />
South Sudanese rebel leader Dr. Riek Machar and Former political
detainee Pagan Amum have signed the internationally-backed pact on the
17<sup>th</sup> of August dateline proposed by the IGAD-Plus.<br />
Kiir refused to sign the agreement minutes after Machar signed the deal, drawing intense criticisms from world leaders.<br />
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Let arrogant Kiir know there is always a price for intransigence
and that this world has other powerful leaders much more powerful than
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<b>Addis Ababa, August 17, 2015 (SSNA) --</b> South Sudanese rebel
leader Dr. Riek Machar and Former political detainee Pagan Amum have
signed IGAD-Plus’s compromise peace agreement exactly on the dateline
proposed by the international community.<br />
Meanwhile Salva Kiir refused to sign the deal, saying he needs at
least fifteen days to make necessary consultations with his allies.<br />
Kiir surprised Mediators by declaring that he is not going to put his
signature on the document just minutes after Machar signed the pact.<br />
It was not immediately clear if IGAD-Plus agreed to his request.<br />
<b>Uganda implicated</b><br />
An African Union diplomatic source with complete knowledge of the negotiations and who prefers anonymity told the <i>South Sudan News Agency</i> (<i>SSNA</i>) that Uganda President Yoweri Museveni is behind Juba’s refusal to sign the deal.<br />
“Seven days ago, we have received credible information which suggests
that Yoweri Museveni instructed Kiir not to sign IGAD-Plus document. So
everybody knows Kampala’s position on the compromise agreement was
going to be revealed by Kiir,” the source said.<br />
“We are not surprise at all, Kiir’s refusal to sign the agreement
simply confirms what we have be have been suspecting,” the source added.<br />
On Sunday, Kiir abruptly issued a decree removing four South Sudanese
Governors. Observers say the move was an attempt by Kiir to try to
purge anyone he sees as a threat in case if his regime crumples.<br />
The SSNA has learned that Museveni has become very angry after his
version of compromise peace agreement was overwhelmingly rejected by the
international community<br />
Museveni, who has been pocketing hundred of millions of dollar,
perhaps billions from Western nations branded the IGAD-Plus’s compromise
peace agreement as “White people proposal,” and vowed never to accept
it.<br />
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I heard Juba regime is calling for change of peace avenue... this is
funny. The negotiation is over & they are calling to change venue.
There is no way out my friend. You are dealing with smart people. Riek
machar has done it.</div>
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The SPLM IO supporters should celebrate what your movement has
achieved so far. I believe the compromised peace deal is better than the
previous one because it accommodates all members of the SPLM IO to have
presence in all states which will help SPLM IO to get support easily to
implement all the reforms. Plus it is now clear it will be only salva
kiir will be a victim of any action by the IGAD countries.</div>
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The international community should stay vigilant what museveni can
try to do in the comming two weeks. The NUER & the whole south
sudanese should stay vigilant on what the dying juba regime can do in
the comming two weeks. I think everything is clear now. Who want peace
and who does not is clear now. if salva kiir tries to wage a war, the
IGAD country should move in to save lives of south sudanese. BRAVO SPLM
IO for showing the world who salva kiir & museveni are.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;">By Gatluak Ter Thach, PhD</span><strong><span style="line-height: 1.5;">*</span></strong><br />
<b>Nashville, TN, August 15, 2015 (SSNA) -- </b>South Sudan
government and Uganda have quitted IGAD PLUS peace proposal scheduled to
be signed on August 17, 2015. The two countries have created their own
peace plan contrary to the IGAD PLUS proposal. Earlier this year, Uganda
and South Sudan renewed their military collaborations that extended the
presence of Ugandan armies in the war-torn South Sudan, which resulted
to Juba’s recently renewed hostilities, as well as failed to concern
about threats of sanctions proposed by IGAD PLUS partners. Under their
renewed deal, thousands of Ugandan troops will remain in South Sudan for
many months to assist Mr. Kirr and his cohorts fight Dr. Riek and his
resistant forces.<br />
Historically, since South Sudan attained her self-rule government
before independence in 2011, South Sudan has emerged in recent years as
the largest importer of Ugandan goods. Over 200,000 Ugandan traders have
been operated across the border of South Sudan, generating an estimated
about $1 billion in business for Ugandan revenues, according to
Ugandan’s business fiscal report 2014-15. After the crisis in South
Sudan, the Ugandan traders had reduced in sizes and incomes quite a bit,
but their presence still significance. South Sudan relies heavily on
its neighbors to provide goods such as construction materials and
skilled services to encounter unskilled labor. Approximately 2,500
Ugandans work in Southern Sudan in the construction industry, while
about 1,500 Ugandan professional are believed to be employed within
non-governmental organizations, ministries and other industries.<br />
Ugandan military has been provided military hardwires to South
Sudanese armies. In addition to their joint coalition war in partnership
with their South Sudanese counterparts, Ugandan military defense forces
are also responsible for air defense and military logistics of South
Sudanese arm forces which is why Juba does not worry about IGAD PLUS
sanctions since Kampala is on her back! Ugandan is truly a part of the
conflict in South Sudan. According to Dr. Riek, leader of opposition
forces, “The Ugandans are partisan [s] in this conflict, their only
agenda is to protect Salva Kiir’s government,” Dr. Machar told The Wall
Street Journal. “We shall not accept Uganda’s imperialism.”<br />
It is true tens of thousands of innocent South Sudanese civilians
have been killed in this conflict which Museveni is believed to have
sponsored in South Sudan. An established of more than 50,000 South
Sudanese died since fighting erupted in Juba on December 15, 2013. A
total of 2.2 million South Sudanese have been displaced since the
beginning of the crisis, according to International NGOs’ report, with
800,000 of these fleeing to neighboring Kenya, Sudan, and Ethiopia.<br />
In addition, as many as 4.5 million people in South Sudan (nearly one
third of the population) face food insecurity. About 7.5 million people
are at risk if situations remain unchanged. Though hundreds of
thousands have crossed borders to nearing countries in Kenya, Ethiopia,
and Sudan, these people are lacking sufficient aids and other lifesaving
items. Their children are still dying from preventative diseases.
“People are fading daily because of war and shortages of food”, while
Museveni continues to counsel Mr. Kirr to avoid IGAD PLUS peace process.<br />
Museveni of Ugandan remains a real threat to a meaningful peace in
South Sudan and the region. He wants to stay on the peace table as a
neutral mediator to two warring parties under auspice of IGAD, which has
tried to bring lasting peace but miserably failed several times because
of the interest of negotiators, includes his interest but did not mean
what he is there for. Uganda has now even attempted to marshal further
military clout ahead of the talks to put in place a power-sharing
government as he wishes.<br />
Uganda’s new peace proposal is another setback to peace and would
linger the suffering of South Sudanese people. Mr. Museveni’s newfangled
power sharing contradicts the IGAD PLUS power sharing which was
supposed to bring lasting peace for people of South Sudan. His proposal
did not only fail to address issues that should have been tackled first
for a good peace to come, but it lacks logics in basic mathematical
methods, and it is uncertain why the world allows Museveni who does not
have sympathies for suffering people of South Sudan to hinder peace to
come in South Sudan! Museveni has to be stopped. Here are what he
proposed as power sharing at the national Level for South Sudan:<br />
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<li>53% GRSS.</li>
<li>33% SPLM /SPLA (IO)</li>
<li>7% FDS</li>
<li>7% PP</li>
<li>No power sharing in states</li>
<li>No demilitarization of Juba and other areas</li>
<li>Security arrangements be decided by the Chief of Staffs of Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda</li>
<li>Troops be reintegrated in three months</li>
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To make a matter worse, Salva Kirr who invited Ugandan soldiers to
fight alone side his militia armies have yet relied on Museveni for
operational advices. World also knows Mr. Kirr and Mr. Museveni had used
mass destruction banned weapons on civilian targets, the cluster bombs
in several locations in Jonglei and Upper Nile States last year, but no
one has yet called them to face charges for using banned weapons on
civilian targets. Museveni is wrongly advising Mr. kirr not to sign IGAD
PLUS proposal, and he is doing a way with it.<br />
The source in Juba stated Museveni advised Mr. Kirr not to go to
Addis Ababa auctioned him for consequences when Mr. Kirr would refuse to
sign the IGAD PLUS peace proposal on Monday, August 17, 2015. It is
astonished and dismayed to continue receiving the destructions of human
lives and properties in hands of people as Yuweri Museveni while the
world power has yet collectively decided what to do with him.<br />
Museveni and Kirr prefer war instead of peace. They careless about
sanctioned since Museveni believes Mr. Kirr can overcome the
international sanctions as long as he is still ruling Uganda. The world
must urge them to come to their senses and sign the desperately needed
peace to the young impoverished nation. It is assuredly and blatantly
clear that there is no swift military solution to this conflict. It is
everyone’s belief that the solution to this conflict in South Sudan lies
in the hands of the international communities, and if this IGAD PLUS
deadline falls to similar category as previous ones, then it would be
difficult if not impossible for a tangible peace to be achieved in South
Sudan.<br />
<b>Recommendations </b><br />
I would like to call on international bodies, especially US and the
partners, as well as those of good wills, to positioning their weights
to end this conflict without hesitations. Had it not because of the
international community, especially the US and the partners that helped
created South Sudan, there should have not been a sovereignty one proud
to call South Sudan. The same should be true as well now. The signs of
human sufferings are vividly clear indications that this war has already
inflicted human destructions of historical proportions than any
genocidal war previously engulfed the region including Rwanda, DRC or
Somalia.<br />
I personally appreciative role United Nation Mission in South Sudan
(UNMISS) has been playing in protecting innocent civilians who escaped
the ethnic massacres in various parts of the country, which began in
Juba on December 15, 2013. UN agencies and international organizations
are doing their parts to ensure humanitarian support reaches those in
needs inside and outside South Sudan. Yet, many more people are dying,
and this must have to be stopped. The followings points have to be
addressed for a permanent peace to come:<br />
1. Impose arms embargo immediately on the government of South Sudan
in accordance with the Security Council Resolution 2206 for its role in
orchestrating the targeted ethnic killings that began in December 15th,
2013 in Juba and its continued recalcitrance vis-à-vis the
recommendations of the IGAD PLUS peace process.<br />
2. Mr. Kiir’s speech few days ago in Juba indicated that he was
hardening his position and reneging on some of the areas the SPLM in
government and the SPLM in opposition had agreed on. May be it is time
for deterring forces if Kirr prefers war.<br />
3. Bring pressure to bear on the African Union to implement the findings of its Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan.<br />
4. Revised the role of Uganda in the IGAD-mediated peace process.
Museveni is not there to bring peace… His new parallel proposal is
counterproductive to the negotiating peace process in Addis Ababa. It is
better for Kampala to join Juba on peace table.<br />
5. TROIKA members must actively engage and participate directly in
guiding the peace process. Though I appreciated the role IGAD countries
under the leadership of the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of
Ethiopia, His Excellency Ato Hailemariam Dessalegn, play, but I strongly
believe engaging TROIKAs in cochairing the peace will append impetus it
needs to end the war.<br />
I can conclude by reiterating what Secretary John Kerry said lasttime
about Sudanese leaders that, “Legitimacy is not a presumed right of any
government. It is conferred by the people, and it is sustained only by
demonstrating leadership to protect and serve all citizens –
responsibilities the government has neglected.” The leadership in Juba
has lost its legitimacy to lead people of South Sudan, meaning peace
will not come unless international forces and people of goodwill
acknowledge enough is enough for Museveni and his war partner in order
for people of South Sudan to achieve a sustainable peace in South Sudan
instead of pursuing a military solution to the conflict.<br />
<b><i>Dr. Gatluak Ter Thach</i></b><i> lives and works in Nashville, TN, USA. He can be reached at:
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<b>August 20, 2015 (Nyamilepedia) –</b> African countries
with seats at the UN Security Council have reportedly backed
international calls to place UN sanctions on South Sudan if a peace
agreement is not reached soon as voting on a sanctions draft resolution
is reportedly about to begin at the UN Headquarters.<br />
The United States have already placed a draft at the Security Council
and members are due to vote on the draft which would authorize
widespread sanctions on South Sudanese parties who fail to comply with
the IGAD mediated South Sudan Peace Agreement signed in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia on Monday this week.<br />
According to sources at the Security Council, a draft resolutions on
arms embargo has been submitted by the US after closed doors meeting
with senior UN officials at the UN Headquarters in New York.<br />
The proposed sanctions would include a worldwide Travel ban and Asset
freeze on senior officials including leaders of any parties
that rejects the peace and resorts to war. It would also include a
global Arms embargo over South Sudan.<br />
African Countries are said to have grown frustrations by the lack of
will by the South Sudanese leaders to accept peace agreement and also
due to lack of commitment to respect several ceasefire agreements.<br />
These African nations are believed to have thrown their weight behind the UN resolution.<br />
The African countries are said to be backing any further actions to
place sanctions on those seen to be obstacles to peace and inciting war
in South Sudan.<br />
“We had the Deputy Secretary General set out the situation, how much
progress had been made, … the government has not signed the agreement.
The Americans have circulated a resolution. Experts are meeting to look
at that resolution now,” UK Deputy Permanent Representative Peter Wilson
told reporters at the UN Headquarters.<br />
According to the draft resolution submitted by the US and distributed
on Wednesday, the sanctions will become effective automatically as of
September 1, if South Sudanese President Salva Kiir refuses to sign a
peace agreement with the rebels and a ceasefire regime fails to come
into force.<br />
However South Sudan’s Foreign Minister Benjamin Marial said any sanctions will not achieve peace but only create more problems.<br />
“We need to remove obstacles obstructing peace not create new ones,” Benjamin Marial said<br />
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Hey Benjamin Marial, just sign that peace if you are not
creating another problem. You start to kill journalist and expect world
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<b>AGUSUST 20, 2015(Nyamilepedia)</b> — In an apparent
move taken by the south Sudan president in protest against what he calls
forced and imposed Peace agreement rammed on the people of south Sudan
by IGAD and western nations, in particular the US, UK, Norway and EU,
President Kiir orders and dispatches all the representatives of the
national legislative assembly, and states members of Parliaments to go
back to their constituencies to mobilized their people to denounce the
signed peace agreement by Riek Machar and Pagan Amum.<br />
President Kiir wants the demonstration to be covered extensively by
SSTV and other media outlets in the country controlled by the government
and others including BBC and Aljazeera, to show the world that the
South Sudanese people stands with him in rejection of the IGAD Plus
compromised peace draft Proposal, and denounce Western Imperialistic
goals in attempting to wheel powers and take the country over in order
to steal the resources of his country and for wanting to demilitarized
the capital city Juba by doing so, giving its sovereignty and security
in the hands of foreign nations.<br />
According to one of the MPs from central Equatoria state who spoke in
condition of anonymity said “Mr. Kiir has given a strong order that all
citizens residing in every part in the country must take part and walk
on the streets to demonstrate against IGAD Plus peace deal, and should
anyone refused his/her house should be looted or should be beaten and
compelled to participate.<br />
At border towns like Nimule, He, Kiir, ordered the security to close
down the border entrances with the neighboring countries to prevent
people from getting away from demonstrating”<br />
Report on Radio Eye indicates that the High Coordination Committee of
the party leagues has scheduled the protests for tomorrow (Friday).<br />
“Some of the provisions they have rejected include power sharing,
demilitarization of Juba, and consultations at the presidency. The
committee says members of the leagues include teachers, lawyers,
farmers, women, and students were urged to show support to the elected
head by demonstrating.” Thus this action symbolizes that south Sudan is
heading to “anarchy” absence of elected governors and absolute freedom
of the individual been denied therefore they must participate in
demonstration to show their support to the absolute authoritarian regime
even when they are not in support of what the government wants them to
demonstrate against.<br />
<ins id="aswift_0_expand" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; display: inline-table; height: 15px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 728px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; display: block; height: 15px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 728px;"></ins></ins>“We denounce presence of UNMISS in our Republic; and therefore, we
demand their forces to evacuate our Republic. We rejected
neo-colonialism in our country.” added Simon Machuar.<br />
Essential this kind of utterance in support of Kiir indicates he and
his hardliners believe military option is the best and achievable. And
this also illustrates that Kiir has no concern about the dying of our
people clearly Peace seems elusive with the man who pledge never to take
our country to war, or that was only with the North?<br />
Mr. Machuar says they want the venue of the peace talks to be moved
from Ethiopia to South Africa, saying the new venue will be neutral. He
added that the leagues want what he calls the Entebbe proposal,
referring to a reported draft of a peace proposal some regional leaders
made in Uganda this month.<br />
It remains unclear what would happen tomorrow to the people who
defies the order to demonstrate against America, The world body United
Nations, the EU, the UK and Norway whose people and government stood
with this nations even before it became one but more so for now more
than three decades.<br />
Kiir whose mandate to govern ended in July 2015, has become a full
blown detector while we watch, and he is trying to instigate violence
against the world body, the UN and government of America and its people
who had spared no efforts to see the creation of south Sudan.<br />
The Citizens are tomorrow on the streets, mandated by our now Tyrant,
reminiscences of Saddam Hussein. A police state in which the only
demonstration you see is against the infamous great Satan but never
against the Satan himself, the Tyrant.<br />
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Good Luck! Iraq demonstrated during Sadam Hussen but was all in
vain… South Sudan is going to face the full force of international
community,let’s wait and see. All the regional leaders are feed up with
Kiir’s incompetent government,it’s time to forced Kiir to resign after
all his term in Office expired long ago…<br />
And for those our ignorant boot lickers politicians, please, it’s time
to released that this government your representing is on a life
support,it’s reaching its final hours,so get out or stand your ground.</div>
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of Thursday morning, Jennifer Palmieri was employed as communications
director for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Whether she still has that
job on Friday morning after indicting her boss' qualifications to be
president remains to be seen.<br />
On Wednesday, Palmieri appeared on
Bloomberg Television's "With All Due Respect," where she told co-host
John Heilemann that Clinton "<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-19/hillary-clinton-aide-palmieri-on-e-mail-she-didn-t-really-think-it-through-" target="_blank">didn't really think it through</a> " when she decided to use her personal email account for State Department <a href="http://news.investors.com/business.aspx">business</a>.<br />
Yes,
just what America needs — a president and commander in chief who has a
history of not really thinking through important decisions that can have
an impact on national security.<br />
Of all the things we've heard and
learned this week about the Clinton email scandal, Palmieri's statement
is the most revealing. When a trusted aide admits her boss, who craves
the presidency and all its power, has used poor judgment in a critical
situation, the public should take note. This isn't a Republican saying
this, or a Democratic challenger. It's from someone who, presumably, is
in close association with Clinton every day and has been for some time.
It's from someone who's observed the former secretary of state operate
in public and private and has inside information that few have.<br />
Palmieri,
a veteran of both the Clinton and Obama White Houses, of course did not
mean for her statement to be an indictment of Clinton. She was merely
doing what communications directors do when their bosses get in trouble —
try to make it seem as if the trouble isn't really so bad.<br />
Often
spokesmen will invent "facts" and dream up the overwhelming
circumstances that led a politician into a tight spot. But whether she
intended to condemn her boss or not, Palmieri is nevertheless right:
Clearly Clinton "didn't really think it through."<br />
Clinton has
enough trouble without her allies giving her more. Each day brings a new
set of problems related to her personal email account and private
server. Just in the last day we've learned that the investigation into
her personal email account is likely to widen and will probably grow
beyond merely emails and into what type of device she used for State
Department business. It appears that she used personal devices rather
than State Department-issued devices that are more secure.<br />
Didn't think it through. Poor judgment. What difference does it make?<br />
Quite
a lot, if the person who isn't thinking clearly and can't make good
decisions is president of the United States. We don't believe the
country needs someone who doesn't really think it through when she gets
that 3 a.m. phone call.</div>
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If Hillary never used email for classified messages and documents,
how did she send and receive them? By mail? CNN just showed Hillary
talking about her and her aides using Blackberrys that they now claim
didn't exist.<br />
She can't tell the truth without incriminating herself. She can't defend herself, her statements or behavior without lying.</div>
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so not a fan of socialist agenda driven politicians, but Sen. Sanders
would be more honest in one day than Hillary in a decade. I'm hearing
now a Biden-Warren ticket is the desirable duo of the Democrat insiders.
Hillary is toast, but just cannot let go of her dream job quite yet.</div>
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My
synopsis of the Clinton machine: Hillary went off the reservation in an
effort to shield her 'blending' of personal and business relationships
from scrutiny. The Clinton Foundation, it's donors and beneficiaries,
are now at risk.<br />
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<span class="dateline">ADDIS ABABA—</span> East African bloc IGAD has released a<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://docs.voanews.eu/en-US/2015/06/15/ed8be613-bf24-4a5a-9820-41d060dbe355.pdf" target="_blank">new proposal </a></span>for how it thinks power should be shared in South Sudan once peace is restored.<br />
The document released last week proposes giving President Salva
Kiir's government "a majority in the legislature, the positions of
President and Vice President and 53 percent of ministerial portfolios."<br />
Former vice president Riek Machar's armed opposition group would have
the second largest number of seats in the National Assembly, along with
"the new position of First Vice President and 33 percent of ministerial
portfolios," the document says.<br />
A group of former political detainees and other political parties
will share 14 percent of ministerial portfolios between them and hold an
unspecified number of seats in parliament.<br />
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Conflict-affected states</h4>
In the three states that have been hardest hit by the 18-month
conflict - in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile - IGAD proposes giving
Machar's opposition movement 53 percent of ministerial portfolios. The
ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) would hold 33 percent
of cabinet positions in those states, and the remaining 14 percent of
ministerial posts would be shared equally between the former detainees
and other political parties. IGAD says this will "ensure the reform of
governance in these areas."<br />
The IGAD proposal also provides for a transitional government of
national unity to become operational three months after the signing of
an agreement to end the conflict. The transitional government would
remain in power for 30 months.<br />
IGAD proposes holding elections in South Sudan 60 days before the end of the transitional government's term.<br />
The document was presented to government and rebel negotiators last week in Addis Ababa.<br />
The lead negotiator for Machar's rebels, Taban Deng Gai, faulted the
IGAD proposal for maintaining the status quo in South Sudan, by keeping
President Kiir at the helm of the national government and giving the
ruling SPLM a majority in parliament.<br />
Gai also complained that the IGAD proposal focusses solely on the
fighting in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile states, and ignores unrest in
other parts of the country. But he said that, because the document is
not final and binding, the rebels are willing to work with it.<br />
The government's lead negotiator, Nhial Deng Nhial, did not comment last week on the IGAD proposal.<br />
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If that's what it takes to bring peace, then let it be. Am glad that
the rebels have some sense to accept the document, this guy's have
realized that that the only way to peace is to stop the killing of
civilians by all means and they did it although the government is
attacking the rebels control areas without a success you know why it
because the war is brought to their homes, it have never happened in any
history of war when the rebels capture the enemy's and release them
this is what Dr Riek Machar have been doing because he's tired of
senseless killings but guess what once you're arrested in the government
areas your family will never find you, you're dead, if the government
refuses the document then it's clear indication that they don't care
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ThIs proposal by IGAD is still not going to work. Kiir is an
illigitimate president due to genocides that he has committed. IGAD
should be aware that this war is not about SPLA/M party. IGAD needs to
treat South Sudan situation as national concern. Besides, IGAD should
not gives majority government to Kiir administrations that have
committed crimes against humanity. IGAD should review their proposal,
and also they need to involve other civil societies. In addition, IGAD
did not mention any proposal about foreigner troops. Especially Uganda
troops that are pretending that they are peace keeping, while Moseveni
is the one who cited this war against SouthSudanese by convincing Kiir
to assassinate Dr Machar. In order for South Sudan nation to have
stable, international community's have to be serious enough for the
implementation of peace. Otherwise it will lead to a regional war within
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Former secretary of State Hillary Clinton
said on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 she used a private domain for her
official work during her time at the State Department out of
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WASHINGTON — A close ally of former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton turned over about 60 new emails to the House Select Committee on
Benghazi ahead of his closed-door deposition there Tuesday.<br />
The committee, which is investigating the attacks on the U.S.
diplomatic mission in Benghazi, is scheduled to depose Clinton
confidante Sidney Blumenthal and will likely ask about emails he sent to
Clinton about Libya. His memos, often about the conditions on the
ground, have drawn scrutiny because he sent them while advising
businesses interests there.<br />
“The committee is interested in what role he played at the State
Department and how his role was financed. Who was paying him and who was
he paying? Basically, his business arrangements,” said a source
familiar with the committee’s thinking.<br />
Blumenthal produced the latest emails, about a 120 pages worth, in response to the committee’s request.<br />
“These emails were not previously produced to the committee or
released to the public, and they will help inform tomorrow’s
deposition,” Chairman Trey Gowdy said late Monday night.<br />
Gowdy said the committee is prepared to release the new emails in short order.<br />
Earlier this year, the State Department turned over about 300
Benghazi-related emails to the committee. Asked why the new Blumenthal
emails were not produced, Alec Gerlach, a State Department spokesman,
said the department would need to see the emails before responding. The
committee, he said, has not yet contacted the State Department about the
emails.<br />
“The department is working diligently to publish to its public
website all of the emails received from former Secretary Clinton through
the FOIA process. We provided the committee with a subset of documents
that matched its request and will continue to work with them going
forward,” he said. “Secretary Kerry has been clear that the State
Department will be both transparent and thorough in its obligations to
the public on this matter.”<br />
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News reports today reveal
that Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton’s crony barred from the State
Department but worming his way into State via more than two dozen memos,
has turned over previously undiscovered emails. As <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/us/politics/sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clintons-confidant-turns-over-memos-on-libya.html">the New York Times notes</a>,
this raises “new questions about whether the State Department and Mrs.
Clinton have complied with a series of requests from the [Benghazi
panel].” Perhaps she put them in the “personal” category before
destroying them and wiping her server.<br />
Reacting angrily, Speaker
of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a written statement said, “New
revelations that the Obama State Department or former Secretary Hillary
Clinton withheld emails related to Benghazi and Libya from the Select
Committee are outrageous.” He continued, “First she set up a private
server to avoid transparency and records law, then she wiped it clean
while its contents were under subpoena – and apparently failed to ensure
congressional investigators were provided with everything they are
entitled to. What in the world is she trying to hide?”<br />
What is
not clear is whether she knowingly withheld the documents or whether she
was, let’s say, generous in her categorization of some emails as
“personal,” and thereby destroyed information that had been requested. <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/hillary-clinton-libya-emails-withheld-benghazi-committee-119037.html#ixzz3dB7aOdte">Politico notes</a> that she may have been too cute by half:<br />
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congressional source did not know whether Clinton had turned over all
the new emails to State and State did not provide them, or whether
Clinton failed to hand over the correspondence. . . .At the crux of the
back-and-forth is whether the committee specifically asked State for all
Clinton’s Libya emails or only Benghazi-related correspondence. State
says the panel initially asked for Benghazi-only material and only
recently expanded that request to include all correspondence on the
Middle Eastern nation. The congressional source argued that the initial
request for information from Clinton was aimed at all Libya
correspondence — and that State was being evasive.<br />
The Dec. 2, 2014, letter to Clinton’s lawyer, which he then forwarded to State, does not seem to limit the scope. . . .<br />
The
panel in its statement says some of the emails specifically relate to
the Benghazi attacks and, therefore, should have been turned over, even
if the State Department read the document request narrowly.<br />
Since
Clinton used a personal server when she was secretary, rather than an
official State email account as she was supposed to, her lawyer decided
which emails constituted “official” communications and provided them to
the State Department before they were released to the committee and
publicly.</blockquote>
This is pure Clinton: secretive, never
entirely forthcoming or truthful and breaking rules no other politician
would dare try to evade. Like the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr960602.htm">Rose Law Firm billing records</a> that
conveniently disappeared for several years during the Whitewater
scandal, the heretofore missing emails may have been “misplaced” or
intentionally withheld. If so, and if she intentionally defied a
subpoena, the stakes get higher for her.<br />
This latest news is also
a reminder that with the Clinton circus you never know exactly what is
out there. The recent security breaches suggest again that third-party
hackers may well be in possession of a great deal more information than
she has provided to Congress. That puts her — and her party — in an
awkward and vulnerable position, possibly at the mercy of hackers who
might disclose at a time of their choosing new information.<br />
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In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made
stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights.
There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.<br />
At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kurlansky-haiti-dominican-republic-citizensh-20131110-story.html">strip away the citizenship</a> of several generations of Dominicans.<br />
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According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to
parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship
revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of
Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with
Haiti for several generations.</blockquote>
What we are witnessing is one of the largest humanitarian crisis in the
western hemisphere, except this one is completely by choice.
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As a recent Peace Corps volunteer in the DR, stationed near the
border of Haiti, I have a very personal perspective on this issue.<br />
This may be hard to believe for most Americans, but racism in the DR is <i>much</i>
worse than racism here in the United States. The idea of being black in
the DR is wrapped up with being Haitian, and then takes on a xenophobic
quality.<br />
The thing is, 90% of Dominicans would be considered 'black' by
American standards. So there is a huge difference between being
considered moreno (brown) and negro (black). The Policia Nacional
Dominicana are so underpaid and openly corrupt that being mistaken for
being Haitian means having to bribe officers (which I've personally
witnessed) or be arrested and possibly beaten. Being mistaken for being
Haitian means being denied job opportunities, public education, bank
accounts, and health care.<br />
In other words, being black in the DR means being a second-class
citizen with no legal protections. And now it means being stateless.<br />
The Dominican government recently opened <a href="http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2015/6/12/55364/Immigration-readies-7-vcenters-to-repatriate-illegal-aliens">seven deportation centers</a> near the Haitian border, and gave them the Orwellian name of "welcome centers”.<br />
The Dominican government has also requested <a href="http://www.ryot.org/5-things-know-cleaning-haitians-dominican-republic/935183">36 large passenger buses</a> "be made available for continued use".<br />
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“This is an extremely ominous sign,” he said. “Everything is
set for the deportation and that the DR government is saying it is
going forth on this Tuesday, June 16.”</blockquote>
The US State Department has <a href="http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2015/6/10/55344/US-again-slams-Dominican-Republic-on-Haitians-row">denounced</a>
the Dominican government for this plan, and pointed out that it is a
gross violation of human rights according to the U.N. charter.
In February, Dominican-Haitian Henry Claude Jean (nicknamed 'Tulile'), an impoverished shoeshine boy, was found <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/haitian-lynched-dominican_n_6664276.html">lynched in a public park</a>
in Santiago, the DR's second-largest city. His hands and feet were
bound. The police were quick to blame it on the victim's 'criminal past'
and "rejected racism as a motive", but it seems hard to believe that
this is how criminals operate.<br />
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"For the Dominican authorities to rule out racism as a
factor less than 24 hours after a man of Haitian descent was hanged in a
public square is not just irresponsible policing, it is an outrageous
example of discrimination endemic to the Dominican Republic," McMullen
wrote to HuffPost in an email. "And frankly it is all too reminiscent of
the shameful denials of Southern officials during the decades of terror
lynchings perpetrated against African-Americans here at home."</blockquote>
The lynching came just one day after a protest in Santiago calling for the deportation of Haitians.
Dominican officials began refusing to grant copies of birth
certificates to the Dominican-born children of Haitian immigrants in
2005. This was in violation of the American Convention on Human Rights.<br />
After years of protests and legal haggling, the Dominican government
began allowing Dominican-Haitians to get copies of birth certificates
again, but the process was badly flawed. Thousands of Dominican-Haitians
have gotten no response from application submissions even after nine
months, as <a href="http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14195-haiti-dominican-republic-demonstration-in-front-the-consulate-of-haiti-in-santiago.html">protesters claim</a>.<br />
In the Dominican Republican being born in a hospital is <a href="http://m.thenation.com/blog/209745-we-regret-inform-you-4-days-you-and-your-family-will-be-deported-haiti">the exception</a>, even for people with Dominican parents.<br />
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It's a charade. The offices are overcrowded, understaffed,
and the needed paperwork doesn't exist (many Dominicans of Haitian
descent were born in rural areas, since their parents came to work the
sugar fields, with midwifes and not in hospitals, and were therefore
never issued birth certificates).</blockquote>
The US press has been largely silent on this rapidly approaching disaster. Even <a href="https://www.hrw.org/americas">Human Rights Watch</a> is silent on the issue. The <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/indifference-to-migrants-is-unacceptable-pope-tells-dominican-republic-bishops-84117/">pope has spoken</a> on the issue, but to berate the Dominican Republic's Catholic bishops for being silent on it.<br />
Where will these people live in Haiti? Most of them have never been to
Haiti. Haiti can't even house all of its own people. Dumping a quarter
of a million people on the border of the poorest nation in the
hemisphere will quickly lead to a public health disaster.
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He also reports that in the barrios, police trucks have
come through to conduct limpiezas ("cleanings," with the adjective
implied: "social cleanings"): "The detained tend to range from
intoxicated persons to suspected prostitutes, but are disproportionately
Haitian or dark-skinned Dominicans with Haitian facial features. These
could just be guys drinking and playing dominos or women standing on
street corners. More often, though, they tend to be young men with
Haitian features and darker skin.</blockquote>
Dominican hatred of Haitians extends back to 1822, when Haiti invaded
and conquered the Dominican Republic and promptly freed the slaves.<br />
In 1912, the Dominican government passed a law limiting the number of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kurlansky-haiti-dominican-republic-citizensh-20131110-story.html">black-skinned people</a> who could enter the country.<br />
However, the racism peaked under dictator Rafael Trujillo. He was
known for wearing makeup in order to make himself look more white. In
1937 he ordered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Massacre">the Parsley Massacre</a>,
also referred to as El Corte (the cutting) by Dominicans. It is unknown
how many Haitians died in those five days, but it was in the tens of
thousands.<br />
President Joaquin Balaguer, Trujillo's right-hand man, and the
dictator that the United States installed in 1966, claimed that the
Haitians were trying to invade and that their secret weapon was
"biological." As Balaguer put it, Haitians "multiply with a rapidity
that is almost comparable to that of a vegetable species."
<span class="update"><a href="http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/14/1393198/-Dominican-Republic-to-be-Socially-Cleaned-in-two-days#20150614164903" name="20150614164903"><b>4:49 PM PT</b></a>:</span> Believe it or not, this could actually <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/209233/theres-vicious-anti-black-pogrom-happening-few-hundred-miles-us#">get worse</a>.<br />
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The Open Society says that naturalization law will “enshrine
statelessness.” The problem is that the naturalization law’s
“recognition of citizenship is based not on the fact of birth itself on
Dominican territory, but rather on whether a birth was officially
registered at the time.” Many, perhaps the majority, of impoverished
Dominicans of Haitian descent didn’t have their births registered.
Worse, the new law “lets stand the doctrine articulated by the
Constitutional Tribunal that birth registration during the 1929-2007
period only bestows citizenship if the parents had formal status as
migrants. However, much of the migration of laborers and their families
from Haiti during the 20th century was informal. As a result, even
individuals who were registered as Dominican citizens at birth may be
vulnerable to denationalization at a future date because of the status
of their parents, again leaving them stateless”.</blockquote>
<span class="update"><a href="http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/14/1393198/-Dominican-Republic-to-be-Socially-Cleaned-in-two-days#20150614193415" name="20150614193415"><b>7:34 PM PT</b></a>:</span> <img alt=" photo IMG_0478_zpsttnkvcw4.jpg" border="0" height="" src="http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f53/midtowng/IMG_0478_zpsttnkvcw4.jpg" width="500" /><br />
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- Haiti, from the International Road<br />
<span class="update"><a href="http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/14/1393198/-Dominican-Republic-to-be-Socially-Cleaned-in-two-days#20150615113911" name="20150615113911"><b>Mon Jun 15, 2015 at 11:39 AM PT</b></a>:</span> Possible delay on the mass deportations.<br />
<br />
General Rubén Darío Paulino Sem, the guy in charge of the deportations, <a href="http://almomento.net/director-supervisa-lugares-donde-seran-depurados-los-inmigrantes-ilegales/108760">says</a> the expulsion will start this Thursday, June 18.<br />
<br />
Andrés Navarro, the foreign minister, <a href="http://almomento.net/canciller-reitera-deportaciones-seran-a-partir-de-agosto/108833">says</a> they will wait until August to start deporting.<br />
<br />Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-22389353657472531182015-06-16T05:23:00.001-07:002015-06-16T05:25:25.074-07:00UN vows to support African efforts to end S. Sudan war ..... See more...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/">Home</a> | <a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?rubrique1">News</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tuesday 16 June 2015</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">UN vows to support African efforts to end S. Sudan war</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">June 15, 2015 (JOHANNESBURG/JUBA)–
The United Nations will actively contribute to efforts aimed at finding
peaceful solutions to the conflict in South Sudan, Jan Eliasson, the deputy
secretary general of the world body told the African Union summit on Sunday.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People gather at a makeshift camp
for displaced people at a UN compound in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, on 22
December 2013 amid fears for further violence (Photo: AFP/Tony Karumba)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"This war, this nightmare, must
come to an end," said Eliasson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tens of thousands of people have
been killed and nearly two million displaced by the conflict, which broke out
in the world’s youngest nation in mid-December 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The deputy secretary general
requested the continental body to take a position necessary for resolving the
conflict, which undermines regional and international efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elisson also stressed the need for
peace and national reconciliation ahead of the proposed power-sharing between
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">African heads of state must find
effective interventions to eradicate the scourge of war on the continent,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
the prevailing political instability and insecurity in some parts of our continent
clearly demonstrates the urgent need to fully operationalise the African
Standby Force (ASF),” Mugabe told a gathering of African heads of state at the
25th African Union summit in Johannesburg on Sunday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We need to live up to our
commitment to operationalise the African Standby Force by December 2015. This
will be an important step towards the goal of silencing the guns by 2020, which
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mugabe said peace and security were
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am encouraged by the fact that we
are making steady progress in this regard. We have to redouble our efforts in
dealing with the issue of the unnecessary loss of lives of our young people in
the Mediterranean Sea in their desperate need to reach Europe and other
places,” said the African Union chairperson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This matter requires our collective
and urgent retention. Concrete steps have to be taken to deal with this
unfolding tragedy, particularly in terms of addressing its root causes such as
poverty, war and insecurity, lack of opportunities, perceptions of good and
life abroad as well as stamping out human traffickers and smugglers," he
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NO XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“While condemning the recent spate
of barbaric violence targeted at foreign nationals…let us be cognisant of the
fact that this is a problem that falls upon all of us and we should work
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“President [Jacob] Zuma has given us
details of the programmes they have embarked upon. The government of South
Africa will leave no stone unturned in trying to stem the violence.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The high-level AU summit is being
hosted by South Africa under the theme “2015: Year of Women’s Empowerment and
Development Towards Africa’s Agenda 2063”.</span></div>
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Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told the summit that the recent
Ebola outbreak had exposed the weakness of the continent’s health systems. She
said the people dying on the Mediterranean sea and the victims of xenophobic
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our challenges. The disease exposed the weakness of our health systems,
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the incidents of xenophobia. These are the people who leave their countries not
out of choice, but out of desperation – to try and make a living elsewhere.”</span></div>
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By Steve Paterno<br />
The rivalry of gaining influence in South Sudan between China and USA has
predictably entered a dangerous phase. In early 2012, this author penned, a
prelude to this piece, entitled, "South Sudan: A critical battleground
between China and USA." At the time, South Sudan was barely few months
into its independent status, after six years of undergoing a perilous self
rule. Both, USA and China were poised to reap the benefits the virgin country
could offer.<br />
As a result, the US, which for all intends and purposes, midwifed the birth
of the virgin nation, has endowed some sense of entitlement to mould the nation
in accordance with its self interest. However, China was already muddling in
the affairs of the country from the ground, with much concessions at stakes,
since it is already exploiting much of South Sudan’s resources and market. As
such, South Sudan, a courted virgin is left to make a hard choice for its
future survival.<br />
So, it happened that South Sudan is forced to gamble in between the two
choices, with much proclivity accorded toward China. Several compounded factors
could explain the inclination of South Sudan to lean toward China. For obvious
reasons, China was already on the ground, taking advantages of the available
opportunities. China also opened up its comparatively cheap commodities for
South Sudan’s import. These, coupled with China’s policy of non disruptions of
status quo in other countries, managed to secure a place for Beijing in Juba.<br />
As such, the overzealous USA found itself left out of a virgin country it
helped giving birth to. Nevertheless, the World’s supper power must somehow get
in at all means possible. In order to gain access, America adopted an approach
of using a stick as a leverage. Several instances can clearly demonstrate how
suddenly the USA turned belligerent against what it perceives as its
brainchild: the Republic of South Sudan and its people. For example, in 2010,
upon discovering that South Sudan purchased light weapons and ammunitions from
somewhere else other than USA, the American administration grew furious and
threatened sanctions, not just against South Sudan, but also against Kenya, a
country America accused of facilitating the sweet deal of securing the arms
purchase on behalf of South Sudan. The irony of the threats of sanctions
against both Kenya and South Sudan came despite the fact that America agreed
together to support the modernization of South Sudan military and upgrading its
capabilities.<br />
The example above and many others clearly show America desperation of having
lost leverage over South Sudan affairs and that it can go into length to
reassert its influence. For America, fortunately, the current crisis unfolding
the country is an opportunity to get in. America is seeking nothing other than
a regime change in South Sudan for that purpose. The phrases such as
"transitional government," "government of national unity,"
and "no business as usual" are all euphemisms for regime change in
South Sudan.<br />
The recently proposed IGAD framework for the next round of negotiations, which
has America hand all over it, actually is calling for partition of a junk of
South Sudan territory. The proposed agreement gives out the entire greater
Upper Nile region (Jongolei State, Unity State, and Upper Nile State).
Accordingly, the region must bear special autonomous status to be under the
control of armed militias, depriving Juba of oil resources as well as
threatening the territorial integrity of South Sudan. As absurd as this
partition proposal sounds, it is also a grand plan of Khartoum regime, which
all along is eyeing the resources of South Sudan and has been in sync with
armed militias of Riek Machar to carve an independent Upper Nile out of the
sovereignty of South Sudan to be under the Khartoum sphere. America and its
purports in IGAD are inadvertently doing the work of Khartoum, either
ignorantly or as part of the elaborate plan.<br />
This then begs the question as to where is the other giant already on the
ground, China, in all these scheme of things. China, unlike its intrusive
rival, the USA, has rather been playing a totally opposite role. With much at
stakes, China wants to see a strong South Sudan government that is capable of
defending itself from both internal and external enemies. Therefore, despite
calls by USA for an armed embargo against South Sudan, China thinks otherwise.
The security and continuous flow of oil, which can only be achieved through
strong government defensive capabilities, is China’s primary object in light of
the crisis. China is also continuing with "business as usual" (an
antithesis of America’s regime change), by executing developmental projects in
the country.<br />
With the way things stand on the ground, the government of South Sudan
propensity toward China will most likely increase. The government could likely
adopt the China’s approach of keeping the armed militias at bay to ensure oil
flow and even opt out of any USA sponsored negotiations that will result into
partitioning of region of the country and further jeopardizes the integrity of
the nation.<br />
As the battle among these two giants unfolds, it is of course the people of
South Sudan who has the ultimate say for the finale. However, under the current
duel, China holds sway against the USA. The USA only leverage now over South
Sudan is that it keeps insisting saying that America is feeding South Sudanese,
therefore, the people of South Sudan must dance according to the America’s
tune. Teasing somebody after providing them with food, whether they are in need
or not, is typically Unafrican and is certainly not a right foreign policy
prescription. Perhaps, USA needs to re-evaluate its policies, especially its
role in aids assistance. Otherwise, by bragging about food, the Africans will
depict America as a bully kid in a neighbourhood who goes around, coercing to
play with other kids’ toys on basis that they will not eat his mom’s cookies if
they don’t allow him to play with their toys.<br />
<b>Related article</b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article41631">South
Sudan: A critical battleground between China and USA (I)</a></b><br />
<i>Steve Paterno is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rev-Fr-Saturnino-Lohure-Experience/dp/1424194830">The
Rev. Fr. Saturnino Lohure, A Romain Catholic Priest Turned Rebel</a>. He can be
reached at stevepaterno@yahoo.com</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">June 15, 2015 (WAU) – A panel of
arms experts from United Nations are in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal
state to probe crimes committed during the conflict.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A woman carries water through a UN
camp for internally displaced people in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state (Photo:
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zhagora told reporters that his
delegation has been touring the country to get information on the conflict,
which started in 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We are trying to establish an open
professional relationship with everybody in south Sudan whom we meet in
states,” he said.</span></div>
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officials throughout the states and in Juba on issues of diplomacy,” added the
senior UN official.</span></div>
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the five-member panel in April in response to a request from the Security
Council’s resolution 2206 (2015), adopted on 3 March, 2015.</span></div>
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on who is obstructing the ongoing peace process on South Sudan in Ethiopian
capital, Addis Ababa,” said Zhagora.</span></div>
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on who launches attacks on the civilian’s population in South Sudan’s areas of
conflict during this conflict,” he added.</span></div>
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information on those said to be blocking movement of humanitarian workers in
areas most-affected by the war.</span></div>
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any sanction by this resolution,” said Zhagora, adding that council would
decide what kind of sanction could be applied to some individuals in South
Sudan.</span></div>
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continued despite several commitments by it warring parties to honour ceasefire
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within the ruling party (SPLM), killing tens of thousands of people and
displacing nearly two million others since December 2013.</span></div>
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Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) said its fighters repulsed a
fourth government attack against the strategic area of Jebel Kolgo in the Blue
Nile state.</span></div>
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managed to repulse an attack by the Sudanese army against Jebel Kolgo area, 45
kilometres south west of the Blue Nile state capital of Ed-Damazin following
two failed attacks on 11 May and 23 April.</span></div>
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they repelled a government attack on Jebel Kolgo on Saturday, noting the battle
continued from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm (local time).</span></div>
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government soldiers and destroyed 6 Land Cruiser vehicles besides seizing 10
Kalashnikov rifles and loads of ammunition, saying that two of their fighters
were wounded in the battle.</span></div>
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west of Ed-Damazin.</span></div>
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government army of bombing the town of Wad Abouk leading to several deaths and
injuries among civilians, demanding a swift international investigation on the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lodi pointed that 57 government
soldiers were killed while their forces suffered 4 casualties, saying they
seized 4 Land Cruiser vehicles, 67 Kalashnikov rifles, one 82mm mortar, 11
RPG-7 rounds, 7 PKM mortar machine and a long-range communication device.</span></div>
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group failed to reach a cessation of hostilities agreement after a series of
talks brokered by the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) in
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">June 15, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – South
Sudan’s former vice president, Riek Machar, turned leader of the armed
opposition faction of the ruling Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO),
has met the president of the United Republic of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, over
the ongoing reunification process of three factions of the ruling party in the
young country.</span></div>
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sidelines of the African Union (AU) summit of heads of state and government in
Johannesburg, South Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rebel leader’s spokesman said the
meeting centered on how best the Arusha intraparty dialogue on reunification
could be complementing the Addis Ababa comprehensive peace process to end the
civil war in South Sudan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The two leaders discussed how best
to approach the Arusha SPLM intraparty dialogue as a complementary to the IGAD
comprehensive peace process,” Machar’s spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, told Sudan
Tribune when contacted on Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He said the SPLM-IO leadership was
committed to the intraparty dialogue which was addressing the root causes of
the current crisis in the country in the context of the ruling party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You know the current national
crisis started as a political crisis within the SPLM party before it developed
national. If the rival party leaders can address those causes and accept SPLM
transformation, reforms and leadership succession, I think they can also accept
similar reforms on governance at the IGAD process,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dak stressed that the Arusha
reunification process would address democracy within the disintegrated ruling
party including structural, organizational and leadership issues which caused
the crisis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He however said the process was not
a substitute to the IGAD peace process and should not be misinterpreted to mean
“mere reinstatement” of SPLM leaders previously dismissed “unconstitutionally”
by president Salva Kiir following the crisis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The rebel leader’s spokesman
commended the Arusha roadmap agreement signed in January this year, describing
it as a positive guiding document in resolving outstanding issues within the
party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Our leadership believes that
addressing the root causes of the conflict through the intraparty dialogue
would positively reflect on the IGAD peace process,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, he added, an intraparty
agreement would not be an end in itself, ruling out what he said were
misinterpretations by people who thought the rebel leadership would return to
Juba if an agreement was struck by the SPLM factions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Full implementation of a
reunification agreement, he further stressed, was dependent on a final peace
agreement in Addis Ababa that will resolve on all outstanding issues such as on
governance and security arrangements and reforms outside the party’s
jurisdiction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">President Kikwete’s ruling party of
the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has since last year been mediating between the
SPLM in government (SPLM-IG) led by president Salva Kiir, SPLM-IO led by former
vice president, Riek Machar and former detainees (FDs) led by former party’s
secretary general, Pagan Amum in trying to reunify their ranks and file.</span></div>
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expected to be complementing to the IGAD peace process to end the 18-month long
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<a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="https://berniesanders.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="https://BernieSanders.com">https://BernieSanders.com</a><br />
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More
than 3,700 people squeezed into a Minneapolis gym to hear presidential
candidate Senator Bernie Sanders lay out his campaign agenda. More
people were left standing outside. Upon arrival, Sanders said he would
like to ask people in the gym to sit down, but there were no more
chairs.<br />
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Sanders said his campaign had scheduled the Minnesota
stop as almost an afterthought - it was on the way to Iowa. But the
event which was scheduled to be a gathering for two hundred at a union
headquarters quickly drew thousands of RSVPs and was moved to the larger
gym at the Minneapolis American Indian Center.<br />
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People are
calling for "a political revolution in this country," said Sanders. He
said it will take more than him to fight back against the powerful
"billionaire class" that runs Washington, D.C. politics and uses its
money to get middle class people to vote against their own best
interests.<br />
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Sanders says the economy is "rigged" to benefit the
most wealthy and that has to change so it works for everyone and not
just a privileged few.<br />
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?Enough is enough, we want that wealth to come back to the working families."<br />
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Sanders
called for a federal government jobs program to rebuild the country's
decaying infrastructure. He also wants a higher minimum wage, pay
equity for women, guaranteed sick leave and vacation, and free tuition
at every college and university in the United States.<br />
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Sanders
said people need to realize that we are the richest most powerful nation
in the world and can afford to do what's right for its people.<br />
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He
then turned to the environment, stating unequivocally that science has
shown climate change is real, man made, and has devastating
consequences. He faulted the Koch brothers and other corporations that
fund climate change deniers. "?We are not going to allow them to destroy
this planet for their short term profits.</div>
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mere 240 people live in the rural northeast Iowa town of Kensett, so
when more than 300 crowded into the community center on Saturday night
to hear Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, many driving 50 miles, the
cellphones of Democratic leaders statewide began to buzz.<br />
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Kurt
Meyer, the county party chairman who organized the event, sent a text
message to Troy Price, the Iowa political director for Hillary Rodham
Clinton. Mr. Price called back immediately.<br />
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“Objects in your
rearview mirror are closer than they appear,” Mr. Meyer said he had told
Mr. Price about Mr. Sanders. “Mrs. Clinton had better get out here.”<br />
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The
first evidence that Mrs. Clinton could face a credible challenge in the
Iowa presidential caucuses appeared late last week in the form of
overflow crowds at Mr. Sanders’s first swing through that state since
declaring his candidacy for the Democratic nomination."<br />
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Read more here:<br />
<a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/politics/challenging-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-gains-momentum-in-iowa.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/politics/challenging-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-gains-momentum-in-iowa.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/...</a><br />
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Cenk Uygur (<a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur">http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur</a>), host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.<br />
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Rachel
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their voices heard in such a crowded field and describes a proposal by
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to hold more debates
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The first time Clinton ran for POTUS, the one difference between her and Obama that stood out to me was he talked to me while she talked at me. Now she's not talking but Sanders is talking to me and for me!!!</div>
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Bernie Sanders is changing the face of US politics for the better, if you haven't already, begin to educate yourself because he does not receive the amount of media time that he deserves and the majority of the time he is not taken very seriously. Listen to what he has to say, you will not regret it.</div>
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Bernie Sanders' letter to DNC Chair requesting more debates emphasized this most important point: ".... I believe we need to go beyond the bounds of traditional party debates. I am extremely concerned by the fact that many working class Americans are voting against their best economic interests by supporting rightwing Republicans whose agenda represents the interests of the billionaire class, and not the needs of working Americans. Why are millions of struggling Americans voting for Republican candidates who want to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and education while giving huge tax breaks to the very richest people in this country?" Bernie is mesmerizing. We the People have a voice with Bernie Sanders!</div>
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The
State Department released its first round of emails from Hillary
Clinton's time as Secretary of State. CNN's Chris Frates reports.</div>
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Each
week seems to bring more distracting news for Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign, from previously undisclosed payments to the
Clinton Foundation to the e-mails she wrote about the 2012 attack in
Benghazi, Libya. What does it all mean this time? The Fix's Chris
Cillizza explains.</div>
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Hillary
Clinton had an email containing now-classified information about the
attack in Benghazi, Libya, sent to her personal email account. CNN's
Brianna Keilar reports.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Posted:
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The State
Department on Friday released <a href="http://foia.state.gov/Search/results.aspx?searchText=*&beginDate=&endDate=&publishedBeginDate=20150522&publishedEndDate=20150522&caseNumber=" target="_hplink">nearly 300 of Hillary Clinton’s emails</a>, which reveal new
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The emails
offer greater detail about the former secretary of state’s communications in
2011 and 2012 surrounding the events in Benghazi. However, the emails will only
tell part of the story, since they do not cover Clinton's in-person
communications with her staff. The former secretary of state noted in testimony
before a Senate committee in 2013 that she was in her office with staff late
into the night as the events in Benghazi were playing out.</span></div>
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first released roughly 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department last
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Those
released Friday include what appears to be the last email sent to Clinton's
office by Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya. Stevens was among those
who later died in the attack on the embassy.<br />
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The email, dated July 7, 2012, was a response to an email from one of Clinton’s
top advisers, Jake Sullivan. Sullivan started the email exchange with Stevens
by sharing information from a “source," who detailed the atmosphere
surrounding the July election in Libya and the transition to a popularly
elected government after the fall of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi. In other
comments that Sullivan shared with Stevens, the source -- whom other emails in
Friday's release confirm to be Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House
adviser -- describes Libya's shifting political circumstances as a “chaotic
situation.”<br />
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In his response to Sullivan, Stevens detailed a tour of Libya's new parliament
building with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and described the interim government
as weak. However, he also characterized the atmosphere in Tripoli, Libya, as
“festive.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"The
gov’t declared today a holiday and people are driving around honking and waving
flags and making peace sign gestures,” Stevens wrote. “We visited several
polling stations where we found people patiently waiting in lines (gender
segregated) McCain was applauded and thanked for his support wherever we went.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sullivan
forwarded that email to Clinton. A number of the emails are similar, in that
they are exchanges between Clinton’s top advisers and those on the ground in
Libya and other levels of government that were then forwarded to Clinton
herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clinton
addressed the release of the emails at a campaign stop in New Hampshire on
Friday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"The
State Department had the vast majority of those anyway because they went to
what are called.gov accounts," she said. "I'm aware the FBI has asked
a portion of one email be held back that happens in the process of Freedom of
Information Act Responses, but that doesn't change the fact that all of the
information in the email was handled appropriately."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clinton
added that she hopes the department will release more "as soon as
possible."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"I
understand there is a certain protocol that has to be followed. They are
following that. These that are being released today have been in the committee
jurisdiction, they were given to the committee some months ago and now finally
those are getting released," she said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a
statement that the released emails "continue to reinforce the fact that
unresolved questions and issues remain as it relates to Benghazi."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">State
Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf said in a statement that the emails "do
not change the essential facts or our understanding of the events before,
during, or after the attacks," which she said first became known nearly
two and half years ago.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CORRECTION:
This story previously misstated that Clinton released 55,000 emails to the
State Department. It was 55,000 pages of emails.</span></i><br />
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<span class="author publisher-anchor-color"><a data-action="profile" data-role="username" data-username="jpgob" href="https://disqus.com/by/jpgob/">JP Gob</a></span>
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<a class="time-ago" data-role="relative-time" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/hillary-clinton-emails-released-31242467#comment-2041591062" title="Saturday, May 23, 2015 12:50 PM">20 days ago</a>
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Why isn't she in jail? Seriously - look at what happened to General
Petraus. Why isn't the FBI investigating the emails between her and
"Sid Vicious"? The Obama administration had expressly ordered her not
to hire Sidney Bloomenthal at the State Department - yet she hired him
through the Clinton Foundation - confided in him and exchanged sensitive
info with him. The only reason it wasn't classified was the fact that
she never had anyone at state review the info on her server. To say
that nothing she communicated through the server was classified is
hogwash as well. The documents themselves may not have been classified,
but the info in them was....<br />
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<a class="user-name g-hovercard" data-ytid="116379479748821396458" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszu849e5rsL5qhnYIkpt4Q" target="_blank">Soul Thief</a>
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It is just a matter of time before one of the countries best liars, Mrs. Clinton unmasks herself for what she really is. Without much help she will implode. All her lies, deceptions, half truths, misspoken statements will be her down fall. Hillary just can not get out of her own way. She has no concept of what those of us regular people go through, and she could care less. This coming train wreck will be epic to watch unfold.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/david-sherfinski/">David Sherfinski</a>
– The Washington Times - Friday, June 12, 2015 </div>
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Former <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/12/bill-clinton-defends-foundation-no-idea-who-was-do/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS">President<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><img alt="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" border="0" height="10" src="file:///C:\Users\Guest\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png" width="10" /></span></a>
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/bill-clinton/">Bill Clinton</a>
is continuing his defense of the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/clinton-foundation/">Clinton
Foundation</a> this week, saying he had “no idea” who was doing business with
the State Department while conceding that “you never know what people’s motives
are.”</div>
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The <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/clinton-foundation/">charitable
foundation</a> founded by the former president has been under fire amid
questions of contributions that flowed there during 2016 Democratic
presidential frontrunner <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/hillary-rodham-clinton/">Hillary
Rodham Clinton</a>’s tenure as secretary of state.</div>
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Mr. Clinton <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/11/politics/bill-clinton-foundation-hillary-2016/index.html" target="_blank">said</a> in an interview with CNN that no donors had ever asked
him for anything.</div>
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“She was pretty busy those years,” Mr. Clinton said of Mrs.
Clinton, his wife. “I never saw her study a list of my contributors, and I had
no idea who was doing business before the State Department, but I will say
this: She believed that part of the job of secretary of state was to advance
America’s economic interests around the world.”</div>
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“If she hadn’t been doing this economic diplomacy work,
nobody would have been doing it,” he said. “But I never thought about whether
there was any overlap.”</div>
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“America’s always having to lobby for American-made
airplanes,” Mr. Clinton said, mentioning that Boeing had donated money for
Haiti.</div>
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“But I don’t think that they did it to make America, the
government like ‘em better,” he said.</div>
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“You never know what people’s motives are, but in this case
I’m pretty sure everybody gave to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake,” he
said.</div>
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Mr. Clinton also implied that such allegations swirling
around the foundation and its donors were being driven by politics.</div>
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“Nobody even suggested it or talked about it or thought
about it until the political season began,” he said.</div>
Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-44483635270076971822015-06-12T14:35:00.001-07:002015-06-12T14:56:40.126-07:00'Conversation' with Hillary Clinton costs $2700 <br />
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WASHINGTON: Four, five, even six times per week, Hillary
Clinton meets deep-pocketed supporters eager to shake hands with the celebrity
Democrat, all-but-obligatory encounters helping her amass the war chest needed
to win the White House. <br />
<br />
Qualifying guests are invited to hold what is described as a "conversation
with Hillary," at a cost of $2,700, the legal limit set by the Federal
Election Commission (FEC) on donations to candidates in the 2016 presidential
primary cycle. </div>
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Once the primaries are decided, a supporter can contribute a
fresh $2,700 maximum to a candidate in the presidential election. <br />
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Clinton, a former secretary of state and the prohibitive favorite for the
Democratic nomination, has participated in some 40 fund raising receptions
since launching her campaign in April, according to the Sunlight Foundation, a
nonpartisan Washington organization that studies campaign financing. </div>
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By any measure it is an intense schedule to follow from now
until election Day 17 months away, and more rigorous than the smattering of
public events she has held as a candidate. <br />
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Clinton, 67, holds her first major campaign rally Saturday in New York, one
expected to draw thousands of voters. <br />
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But who attends the swankier, less publicized functions? Friends of Clinton,
influential Democrats, executives, a Facebook co-founder, her husband Bill, and
clean-energy billionaire Tom Steyer have participated in the events. On June
29, rocker Bon Jovi will sing for one of the gatherings. <br />
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Clinton participated in three receptions Wednesday in three cities in the US
northeast. </div>
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Regulatory loopholes could allow Clinton to extract more
money from her donors, but the candidate has publicly committed to reforming
campaign finance laws in order to dampen the growing influence of private
donations on US elections. <br />
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Prominent Republican rival Jeb Bush regularly commands tens of thousands of
dollars per attendee at certain events, in extraordinary cases up to $100,000. </div>
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He avoids campaign ceilings through a legal formulation
known as a "super PAC." <br />
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But the alleged independence of such super PACs has come
into question. Jeb Bush's "Right to Rise" group is led by a close
associate of the all-but-declared candidate, and the organization is
exclusively dedicated to supporting Bush's run. <br />
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Bush, a former Florida governor, has yet to announce his candidacy that is
expected to occur Monday in Miami. But the PAC's staffers are already talking
openly about preparing for Bush's campaign. </div>
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continue to raise unlimited funds for his super PAC, bypassing campaign
contribution caps. <br />
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in order to fill Democratic campaign coffers if she is to match Bush's money
juggernaut. <br />
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A specific goal is already said to have emerged: exceed the $1 billion raised
by President Barack Obama, the Democratic Party and affiliated groups for his
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One candidate who says he refuses to embrace the fundraising leviathan is
independent Senator Bernie Sanders, a "Democratic socialist" and
Clinton rival in the primaries who believes campaign finance will be a central
theme of the election. <br />
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"We live in an obscene moment," Sanders said Thursday.
"Billionaires are now literally buying American elections and
candidates." </div>
Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-53434254926754831962015-06-12T14:21:00.001-07:002015-06-12T14:21:45.558-07:00Latest Clinton cash intrigue involves a Czech model and a 'distasteful' $500,000 donation<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Latest Clinton cash intrigue
involves a Czech model and a 'distasteful' $500,000 donation</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Business Insider | 30 May, 2015,
04.12PM IST</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Colin Campbell</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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A Friday report in The New York Times highlights another intriguing Clinton
Foundation activity. <br />
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According to the report, former President Bill Clinton turned down repeated
offers to speak at Czech model Petra Nemcova's annual charity event until she
directly offered the Clinton family's foundation $500,000 of the proceeds for
appearing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When she did, Clinton attended
Nemcova's 2014 gala in Manhattan. <br />
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Doug White, director of Columbia University's fundraising management program,
told The Times that the arrangement was strange because Clinton's foundation is
so much bigger. The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation has
reportedly raised $2 billion. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"This is primarily a small but
telling example of the way the Clintons operate," White said. "The
model has responsibility; she paid a high price for a feel-good moment with
Bill Clinton. But he was riding the back of this small charity for what? A
half-million bucks? I find it - what would be the word? - distasteful." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sue Veres Royal, the former
executive director of Nemcova's charity, Happy Hearts Fund, further told the
paper that the payment offer to the Clinton Foundation was a "quid pro
quo." Happy Hearts is a charity that helps rebuild schools after natural
disasters, and was created after Nemcova survived the 2004 tsunami that
devastated Indonesia and parts of Thailand. <br />
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"The Clinton Foundation had rejected the Happy Hearts Fund invitation more
than once, until there was a thinly veiled solicitation and then the offer of
an honorarium," she said. Veres Royal was also quoted saying, "Petra
called me and said we have to include an honorarium for him - that they don't
look at these things unless money is offered, and it has to be $500,000." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Times story, written by
investigative reporter Deborah Sontag, described the charity-to-charity payment
model as "extremely rare" for a fundraising event. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"When charities select an
honoree for their fund-raising events, they generally expect that the award
recipient will help them raise money by attracting new donors. But the Happy
Hearts Fund raised less money at the gala featuring Mr. Clinton than it did at
its previous one," Sontag wrote. "Further, it is extremely rare for
honorees, or their foundations, to be paid from a gala's proceeds, charity
experts said - as it is for the proceeds to be diverted to a different cause” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For its part, a Happy Hearts
foundation spokeswoman told The Times that they payed the Clinton Foundation
because the two organizations "have a shared goal of providing meaningful
help to Haiti." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Clinton Foundation is facing
increased scrutiny as Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, is mounting her own campaign for president in 2016. Conservative
critics in particular have sought to link the foundation's contributions to alleged
favors doled out by Clinton's State Department. The Clintons have fiercely
denied and such exchange took place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other controversies have hit the
foundation's record-keeping operation and massive contributions from oppressive
foreign governments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read more at:<br />
<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/47481485.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/47481485.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst</a></span></div>
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<br />Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-51386149982551988992015-06-10T14:26:00.002-07:002015-06-10T14:26:08.957-07:00Remarks by the President at Global Entrepreneurship Event<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Remarks by the President at Global Entrepreneurship
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Published on May 11, 2015</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so
much. (Applause.) Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody.
Please have a seat. Welcome to the White House. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have more than 20 countries
represented here today. So to those of you visiting for the first time,
welcome to the United States. We have a lot of brainpower here.
We’ve got innovators and investors, business leaders, entrepreneurs.
We’ve even got a few Sharks. (Laughter.) Mark and Damon and
Barbara, they were having a chance to talk to some of these young
entrepreneurs, and the young entrepreneurs I think decided they were pretty
nice sharks, as sharks go. (Laughter.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I want to welcome Senator Coons,
who’s here and a great champion of our engagement with Africa. And I want
to thank Secretary Penny Pritzker -- (applause) -- as well as our Small
Business Administrator, Maria Contreras-Sweet -- (applause) -- and all the
leaders from across the administration for their work to empower entrepreneurs
like you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’re here today because we believe
in the power of entrepreneurship -- the basic notion that if you’ve got an idea
and if you really work hard and you’re able to pick yourself up if you stumble
a couple of times, you can eventually turn that idea into a reality. And
this matters to us because encouraging the spirit of entrepreneurship can help
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At a time when we’re still working
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folks to start new business can spur broad-based growth, here at home and
around the world. At a time when the world is more interconnected than
ever, we’ve got unprecedented opportunities to help more people access capital
and resources and networks that they need to succeed. At a time that
we’re facing challenges that no country can meet by itself -— lifting people
out of poverty, combating climate change, preventing the spread of disease --
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And no one understands this better
than our young people, like those of you who are here today. I do have to
say, as a quick aside, I feel kind of old hanging out with you.
(Laughter.) I used to think of entrepreneurs as kind of old, grizzled
people, and now I'm the old grizzled person -- (laughter) -- and the
entrepreneurs are all young and extraordinarily good-looking group of
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But more than half the world’s
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overwhelming majority. And yet, there are also countries where youth
unemployment can exceed 35 percent. And when so many young people don’t
see a future for themselves, if they don’t see a path to success, it holds the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And around the world, we’ve seen how
violent extremists are exploiting and tapping into these frustrations of young
people who feel that they’ve got no opportunity to improve their lives. And
what they offer are dead ends. And yet, if these young people don’t feel
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education are some of our best antidotes that we have to that kind of
disorder. So all of this matters to us -— to our shared prosperity and to
our shared security.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And that’s why, from the very
beginning of my administration, I’ve elevated our support for entrepreneurship
to make it easier for young people -- and people generally -- to start a new
business or a new social venture. I hosted the first Global
Entrepreneurship Summit back in 2010, and over the past five years we’ve helped
to train and empower thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs. We’ve helped
small businesses expand into new markets, mobilized new investments, connected
emerging innovators with mentors and networks, and expanded access to capital.<br />
<br />
As part of our Young African Leaders Initiative, we’re offering training and
grants, and online resources and courses, and leadership centers to help young
entrepreneurs build businesses that can drive growth in Africa. As part
of our initiative in South East Asia, we’ve connected young people across the
ASEAN countries, and this is a region that will only grow in importance for the
global economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last month, I was in Jamaica -- not
only to visit Bob Marley’s house, which was very cool. (Laughter.)
Mark, I’m telling you, if you can go, it’s -- (laughter) -- it’s cool.
But also to launch our initiative for young entrepreneurs in the Caribbean and
Latin America. And everywhere you go, you meet these incredibly inspiring
young people. Young Palestinians I met in Ramallah, working to improve
the lives of people across the West Bank through business, and creating
opportunity. A young man in rural Malawi, his town currently in darkness,
but he’s building generators to deliver electricity. Young Malaysians,
harnessing technology and connecting their communities to the global
economy. And just like you, they’re daring to dream and dedicating
themselves to building something lasting for themselves, but also for their
countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So all told, we’ve set a goal of
generating $1 billion in new investment for emerging entrepreneurs worldwide by
2017. (Applause.) And half of that money is going to support young
entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs. And we're calling it the Spark
Global Entrepreneurship Initiative -- brings together some of the most
successful entrepreneurship programs across our government and makes sure that
they're working with the private sector in ways that allow for long-term,
sustained success. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So today, we’re taking some next
steps. First, we’re going to step up our efforts to support young
entrepreneurs and women, which is just smart business. We want to spur
entrepreneurship in places where it can do the most good and have the greatest
impact. And we’re going to work even harder to reach entrepreneurs who
face the highest hurdles when it comes to accessing the essential tools of
entrepreneurship -— finance, support networks, mentors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Second, I’m proud to announce that more
of America’s business leaders and innovators are joining us in this
effort. We call them our ambassadors for global entrepreneurship.
They do not have to be confirmed by the Senate -- (laughter and applause) --
which is worth cheering. Our first class of ambassadors has been doing
extraordinary work. Steve Case, who, from the day I came into office, has
been working with me on promoting entrepreneurship here in the United States
and now overseas -- he just ended his Rise of the Rest bus tour, investing in
young entrepreneurs in 14 cities across the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today, we’re welcoming nine new
ambassadors from companies working on shared challenges -— how to build a
business in underserved communities; how to improve the affordability and
accessibility of medical care; how to inspire young girls to pursue science and
engineering. And each of our ambassadors has committed to a signature
project focused on the communities we’re looking to help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m just going to give you two
examples, although each one of these entrepreneurs have amazing stories and are
doing some extraordinary partnering with us. So Brian Chesky of Airbnb --
where’s Brian? There he is. (Applause.) In addition to
stealing a few of my employees -- (laughter) -- is going to help the Cuban
people navigate new business opportunities as their economy opens up to greater
Internet connectivity and modern payment systems, which provides enormous
opportunities for individuals inside of Cuba at a time when things are
transitioning and changing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Julie Hanna. Where is
Julie? There she is. (Applause.) Julie will use her
expertise leading Kiva to increase access to capital around the world.
Her project commits to delivering $100 million in crowdfunded loans to 200,000
women and young entrepreneurs across 86 different countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I want to thank all our global
entrepreneurship ambassadors for stepping forward and being part of this
important work. Can you guys all stand up? And our global
ambassadors, I want to just give them a big round of applause because they're
doing really important work. (Applause.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And finally, I’m challenging our
partners across the private sector and around the world to join this
effort. We’ve already got the backing of some of the world’s leading
entrepreneurial foundations and organizations. They’ve joined together to
form the Spark Global Entrepreneurship Coalition, which will coordinate this
work and help us mobilize even more funding to support entrepreneurs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But today, I’m also urging
governments and companies and organizations and individuals to make their own
commitments. Whether that’s through training and mentorship programs, or
helping entrepreneurs access capital and connect to markets, or improving
educational opportunities and exchanges, everybody has a part to play.
Everybody can do something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And this summer, I’ll travel to
Kenya. While I’m there, I’ll participate -- all right, yo.
(Laughter.) Habari. (Applause.) And so we're going to
participate in the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit. And I’ll have
the opportunity to meet some of the brilliant young entrepreneurs from across
Africa and around the world. If enough folks respond to the challenge
that I’m issuing today, I believe that at the summit in Nairobi we’ll be able to
announce new investments and commitments that will pay off for years to
come. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We want to empower people in ways
that empower societies and ultimately empower the world. Women like
Jimena Florez of Colombia -- where’s Jimena? There she is.
(Applause.) So I just had a chance to meet with her. She started
her own company making healthy foods -- which Michelle would be very pleased
with -- (laughter) -- and she started her company entirely with fellow women
entrepreneurs -- which Michelle would also be happy with. And through our
support for women entrepreneurs, we’ve helped Jimena connect to mentors and
training so that she can access new trade opportunities and grow her
business. And through her work, she’s also helping Colombian farmers
adopt organic farming and benefit from access to new markets as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we want to thank you, Jimena, for
helping to lift up your community. We’re very, very proud of you.
(Applause.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We want to empower pioneers like
Ziad Sankari. Where’s Ziad? There he is, right next to her.
When he was 17, he lost his father to a heart attack. And Ziad first came
to the United States to study on a Fulbright. Then, through one of our
science and technology competitions, he earned seed funding to develop his
innovation, which is a heart-monitoring technology that clips to your
waistband. So today he’s improving the way we respond to cardiac
incidents, which will have enormous ramifications not just in places like
Lebanon but potentially all around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, thank you, Ziad, for helping to
save lives. (Applause.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And we want to empower leaders of
social change like Lina Khalifeh of Jordan. Where’s Lina? There she
is. (Applause.) After seeing one of her close friends abused, Lina
said that’s enough. She had a background in martial arts.
(Laughter.) And so she opened SheFighter, a self-defense studio for
women. So far, she has helped about 10,000 women learn how to protect
themselves. And now, she’s competing for funding to expand her mission
across the Middle East. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So thank you, Lina.
(Applause.) We want to be your partner helping women to live with dignity
and safety. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So Jimena, Ziad, Lina -- to all the
young entrepreneurs out here -- you are the face of change. You have the
power to drive creative solutions to our pressing challenges. You know
how to bring people together to work toward a common goal. And I believe
in all of you. And as I travel around the country -- I was telling some
of the entrepreneurs earlier -- when you go to some of the toughest places in
the world, where violence and deprivation are, sadly, daily facts of life, what
people are most eager to hear about is opportunities to start a business.
What they’re most interested in hearing about is the power of entrepreneurship
to allow them to shape their own destinies, not just to be subject to the whims
of aid agencies or geopolitics, but to be part of something that allows them to
pursue their dreams -- and by doing so, empowers all of us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe that entrepreneurs like
you can make the world a better place, one idea at a time. And you’re
going to be how change happens -- one person, one step, one business, one city,
one country at a time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are brilliant young people and
hardworking women and innovative thinkers from communities all around the world
-- people just like you, ready to make a difference. But they haven’t
been given the chance yet. And we can change that. And together, we
can help make sure that anyone who’s got the creativity and drive to work hard,
no matter where they’re from, what they look like, what their background is,
they get a fair shot at pursuing their dreams. And we’ll all be better
for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s what this is about. And
that’s why America is going to keep supporting entrepreneurs like you.
And as long as I’m President, this is going to be a critical part of our
engagement and our diplomacy with countries and peoples around the world, and I
suspect I’ll still be working on it well after I’m President as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So thank you very much,
everybody. I’m proud of you. Keep it up. Thank you.
(Applause.)</span></div>
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Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-32678357358268830582015-06-07T04:40:00.001-07:002015-06-10T14:25:45.233-07:00“Africa Forward” in Sustained Economics & Community Development<br />
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In
Africa Forward Strategy for which President Obama is expanding the 2014
USA African Leadership Summit into 2015 and beyond going forward ,
Diaspora must concentrate in a Coalition for Africa Diaspora Investment
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393650" style="text-align: justify;">
<b class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393649"><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393648" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ZONES
OF ENGAGEMENT FACING AFRICAN LEADERSHIP SUMMIT AND THE DIASPORA MOVING FORWARD INTO GES (THE GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT OF JULY 25-27 IN NAIROBI) PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND AMERICA</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393646" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12532">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12528" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is about time where all sector, </span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393645" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">political, economic and social welfare programs in business and non-business organizations to
make their own contributions to the African Narratives within the zones of progressive agenda for Africa. There are seven zones
of engagement facing the leaders of the Africa Summit in light of these
differing views about "What must be done." Here are the zones for
your attention and retention.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393889" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12796" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12795" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1. The first zone is that of
Diplomatic Cooperation and Political Communication to address the needs of both
Americans and Africans simultaneously</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393954" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393953" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2. The second zone is that
which calls for harmonization of contending views about Africa among American
parties on the one hand and African parties on the other hand.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393957" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393956" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393955" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3. The third zone of
engagement deals with the role and place of the non-governmental parties in
America and in Africa who wish to add to the growing body of knowledge about
American-African relations over the last one hundred years. More particularly,
since the beginning of Africa's independence from colonial rule and the
recognition of African states as members of the United Nations. </span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393961" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393960" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4. The fourth zone of
engagement deals with the realms of diplomatic and political protocols that
define how Americans and Africans could, and must negotiate on a wide
range of issues. Take for example, the Kennedy Administration and its decision
to reach out to African youths and peoples through the Peace-Corp Program. Not
only did the U.S. engage Africa's peoples but she provided a number of
educational, cultural and political program to foster the strategies of
engagement and cooperation between the two parts of the world.</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393974" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_393973" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5. The fifth zone relates to
American interest in Africa and to Africa's interest in America. These two
concepts about American-African relations are problematic. The United States of
America is a federation of fifty states who can act singly in the service of
American interest nationally and globally. Africa consists of fifty-four states
that are diplomatically called African Union, but the bottom line here is that,
these political entities are not likely to fashion a draft document that
equalizes their collective interest to the American President who made the call
for this Summit. Hopefully, the African leaders would do their expected “home-work”
before the Summit in August. </span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394203" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394202" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6. The sixth zone of
engagement between the United States of America and the African Union revolves
around geopolitical understanding of Africans with their natural resources on
the one hand, and political economic understanding on the other hand. What do
we mean by geopolitical understanding? <span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>Here, we mean the nature of land ownership at individual
African countries with national sovereignty of these countries as is understood
abroad. For Africa, the question of land ownership is becoming more and more critical.
This is largely as a result of the growing penetration (in the Scramble for
African’s Lands= Land Grabbing) by outside forces searching for lands to
purchase for private business mining and for farming. Land Grabbing is a new
concept and new phenomenon. It robs Africans indigenous of rightful ownership
as stakeholders and deprives fair shared interest for development
purposes.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>On the same same strength, it
terrorizes, denies justice, manipulates and impoverishes Africans to an extend
it reduces African people to succumb to extreme poverty, pain and sufferings
with all forms of crime, abuse and violation of human rights.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>There are numerous Witness news with
documented reports from many African countries to this effect. <span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>This phenomenon is affecting the Economic and
Political conditions with social lifestyle of millions of people across African
Continent.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394205" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394204" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With respect to how the
Summit is going to harmonize or provide immediate effect in both Short and Long
term for American-African relations, to meet challenges from other competing
Countries like China is crucial and is fundamentally most necessary factor
requiring to be considered and shared broadly between stakeholders and
shareholders to avoid and reduce Poverty, Pain and Sufferings, a condition that
arose from the Scramble to Africa and which are viewed as Crimes, Abuse and
Violations of Human Rights exploding in Africa as a result of “Land Grabbing”. <span class="yiv0756120109"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="yiv0756120109" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two points deserve our
attention here:</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12813" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">1.<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12812" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first deals with the Human Factor in
American-African relations. The lives of countless millions are at stake. How? </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394207" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394206" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well,
the paradox in American-African relations, when it comes to human relations, is
most obvious in terms of labor, production and exchange value in the
international markets.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12811" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">2.<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12810" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because of the percentage of African
immigrants living and working in the United States of America, the annual
remittances of dollars going to Africa, as studied by the World Bank and other
interested parties records, greater than the total foreign invest in Africa.
This is to say, African governments collect more dollars in their central banks
than foreign investments from overseas coming into their economies. This
African Summit is going to face these realities. In this zone of engagement,
what must be done will be an issue. </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12798" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394209" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394208" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7. The seven and last zone
of engagement relates to the "broken wings" in the
American-African Plane of Social, Political and Economic collaboration. The
missing parts in this equation consists of the following items on our list of
necessities: Good Governance and the Democratic Pills for political
communication between the leaders and the led; Political Transparency and the
Medicine against Political Kleptocracy; Political Innovations with respect to humanity
aspects as in:</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12801" style="margin-left: 39.75pt; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">a)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12800" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">minority
rights, human rights, gender rights and religious pluralism, with its </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12803" style="margin-left: 39.75pt; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">b)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12802" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Social
amenities that adds value to peace and Liberty and where;</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="margin-left: 39.75pt; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">c)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>Economic Trading Entrepreneurship has
conducive environment to thrive. </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394211" style="margin-left: 21.75pt; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_394210" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At
the summit, those who seek to shed some light on what must be done will have a
serious challenge before them. Both the Americans and the Africans must
demonstrate political sagacity with creative imagination that are able to shed
some lights, if they want to make a serious impression on their peers.
</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12807" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12805" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_12804" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After presenting these seven
zones of engagement, we the people in “Africa Forward” must ask our colleagues
in the different organizations routing for the summit to come up with their
own. Perhaps, they might very well see their ideas embodied in the points
identified here. With this challenge, let us start with what we know and humbly
ask others to augment our narrative and footnote our text appropriately.</span></div>
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Judy Miriga
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Diaspora Spokesperson
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Executive Director
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Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
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USA
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382015" style="text-align: justify;">
<b class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382014"><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382013" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Africa
Forward” in Sustained Economics & Community Development</span></b></div>
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381157" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381156" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Confederation Council
Foundation for Africa Inc., is a Non-Profit making for Social, Political and
Economic development undertaking in Africa for sustainability in a conducive
environment.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>The organization strives to
create awareness on educational information with cultural social heritage
values and virtues and provides voice of reason social media and through
advocacy for the Refugee and Displaced persons.<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382124">
</span>Our intervention is not limited, but goes beyond to offer meditation for
rehabilitation to realize Economics advantage with Community Development programs
that motivates peace. We engage in promoting increased prosperity and economic
security for all African oriented communities, individuals and families, small
farmers and also, ranchers, entrepreneurs’ traders, and consumers across the
People of African Descent. Working together with African America Diasporas with
University Professors and gives us an edge to provide leadership securely.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382102" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381160" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381159" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We wish to collaborate with
Government staff to assist in facilitating our organizational team to realize
preparation for the coming meeting in August 2014, where we expect to formalize
areas of interests for research, education, capacity building and in extending
our activities that shall help participants at the forum to be prepared and
engage effectively incorporating sound collaborative strategies that will make
African Leadership Forum a success story.<span class="yiv0756120109">
</span>This will include discovering historical new economic opportunities for
Africa Moving Forward.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>It shall also
engage effectiveness of Energy/Water Proposal, develop successful agricultural
and nonagricultural enterprises cooperative enterprising and take advantage of
new and consumer-driven markets at both the local and international levels, and
understand the implications of public policy on these and other activities of
progressive development. </span></div>
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<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_13236" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_13235" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We take the opportunity of
the coming Summit as a necessary leverage and an advantage against our
competitors with example to China’s scramble to Africa.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_13237" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381162" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381161" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I must reiterate and
emphasize that, in partnering with diverse African Diaspora in America, we
collaboration in consultations alongside other African NGO groups, Faith
Based and Community Leaders under <b class="yiv0756120109">“One
Stop Service Center Coordination”</b> to make sure we avoid duplication of
work, we shall engage the local community in the affairs of their Social
Welfare Development towards fulfilling African historical values on <b class="yiv0756120109">“African Forward”</b> where African
Diaspora have comparative advantage with more leverage.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381164" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381163" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Consequently, looking
forward to our US President's invitation of African Leaders Summit in August,
we anticipate great opportunity for his legacy with African Diaspora to
undertake serious involvement to make deliberations from the summit a success
story.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>I must reiterate and emphasize
that, in partnering with diverse African Diaspora in America, we
collaboration in consultations alongside other African NGO groups, Faith
Based and Community Leaders under <b class="yiv0756120109">“One
Stop Service Center Coordination”</b> to make sure we avoid duplication of
work, we shall engage the local community in the affairs of their Social
Welfare Development towards fulfilling African historical values on <b class="yiv0756120109">“African Forward”</b> where African
Diaspora have comparative advantage with more leverage.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381166" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381165" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We therefore want to be
fully involved in the US/Africa Partnership Development at the African
Presidential Summit so that we shall provide an economic booster with reliable
and sustainable better and improved prospects moving forward. The U.S.
President Obama's foreign policy for mutually fair and balanced economic development
provides a shared and balanced organized program that is suitable for
USA/Africa business and Social Welfare Partnership engagement capable of moving
“Africa forward”. The African Presidential Summit in August therefore, is
more promising with historical values that we cannot afford to be left behind
without capturing the essence for:</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">a)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Obama Legacy,<span class="yiv0756120109">
</span></span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382126" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">b)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382125" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Obama Prestige on African Historical
values</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381168" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">c)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381167" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Post Obama Presidency</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381173" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381167" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="none" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381170" style="text-align: justify;">
<b id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381329"><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381169" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our priorities therefore
shall be:</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381425" style="text-align: justify;">
<b id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381329"><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381169" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br clear="none" /></span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381172" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">1)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381171" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Water, Natural Minerals and Energy</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381177" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">2)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381176" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Agriculture and land ownership </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381193" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">3)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381192" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Education, Science and Technology for Industrialization</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381191" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">4)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381190" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Foreign Direct Investment</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381377" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381190" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5) Health projects</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381189" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381747" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381746">6)<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381749" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381188" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Transportation infrastructure linking Africa
Nations.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381612" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381188" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7) Diaspora Franchising with Supply chains and Investments in Africa </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381283" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381179" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381178" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With the vast experience and
knowledge in Science, Engineering and Technology that America has shared with
other advanced European and Eastern blocks countries, the US African American
(Americans of African descent) shall be our bargain leverage investment Partnership with
Africa for exchange in Technology transfer an industrialization in Africa. </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381794" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381796" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381795" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Preparing for the same, it
is crucially important and more fundamental to effectively prepare ourselves
sufficiently at the African Leadership Forum by visiting Senegal, Kenya,
Tanzania, DRC Congo, South Sudan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Guinea and South Africa in
advance of African Leadership Summit in order to fully provide good promises
for the Summit breakthrough in this August 2014.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381891" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381890" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Partnering with Social,
Economic and Political drivers as a team, we shall create a harmonious better
understanding of things with greater fundamental rewarding impact. We believe
and it has been tested that, the prospects can be made promising in a fast
turnover, as impacts are readily felt and realized, since the people are
involved in their business of participating, engaging and improving their own
lifestyle and economic development according to their own cultural values and
tradition and at the same time, the development process slowly adopts diversity
without negative force as has been the case. Together, we shall make good
inroad to a sustainable progressive development in economic security and
sufficiency and at the same time, improve on Environmental protection.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381893" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381892" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We must prepare to do
business differently that give people hope and are with good return and better
sustainable prospects, an engagement that provides competitive education
with good health and as well promotes local peasant cooperative agriculture
which is the prescription for income generating job creation, innovative
expansion with sustainable economic opportunities will nurture peace and
harmony for common good of all. <br class="yiv0756120109" clear="none" />
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<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381894" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Participating and engaging
in Cooperative Partnership for development inclusively, we cannot go wrong in
Democratizing efficiency and supply vs. demand and at the same time, cushioning
the African Government Leadership to realize its development promise to its
Citizen and the larger business community in a shared effective fair manner
favorable to all thus: </span></div>
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<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">1)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Energy/Water Supply and Management that shall
ease the burden of fetching water long distances and energy to provide
lighting, cooking and small industrial for economic prospects. Rural Community
Development with Related Stakeholders Input and Information</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381898" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">2)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381897" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sustainable Cooperative Agriculture shall
provide with job creation, improved education with economic growth and
expansion with Social Welfare improvement from capacity of financial flow from
job creation with economic financial advantages. </span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381900" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">3)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381899" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Community Welfare for Social Development will
engage preservation of Wild Life, Environment and great lakes protection from
adverse Industrial pollution with other mismanagement.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>The stakeholders and shareholders will have
opportunity to work closely in harmony together.</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381902" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">4)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381901" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Small-scale and peasant farming cooperative
entrepreneurship will provide sustainability of Development agenda with both
short and long-term diversity and expansion.<span class="yiv0756120109">
</span>The Cooperative Partnership between USA and Africa and as well offer
training to both the Socially Disadvantaged African Farmers to realize economic
sustainability as well as built the capacity in social welfare agenda. This
will boost the financial Security Promoting Family and Small Farms into
Cooperative management<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>through Social
Welfare Integration on sustainable agriculture</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381904" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109">5)<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font: 7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381903" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hospital and Schools (Health, Early School
Learning including Reading as well as Higher Education with Scholarships and
Internships) for Foreign Assistance to American Schools and Hospitals Abroad
(ASHA)</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381911" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" dir="ltr" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381906" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381910" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381909">6) </span></span><span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381905" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Diversify Cultural Heritage Values and also
harmonize Exchange Network through Agriculture, Art and Sports (traditional
foods, music and physical sporting activities</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381907" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
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<span class="yiv0756120109" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a result of the above, it
is crucial that we make advance feasible negotiation in order that we present
competitive Partnership proposal before the Forum hence the advance funding
request. </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381956" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381958" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381957" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While we shall involve
Politicians in Africa to provide enabling environment with good policy and
security, we aim to strengthen expert and professional consultation to set
standardization for a secured progressive business complex in order to meet the
challenges of other existing business players at the Global Emerging Market
Place.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>The Diaspora Engagement in Public
Private Partnership for effective Development Management in Africa, shall
require expert design and implementation on standardized, effective and
efficient strategies of projects to promote Counties, National and Regional
cooperation. Its intended outcome is for civil servants effectiveness to public
Service Delivery and to apply the acquired knowledge,<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>skills in the workplace with good policies
that shall protect and secure the success of business partnership capacity
development.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381959" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381961" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381960" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am delighted that, as the
Executive Director for Confederation Council Foundation for Africa, I am
fortunate to have been endorsed by a group of Diaspora members to provide
leadership to make this program for Diaspora Project investment in Africa a
success. I look forward to building upon that African Union legacy for Diaspora
by focusing on key strategic issues of critical importance to Africa and to
US-Africa Diaspora relationship.<span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>This by
no means shall consolidate and expand our diverse engagement, and will elevate
Africans credentials that impact Africa business community with its social
welfare, a success. We shall engage to stimulate public engagement as
stakeholders and favorably share in the Partnership with shareholders in order
to improve the quality of life and increase prosperity in Africa, since vibrant
economies excite entrepreneurial initiatives in the business world platform.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0756120109" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Judy Miriga</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Diaspora Spokesperson </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Executive Director </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382133" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">USA </span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382132" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
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<span class="yiv0756120109" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Email: socioeconomicforum50@gmail.com</span></div>
<div class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_381963" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span class="yiv0756120109" id="yiv0756120109yui_3_16_0_1_1433638123963_382131" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="yiv0756120109"> </span>jbatec@yahoo.com</span></div>
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Kenya to host Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES)</h1>
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The Government of Kenya has agreed to co-host the 2015 Global
Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) this July. Organized annually since 2009,
the GES has emerged as a global platform connecting emerging
entrepreneurs with leaders from business, international organizations,
and governments looking to support them. This will be the first time
the GES will take place in sub-Saharan Africa.</div>
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President Obama will travel to Kenya in July, where he will hold
bilateral meetings and participate in the GES. His trip will build on
the success of the August 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and continue
our efforts to work with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including
Kenya, to accelerate economic growth, strengthen democratic
institutions, and improve security. This will be President Obama’s
fourth trip to sub-Saharan Africa during his presidency.</div>
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<h1 class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_21305">
Kenya to co-host the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2015 in Nairobi </h1>
<h2 class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_21307">
by <a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://kenyanews.co.ke/news/author/kingatmo/" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_21306" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Posts by kingatmo">kingatmo</a> • April 14, 2015 </h2>
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<b class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_21315">The
Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Nairobi, is intended to bring
together entrepreneurs, leading business personalities, government
officials, investors to strengthen ties and to focus on the contribution
of entrepreneurship to economic prosperity</b>.</div>
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GES is an initiative by the White House in the U.S that aims to
partner with host countries to showcase entrepreneur’s capabilities and
strengthen entrepreneurial infrastructure.</div>
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<h2 class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24641">
<span class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24640">Spark Initiative: U.S. Government Programs</span></h2>
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<img alt="Date: 03/23/2015 Description: Spark Logo - State Dept Image" class="yiv7890417782" src="http://www.state.gov/img/15/62304/spark_156_1.jpg" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24503" style="margin: 4px; min-height: 156px; width: 156px;" title="Date: 03/23/2015 Description: Spark Logo - State Dept Image" /></div>
<h2 class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24470">
<b class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24469">U.S. Government Spark Programs</b></h2>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24646">
The programs designated as part of the <a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship/spark/index.htm" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24645" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">President's Spark initiative</a>
represent the best work being done by the U.S. Government to advance
entrepreneurship around the world. The following U.S. Government
programs are part of the larger SPARK network.</div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_14169">
<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship/ges/index.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433674285164_14175" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES)</a></div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24627">
Launched by President Obama in 2009, the Global Entrepreneurship
Summit (GES) is a preeminent annual gathering that links emerging
entrepreneurs from around the world with leaders from business,
government, and innovative organizations. GES showcases the latest
trends, training, and technology available to emerging or aspiring
entrepreneurs, along with providing a powerful platform for policy
discussions with government leaders. Past summits, held in the United
States, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and Morocco, have
inspired numerous initiatives, forged collaborations across countries,
and helped to increase economic opportunities, particularly amongst
marginalized groups.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.gistnetwork.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Global Innovation Through Science and Technology (GIST)</a></div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24629">
<span class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24628" style="font-size: 12px;">GIST creates a network of
entrepreneurs, angel investors, mentors and others to strengthen
entrepreneurial ecosystems in 86 emerging economies across Africa, Asia,
Latin America, and the Middle East. GIST empowers young innovators
through networking, skills building, mentoring, and access to financing
to develop startup solutions that address economic and development
challenges. GIST includes an interactive virtual network with online
programming, a global annual Technology-Idea (Tech-I) competition, and
startup boot camps.</span></div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24651" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship/gep/wecreate/index.htm" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24650" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Women’s Entrepreneurial Centers of Resources, Education, Access, and Training for Economic Empowerment (WECREATE)</a></div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24652">
WECREATE Centers are physical entrepreneurial community centers in a
safe and centralized location. At these centers, women gain access to
vital resources that both enable established business to build capacity
and allow microenterprises to move from the informal sector into the
formal sector.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://beta.commerce.gov/page/about-presidential-ambassadors-global-entrepreneurship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE)</a></div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24630">
The Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship is a
first-of-its-kind collaboration between America’s most inspiring and
prominent entrepreneurs and the White House, Department of Commerce,
Department of State, and U.S. Agency for International Development. The
goal is to harness the energy, ideas, and experience of successful
American entrepreneurs to help develop the next generation of
entrepreneurs both at home and abroad. Members participate in outreach
and mentorship activities to help promote start-up culture, and energize
their own personal and professional networks to challenge and inspire
budding entrepreneurs and raise awareness of the many resources
available to them.</div>
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<span class="yiv7890417782"><a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.usaid.gov/pace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Partnering to Accelerate Entrepreneurship (PACE) Initiative</a></span><span class="yiv7890417782"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24631">
U.S. Global Development Lab's Partnering to Accelerate
Entrepreneurship (PACE) Initiative aims to catalyze private-sector
investment into early-stage enterprises and test financially sustainable
approaches to enterprise incubation – unlocking the potential of
thousands of promising enterprises around the world. Through six
public-private partnerships, PACE partners are already reaching more
than 200 enterprises and mobilizing more than $80 million in private
capital in the first year.</div>
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<span class="yiv7890417782"><a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.usaid.gov/div" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Development Innovation Ventures (DIV)</a></span><span class="yiv7890417782"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1433099600081_24632">
U.S. Global Development Lab's Development Innovation
Ventures (DIV) is an open innovation fund at USAID that sources, tests,
and scales breakthrough solutions to global development challenges.
Through a year-round grant competition for innovative ideas in any
sector and nearly any country, DIV invests funding and hands-on support
in solutions with the potential to deliver more impact, for lower cost,
at sustainable scale. Since 2011, DIV has supported over 115 innovations
spanning 35 countries.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programs (EIP)</a></div>
<div class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_115447">
The Office of Commercial and Business Affairs at the State Department
develops binational initiatives through the Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Program (EIP) to significantly enhance the conditions in
which entrepreneurial endeavors can thrive. EIP is currently active in
two countries, Poland and Mexico. The <a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/11/234035.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">U.S.-Poland Innovation Program (PLUS-IP)</a>
is a collaborative initiative between the U.S. Department of State and
the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland.
The program will strengthen Poland’s entrepreneurship ecosystem by
promoting innovation through U.S.-Polish joint ventures and joint
research and development projects. <a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship/museic/index.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mexico-U.S. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council (MUSEIC)</a>
aims to enhance regional competitiveness by strengthening the North
American entrepreneurship ecosystem. MUSEIC is made up of public and
private sector representatives from both countries who are working to
develop new initiatives along with public policies to promote
entrepreneurship and innovation.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="https://youngafricanleaders.state.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI)</a></div>
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Through YALI, the United States Government is investing in the next
generation of African leaders, and has committed significant resources
to enhance leadership skills, bolster entrepreneurship, and connect
young African leaders with one another and the United States. The
initiative includes the Mandela Washington Fellowship, which brings 500
of Africa’s most dynamic young leaders to the United States each year
for six weeks of leadership training, networking, and mentoring at top
U.S. universities. Four Regional Leadership Centers being established in
Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa, as part of YALI, will improve
the availability and quality of leadership training programs and
professional development opportunities for young African leaders. In
addition to in-person training and opportunities, the YALI Network
provides more than 130,000 members with virtual resources and vibrant
physical spaces that equip young African leaders with the skills and
connections they need to improve their communities and their countries.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="https://youngsoutheastasianleaders.state.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI)</a></div>
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YSEALI is President Obama’s signature program to strengthen
leadership development and networking in Southeast Asia. Through a
variety of programs and engagements, including U.S. educational
exchanges, regional exchanges, and seed funding, YSEALI seeks to build
the leadership capabilities of youth in the region, strengthen ties
between the United States and Southeast Asia, and nurture an ASEAN
community. YSEALI focuses on critical topics identified by youth in the
region: civic engagement, environment and natural resources management,
and entrepreneurship and economic development.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://awepnetwork.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP)</a></div>
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African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP) is an outreach,
education, and engagement initiative that targets women entrepreneurs in
sub-Saharan Africa to promote business growth, increase trade both
regionally and to U.S. markets through the African Growth and
Opportunity Act (AGOA), create better business environments, and empower
African women entrepreneurs to become voices of change in their
communities. Launched in July 2010, the initiative identifies and builds
networks of women entrepreneurs across sub-Saharan Africa poised to
transform their societies by owning, running, and operating small and
medium businesses.</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_115443"><a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://eca.state.gov/highlight/weamericas-initiative" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_115442" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WeAmericas)</a></b></div>
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President Obama launched the WEAmericas initiative at the Summit of
the Americas in 2012. WEAmericas leverages public-private partnerships
to encourage inclusive economic growth in the Western Hemisphere. The
initiative reduces barriers and increases opportunities for women
entrepreneurs to start and grow small and medium-size enterprises by
improving access to markets, access to capital, skills and capacity
building, and leadership opportunities. Through WEAmericas, public,
private, and nonprofit partners are working together to build a stronger
and more collaborative environment for women entrepreneurs to achieve
mutually beneficial goals: inclusive economic growth; social impact from
commercial activity/growth; formalization of informal sector work; and
enhanced competitiveness for firms and local economies.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://eca.state.gov/ivlp" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_115440" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)</a></div>
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The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is the U.S.
Department of State’s premier professional exchange program. Through
short-term visits to the United States, current and emerging foreign
leaders in a variety of fields experience the United States firsthand
and cultivate lasting relationships with their American counterparts.
Professional meetings reflect the participants’ professional interests
and support the foreign policy goals of the United States. There are
over 50 entrepreneurship exchanges each year with more than 450
participants. The business programs explore the role of small business
in driving local economic development and examine U.S. efforts to
promote small business development and innovation, both domestically and
internationally. Social entrepreneurship exchanges look at the growth
of this sector in the United States and the impact of technology –
particularly social networking – in developing new avenues for civic
engagement and participation.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship/gep/" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_115436" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP)</a></div>
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The Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) is a U.S. State
Department-led effort to promote and spur entrepreneurship by catalyzing
and coordinating private sector and U.S. Government programs to support
entrepreneurs around the world. GEP was launched in April 2010 at the
Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. GEP supports integrated
entrepreneurial ecosystems by focusing on seven key areas: identifying,
training, connecting and sustaining; guiding to financing; facilitating
market access; enabling supportive policy; and celebrating
entrepreneurs. GEP’s partners include domestic and global NGOs,
corporations, foundations, educational institutions and investors. To
develop entrepreneurship ecosystems, GEP partner organizations are asked
to further their activities, either by expanding current programs to a
new country, or deepening existing programs in their current countries
of operation.</div>
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<a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship/gep/ready/index.htm" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_39564" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Resilient, Entrepreneurial, And Dynamic Youth (READY)</a></div>
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<span class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_39556">The
Resilient, Entrepreneurial, And Dynamic Youth (READY) Initiative
teaches at-risk youth between the ages of 18 to 30 how to code, matches
them with a virtual mentor, places them in a pre-arranged internship
with a technology company, and prepares them for online employment upon
completion of the program. READY works with key partners in local
entrepreneurial ecosystems to showcase the relationship between
entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth to program
participants.</span></div>
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<span class="yiv7890417782" style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Answer <a class="yiv7890417782" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/11/remarks-president-global-entrepreneurship-event" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">President Obama’s call</a> to invest in emerging entrepreneurs through Spark: </span><a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.startthespark.org/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://www.startthespark.org/</a></div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782" style="color: #003366; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What is Spark?</b></div>
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A common symbol and platform for connecting diverse programs working to promote entrepreneurship around the world.</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782">What is the U.S. Government's Spark initiative?</b></h2>
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The programs selected to the President's Spark initiative represent
the best work being done by the U.S. Government to advance
entrepreneurship around the world. They commit to generate at least $10
million dollars over three years for emerging entrepreneurs, with more
than half raised by women and young entrepreneurs. The initial
commitments toward this goal totaled over $1 billion dollars that would
be generated by the end of 2017. The programs agreed to co-brand their
communications with the Spark logo, while working to more closely link
their programs to increase their reach and impact. <a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship/spark/239681.htm" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_39460" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More on the U.S. Government’s Spark Programs»</a></div>
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What is the External Spark consortium?</h2>
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<span class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_39459" style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Representing
some of the world’s top organizations working on entrepreneurship, the
Spark consortium serves as the first-ever umbrella organization for
connecting, coordinating, and communicating about their programs. The
Spark consortium chose to focus their initial work on creating a unified
communications capacity about entrepreneurship across their
organizations, developing a searchable inventory of programs, resources,
and investment opportunities for entrepreneurs, coordinating their
events and major programs, collaborating on the Global Entrepreneurship
Summit, as well as working to prioritize key policies and issues facing
entrepreneurs. The Spark consortium is supported by some of America’s
top marketing firms, who have dedicated significant time and resources
to developing a universal symbol to represent the hope and opportunity
offered by entrepreneurship. </span><a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.startthespark.org/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">More on the external Spark consortium»</a></div>
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Where did Spark Start?</h2>
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At the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Vice President Biden
announced a bold goal for the best work being done by the U.S.
Government to advance entrepreneurship around the world: help emerging
entrepreneurs, including social entrepreneurs generate over $1 billion
in new private investments in their businesses, with more than half of
the investment being raised by women and youth. As President Obama said
in a video address to an entrepreneurship summit in Tunisia, “Over the
next three years, we’re aiming to spark more than one billion dollars in
new investments in the next generation of entrepreneurs around the
world—to help them open a new business, expand into new markets and
ignite the next era of innovation and growth.” This ambitious initiative
sparked the attention of a number of leading organizations, companies,
and figures working on entrepreneurship, who gathered at the White House
to discuss how they might collaborate. This coalition is coalescing
around a number of key goals, ideas, and actions. Their first step is to
open a conversation via #StarttheSpark about the common goals shared by
those working to promote entrepreneurship. Together, the effort can
help to increase communication, coordination, and collaboration across
all our efforts to support entrepreneurs around the world. Connecting
these entrepreneurial sparks can help set alight a bright beacon of new
hope, shared purpose, and opportunity.</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_39399">The Opportunity</b></div>
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From Tunisia to Indonesia, the world’s attention is focused on
Muslim-majority nations in some of the most critical regions in the
world. The “Arab Awakening” has created a new era of collaboration as
long-embedded institutions are replaced or changed. Adding pressure to
the situation is massive youth unemployment, which reaches upward of 25
percent across the Middle East and North Africa region. This demographic
youth bulge has the potential to significantly contribute to long-run
economic growth, yet there remains serious underinvestment in education
and innovation in many of these communities.</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782">The Alliance</b></div>
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President Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech laid out America’s interest in
seeking a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim world
based on mutual interest and mutual respect. In 2010, the Secretary’s
Office of Global Partnerships (S/GP) launched Partners for New
Beginnings (PNB) as a new approach toward diplomacy development aimed at
bridgebuilding between the United States and key Muslim-majority
countries. Since its launch, PNB has grown into a cross-cutting global
network of prominent business leaders and civil society actors who are
committed to building effective partnerships that promote economic
opportunity, foster advances in science and technology, enhance
educational opportunities, and catalyze exchanges to enhance mutual
understanding in a variety of fields. The Aspen Institute serves as the
PNB Secretariat.</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782">The Pillars</b></div>
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PNB’s chapters are located in Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan,
Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories,
Tunisia, and Turkey. These local chapters build partnerships that
encourage four central pillars:</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782">1. </b><b class="yiv7890417782">OPPORT</b><b class="yiv7890417782">UNITY: </b>Promote
economic opportunity by increasing employment, improving access to
finance, and building business capacity and development services to
enhance livelihoods.</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782">2. </b><b class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_21739">INNOVATION: </b>Foster
advances in science and technology by improving infrastructure,
addressing natural resource challenges, enhancing research capabilities,
and funding cutting-edge capabilities to support innovation and
economic growth.</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782">3. </b><b class="yiv7890417782">EDUCATION: </b>Enhance educational opportunities by broadening access to education and enhancing the quality of facilities and equipment.</div>
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<b class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_21749">4. </b><b class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_21746">EXCHANGE: </b>Catalyze
exchanges in a variety of fields, including education, interfaith,
business, and research, while developing programs to enhance human
connectedness and build mutual understanding.</div>
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Government of Kenya has agreed to co-host the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship
Summit (GES) this July. Organized annually since 2009, the GES has
emerged as a global platform connecting emerging entrepreneurs with leaders
from business, international organizations, and governments looking to support
them. This will be the first time the GES will take place in sub-Saharan
Africa.</div>
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President
Obama will travel to Kenya in July, where he will hold bilateral meetings and
participate in the GES. His trip will build on the success of the August
2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and continue our efforts to work with countries
in sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, to accelerate economic growth,
strengthen democratic institutions, and improve security. This will be
President Obama’s fourth trip to sub-Saharan Africa during his presidency.</div>
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<span class="yiv7890417782">The Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES)</span><b class="yiv7890417782"><span class="yiv7890417782" style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></b></div>
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GES is an
annual summit bringing together entrepreneurs – including social entrepreneurs
-- business people, venture capitalists and foundations for an intense two-day
conference to network, learn from each other, and identify ways to improve the
entrepreneurial ecosystem. GES is a White House initiative that partners
with a different host country each year to showcase the dynamism of the local
environment and hopefully strengthen entrepreneurial infrastructure. </div>
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Last year's
U.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit advanced the Administration's focus on trade and
investment in Africa and highlighted America's commitment to Africa's security,
its democratic development, and its people. The theme of the Summit was
"Investing in the Next Generation," and leveraging entrepreneurship
throughout the continent is a direct outgrowth of this longstanding support to
Africa's next generation of leaders. During the Leaders' Summit, the
President committed to holding the 6th annual GES in sub-Saharan Africa.
Kenya's selection as the location for this year's Summit highlights the
country's role as an economic leader in East Africa and the dynamism and
innovation that characterizes Kenya's entrepreneurship ecosystem. </div>
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We expect members of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI)
network and from the African Women's Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP) to be well
represented at GES Nairobi, as well as those from other USG women and youth
initiatives. </div>
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More information is available at <a class="yiv7890417782" href="http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.state.gov/e/eb/cba/entrepreneurship</a> </div>
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<span class="yiv7890417782" id="yiv7890417782yui_3_16_0_1_1432809724047_21575">The Spark Global Entrepreneurship
initiative</span></div>
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“Spark” is a common symbol and platform
for connecting diverse programs working to promote entrepreneurship around the
world. The programs selected to the President's Spark initiative
represent the best work being done by the U.S. Government to advance
entrepreneurship around the world. They commit to generate at least $10 million
dollars over three years for emerging entrepreneurs, with more than half raised
by women and young entrepreneurs. The initial commitments toward this goal
totaled over $1 billion dollars that would be generated by the end of 2017. Top
entrepreneurship organizations will announce the formation of the Spark
coalition in the coming months and have opened a social media conversation
about expanding entrepreneurship with #StarttheSpark. </div>
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<br />Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-77542252609320064142015-06-05T05:53:00.000-07:002015-06-05T05:53:38.363-07:00BACKGROUND BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF CONFEDERATION COUNCIL FOUNDATION FOR AFRICA<br />
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<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433353414405_66667" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Judy Miriga is the executive
Director for Confederation Council Foundation for Africa.<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433367464590_76222"> </span>The organization existed since 2009 when the
demand for my voluntary refugee services grew to a large extent here in USA and
where I participated and provided a unique leadership skill that effectively saw
and brought an immediate peace that eventually restored order in Kenya in the wake of
things-fall-apart where Kenya was at war with itself during the 2007/8 political
conflict which quickly turned into a civil war.<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433367464590_76350">
</span>I speedily led, orchestrated and organized a demonstration group to the White House during
President Bush who ordered his Secretary of State Ms. Condoleezza Rice to
travel to Kenya urgently in a mission to restore peace and order that saw Kofi
Annan play a fundamental role in the formation of a Coalition Government of Kenya.</span></div>
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<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433367464590_80232" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Confederation Council Foundation for Africa
became a voice of reason to many and has remained an Advocacy group networking with
other Civil Society groups as a Non-profit making Lobby, Outreach and providing
services for African Refugees, Individuals and mentoring Civil Society in
diversity collaboration.<span class="yiv9704086065"> </span>Our engagement
is connecting in coalition as partners to discuss and push on fundamental
agendas for human rights with Federal Authorities at the US State Departments
and networking to provide service solution and information to the uninformed
African Constituency Diaspora and to better connect with authorities abroad to
highlight and improve on African lifestyle and as well open avenues for
meaningful investments opportunities in a secured harmonized environment while
promoting sustainable and progressive agenda for local people in Africa in
Partnership with Diaspora.<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433468336741_24995"> </span>We also work
closely with professional practitioners’ for legal litigation intervention
documentation, preparations and certification in order to provide international
litigation arbitration mediation content necessary to avoid expensive legal
mistakes that turn out to be tricky, cumbersome and unreasonable for the
Diaspora to have things done securely under reasonable legal security
protection.........Diaspora is now fully recognized by the UN, AU and the rest
of the world.<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433367464590_80343">
Our role is to play a pivotal role in formalized and secured
investments to Africa and in strengthening Africa's Foreign Policy for
improved and sustainable partnership agenda.</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433353414405_66671" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We engage in Socio-Economic and
political concerns to fix both Africa and foreign policies necessary, acceptable and favorable to people of
Africa’s interests and altogether network to improve community of Diasporas progressive
and sustainable development through highlighting negative effects of
show-case-scenarios of injustices as educational materials for case-studies a focus
for improvements.<span class="yiv9704086065"> </span>Our engagements are participatory
action oriented with an aim to improve living standards of people of African
descent and create increasing engagement and focus for the Pan-Africanism through
our advocacy group network with interest for Africa progressive Partnership to
improve conditions of the under-privileged members of society through advocacy
collaboration to improve civil society interaction in Civil Society, the local
NGOs and Social welfare advocacy engage with the Governments of the world, the
UN, AU and with other International NGOs symposiums inclusively to improve Africa’s
public service delivery. </span></div>
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<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433353414405_66673" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our focus is to provide strong advocacy
on fairness in shared mutual unity of purpose and promote human rights, respect,
value, virtue of African heritage and reconnaissance for harmonious peaceful environment
where we are able to reap progressive agendas, respect and dignity for the marginalized,
the intimidated or underprivileged individuals or community to live a justified
meaningful and productive lifestyle amongst the people of the world. </span></div>
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<span class="" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433353414405_66675" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The prospects are to advance
advocacy networking and provide Education and Information for Social Welfare Engagements, Civil Rights, the underprivilleged and marginalized, business partnership perspectives, legal litigation mediation interventions, solutions, and collaboration on
the following themes: a) inclusive business solutions targeting the base of a
secured fair policies on mutual justified shared responsibilities in political, economic and social agenda; b) engage in disputed legal matters </span><span class="" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433353414405_66675" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">inclusively </span>for <span class="" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433367464590_80232" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">arbitration mediation content for </span>Legal Litigation intervention;<span class="yiv9704086065" id="yiv9704086065yui_3_16_0_1_1433353414405_66675" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> c) intervene for fair-play on the operationalization
of the UN, AU and the Industrialized progressive on world’s challenging Guiding
Principles on Business and Human Rights for common good of all; d) share in cross-industry investment collaboration
to make rural areas of the developing world more attractive places to work with
inputs for local interests and concerns for securely protecting lives as the world becomes a small village marketplace; e) participate
in business solutions addressing skills shortages & unemployment challenges
within supply chains of the government and the Diaspora for the African community sharing with the world and; f) formalize legal litigation </span>intervention for Diaspora engagements in Africa.</div>
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<br />Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-86911455673983817922015-06-04T08:35:00.002-07:002015-06-04T08:35:19.369-07:00Why Companies Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Their Social Responsibilities<br />
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A company’s sense of <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/responsibility.html">responsibility</a> towards the <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/community.html">community</a> and <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/environment.html">environment</a> (both ecological and social) in which it <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/operate.html">operates</a>. <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/company.html">Companies</a> express this <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/citizenship.html">citizenship</a> (1) through their <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/waste.html">waste</a> and <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/pollution.html">pollution</a> <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/reduction.html">reduction</a> <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/process.html">processes</a>, (2) by contributing educational and social <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/program.html">programs</a>, and (3) by <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/earnings.html">earning</a> <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/adequate.html">adequate</a> <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/returns.html">returns</a> on the <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/employment.html">employed</a> <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/resource.html">resources</a>. See also <a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/corporate-citizenship.html">corporate citizenship</a>.</div>
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A corporate collapse involves a major <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency" title="Insolvency">insolvency</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy" title="Bankruptcy">bankruptcy</a>
of a failure. A corporate scandal involving allegations of unethical
behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. A
corporate scandal sometimes involves <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting" title="Accounting">accounting</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud" title="Fraud">fraud</a> of some sort. A wave of such scandals swept many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> companies in 2002 (see list at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_scandals" title="Accounting scandals">accounting scandals</a>).<br />
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_and_scandals#List_of_major_corporate_collapses"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">List of major corporate collapses</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_and_scandals#List_of_scandals_without_insolvency"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">List of scandals without insolvency</span></a></li>
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The following list of corporations involved major collapses, through
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)</h1>
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Chapter 1 Introduction</h3>
Corporate Social Responsibility is a rapidly developing, key business
issue. It is a concept that has attracted worldwide attention. Due to
the demands for enhanced transparency and corporate citizenship, CSR
started to embrace social, ethical as well as environmental challenges.
Today, companies are aware of the social and environmental impacts of
international production. It is accepted that Companies should not be
only profitable, but also good corporate citizens. <br />
Through globalization of the economy, multinational companies are
increasingly involved with suppliers and customers worldwide, especially
if they operate in developing countries. The CSR agenda has a close
relationship with international development. CSR within multinational
companies is seen as a vehicle through which larger, well known
corporations can contribute to the well being of developing
countries by operating responsibly in terms of social and environmental
issues. However, the promoted "CSR" in the developing world by
multinationals is "not real CSR", despite significant contribution to
development in some cases. Very little is known about the companies' CSR
policies and practices in an international context, developing
countries in particular. As reality shows, most of the larger
corporations abuse the CSR and behave unethically and irresponsibly
towards both society and the environment. Issues such as unsafe working
conditions, unfair payment, gender discrimination, sexual harassment,
toxic emissions and the hazardous pollution of water and soil have all
raised fair allegations by consumers, non-governmental organizations and
the larger society. . Famous global brands like Nike, Coca-Cola, GAP
and McDonalds are often under intense pressure from the public. Much of
those pressures are due to their unethical behaviour in developing
countries, where their main operations take place. Though companies
operate in host countries, their reputation extends across numerous
national boundaries. The actions of multinational companies in a host
country can cause significant loss of reputation in the developed world,
where the general public have become more sensitive to environmental
issues and social impact. The public have the power to boycott the goods
and products of multinational corporations in cases of unethical
behaviour where organisations are thought not to fulfil their social and
environmental obligations. However, international reputation side
effects are not the only reason behind the potential increased level of
social and environmental responsibilities faced by multinational
companies; there are many drivers for the correct implementation of CSR
by business entities. However, for many companies, corporate
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In 1970, the economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman published an article in <em>The New York Times Magazine</em> titled,
“The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” In
the article, he referred to corporate social responsibility (CSR)
programs as “hypocritical window-dressing,” and said that businesspeople
inclined toward such programs “reveal a suicidal impulse.” Even four
decades ago, at a time of growing public concern for the environment,
his views represented the general skepticism and contempt with which
many in Corporate America viewed CSR.<br />
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Times have changed. There remain company chieftains who take a
Friedman-esque view, of course, but many more have made CSR a priority.
Ten years ago, for instance, only about a dozen Fortune 500 companies
issued a CSR or sustainability report. Now the majority does. More than
8,000 businesses around the world have signed the UN Global Compact
pledging to show good global citizenship in the areas of human rights,
labor standards and environmental protection. The next generation of
business leaders is even more likely to prioritize CSR. According to
data released this month by Net Impact, the nonprofit that aims to help
businesses promote sustainability, 65% of MBAs surveyed say they want to
make a social or environmental difference through their jobs.<br />
Today, amid a lingering recession that has dented corporate profits
and intensified pressure from shareholders, companies are devising new
CSR models. Rather than staffing a modest CSR department — and slapping
it on the org chart as a small offshoot of the public relations (PR) or
philanthropy division — many companies are instead trying to embed CSR
into their operations. Some blue-chip companies, such as Visa, are
creating new markets in the developing world by closely aligning social
causes with their overarching corporate strategies. Others, such as
Walmart, have made ambitious commitments to sustainability as a way to
save money and tighten their supply chain.<br />
(<strong>MORE: </strong><a href="http://business.time.com/2012/02/06/the-corporate-tax-rate-is-at-its-lowest-in-decades-is-big-business-paying-its-fair-share/?iid=biz-main-lede">The Corporate Tax Rate Is Lowest in Decades; Is Business Paying Its Fair Share?</a><br />
“CSR is an old-fashioned idea that needs to be upgraded,” says <a href="https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1137/">Eric Orts</a>,
professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton and director
of the school’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership. “For
companies to take CSR seriously, it has to be integrated into the DNA of
the enterprise. Companies need to say: ‘We want to make money, sure,
but we also care about our effect on society and the environment. And
that comes through in the kinds of jobs we provide, the kinds of
products we make and the ways in which we use resources.'”<br />
<strong>Ignore CSR at Your Peril</strong><br />
One of the biggest criticisms leveled against CSR is that companies
only care about it for marketing purposes. CSR is merely a buzzword
embraced by corporations because they “should.” “For most companies,
[CSR] is PR,” according to <a href="https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1338/">Ian C. MacMillan</a>,
professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Wharton. “It looks
good. It sounds good. It’s the ‘right’ thing to do — and it gets the
media out of their face.”<br />
These days, corporate motivation seems almost beside the point
because of the significant business risks to ignoring CSR. Consumers and
other companies are likely to shun firms that develop unethical
reputations. And arguably, companies that don’t pay attention to their
ethical responsibilities are more likely to stumble into legal troubles,
such as mass corruption or accounting fraud scandals.<br />
Quite simply, companies care about CSR because their customers do.
Consumers, by and large, are a self-motivated and self-interested lot.
But numerous studies indicate that a company’s CSR policies increasingly
factor into their decisions. For example, a survey by Landor
Associates, the branding company, found that 77% of consumers say it is
important for companies to be socially responsible. “There’s a
heightened awareness of the need to be, and to be seen as, a good
corporate citizen,” says Robert Grosshandler, CEO of iGive.com, which
helps consumers direct a percentage of their online purchases to support
charities.<br />
And in the Electronic Age, where information about a given company’s
environmental record and labor practices is readily available — and
readily tweeted and retweeted — companies must pay careful attention to
what their customers do and say. “In the Information Age, customers have
more access to information,” says Grosshandler. “They’re more educated.
They’re no longer hidden from how their food is produced or how their
iPods are made. And, because of things like social media, like-minded
people more easily find each other, have their say and effect change.
There’s a level of transparency that wasn’t there before.”<br />
(<strong>MORE: </strong><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2115636,00.html?pcd=pw-biz">How Romney’s Mother’s Failed Senate Race Shaped the Presidential Candidate</a>)<br />
CSR is also a way to attract and retain talent. In a global workforce
study by Towers Perrin, the professional services firm, CSR is the
third most important driver of employee engagement overall. For
companies in the U.S., an organization’s stature in the community is the
second most important driver of employee engagement, and a company’s
reputation for social responsibility is also among the top 10. According
to a Deloitte survey conducted last year, 70% of young Millennials,
those ages 18 to 26, say a company’s commitment to the community has an
influence on their decision to work there.<br />
“The Millennial generation has seen a lot of natural disasters,
political disasters and corporate disasters. They think the world is
screwed up,” says Kellie McElhaney, who is the faculty director of Haas’
Center for Responsible Business. “They feel personally responsible, and
they feel empowered to create change.”<br />
<strong>Bottom of the Pyramid</strong><br />
The global financial crisis has not been kind to CSR departments.
While data on precise numbers of CSR positions is hard to come by,
sustainability practitioners say that many companies have scaled back in
recent years (although CSR has not been cut disproportionately to other
cost centers).<br />
Partly as a result of the crisis, some companies have refined their
approach to CSR by more closely relating social causes to their core
businesses. This approach, according to <a href="https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/196/">Jerry (Yoram) Wind</a>,
a Wharton marketing professor, interprets CSR as “socially responsible
capitalism…. At the company level, the business objectives need to be to
both maximize shareholder value in the long term and to address
society’s biggest problems,” says Wind, also the director of the
school’s SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management. ” This requires
having any CSR initiative be an integral part of the business strategy
and not a separate department.”<br />
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Take the Coca-Cola Company, which recently started a program to
empower young women entrepreneurs. The 5×20 program aims to bring five
million women in the developing world into its business by 2020 as local
bottlers and distributors of Coca-Cola products. Research suggests that
such an investment in women can have a multiplier effect that leads not
only to increased revenues and more workers for businesses, but also to
better-educated, healthier families and eventually more prosperous
communities.<br />
Visa is another example. The company has built partnerships with
local governments and non-profits focused on financial inclusion. These
alliances are already transforming the economic architecture in parts of
the developing world by giving financially underserved people a way to
pay, get paid and save money, sometimes through electronic and mobile
payment systems. Research by the Gates Foundation and others has shown
that the usage of these kinds of services enables poor people to better
withstand blows to their personal finances, build assets and connect
into the wider economy.<br />
Does Coca-Cola benefit from more bottlers? Yes. Does Visa benefit
from more people using its services? Absolutely. But these CSR efforts
seek to capitalize on “the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid,” an
idea that C.K. Prahalad popularized in his 2006 book of the same name.
Prahalad referred to the largest, but poorest, socio-economic group in
emerging economies as seeds for future growth markets.<br />
“There are large numbers of people in the world who have no jobs and
who have no hope. They need jobs and more education, better healthcare
and food. They need to be self-sufficient, not dependent because some
do-gooder gave them a handout,” says Wharton’s MacMillan. “Companies
need to start creating markets in these places.”<br />
These new markets represent a long-term investment, he adds. “It’s a
pattern of enlightened self-interest: The company ends up better off
with customers they have seeded who are healthier, better nourished and
have more education. And [the company] has residual loyalty because [it]
was there first.”<br />
<strong>Saving Money, Saving the Planet</strong><br />
Other companies are taking a slightly different approach: viewing CSR
as a cost-saver. “The downturn has refocused CSR practitioners,” says
Marcus Chung, vice president of the CSR and sustainability practice at
Fleishman-Hillard and former head of CSR at Talbots, the women’s apparel
chain. “There are more CSR practitioners today whose main job is to
find ways to support business strategy and save the company money.”<br />
Many CSR professionals serve as internal consultants providing
counsel to colleagues and acting as a resource for decisions concerning
real estate, supply chain or operations, he adds. “They are helping
other departments understand the financial rewards of more sustainable
operations. This approach to CSR has become more key in the last few
years.”<br />
(<strong>MORE: </strong><a href="http://business.time.com/2012/05/10/which-states-have-the-most-economic-mobility/?iid=biz-main-lede">Which States Have the Most Economic Mobility?</a>)<br />
Climate Corps, the Environmental Defense Fund’s summer internship for
business school students, follows this model. The fellowship places MBA
students in Fortune 500 companies, cities and universities to build the
business case for energy efficiency. Since 2008, the program has helped
organizations cut 1.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity use and
avoid more than one million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually, and
has saved $1 billion in net operational costs.<br />
Walmart is another example. Its social responsibility policy is
encompassed by three goals: to be fully supplied by renewable energy, to
create zero waste and to sell products that sustain people and the
environment. These are lofty targets — and if achieved, ones that
ultimately save the company a great deal of money. “The company is not
perfect, but it is dealing with sustainability squarely as a business
imperative,” says Haas’ McElhaney, adding that “These are hard-core
measurable and reportable goals. The main criticism is that the company
is shoving this down the supply chain’s throat, but if you’re Wal-Mart,
that is your leverage.”<br />
<a href="https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1125/">Nien-hê Hsieh</a>,
co-director of the Wharton Ethics Program and a visiting professor at
Harvard Business School this year, describes Walmart as a company that
complicates the CSR picture. “On one hand, it has been challenged on its
labor practices and the Mexican bribery scandal,” he says. “But on the
other hand, it has had an aggressive sustainability policy. If Walmart
does alter its global footprint, it would make a difference in the
world.”<br />
At the entrepreneurial level, some smaller, niche companies are
experimenting with CSR as a mission of the triple bottom line: people,
planet and profits. Take, for instance, the advent and gradual spread of
so-called B Corporations, which are recognized in seven states,
including California and New York. B Corps, as they are known — the “B”
stands for beneficial — are a new kind of business entity that by law
are required to generate social and environmental advantages.<br />
The designation is only a few years old, but already there are more
than 500 certified B Corps across 60 different industries. Companies
include Seventh Generation, the maker of natural household and personal
care products; Pura Vida, which sells organic, fair trade coffee; Etsy,
the online market for handmade goods; and King Arthur Flour. Wharton’s
Orts calls B Corps “interesting experiments for a more fundamental
merging of the goals of traditional profit-making and social
responsibility.”<br />
The B Corps model of integrating CSR concerns into normal business
practices may hold a key for how large publicly traded firms ought
to reset their corporate vision and objectives, he says, adding that a
“major rethinking of the relationship between Wall Street investors and
business management” is in order. The pressure on companies to maximize
shareholder returns makes it very difficult for them to undertake
long-term investments for the social good if these decisions will drive
down their short-term stock prices.<br />
“If there is one thing that the financial crisis and stock market
crash of 2008 should have taught us, it is that short-run share prices
are an unreliable indicator of long-run business sustainability,” says
Orts. “The idea that companies don’t have any independent ethical
responsibility for the consequences of their actions on the environment
and society just doesn’t make sense. It is an outmoded view to say that
one must rely only on the government and regulation to police business
responsibilities. What we need is re-conception of what the purpose of
business is.”<br />
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When businesses fail, their ability to honor agreements, uphold
promises, and act on the higher ideals of their mission statements is
often compromised. Following the ethical maxim that <span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">A</span>ought implies can,<span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">@</span>
business ethicists often grant that our practical obligations have to
be understood against the backdrop of the relative scarcity or abundance
of the business and social environment. Nothing brings on scarcity
more dramatically than the total liquidation of a business<span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">=</span>s
assets. Bankruptcy protection and reorganization can, and probably
should, lead businesses to cut back on some of their obligations. But
even if we allow this concession to practical exigency, we can still ask
probing questions about how the <i>future possibility</i> of business failure may ground our understanding of the <i>current actual</i>
obligations of owners and managers (hereafter, managers) to employees.
While the obligations of the bankrupt business may devolve to minimal
contractual obligations, an analysis of the responsibility of managers
for business failure may tell us something important about the nature of
both employment and managerial ethics. <br />
In the popular imagination, many business failures are thought of as
misfortunes dealt out by a capricious and impersonal market. Indeed,
we often talk of business successes as similarly adventitious, like
lottery windfalls. But business analysts have built an entire genre of
business writing, what might be called the <span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">A</span>post mortem case study,<span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">@</span>
around a belief that most business failures could either be predicted
or prevented. While the authoritativeness of this genre is clearly
enhanced by hindsight, we can surely make a distinction between business
failures which are <i>no one’s fault</i>, in the sense that no reasonable person could have foreseen them, and failures which are the <i>management’s fault</i>,
in the sense that a reasonably prudent and informed management could
have prevented them. Interestingly enough, there are not many other
possibilities. Sure, the occasional business is brought to ruin by the
actions of a single employee, and some businesses are ruined by the
culpable actions of third parties, but the failure of a business of any
significant size is, generally, either no one’s fault or the
management’s fault. <br />
With this principle in hand, that <i>the failure of a business is, generally, either no one’s fault or the management’s fault</i>,
we argue that the conditions under which businesses fail imply a
corporate or group responsibility on the part of management to its
employees. This takes us beyond two traditional positions: first, that
the obligations between managers and employees are purely contractual;
and second, that there is no moral obligation between the two parties,
merely a mutual self-interest in the success of the enterprise. Our
approach to ascribing managerial responsibility is novel because it is
based on a theory of collective liability and corporate vicarious
agency. Traditional approaches to employer-employee obligations are
based on: 1) contract theory, the terms of the employment contract; 2)
agency theory, the manager’s agency relationship to a principle, such as
an owner or stockholder; or, 3) stakeholder theory, the idea that
employees deserve consideration by virtue of the fact that they can be
affected by organizational decision making. By basing our argument on a
liability theory of corporate agency, we avoid some of the limitations
of contract and agency theories. As we will show, a corporate liability
theory provides a better foundation for stakeholder theory. <br />
Why should we think of a business’s management team as collectively
responsible for that business’s failure in cases in which someone is to
blame? Don’t businesses fail for many reasons which are not the fault
of the management? Employees might not maintain their skills, financial
conditions may delay reinvestment in capital assets, and markets may
change demand for the business’s product. The problem with most excuses
for business failure that shift blame away from managers is that they
require us to believe that a management team is incapable of
anticipating changes in labor, capital, financial, and market
conditions, or somehow not responsible for trying. The fact that
business failures often affect only one or two businesses among a group
of competing businesses belies this way of thinking. Of course, some
management teams might just be making lucky guesses to keep their
businesses profitable, however, post mortem case studies give plausible
explanations for thinking that when business failures are anyone’s fault
at all, they are the managers’ fault.<br />
Identifying business failure with managerial fault does not by
itself show that managers bear a collective vicarious liability for
business failure, nor that they are liable to employees rather than
owners for their faulty management. In his work on collective
responsibility, Larry May identifies two conditions for ascribing
collective responsibility to an organization for the conduct of one or
more of its members. Corporate vicarious negligence requires both a
causal factor and a fault factor. As May explains:<br />
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<li>causal factor - the member of the corporation was enabled or
facilitated in his or her harmful conduct by the general grant of
authority given to him or her by corporate decision.</li>
<li>fault factor - appropriate members of the corporation failed to take
preventative measures to thwart the potential harm . . . even though:
1.) . . .[they] could have taken such precautions, and 2.) . . . [they]
could reasonably have predicted that the harm would occur. (May 1983,
321)</li>
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Those familiar with May<span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">=</span>s
theory may wonder if it is not misapplied in this case. First,
discussions of group responsibility are usually about determining the
conditions under which the group is responsible to a third party for the
actions of one of its members (e.g., Is a university collectively
responsible for the sexual harassment of a student by a professor?).
But in this case, we are using the theory to ascribe a collective
responsibility of one <i>group </i>within an organization to another
group in the same organization. Second, one might wonder why managers
are the appropriate group to focus on. Just as no one employee can
usually sink a business, so also no one manager can. If manager’s are
collectively liable to employees for business failure, than employees
are no less collectively liable to managers. The responsibilities are
mutual and symmetrical. But if we look further into May’s theory we
will see what is wrong with this view.<br />
The theoretical basis for ascribing collective vicarious agency to a
whole corporation is the "causal nexus between stockholders or board
members and supervisors or employees" (May, 1983, 319). It is true that
May does not differentiate between the conditions which make a
corporation collectively responsible for its manager’s conduct and the
conditions which make it responsible for its employees’ conduct. It can
be responsible for both. But a crucial feature of May's theory is that
collective responsibility is not a product of the unique decision
making structure of the corporation, nor of the legal status of the
corporation, but merely of the causal connections that allow for
coordinated action. In <i>The Morality of Groups, </i>May shows how these conditions can be present in such "unofficial" social groups as mobs (May 1987).<br />
The second objection, that if there is a collective liability
between managers and employees, it is symmetrical, is only credible if
one ignores the asymmetry in the "grant of authority" which enhances
each group’s ability to harm the other. Managerial teams have a unique
ability to study and direct the activity of non-managerial employees for
the purpose of maintaining the profitability of the organization. They
are almost always in a better position to satisfy the "fault factor"
necessary for vicarious negligence. On the other hand, there may be
situations in which a specific group of employees could be held
collectively vicariously negligent, since May’s theory does not ascribe
group responsibility solely on the basis of the formal assignment of
duties (May 1983, 320).<br />
Two immediate consequences for management ethics follow from this
argument: First, the professional responsibilities of managers can no
longer be seen as following exclusively from the agency relationship
that they have to owners. While the authority that comes with being
someone’s agent is a necessary condition for their responsibility to
business owners, it is also part of the basis for making them liable to
the employees they manage. Second, organizations which hold to
traditional organizational structures which sharply separate managerial
and non-managerial work have a heightened liability to their
non-managerial employees for business failure. In the organization
which devolves managerial responsibility to most of its workers, the
collective responsibility for failure falls more squarely with the
entire corporate workforce. <br />
May’s view is not just a helpful theoretical perspective for
rethinking management theory, but also a practical framework for
thinking about corporate culpability. Since the Federal Sentencing
Guidelines for Organizations became law in 1991, the notion of corporate
culpability has had a role in determining corporate liability, and,
consequently, corporate punishment. The Guidelines refer to the
"culpability of the organization" along with "the seriousness of the
crime<span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">@</span> as determining factors in setting the appropriate fine range for organizations committing remediable harm, but which are not <span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">A</span>operated
primarily for a criminal purpose or primarily be criminal means, and
then go on to list criteria by which to assess an organization’s
"culpability score" and its impact in determining the appropriate fine
range. The Guidelines reflect, though not perfectly or explicitly, a
recognition that organizations such as corporations can develop what
Jennifer Moore calls a "corporate character" embodying the "goals,
rules, policies, and procedures" of the corporation which in turn shape
the behavior of its agents (Moore 1992). <br />
For our purposes, the importance of the Guidelines is that they are a
legal recognition of punishable corporate responsibility to groups or
individuals within and outside of itself, and, even more importantly, a
recognition that the primary component of such culpability is the causal
role that organizations play in shaping the behavior of their agents.
Our focus is on another such causal relationship, that which exists
between managerial decisions and a corporation’s success or failure, as
providing grounds for assigning organizational responsibility to
managers for the harm caused stakeholders as the result of corporate or
business failures. The two are connected in that management can be held
culpable for the decisions and actions of its members (the causal
factor for vicarious agency), and one of the things that its members can
be held uniquely causally accountable for is the success or failure of
the business. Our approach differs from traditional stakeholder theory,
which typically accounts for the obligations that managers have to
stakeholder groups in contractarian terms (e.g., employees expect
managers to look after their welfare<b><i> in exchange for</i></b> their
labor and loyalty). Our contention is that the responsibility managers
incur for the harm caused by business failure is not due to a violation
of some contractual agreement, hypothetical or real, nor is it a
consequence of their formal agency relationship to owners or
stockholders. Rather, it is due specifically to the unique, collective,
and causal role they play in business failure or success. Accordingly,
an unique dependency exists between the fate of stakeholder groups like
employees and management, sufficiently strong to ground a custodial
obligation to employees. <br />
This way of accounting for the stakeholder obligations existing
between management and workers more adequately captures the sense in
which it is a <b><i>stakeholder</i></b> obligation than traditional
stakeholder theory. Traditionally, at least in academic business
ethics, stakeholders in organizations have been defined as groups or
individuals who can affect or be affected by organizational decisions
and behavior (Freeman E. & Reed, D. 1983). Goodpaster has used the
metaphor of a player in a game of poker to capture the sense that a
stakeholder is "one who plays and puts some economic value at risk" via
their interaction with organizations like corporations (Goodpaster
1991). Freeman and Reed have distinguished between a "narrow
definition" of stakeholders, which includes those groups who are vital
to the survival and success of an organization, and a "wide definition,"
which includes any groups who can affect or be affected by an
organization. Now, strictly speaking, the "narrow definition" really
does not capture the sense of "stakeholder" which is requisite for
grounding organizational obligations to stakeholder groups. The fact
that an organization is vitally dependent upon some group or individual
for its success and survival does not, by itself, mean that such groups
or individuals have any stake in the success or survival of the
organization. For example, it is obviously true that individual
productive organizations are dependent upon consumers for their success
and survival, but consumers do not, thereby, have any stake in whether
that particular productive organization survives or not. In an adequate
market, where there are other firms producing similar and equally
desirable goods, the survival or success of any particular productive
organization is not something consumers necessarily have a stake in,
especially not in Goodpaster<span style="font-family: WP TypographicSymbols;">=</span>s
sense of having some economic value at risk. Likewise, in certain job
markets (e.g., professional sports), the success of a business
organization may hinge upon the presence and performance of specific
employees, yet their livelihood and continued well-being may not be
staked to the success of that particular organization since equally
satisfactory work may be readily available elsewhere. The "wide
definition" fares better, in that it includes the criterion "be affected
by," which reflects the proper dependence relationship for stakeholder
status, but the inclusion of the "can affect" ought to be dropped for
the same reason that the "narrow definition" inadequate (i.e., wrong
dependence relationship). <br />
Furthermore, simply having a stake in the outcome of some group or
organizational decision making does not entail that those involved in
such decision making have any obligations to other stakeholders who may
be affected negatively or positively by the decisions made. For
example, consider Goodpaster’s analogy. Each player has an economic
stake in the outcome of each hand, but none of the players has any
obligations to one another to act in their best interest. Each player
rightfully acts in their own best interest, as long as the rules of the
game are obeyed. In fact, the object of poker is to intentionally
defeat the interests of the other players. One of the features of this
kind of stakeholder activity is that each player has extensive control
over their stake in the game. The better the player one is the more
such control one has. Each player has (or ought to have) an
understanding of the risks involved in the game, and can act so as to
minimize them, and, at the same time, enhance their chances of being
successful. Of course, each stakeholder is dependent on the decisions
of every other stakeholder involved in the game, but that dependency is
minimized by the fact that each player can anticipate and react to the
decisions of others, again, so as to protect their own chance at
successfully continuing in the game. Consequently, even though a poker
player has an economic value at risk, that risk is self-manageable, and
other players have no obligations to assist fellow players in avoiding
the harm that can result from participation. <br />
It is this "control" factor which, if it is reasonable to assume that
business failure is either no one’s fault or management’s fault, is
generally missing from the stakeholder relation between employees and
the organizations they work for. Unlike in the game of poker, as
stakeholders, employees lack the requisite power to manage the risk
associated with possible business failure. They are, for the most part,
entirely dependent on the decisions and actions of management for the
continuation of their employment. It is this unique kind of asymmetric
dependency which generates the vulnerability that characterizes the
employee-management relation, and which most adequately describes the
kind of <b>stake</b> that employees have in the continued success and
survival of the organizations they are a part of. Unlike a traditional
contractarian accounting of the stake that employees have in
organizations which describes that stake in terms of an expected
exchange between management and employees (labor and loyalty in exchange
for compensation and fair treatment), this way of looking at the nature
of the sake employees have in organizational decision making reveals
that the ground of the obligation management has to look after the
welfare of their employees is not the fulfillment of some real or
hypothetical exchange agreement, but, rather, in the fact that
management singularly holds the power and responsibility for the success
and survival of business organizations, which itself represents the
"pot" that employees hope to gain a share of. Put another way, if one
were to make use of the "Kews Gardens Principles," namely "need,
proximity, capability, and last resort," developed by Simon et al to
account for the minimum corporate responsibility of avoiding social
harm, one can quite clearly see that in the case of business failure and
the harm it causes stakeholders like employees, that all four
conditions are readily met, with special emphasis on the fact that
management represents the "last" and "only" resort for employees to turn
to for help (Simon, J., Powers, C. & Gunneman, J. 1972). <br />
By viewing the collective responsibility of management for the harm
caused employees by business failure in this way, one can argue that
management incurs a collective obligation to the employees of a business
organization to manage that business successfully. Now, this may sound
odd since we are accustomed to thinking that any duties management may
have to run a business successfully they would have only to the owners
or shareholders of the business and would have them because of a
fiduciary relationship. Management might have varying obligations to
employees for a number of reasons, but surely the obligation to be "good
managers" wouldn’t be one of them. Our account of the unique
collective, causal role that managers occupy in relation to business
success or failure and the resulting dependency that employees have on
managerial decision making, is intended to show that one can
legitimately and meaningfully extend such a mangerial obligation to
employees.<br />
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Goodpaster, K. (1991). Business Ethics & Stakeholder Analysis. <u>Business Ethics Quarterly</u>, 1, 53-73.<br />
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May, L. (1987). <u>The Morality of Groups</u> . Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame.<br />
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May, L. (1991). Vicarious Agency and Corporate Responsibility. in P. French (ed.), <u>The Spectrum of Responsibility</u>, (pp. 313-324). New York: St. Martin's Press.<br />
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Moore, J. (1992). Corporate Culpability under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. <u>Arizona Law Review</u> 34.<br />
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When one thinks of weapons caches, war zones like <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Syria" target="_blank">Syria</a> and <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Afghanistan" target="_blank">Afghanistan</a> immediately comes to mind. But for the <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/United_States" target="_blank">United States</a>, those hidden and buried rifles, mines, missiles, and explosives mentioned in foreign nations are closer to <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/home" target="_blank">home</a>. In fact, not only are they in <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/America" target="_blank">America</a>'s backyard but they belong to the <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Mistress" target="_blank">Mistress</a> of War: <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Hillary_Clinton" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton</a>.<br />
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<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Following" target="_blank">Following</a> <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Peter_Schweizer" target="_blank">Peter Schweizer</a>'s book, "<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Clinton" target="_blank">Clinton</a> <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Cash" target="_blank">Cash</a>: <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/The_Untold_Story" target="_blank">The Untold Story</a> of How and Why <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Foreign" target="_blank">Foreign</a> Governments and Businesses Helped Make <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Bill" target="_blank">Bill</a> and Hillary Rich," comes another damning indictment of Hillary Clinton. (<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Recall" target="_blank">Recall</a> "Clinton Cash" revealed how the Clintons amassed $130 million through shady deals with foreign states and businesses.)<br />
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<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Along" target="_blank">Along</a> with Clinton using her <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Secretary_of_State" target="_blank">Secretary of State</a> role to make corrupt deals with foreign nations and businesses expecting favors, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/David_Sirota" target="_blank">David Sirota</a> shows that donors to the <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Clinton_Foundation" target="_blank">Clinton Foundation</a>
received massive weapons deals. Furthermore, she used the sales as
leverage in persuading and manipulating nations in doing the bidding of
the <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/U.S." target="_blank">U.S.</a> and its policies.<br />
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According to Sirota, a consortium of <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/American" target="_blank">American</a>
defense contractors led by Boeing donated millions to the Clinton
Foundation in return for military contracts. The weapons would then be
delivered to certain nations.(1) In one instance, $29 billion worth of
advanced fighter jets were sold to <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Saudi_Arabia" target="_blank">Saudi Arabia</a>, which is currently at war in <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Yemen" target="_blank">Yemen</a>.<br />
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Sirota also detailed how crooked quid pro quo deals collided with the <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/State_Department" target="_blank">State Department</a>'s concerns over repressive policies of the <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Saudi_Royal_family" target="_blank">Saudi Royal family</a>.
Clinton weapons caches also went to nations with either poor human
rights records or at war, fueling ongoing conflicts. Neither were her
caches always in America's best national interests.<br />
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"The <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Saudi" target="_blank">Saudi</a>
deal," writes Sirota, "was one of dozens of arms sales approved by
Hillary Clinton's State Department that placed weapons in the hands of
governments that had also donated money to the Clinton family
philanthropic empire."(2) (Other countries were involved like <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Bahrain" target="_blank">Bahrain</a>, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Thailand" target="_blank">Thailand</a>, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Oman" target="_blank">Oman</a>, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Qatar" target="_blank">Qatar</a>, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Kuwait" target="_blank">Kuwait</a>, and <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Columbia" target="_blank">Columbia</a>.)<br />
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Another example was <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Algeria" target="_blank">Algeria</a>. Clinton's State Department initially inveighed against Algeria'<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/s_government_for_imposing_" target="_blank">s government for imposing "restrictions</a> on freedom of assembly and association" and tolerating "arbitrary killings." But after Algeria donated $<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/500" target="_blank">500</a>,<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/000" target="_blank">000</a> to the Clinton Foundation, State Department officials approved a 1-year 70 percent increase in military exports.<br />
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<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Closer_to_home" target="_blank">Closer to home</a>, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Lockheed_Martin" target="_blank">Lockheed Martin</a> (132,000 employees) donated to the Clinton Foundation and received $35 billion in military contracts for <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/F-35" target="_blank">F-35</a> fighter jets. And while <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Boeing_%28100" target="_blank">Boeing (100</a>,500 employees) was awarded $31 billion for Apaches and drone missiles, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Northrop_Grumman" target="_blank">Northrop Grumman</a> (<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/120" target="_blank">120</a>,000 employees) received $28 billion for chemical-biological warfare.(2)<br />
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<a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Raytheon" target="_blank">Raytheon</a>, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/General_Dynamics" target="_blank">General Dynamics</a>, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/United_Technologies" target="_blank">United Technologies</a>, Honeywell, and <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Hawker_Beechcraft" target="_blank">Hawker Beechcraft</a>,
donated large sums of money to the Clinton Foundation, too. Along with
military logistics equipment, these companies exported massive caches of
electronic communications for the purpose of hacking computers or
disrupting internet services.<br />
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In his farewell address, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/President_Dwight_Eisenhower" target="_blank">President Dwight Eisenhower</a>
warned of the rise of the military industrial complex and of
individuals with unwarranted influence in high places. Clinton is an
example of <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Eisenhower" target="_blank">Eisenhower</a>'s warning. In reality, she was really a consultant and lobbyist for the world's largest weapons cache: the <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Pentagon" target="_blank">Pentagon</a> and armaments industries.<br />
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During
Clinton's tenure as Mistress of War, foreign weapons sales totaled $66
billion, "or more than three-quarters of the global arms market."(3) Any
threat posed to the Clinton-Pentagon's billion dollar weapons caches by
cheap weapons fashioned by insurgents required billions of more dollars
in even more sophisticated weapons systems.<br />
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Clinton is no dove. Neither does her foundation always promote peace and goodwill. <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Instead" target="_blank">Instead</a>,
it is used as leverage abroad, remaking a global village in her
neo-liberal image, even if it means arming brutal regimes that kill and
murder innocent people. Has her quid pro quo deals and massive weapons
caches also served as the roots of more terrorism?<br />
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At
home, Clinton cash and weapons caches are used to dominate political
opponents and manipulate public opinion. She will also use her blood
money to seize power in the next presidential election. But if elected
president, her administration will not be one of public good but of
private gain, mainly for the One Percenters and those who manufacture
massive weapons caches.<br />
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Overseas, global cooperation is
the last thing Clinton cash and caches want, including the Pentagon and
armaments industries. Cooperation would not only reduce military exports
but cause the collapse of America's economic system. This would mean an
end to a militarized empire ruled by <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Mistresses" target="_blank">Mistresses</a> and <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Masters" target="_blank">Masters</a> of war and their authoritarian laws.<br />
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But
sadly, Clinton weapons caches are not only buried in the ground but
buried deep in a nation's institutions, in the collective minds and
hearts of its people.<br />
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Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)<br />
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(Dallas Darling is the author of <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Politics" target="_blank">Politics</a> 501: An <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/A-Z" target="_blank">A-Z</a> <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Reading" target="_blank">Reading</a> on Conscientious Political Thought and <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Action" target="_blank">Action</a>, Some <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Nations" target="_blank">Nations</a> <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Above" target="_blank">Above</a> God: 52 Weekly <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Reflections" target="_blank">Reflections</a> On Modern-Day <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Imperialism" target="_blank">Imperialism</a>, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/John" target="_blank">John</a>'s Apocalyptic <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Vision" target="_blank">Vision</a>, and <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/The_Other_Side" target="_blank">The Other Side</a> Of <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Christianity" target="_blank">Christianity</a>: Reflections on <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Faith" target="_blank">Faith</a>, Politics, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Spirituality" target="_blank">Spirituality</a>, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/History" target="_blank">History</a>, and <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/Peace" target="_blank">Peace</a>.
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(1)
www.internationalbusinesstimes.com. "Clinton Foundation Donors Got
Weaons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department," by David Sirota.
May 27, <a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://wn.com/2015" target="_blank">2015</a>.<br />
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<br />Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-36971047347423175122015-06-03T15:45:00.001-07:002015-06-03T15:45:06.193-07:00Hillary Clinton's State Department Authorized Billions in Arms Sales to Foundation Donors<br />
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Hillary Clinton's State Department Authorized Billions in Arms Sales to Foundation Donors</h1>
<span class="wwscontent"><i>By <a class="wwscontent" href="http://www.opednews.com/author/author18.html" rel="author">David Sirota</a> <a class="wwscontent" href="http://www.opednews.com/author/author18.html">(about the author)</a></i> </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hillary-Clinton-s-State-De-by-David-Sirota-Arms-And-Weapons-Sales_Clinton-Foundation_Hillary-Clinton_State-Department-150530-525.html" id="bubblea_191558">Hillary Clinton's State Department Authorized Billions in Arms Sales to Foundation Donors</a></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h2>
Among all the rivers of money that have flowed to the Clinton family,
one seems to raise the biggest national security questions of all: the
stream of cash that came from 20 foreign governments who relied on
weapons export approvals from Hillary Clinton's State Department.<br />
<br />
Federal law designates the secretary of state as "responsible for the
continuous supervision and general direction of sales" of arms,
military hardware and services to foreign countries. In practice, that
meant that Clinton was charged with rejecting or approving weapons deals
-- and when it came to <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/democrats_embrace_citizens_united_in_defense_of_clinton_20150501" title="Clinton Foundation donors">Clinton Foundation donors</a>, Hillary Clinton's State Department did a whole lot of approving.<br />
<br />
While Clinton was secretary of state, her department approved $165
billion worth of commercial arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors.
That figure from Clinton's three full fiscal years in office is almost
double the value of arms sales to those countries during the same period
of President George W. Bush's second term.<br />
The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151
billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that
gave to the Clinton Foundation. That was a 143 percent increase in
completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the
Bush administration. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to
Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such
sales to all countries over the same time period.<br />
<br />
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<br />
American military contractors and their affiliates that donated to
the Clinton Foundation -- and in some cases, helped finance speaking
fees to Bill Clinton -- also got in on the action. Those firms and their
subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of arms
deals authorized by the Clinton State Department.<br />
<br />
<br />
Under a directive signed by President Clinton in 1995, the State
Department is supposed to take foreign governments' human rights records
into account when reviewing arms deals. Yet, Hillary Clinton's State
Department increased approvals of such deals to Clinton Foundation
donors that her own agency was sharply criticizing for systematic human
rights abuses.<br />
<br />
As just one of many examples, in its 2011 Human Rights Report,
Clinton's State Department slammed Algeria's government for imposing
"restrictions on freedom of assembly and association," tolerating
"arbitrary killing," "widespread corruption" and a "lack of judicial
independence."<br />
<br />
That year, the Algerian government donated $500,000 to the Clinton
Foundation and the next year Clinton's State Department approved a
one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the
country. The jump included authorizations for almost 50,000 items
classified as "toxicological agents, including chemical agents,
biological agents and associated equipment." The State Department had
not authorized the export of any of such items to Algeria the year
before.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">While Clinton was secretary of state, her
department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to
Clinton Foundation donors. That figure from Clinton's three full fiscal
years in office is almost double the value of arms sales to those
countries during the same period of President George W. Bush's second
term. </span></span></h2>
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During Hillary Clinton's 2009 Senate confirmation hearings,
Republican Sen. Richard Lugar said the Clinton Foundation should stop
accepting foreign government money. He warned that if it didn't,
"foreign governments and entities may perceive the Clinton Foundation as
a means to gain favor with the secretary of state."<br />
<br />
The Clintons did not take his advice. Advocates for limits on the political influence of money now say that Lugar was prescient.<br />
<br />
"The word was out to these groups that one of the best ways to gain
access and influence with the Clintons was to give to this foundation,"
said Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center.<br />
While these arms deals may seem like ancient history, Lawrence
Lessig, the director of Harvard University's Safra Center for Ethics,
says they "raise a fundamental question of judgment" -- one that is
relevant to the 2016 presidential campaign.<br />
<br />
"Can it really be that the Clintons didn't recognize the questions
these transactions would raise?" he said. "And if they did, what does
that say about their sense of the appropriate relationship between
private gain and public good?"<br />
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<br /><cite class="wwscontentsmaller" title="Arms Show">Arms Show by <a href="http://www.corbisimages.com/photographer/rehan-kha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rehan Khan/EPA</a></cite><br class="endpopulumcaption" /> <br />
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<i> An arms industry event in Karachi, Pakistan. UN member
states voted by 154 to three, with 23 abstentions, to control a trade
worth an estimated -46bn a year. Photograph: Rehan Khan/EPA</i> </div>
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A truly extraordinary thing happened today which should
give every person who cares about ending genocide in all its forms cause
to breathe a bit easier. Every one of us who wants to believe it's
possible for the world community to come together for important &
urgent change now has a chance to share a collective "YES!" </div>
<div dir="ltr">
The UN General Assembly voted today, 153 to 3, to create
the first international treaty regulating the global arms trade, with
North Korea, Iran & Syria voting to block the treaty. It probably
won't surprise many Americans, but the NRA came came down on the side of
Iran, North Korea & Syria. </div>
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To quote <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/un-approves-global-arms-treaty/2013/04/02/66867b2e-9bb7-11e2-9bda-edd1a7fb557d_story.html" rel="nofollow"> <u>Colum Lynch</u> </a> , of the Washington Post: <i> </i> <i>The
National Rifle Association contended during negotiations that the
treaty would weaken Second Amendment gun rights in the United States.
The powerful gun lobby has pledged to fight the treaty's ratification in
the Senate.</i> </div>
<div dir="ltr">
The predictable knee jerk stupidities of the NRA aside, if
we are ever to reign in the rampant war mongering & mindless
violence precipitated by cheap, ubiquitous arms of every kind available
in every corner of the globe, treaties like this one have a real chance
of making it happen. If this treaty, realistically, won't end the
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Perhaps...no, no "perhaps" here- one of the most
encouraging things about the treaty is that the U.S. of A. played a key
role in making it happen. That's "key" folks, which rhymes with "t"
& this time doesn't stand for pool or trouble in river city. In
fact, just the opposite, it stands for LESS trouble in all the river
cities around the world that could use a bit of good news today. </div>
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<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_hillary_clinton_in_1990_im_proud_of_walmart_20150525" title="VIDEO: Hillary Clinton in 1990: I'm 'Proud of Wal-Mart'">VIDEO: Hillary Clinton in 1990: I'm 'Proud of Wal-Mart'</a><br />
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Among all the rivers of money that have flowed to the Clinton family,
one seems to raise the biggest national security questions of all: the
stream of cash that came from 20 foreign governments who relied on
weapons export approvals from Hillary Clinton's State Department.<br />
<br />
Federal law designates the secretary of state as "responsible for the
continuous supervision and general direction of sales" of arms,
military hardware and services to foreign countries. In practice, that
meant that Clinton was charged with rejecting or approving weapons deals
-- and when it came to <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/democrats_embrace_citizens_united_in_defense_of_clinton_20150501" title="Clinton Foundation donors">Clinton Foundation donors</a>, Hillary Clinton's State Department did a whole lot of approving.<br />
<br />
While Clinton was secretary of state, her department approved $165
billion worth of commercial arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors.
That figure from Clinton's three full fiscal years in office is almost
double the value of arms sales to those countries during the same period
of President George W. Bush's second term.<br />
<div class="">
The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151
billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that
gave to the Clinton Foundation. That was a 143 percent increase in
completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the
Bush administration. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to
Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such
sales to all countries over the same time period.<br />
</div>
<div class="">
American military contractors and their affiliates that donated
to the Clinton Foundation -- and in some cases, helped finance speaking
fees to Bill Clinton -- also got in on the action. Those firms and
their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of
arms deals authorized by the Clinton State Department.</div>
<div class="">
</div>
Under a directive signed by President Clinton in 1995, the State
Department is supposed to take foreign governments' human rights records
into account when reviewing arms deals. Yet, Hillary Clinton's State
Department increased approvals of such deals to Clinton Foundation
donors that her own agency was sharply criticizing for systematic human
rights abuses.<br />
<br />
As just one of many examples, in its 2011 Human Rights Report,
Clinton's State Department slammed Algeria's government for imposing
"restrictions on freedom of assembly and association," tolerating
"arbitrary killing," "widespread corruption" and a "lack of judicial
independence."<br />
<br />
That year, the Algerian government donated $500,000 to the Clinton
Foundation and the next year Clinton's State Department approved a
one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the
country. The jump included authorizations for almost 50,000 items
classified as "toxicological agents, including chemical agents,
biological agents and associated equipment." The State Department had
not authorized the export of any of such items to Algeria the year
before.<br />
<br />
During Hillary Clinton's 2009 Senate confirmation hearings,
Republican Sen. Richard Lugar said the Clinton Foundation should stop
accepting foreign government money. He warned that if it didn't,
"foreign governments and entities may perceive the Clinton Foundation as
a means to gain favor with the secretary of state." </div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
The Clintons did not take his advice. Advocates for limits on the political influence of money now say that Lugar was prescient.<br />
<br />
"The word was out to these groups that one of the best ways to gain
access and influence with the Clintons was to give to this foundation,"
said Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center.<br />
While these arms deals may seem like ancient history, Lawrence
Lessig, the director of Harvard University's Safra Center for Ethics,
says they "raise a fundamental question of judgment" -- one that is
relevant to the 2016 presidential campaign.<br />
<br />
"Can it really be that the Clintons didn't recognize the questions
these transactions would raise?" he said. "And if they did, what does
that say about their sense of the appropriate relationship between
private gain and public good?"<br />
</div>
Judy Mirigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782868864565400011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8593635803759637539.post-48705803729596740872015-06-03T15:20:00.001-07:002015-06-10T12:05:17.575-07:00Challenges of Community Nurse Susan Makanga in Rawalo Village, Siaya County Kenya. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Challenges of Community Nurse Susan
Makanga in Rawalo Village, Siaya County Kenya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Susan Makanga.</span></b></div>
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P. O. Box 517 Yala, Kenya</div>
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Email: susanmakanga1@gmail.com</div>
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Tel: +254 729541177, +254 711161950</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Profile Introduction</span></b></div>
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My names are Susan Makanga-Abwao. Am 38 years old, and
married with three children. I was born in Butere-Mumias County, but now live
in Gem Constituency where my husband comes from. Since 2012 I have lived back
in the village among the community people of Rawalo in Gem Constituency of
Siaya County.</div>
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Currently I work as a Community Nurse under Millennium
Village People (MVP) NGO, where I cover an area of about 10km squared. I have
worked as a Nurse in this area since 2013. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Passion: </span></b></div>
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Since Childhood I have always been interested in nursing
other people to a point in my family they nicknamed me “Doctor.” Unfortunately,
I never got the opportunity to pursue my passion due to lack of money and an
early marriage. In 2013 I was selected by our Village Women group to apply to
MVP to be considered for training as a Community Nurse. That selection came as
a big blessing to me, because after passing their exam, I got the opportunity
to be what I have always dreamt. I got the necessary training and I have worked
to better the health of the people in this Community. Although the income I get
from this work is very little, it helps me put food on the table for my
children. In order for me to meet other needs for my family I am forced to
supplement this income with other activities to be able to fully cater for my
children’s needs, like school fees for one in secondary school, one in primary
school and one still breastfeeding. It would not be possible to meet their
needs through the income I generate as a Community Nurse.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Community’s Business engagements.</span></b></div>
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I cover about 200 homesteads with a total population of
about 1200 people. These people have diverse business engagements, from small
scale commercial farming, subsistence farming, teachers, small scale traders,
carpenters, electricians, transporters and fishermen. A small percentage of
this group is still school going. While the other percentage are young men and
women; meaning that the population will grow due to customary early marriages
in the Village. In addition to this there are many retirees who continue to
come back to the village. </div>
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Although farming has been the backbone of these people’s
economy, many of the young people are pulling away from this to start their own
small scale businesses. This has caused a positive Social impact in the
community as a number of families now have financial capabilities to afford
daily needs. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Community Nurse.</span></b></div>
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As a Community Nurse, my work involves working with people
of the community to promote their health help them to prevent, to cure and to
manage diseases, as well as provide home based Nursing and rehabilitative care.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Challenges Faced:</span></b></div>
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I face several challenges in my area of work. Since the area
is still underdeveloped compared to some other regions, almost every aspect of
the job is a challenge. However, there are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>three major points that if I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had
means I would address at once.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Transport:</span></b></div>
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The area that I cover is full of Hills with no proper paved
roads or paths where motorized transport or bicycles can be used. The only
alternative left for me to access these homesteads of my patients is on foot.
This severely restricts my work and slows me down a great deal. Many a times am
unable to reach some patients who may be in need of medical attention on a
particular day. If this issue of Transport can be addressed, then, I will be
able to reach many of my patients on time and at the hour of their need.</div>
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Secondly, I have experienced many challenges when very sick
patients come to my home, in the middle of the night seeking medical attention,
which I could not address at home. These people required to be admitted at the
hospital. Such cases have been very challenging to me. For example, about a
month ago a pregnant mother came to my home at 2:30am when in labor. She wanted
me to help her deliver the baby, but because my house is not equipped for such
an exercise, it forced me to call for her a Boda Boda. By the time the Boda
Boda came and took her to the nearest Hospital, she nearly gave birth on the
way. By the time she reached Hospital her water had broken and the Baby was in
the process of coming out. By this time I had also called another Boda Boda
which took me to the Hospital. On reaching hospital at 4:00am, I found out that
the Midwife was also not on duty, and so I had no alternative but to work with
the watchman on duty to deliver the mother. I was very worried about the baby,
but we did everything right and both the Baby and the Mother are healthy. I had
to wait at the hospital till 8:00 am when the Hospital opened for the Mother to
be assigned a bed. If I had transport then the outcome could have probably been
different.</div>
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2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pharmacy</b></div>
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The other big challenge I face is lack of a Pharmacy. There
is no Chemist in the entire area that I cover. In many instances I can do my
tests and diagnose the problem. Thereafter I refer the patients to go get
medicine at the Chemist. Unfortunately the medicines are at times unaffordable
for them, or the chemist is too far for them to reach in their state. If I have
to effectively meet the health needs of these people I will need to set up a
Chemist for them somewhere which is near for them.</div>
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3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rehabilitative Care.</b></div>
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In this area, I do a follow up on HIV patients, TB patients,
HP patients as well as other cases that are critical. In many instances I find
out that the patients have run out of their medicine and are not in a position
to make the long trek to the Chemist. These kinds of situations can easily be
addressed if I had medicine with me or if a pharmacy was available within the
area or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>within the sub-location.
Unfortunately, all I can do is to ask them to go for refill, even if they are
not in a position to make the long trek. </div>
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This experience of follow-ups takes us back to
“Transportation” and accessible Pharmacy. By addressing transportation in the
form of roads, paths, and a accessible Pharmacy, then it can be easy to arrest
many of these challenges.</div>
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4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Communication.</b></div>
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The last challenge I have is to access internet either
through a reliable phone or Computer. I have been using a phone which is
unreliable. Many a times I cannot access internet as such am unable to submit
my reports on time to the main office. Getting a good reliable Phone which can
handle the kind of traffic for my work can help a lot. Alternatively I need a
laptop or a Computer or all to enable me do my work effectively in providing
healthcare services to the community.</div>
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Written by Susan Makanga-Abwao</div>
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