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$307 Billion In Foreign Aid Paid To Africa While America Goes Over The Fiscal Cliff

Obama Budgets $307 Billion For the African Internet, etc.
The “Alliance For An Affordable Internet” is a public-private partnership which intends to build a huge, expensive African Internet. Its headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, now dubbed “Africa’s Silicon Valley”.

Hillary Clinton alluded to this monstrous State Department project when she stepped down from her Secretary job on February 1, 2013. She said, “One billion more persons will have access to the Internet”. [...]

Today’s entertainment: Al Gore explains the “real” reason behind Obama’s debate disaster

From Liberty Blitzkrieg:

Need a laugh? Al Gore went on television and blamed Obama’s horrific performance during the debate last night on the altitude! This is epic.

So according to Al Gore we should be very concerned should Obama negotiate any deals with any leaders in the capital cities of La Paz, Bolivia (11,942 ft); Quito, Ecuador (9,350 ft); Bogota, Columbia (8,612 ft); Mexico City, Mexico (7,350 ft) and Nairobi, Kenya (5,889 [...]

U.S. troops now in 4 African countries

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A top military official says that U.S. troops are now deployed in four central African countries as part of U.S. efforts against a brutal rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army.

Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa, said Wednesday that U.S. troops are now stationed in bases in Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

The U.S. announced in [...]

U.S. May Limit Somali Militants’ TWITTER Use

(NYT) NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States government is increasingly concerned about the Twitter account of the Shabab militant group of Somalia, with American officials saying Monday that they were “looking closely” at the militants’ use of Twitter and the possible measures to take in response.

American officials would not disclose what action they were considering. But some American officials said the government was exploring legal options to shut down the Shabab’s [...]

A second large explosion heard in Nairobi; Kenya media reports there are injuries – Reuters

Alert: 4.9 earthquake, Tanzania. Sep 20 5:21am at epicenter (17m ago, 186km ENE of Tabora, depth 8.4km)

Earthquake Details

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude
4.9

Date-Time

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 02:21:46 UTC
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 05:21:46 AM at epicenter

Location
4.234°S, 34.281°E

Depth
8.4 km (5.2 miles)

Region
TANZANIA

Distances

186 km (116 miles) ENE (62°) from Tabora, Tanzania
243 km (151 miles) SE (142°) from Mwanza, Tanzania
264 km (164 miles) NW (324°) from Dodoma, Tanzania
434 km (269 miles) SW (221°) from NAIROBI, Kenya

Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 23.7 km (14.7 [...]

One of the largest humanitarian crises in decades is happening right now

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — East Africa’s worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a U.S. State Department official said Friday, pledging “significant” aid despite the debt ceiling impasse being debated in Washington.

The U.S. already has pledged $5 million to help Somali refugees on top of a previously budgeted $63 million. Reuben E. Brigety, who is responsible for State Department assistance to [...]

African drought: 12 million face ‘fight for survival’

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By Rohit Kachroo, NBC News

WAJIR, Kenya – At first glance, the massive drought which has swept across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia appears to be a crisis caused entirely by nature.

As we traveled north through Kenya into one of the worst-hit areas, the lush green of [...]

Ayman al-Zawahiri Replaces Bin Laden as No. 1 on FBI’s Most Wanted list

Shown here is the updated most wanted terrorist poster of Osama bin Laden with a deceased status. Bin Laden was wanted in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, in which 3,000 people were killed, as well as the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, [...]