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(Reuters) – Joe Biden spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate, served four years as Barack Obama’s vice president and twice ran unsuccessfully for president. His chatty, off-the-cuff nature led to some memorable gaffes. Here are some key facts about … read more »
Most Americans have yet to cast their ballot for tomorrow’s election but a witch doctor in President Barack Obama’s ancestral village already knows who’ll be victorious. ‘Obama is very far ahead and is definitely going to win,’ John Dimo declared … read more »
Posted in Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Somali, Sudan
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Tagged Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kogelo, Mitt Romney, Nyang’oma Kogelo, obama, United States, Witch doctor
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It’s Not Just About an Election In September, I expressed my support for President Barack Obama’s re-election. I told my readers that I enthusiastically supported candidate Obama in 2008 but was disappointed by his Administration’s policy in Ethiopia and … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged American Civil War, Barack Obama, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian American, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mitch McConnell, obama, United States
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For many American voters Barack Obama has lost his air of can-do heroism,says Andrew Marr So Sandy arrived right in the last act, smashing and thrashing, killing and ripping. Has this latest tempestuous eruption, following the storms Beryl, Florence, Joyce … read more »
By: Selywn Duke Imagine you go to the polls and choose Mitt Romney on an electronic machine, but your vote comes up Barack Obama. So you re-enter your choice, but the president’s name still stubbornly appears. Then a third try. … read more »
I have watched both televised presidential campaign debates in the US election, including the first vice-presidential debate. So I was very excited to watch the final presidential debate on foreign policy. But I have to admit that this final debate … read more »
By: Robert Reich I thought the third and last presidential debate was a clear win for the President. He displayed the authority of the nation’s Commander-in-Chief – calm, dignified, and confident. He was assertive without being shrill, clear without being … read more »
Posted in America
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Tagged BarackObama, drone, George W. Bush, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Mitt Romney, obama, Osama bin Laden, Robert Reich, Romney, Syria, Tumor, United States
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Washington: US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney faced off on Monday in their last debate before the 6 November presidential election. Here is some fact-checking of claims made by the two candidates. Obama: Romney said there … read more »
Posted in America, World News
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Tagged Barack Obama, drone, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Iran, Iraq, Mali, Mitt Romney, NATO, obama, Romney, Syria, Tumor, United States
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by Fred J. Eckert You could see the pained expression on President Obama’s face worsen as a 61-year-old undecided voter told the president during the second presidential debate that he and some co-workers “were sitting around talking about Libya, and … read more »
By: Jim Kouri With Friday’s release of State Department documents regarding diplomats at the Benghazi, Libya, consulate telling officials in Washington, D.C., about the dangers of a growing Islamist population in that city and the need for more security personnel, … read more »
Posted in America, Article, Jim Kouri
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Tagged AlQaeda, Barack Obama, Benghazi, Darrell Issa, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Libya, obama, United States, United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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by Barry Rubin While foreign policy did not figure large in the second presidential debate, the Middle East again emerged as the overwhelming international issue. In the beginning of the debate, President Barack Obama claimed that he put a high … read more »
by Clarice Feldman One of the intriguing aspects of this election is how the Democrats’ shameless and clueless appeal to women is ending with the vaporization of the historic “gender gap” among voters. The Lady Parts Convention From the prancing Code … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East
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Tagged Barack Obama, Celinda Lake, Democratic Party, IndepthAfrica, Mitt Romney, obama, Pew Research Center, Ted Kennedy, The Gallup Organization
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by PATRICK BOND Durban, South Africa. Would Barack Obama’s re-election advance African democracy and prosperity? Evidence suggests not, though the alternative in the November 6 election would probably be worse. Obama’s most important important policy speech on Africa, in Ghana … read more »
by JAMES ROTHENBERG The just finished Banned Books Week serves as a vivid reminder that we must be vigilant about freedom of expression and freedom from censorship. Absent this vigilance, we could wake up in a society that not only … read more »
Posted in America, Europe
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Tagged Assange, Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, Cuba, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Julian Assange, obama, United States, wikileak
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By: Jim Kouri Close to three weeks after the deadly and destructive terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a team of FBI investigators finally had boots of the ground in order to examine the crime scene, a … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya
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Tagged AlQaeda, Benghazi, FBI, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Libya, Libyan, obama, Obama Administration, United States
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By Chris Cillizza for washingtonpost The Fix flooded the zone for tonight’s presidential debate — with live-tweeting, some video back and forth with Ezra Klein and our first thoughts from the event. But, what’s a big political event without a … read more »
On Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney and squared off in a made-for-television program that masqueraded as a candidates’ debate. Romney demonstrated he could carry the battle to Obama – a man who seemed strangely passive and … read more »
By: Jim Kouri On Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News Channel, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King again urged United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to resign over her comments on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, talk shows regarding the … read more »
Posted in America, Article
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Tagged AlQaeda, Barack Obama, Benghazi, Fox New Channel, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, obama, Susan Rice, United States, Youtube
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You know that time Republicans decided to illegally overthrow the Libyan regime and replace it with a bunch of Islamist militias? And then the Republicans spent months ignoring warnings about Al Qaeda in Benghazi, used the Muslim Brotherhood as their … read more »
By: Jim Kouri U.S. intelligence officials knew less than a day after the bloody attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that the perpetrators were terrorists who are alleged members of an al-Qaeda offshoot, but President Barack Obama and … read more »
By: B. Raman Al Qaeda in North Waziristan, Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP), the NeoTaliban of Afghanistan and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been closely following the presidential election campaign in the US. While they have kept up … read more »
Posted in America, Article
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Tagged Afghanistan, AlQaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Libya, obama, Taliban, United States
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First published by the New Nation Newspaper By Luka Biong Deng The US is the biggest economy and the most powerful democratic country in the world. However, despite the huge size of its economy, economic growth has slowed down, particularly … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, News, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Abyei, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, obama, Oval Office, South Sudan, Sudan, United States
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The loss of four American lives in Libya, including the brutal suffocation of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, and the burning of the American embassy in Egypt should put an immediate end to all of the wishful-thinking, double-talk about the Obama foreign … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Barack Obama, Christopher Stevens, Egypt, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Libya, obama, United States
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The Obama administration, roiled by the first killing of a U.S. ambassador in more than 30 years, is investigating whether the assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya was a planned terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of the Sept. … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, North Africa
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Tagged Barack Obama, Benghazi, Hillary Rodham Clinton, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, obama, Stevens, United States
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Roger Runningen and Hans Nichols, ©2012 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obamacondemned “in the strongest terms” an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that left the ambassador and three other American embassy staff dead. He ordered tighter security … read more »
Posted in Hottest News, Libya, News
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Tagged Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Rodham Clinton, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Mitt Romney, obama, Romney, United States
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The 11th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks passed Tuesday with diminished official commemoration, as attempts to exploit the tragic deaths of that day as a pretext for Washington’s unending wars have grown ever more hollow. In New York … read more »
Alemayehu G. Mariam Disappointed but… Did I enthusiastically support presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008? Absolutely! Do I agree with everything he has done over the past four years as president? No! Has he carried out all of the promises … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Abu Ayyub al-Masri, AlQaeda, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, obama, Osama bin Laden, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, United States, Younis al-Mauritani
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CHARLOTTE – President Obama spoke of tough choices on a difficult path that “leads to a better place” for the nation Thursday as he claimed the Democratic nomination, asked for more time to solve America’s continuing economic problems and set … read more »
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The 2012 Democratic Platform, the 40-page document released on Monday, can be regarded as United States President Barack Obama’s election manifesto in the November election. There is a lengthy portion set aside in it outlining the foreign-policy orientations … read more »
Posted in America, Columnist, Global Issues, Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
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Tagged Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, India, Mitt Romney, obama, Pakistan, United States
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By Andrei Ilyashenko n the eyes of the US electorate, Barack Obama looks cuter than his opponent at the forthcoming presidential election Mitt Romney, according to the results of the Reuters public opinion poll published today. However, 75% of respondents … read more »
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