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The fight against the HIV/Aids scourge and the stigma that follows, more aid to slum dwellers and the war against corruption were Senator Barack Obama’s main messages as he made his triumphant entry to Africa for a 15-day visit.

Bank of America, the nation’s largest retail banking company, announced on August 23 that it’s cutting its ties to the nation’s top two money transmitters, Minneapolis-based MoneyGram International and Western Union.

At the University of Minnesota, young scholars in the program named for the fallen astronaut are reaching for the stars

One of the most important questions you face when changing job is what to do with your 401(k) money. Making the wrong move could cost you thousands of dollars or more in taxes and lower returns.

Failures of immigration security checks were blamed for allowing some of the September 11 airplane hijackers to remain undetected in the United States to plot out their 2001 attack. The 9/11 Commission reported that all 19 hijackers had broken U.S. immigration laws and that as many as seven of them had fraudulent or manipulated passports. After 9/11, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCI) intensified its criminal and national security background checks on all applicants for U.S. immigration benefits...

MoneyGram announced in August that Sheryl Igarta, a MoneyGram customer in Streamwood, IL, is the 2006 grand prize winner of MoneyGram’s annual “Win $75,000 To Buy A House For Mom” Sweepstakes.

Book Review

TITLE: Letters to My Sisters
AUTHOR: Ngozi Osuagwu
PUBLISHER: Ben Bosah Books, New Albany, OHIO
Reviewed by: Swallehe Msuya

Sometime in 1992, then Kenyan President Daniel Moi under immense pressure from Kenyans and the international community, allowed for multi-partyism. In a grand coalition, the opposition parties in Kenya beat the ruling party, the Kenya African National Union (KANU), in a landslide victory seating the current President Mwai Kibaki. The next presidential and general elections are set for December 2007.

The event, held at the Maple Grove Community Center, started off at 9am Saturday July 29th 2006. Different groups were set up to discuss several aspects of society that have an impact on education.

The Chief Administrator of the Oromia Regional State, Mr. Abadula Gemeda, was in the Twin Cities in July to meet with members of his community, the business community and supporters of his state. He was accompanied by staff from the Ethiopian embassy in Washington. Mr. Gemeda is also chairman of the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO), one of the four parties that form the coalition called the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) which is currently in power in Ethiopia.

In 1994, a group of girls and women got together, in response to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, creating an organization, Girls International Forum (GIF). The organization has been instrumental in empowering girls to take on issues affecting girls across the globe.