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Miriam Makeba (March 4, 1932-November 9, 2008), also known as “Mama Africa”, died last night as she finished her set in Castel Volturno, Italy, at a concert organized in support of writer Roberto Saviano, who has been taking a stand against the Camorra, a Mafia related organization. She was 76.
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Haiti: the Pain of a Nation
As reported by the oldest worldwide news agency in the world, the Associated Press, another school has collapsed in the land of my ancestors, Haiti. That’s two in less than a week, for a combined death toll of nearly 100 and some 150 injured.
The country, where Mother Nature’s wrath, in the form of four [...]