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Black on White - New film uncovers racism in Germany

2009-11-07T14:57:00.000-01:00

New film uncovers racism in Germany

Is Germany a racist country? That is what a new documentary, Black on White, is trying to find out. Its findings are shocking. But, as Damien McGuinness reports, the filmmaker himself has been criticized by black Germans for his methods.

Kwami speaks broken German and is childlike in his ignorance

For more than a year, journalist Gunter Wallraff travelled across Germany wearing a dark-haired curly wig and with his white skin painted black.

Equipped with a secret camera, and calling himself Kwami Ogonno, he went to predominantly white areas to see how a black man with a foreign accent is treated.

The experience, he said, was even more depressing that he had expected.

"I hadn't known what we would discover, and had thought maybe the story will be, what a tolerant and accepting country we have become," said Mr Wallraff after a screening of the film Black on White in Berlin. "Unfortunately I was wrong."

He was almost beaten up by neo-Nazis after a football match in eastern Germany. And outside a small-town nightclub was told by a skinhead: "Europe for whites, Africa for apes."

But the film's most disturbing aspect is not the well-known racism of right-wing extremists, but rather the secretly-filmed reactions of everyday people - the landlady who says she could not possibly rent out a flat to a black person, or the shop owner who will not let "Kwami" try on an expensive watch, but willingly hands over the same watch to the next customer who is white.

Everyday abuse

For black people in certain parts of Germany such experiences are commonplace, believes Sven Mekarides, general secretary of the Africa Council in Berlin.

The film secretly filmed the reactions of everyday people to Kwami, left

Mr Mekarides left his native Cameroon in 1991 and came to study in a small town in eastern Germany.

He says he and his fellow African students experienced racist attacks and abuse every day.

They were spat at, shouted at and beer bottles were thrown at them.

The worst attack took place in the eastern Berlin district of Lichtenberg in 2004, when Mr Mekarides and his girlfriend were surrounded by seven young men armed with knives.

"We soon realized that it was dangerous to travel in groups of less than three people. And we would never let any of the women go anywhere without accompanying them," he said in a Berlin cafe.

With an ageing population, Germany is now having to come to terms with being a country of immigration

Since then, he said, the situation has not got much better.

According to the Amadeu Antonio foundation there have been 138 racially-motivated murders in Germany since 1990. And last year police registered 140 race attacks in Berlin.

"Those are only the most extreme cases the police know about," said Mr Mekarides.

"Every day we get calls from black people who have been falsely accused of stealing something or insulted on the street."

Clown in a carnival?

Although Mr Mekarides welcomes the discussion about racism the film has sparked off, he believes the filmmaker's exaggerated disguise confirms Europeans' worst stereotypes of an African.

Some critics say Kwami is based on an absurd stereotype

"He just doesn't look like an African," said Mr Mekarides. "The wig, the make-up and the brightly-coloured shirt are all so over the top, he looks like he's a clown in a carnival.

"After he has washed his skin, he can forget the problem. But black people have this problem every day."

Some German newspaper commentators have accused the filmmaker himself of racism for acting out such a negative stereotype of a black person. The character of Kwami speaks broken German and is childlike in his ignorance of dangerous situations.

Anti-racism pressure groups, meanwhile, have complained that the filmmaker is paternally speaking for black people, rather than with them. Why did he not simply film the experiences of real black people?

"It was crucial that I take on these dangers myself," countered Mr Wallraff. "There's no way that I could delegate this role to someone else.

"I've been accused of being racist. But just imagine if I'd sent a black person into situations that I wasn't prepared to go into myself."

Torture and prison

With a celebrated 40-year career of unearthing social injustice, it is impossible to doubt Gunter Wallraff's motivations.

In one assignment he went undercover as an anti-government protestor in 1970s Greece and was tortured and imprisoned.

Walraff says his experience was more depressing than he had expected

The film has won praise for starting a debate about racism in Germany. After a Q&A session with Mr Wallraff in a Berlin cinema, one young black woman said the film was "interesting, helpful and needed for Germany".

She said: "I've lived here all my life, and this is the first time I've ever seen an audience like this discussing this issue."

Racism is viewed as unacceptable by mainstream German society, and many urban areas pride themselves on a multi-cultural tolerant atmosphere.

But there do still exist so-called "no-go areas" - particularly in rural eastern Germany - which anti-racism activists advise non-white people to avoid.

Gunter Wallraff's film has already done a lot to spark discussion about racism. With an ageing population, Germany is now having to come to terms with being a country of immigration.

Clearly the debate is just beginning.

Africans In China - The Struggle Continues

2009-11-02T06:55:00.000-01:00

My point: African community needs more attention

By Lara Farrar (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-02 10:23

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Patrick started writing stories on his mobile phone about life. When we met at a bar around Sanlitun several weeks ago, he let me read a few. The stories were about what life is like in China for Africans - and often it is not easy.

Since I relocated to Beijing from Shanghai several months ago, I've become friends with many people in the African community here. They live in old apartment buildings around Sanlitun.

A few sleep on the streets. At night, they hang out at sidewalk cafes, smoking cigarettes and drinking Chinese beer. I join them and listen to their stories - stories that need to be told.

China is only continuing to strengthen its ties to Africa. More Chinese companies are doing business there and more Chinese are moving there to work: "In recent years, Beijing has identified the African continent as an area of significant economic and strategic interest," said a report by The Heritage Foundation.

As China moves to Africa, Africa is starting to move to China, too. Africans say they are coming to this country because they have been told back home they can make money here, find a job, have a life, be successful. For some, that happens. For many, it doesn't.

Patrick is from Cameroon, and he considers himself lucky. He is a student and has a visa. Right now he doesn't need a job. He is safe.

There are others here from countries, like Nigeria and Botswana, living in small apartments that they never leave because they say they are afraid.

These people have spent their life's savings to come here. When they arrive, they can't find jobs. Their visas expire. And they have no money to pay for a plane ticket home.

To make a living, some buy fake goods, like mobile phones and clothes, and smuggle them home to sell on the streets of their countries.

To be sure, immigrants and migrants in many countries face discrimination and other unfair treatment.

And it is also understood that foreigners should respect and obey the immigration laws set of the host country's government. The dreams that Africans had before they came to China have faded quickly for some. Life is different here.

Competition for jobs is high. Even so, some say the opportunities here are still better than back home. So they stay and continue to try to find ways to better their lives. Regardless of how tough it is, China still is their land of hope.

Readers are welcome to contribute their thoughts to METRO. Articles about your life and work in Beijing should be less than 700 words. Send to metrobeijing@chinadaily.com.cn. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of METRO.

Cameroonians' Wirba family to reunite after five years

2009-10-31T05:49:00.002-01:00

By Jessica Seibel

El Dorado Times

Wed Oct 28, 2009, 07:36 PM CDT

El Dorado, Kan. -

Each year, the U.S. State Department sponsors the diversity visa lottery, a Congressionally mandated program that awards 50,000 visas to people who meet strict eligibility requirements and live in countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

The visa winners are chosen by a computer-generated, random lottery drawing.
This year, four of El Dorado resident John Paul Wirba’s family members won the lottery and are scheduled to arrive in Kansas today.

John Paul, who is originally from Cameroon in West Africa, has been in the U.S. for the past five years and attends Butler Community College. He also has a full time job to support his wife Donielle and daughter Camryn.

“I haven’t seen my family for over five years,” he said. “Neither has any of them met Camryn, my little girl. It’s been pretty hard for them and me, as all we do is send pictures back and forth.”
That time of waiting to see them again is finally over, as John Paul’s parents Joe and Rosemary, brother Christian and sister Laura will all be moving in with him.

“They will be living with us for the next six months to a year or however long it takes them to get used to their environment,” said John Paul. “It will be a better life for mom and dad, and even better for my brother and sister.”

Even though his family members speak English, they will still have many adjustments to make. They were not able to bring many of their belongings with them, and will have to get used to the different climate.

John Paul and Donielle have also made adjustments to accommodate his family. They used their student loan money to purchase the plane tickets, which were about $2,000 each, and will take on the responsibility of providing food and shelter for the new arrivals.

They are thankful for the support that has already been shown by fellow parishioners at St. John’s Catholic Church, and are asking if anyone else in the community might be willing to help out as well.

“Thanks for the support already shown,” said John Paul. “It might be little but it helps. My family is going to appreciate it a lot. They are hardworking and will take advantage of the opportunities they have.”

“It’s an amazing thing that they get the chance to come here,” added Donielle.

If you would like to find out how you can help the Wirbas, call St. John’s Church at 321-4796 or John Paul and Donielle at 768-1281.

Africans In China - The Update

2009-10-24T12:43:00.000Z

A little piece of Africa

Article By: Francisco Little

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:53

Francisco Little is a South African writer living and working in Beijing. He spends his time trying to understand Chinese culture and keeping his chopsticks sharpened.

One of the first adverts visitors see when arriving at Guangzhou’s Baiyun International Airport is a Bank of China billboard, proudly proclaiming "Here to help you!"

So what's unusual about that, you are probably asking. Of the five smiling faces beaming down at the stream of passengers, the first face is an African. You don't see that anywhere else in China. It's an early indication that the country's manufacturing capital is now home to a thriving African community, whose exports have become big enough for the city to sit up and take notice.

Downtown Guangzhou is heaving and the humidity level has raced past unbearable. In the heart of Chocolate City, as it is know by locals, a four square km area that accommodates the majority of Africans, lies the cavernous Tang Qi Foreign Trade Garment City, a wholesale shopping arcade on Guangzhou Xi Road and one of three big markets frequented by African traders.

Inside it's as if Christmas has come early. Clothing lies strewn in endless heaps along the narrow aisles between small shops. Noise levels reach record decibels as raucous traders shout the odds, and within 10 steps offers of jeans, shoes and some obscure looking jewelry have been made. A quick survey reveals many shops are African-owned, with Chinese businesses making up the numbers.

Visa conundrum

Nigerian trader OK, (34) who declined to give his full name, is one of countless Africans buying garments and daily commodities cheap and selling back home at a healthy markup.

"I can buy jeans here for $3 a pair and sell them back in Nigeria for $20,” said OK. He said most garments are factory rejects, meaning they have slight fault lines, but declined to say what his turnover is.

African traders either buy direct from factories and sell to other Africans, or deal through a Chinese agent, said OK. He said while most traders were from Nigeria, there were many from Mali, Kenya, DR Congo, Ghana and Liberia.

Crouched on a pile of 'Levi' jeans in his stall and casting furtive looks about, he explained how tough things have become since the death of one of his countrymen who died on 15 July, sparking off a street protest by hundreds of Africans in the city. The man allegedly died while fleeing a police raid for illegal immigrants and leapt from a two-story building.

"Business is down this year because of the financial crisis and also because many people here with expired visas don't feel safe," he said. Also many of the Africans here live in back alley accommodations, sometimes three or four to a room, so it's easy for police to raid, he said.

The visa issue is a topic that comes up every time in conversation with African traders and is a very sore point.

Several complained that the 30-day visa they are issued by authorities is inadequate and inconvenient for business purposes, as they need to fly back home and return after this period.

"The expense eats into our business," said Cameroonian, Michaelis (29) (not his real name) who buys Chinese motorcycles to use as taxis back home. "Some visas are extended, while others were not. It seems like there is no clear immigration policy for us black people," he said, declining to say what visa he held.

With business down and the pressure of illegal stay, it's a tough life said Michaelis. He said the immigrants from each African country have set up committees to help deal with issues and collect donations for funerals and weddings. It helps keep a sense of identity. But despite the visa problems we have here, there are still more opportunities in China than back home, he said.

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German clinic helps immigrants overcome psychological problems

2009-10-18T08:45:00.002Z

German clinic helps immigrants overcome psychological problems

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Depression can have many origins, and it's important to understand the cultural context

At Berlin's Charite hospital, specialized therapists cross cultural barriers to gain a better understanding of immigrants' unique problems.

Diagnosing and treating mental illnesses is a challenge in itself. In Germany, where around 20 percent of all residents have an immigrant background, many psychiatric patients also come from others cultures.

They, however, are much less likely to seek professional help than native Germans are. Due to language barriers or cultural differences, they may feel inhibited, or not even be aware of the treatment options available to them.

At the Charite hospital in Berlin, the Center for Intercultural Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Supervision (ZIPP) aims to overcome these hurdles. It employs a team of psychologists, social workers and ethnologists, many of whom have a migrant background themselves.

Putting things into perspective

This provides an alternative to therapists who may have little experience with non-German patients, explains Ernestine Wohlfart, the Intercultural Center's director. She also sees deficiencies in the foundations of psychiatry, whose diagnostic systems are based on Euro-American culture and are hard to apply to other nationalities.

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Some patients have escaped violent situations

"Someone can have a different cultural context for things like ghosts, for example," said Wohlfart. "In the western world, if someone starts talking about ghosts, it means that they probably have a psychosis. But when this person can communicate this information in their own social context, it's easier to determine if they have really crossed their own border of reality perception."

At a consultation session for African women, 35-year-old Sonia Sidibe sits rigidly in her chair; her expression friendly but distanced. With increasing animation in her voice, she explains that she came to Germany one and a half years ago because her husband constantly beat and mistreated her.

"Every time I tried to escape from him, my family brought me back," said Sidibe. "So I fled, and all the stress has made me sick. I have heart problems and I feel like I'm suffocating. I take cold showers and open all the windows even in mid-winter because I'm scared that I might die."

Adjusting to a new environment

Sonia Sidibe is being treated for posttraumatic stress disorder at the Intercultural Center. According to Wohlfart, coming to Germany has become a psychological burden for some of the patients.

"Migration always involves an aspect of progression, meaning that people want to experience something new and decide to live in a different environment," said Wohlfart. "But, at the same time, it's a form of regression, because arriving in a new country means starting from scratch."

This was the case with 34-year-old Shinaz Makampe, who came to Germany three years ago. In her home village in Cameroon, she was thought to be cursed because she had had a miscarriage shortly before her wedding and became infertile. As a result, the village community evicted her. She is now safe in Germany, but feels displaced and does not know how long she can stay. She would like to work, but has not received a work permit.

Finding new friends is also not easy, and she is struggling with depression.

Bildunterschrift:
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The Charite hospital was founded in 1710

"I got here through my social worker at my home for asylum seekers, because I have some psychological problems," said Makampe. "I have to talk to a specialist about them so that I can feel normal in society again and feel good again."

Culture of understanding

Feeling accepted in society is something that many of the patients at the Intercultural Center strive for. Even second- and third-generation immigrants often come here for therapy. They struggle with the divide between German culture and the culture of their parents and grandparents.

The therapists at the Intercultural Center aim to understand their own cultural bias and that of their patients'. This method seems to bring results, as the Center has treated over 600 people from around 90 different countries since it was opened in 2002.

It has gained a positive reputation among immigrant communities as a place where talking to a doctor about mental problems is a less complicated and intimidating experience. This, of course, means a good chance of being understood.

Author: Anna Corves (ew)

Editor: Kate Bowen

2009-10-16T08:08:00.001Z

Central Jakarta catches three foreigners in OYK BERITAJAKARTA.COM — 10/15/2009 4:55:05 PM Central Jakarta Sub Department for Population and Civil Registration nabbed 132 people including three foreigners having no proper citizenship documents during the operation of Operasi Yustisi Kependudukan (Identity Card Raid)/OYK at a number of locations in the municipality, Thursday (10/15). Central Jakarta Sub Department for Population and Civil Registration head Mohammad Hatta says the 132 people were nabbed in 3 different areas; 69 people in Cempakabaru, 40 people in Utanpanjang, and 23 people in Kebonkosong urban village of Kemayoran sub district. “The foreigners are 2 from Cameroon nationality and 1 from Ghana,” said Mohammad Hatta, Thursday (10/15). The Ghana citizen was identified as Amandou (30), while the Cameroon citizens were Domi Guy Mollet (33) and Nyamsi Pierre (34). They were directly sent to Central Jakarta Immigration Office for further investigation. “They only have working and visit visa, and they do not report themselves to local authority,” he said. According to Mohammad Hatta, the caught new comers will be sent back to their respective hometowns, while the foreigners are to be deported as the court decision over the case is made. Hatta says the municipality plans to conduct another OYK operation tomorrow (Friday, 10/16), however, pertaining to the locations becoming the target, Hatta declines to comment. The people caught in the raids are to face trial held Friday morning (10/16) at Central Jakarta District Court at Jl Gajah Mada, Central Jakarta. In the mean time, Central Jakarta Mayor Sylviana Murni says OYK is part of Central Jakarta government’s efforts in law enforcement. “Anybody may domicile in Jakarta, but the individual must also comply with the prevailing civil and population regulations,” she stated.

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U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas

2009-10-12T14:54:00.003Z

U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON

Published: October 11, 2009

DALLAS — Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.

Ron T. Ennis/Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Hosam Maher Husein Smadi entered the United States legally, but then overstayed his visa.

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In Italy, Tex., Mr. Smadi was able to work at a restaurant.

New concern was focused on that security loophole last week, when Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian who had overstayed his tourist visa, was accused in court of plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper.

Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign visitors on temporary visas like Mr. Smadi’s checked in to the country but never officially checked out, immigration officials said. While officials say they have no way to confirm it, they suspect that several hundred thousand of them overstayed their visas.

Over all, the officials said, about 40 percent of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed.

Mr. Smadi’s case has brought renewed calls from both parties in Congress for Department of Homeland Security officials to complete a universal electronic exit monitoring system.

Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said the Smadi case “points to a real need for an entry and exit system if we are serious about reducing illegal immigration.”

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration, said he would try to steer money from the economic stimulus program to build an exit monitoring system.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, immigration authorities, with more than $1 billion from Congress, have greatly improved and expanded their systems to monitor foreigners when they arrive. But despite several Congressional authorizations, there are no biometric inspections or a systematic follow-up to confirm that foreign visitors have departed.

Homeland security officials caution that universal exit monitoring is a daunting and costly goal, mainly because of the nation’s long and busy land borders, with more than one million crossings every day. The wrong exit plan, they said, could clog trade, disrupt border cities and overwhelm immigration agencies with information they could not effectively use.

Since 2004, homeland security officials have put systems in place to check all foreigners as they arrive, whether by air, sea or land. Customs officers now take fingerprints and digital photographs of visitors from most countries, instantly comparing them against law enforcement watch list databases. (Canadians and Mexicans with special border-crossing cards are exempt from those checks.)

But homeland security officials said that a series of pilot programs since 2004 had failed to yield an exit monitoring system that would work for the whole nation. They have not yet found technology to support speedy exit inspections at land borders. And airlines balked at an effort last year by the Bush administration to make them responsible for taking fingerprints and photographs of departing foreigners.

The current system relies on departing foreigners to turn in a paper stub when they leave.

Last year, official figures show, 39 million foreign travelers were admitted on temporary visas like Mr. Smadi’s. Based on the paper stubs, homeland security officials said, they confirmed the departure of 92.5 percent of them. Most of the remaining visitors did depart, officials said, but failed to check out because they did not know how to do so. But more than 200,000 of them are believed to have overstayed intentionally.

Immigration authorities have put in place a separate system for keeping track of foreigners who, unlike Mr. Smadi, come on student visas. That system has proved effective at confirming that the students have stayed in school and do not overstay their visas, officials said.

Immigration analysts said that given the difficulties of enforcing the United States’ vast borders, it remains primarily up to law enforcement officials to thwart terrorism suspects who do not have records that would draw scrutiny before they enter the United States.

“You can’t ask the immigration system to do everything,” said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, a research center in Washington, and a former commissioner of the immigration service. “This is an example of how changes in law enforcement priorities and techniques since Sept. 11 actually got to where they should be.”

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US Assylum Seekers & Illegal Migrants Process Relaxed

2009-10-10T09:48:00.003Z

Homeland Security Pledges to Reform Nightmarish Immigration Detention System

Posted by Staff, RestoreFairness.org at 1:34 PM on October 9, 2009.

This week, DHS unveiled an ambitious plan to reform its immigration detention system.

This week, Department of Homeland Security unveiled an ambitious plan to reform its immigration detention system, a largely unregulated network that includes 312 county and city prisons, many of whom have been accused of health and security violations. That's what Breakthrough's powerful new campaign Restore Fairness wants to keep seeing - a government that is restoring due process back to a broken immigration system. At the campaign's centerpiece is a 9 minute video Restore Fairness, produced in partnership with an amazing range of 26 leading organizations spanning human rights, immigration, and community based groups, that features interviews with influential Members of Congress, immigration judges, civil society leaders, and ordinary families affected by harsh immigration laws.

Watch the video:

Looking at the immigration landscape in the aftermath of 9-11, the campaign calls for a reshaping of immigration laws that often arrest people without warrants, hold them in inhumane detention conditions, and deport them without a fair trial. Like Ana Galindo and her husband Walter Chavez, legal permanent residents with a 10-year-old U.S. citizen son, who were raided, without a warrant in their home by armed immigration officers who finally admitted they were looking for the wrong person, traumatizing their son for months afterward. Or June Everett who lost her sister, a 53 year old grandmother, to immigration detention because of alleged medical negligence. Or Jean Pierre Kamwa, a torture survivor from Cameroon who came to the U.S. seeking freedom and shelter from persecution, but instead was greeted with 5 months in mandatory detention till he was ultimately granted asylum.

These stories make up the fabric of a broken immigration system, one which will sustain an estimated 440,000 detainees this year at a cost of 1.7 billion dollars. Watch Restore Fairness and tell Congress to fix a broken immigration system now. And keep up to date with upcoming immigration news on the Restore Fairness blog.

As the Chair of the House Subcommittee on immigration, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren says in the video, "Everybody in America under our Constitution is entitled to due process of law and we’ve fallen short in the due process arena when it comes to the whole immigration system. If we’re not going to adhere to the basic standards that are in the Constitution, everybody is at risk."

Cameroonian Dockie Men in US Arrested

2009-09-29T07:50:00.001Z

Driver's license conspiracy nets indictment

by Staff reports

September 28, 2009

ATLANTA - A Marietta woman was arraigned on extortion charges in a fraudulent driver's license conspiracy.

Gbemisola Wellington-Salako, 35, of Marietta, was arraigned today on federal criminal charges of extortion, conspiracy, and working with three men to issue Georgia driver's licenses for $2,000 to illegal aliens and others who did not meet the state qualifications for licenses. Wellington-Salako was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gerrilyn Brill, who granted the defendant a $20,000 bond.

"Taking payoffs for drivers' licenses is not only a breach of public trust, but it also facilitates fraud and creates potential security problems," said Acting U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates.

According to Yates, the indictment, and other information presented in court: Wellington-Salako is a driver's license examiner at the Department of Driver Services (DDS) Customer Service Center at 1605 County Services Pkwy. in Marietta.

The indictment charges that in April 2008, co-defendant Jules Armand Che Siewe Achou ("Siewe"), 32, of Covington, offered to pay Wellington-Salako $600 if she would help him obtain a driver's license, which he could not obtain legally because he is Cameroonian and did not have legal immigration status in the United States. Wellington-Salako allegedly agreed, and issued him a driver's license. Soon thereafter, the indictment alleges, she accepted Siewe's offer to work together to issue licenses to people who did not qualify for them. According to the indictment, they agreed to charge $2,000 for the licenses and to share that money.

Later, the indictment alleges, co-defendants Nambaladja Souleymane Fofana ("Fofana") and Mohamed Cellou Bamba a/k/a Abderahmane Tirera ("Bamba") helped Siewe find customers and, in return, they received some of his share of the money. Fofana, 28, of Atlanta, is a citizen of the Ivory Coast who entered the United States on a student visa, and Bamba, 32, of Atlanta, is a French citizen whose permission to be in the United States expired in 2003.

The indictment further alleges that between April 2008 and September 2009, Wellington-Salako issued driver's licenses to approximately 40 people who did not qualify for them. According to the indictment, the four defendants were arrested on Sept. 11 on state charges after Wellington-Salako issued driver's licenses to two undercover agents in return for their payment of $5,000. After DDS investigators were alerted to possible illegal behavior, DDS conducted an initial investigation to identify any illicit behavior. From that point forward, DDS joined with Special Agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force to further the investigation and ultimately conduct undercover operations.

Siewe and Bamba were arrested when they met to divide the agents' payment with Fofana. Siewe, Bamba and Fofana have remained in the Cobb County Jail on state charges since their arrest, and they are expected to be transferred into federal custody and arraigned on this indictment within the next few weeks.

The four defendants are charged with conspiring to affect commerce through extortion, conspiring to transfer fraudulent identification documents, and several counts of transferring or attempting to transfer fraudulent identification documents. The extortion charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. The fraudulent document charges each carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 per count.

"ICE is committed to working alongside its law enforcement partners to identify corrupt employees who taint the government's image," said Kenneth A. Smith, Special Agent in Charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Atlanta. "Through our investigative efforts in this case, we've neutralized a serious security vulnerability."

GBI Director Vernon Keenan said, "The sale of any official government document to those who are not qualified is a major public safety issue. This type of activity facilitates fraud related crimes that could impact homeland security."

DDS Commissioner Gregory C. Dozier said, "DDS will continue to monitor our licensing operations to ensure security and conformance to departmental policies and state law. DDS is committed to seeking full prosecution for all individuals involved."

Wellington-Salako, Siewe, Fofana and Bamba were indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 23.

Members of the public are reminded that the indictment only contains charges. The defendants are presumed innocent of the charges, and it will be the United States' burden to prove the defendants' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.

This case is being investigated by Special Agents of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS), the Cobb County Sheriff's Office and the DeKalb County Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorney William G. Traynor is prosecuting the case.

Nigerians Arrested With Drugs At The AirPort

2009-09-25T06:54:00.003Z

NDLEA sniffs out cocaine concealed in cosmetics packs
•Arrests 4 suspects
By CHRIS ANUCHA
Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Anti-narcotic agents, attached to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, have arrested a woman for allegedly trying to traffick 6.350kg of cocaine.

The drug, with an estimated street value of more than N69 million was said to be the purest and single biggest seizure of cocaine made by the Airport Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) this year.

The suspect, Soumah Bountou, 44, from Guinea, flew into the country in an Iberia aircraft from Brazil. The drug was said to have been carefully concealed, in make-up kits and packed in two black bags.

The suspect told NDLEA officers that she usually travelled to Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria, to buy clothes and wigs before she met her sponsors.

“I am a widow, my husband died in 2004, leaving me and my daughter, who is now 22 years. The man that introduced me into drugs said I should be going to Europe to buy my wares and I was excited about going to Brazil. They paid my travel expenses and somebody even received me when I arrived. I thought they were being nice, unfortunately, it turned out to be drug trafficking,” she said amid tears.

Impressed by the arrests and seizures, the Chairman/Chief Executive of the Agency, Ahmadu Giade, reiterated his commitment to dislodging illegal drug syndicates on Brazil, Guinea and Nigeria routes. He urged members of the public to be wary of tricks employed by drug barons. “Success can be achieved anywhere. When people offer to sponsor your trip to Europe and you should be suspicious, discreetly contact the nearest NDLEA office.

By so doing, we will be able to nip the plot in the bud,” Giade said.
Three other suspected drug traffickers were also apprehended by the command. The Assistant Airport Commander, in charge of operations and intelligence, Alhiaji Idris Bello, gave the names of the suspects as, Mbamalu Chukwudi, 27, Uche Udeh, 35, and Ayodele Abiola a.k.a. Kaba Mohammed, 41. Mbamalu was apprehended as he was attempting to board a South African Airline flight to Johannesburg.

The 5.7 kg drug was concealed in a false bottom of his luggage.
In his confessional statement, he claimed his wife and only child died of food poisoning three months ago. “When I lost my wife and daughter, I left Enugu for Lagos, and later for South Africa. My visa requires me not to exceed 30 days in each entry and I was desperate to travel, so as to avoid having problem with immigration officials. That was when I met a man in South Africa, who offered to pay for my return ticket to bring something for him. I did not know it was drug, because I asked the man who gave me the bag at the airport if it was not cocaine.

He told me it was industrial sugar, which was not contraband. I did not search the bag, but even if I did, I would not have seen it because the officers went extra miles to discover it. That was how I got involved,” Mbamalu from Aguata in Anambra State said.

Udeh, form Ohafia Abia State, was arrested on his way to Milan, Italy, on a KLM flight after he tested positive for drug ingestion. He later excreted 116 wraps of the substance which tested positive as cocaine, weighing 2.129kg. According to Udeh, who had lived in Cotonou for 16 years, where he sold used clothes, it was his friend in Spain, who asked him to bring the drug. “His contact person gave me the drug in Benin Republic, where I swallowed it and took a car to Lagos. I was arrested when I tested positive for drugs. I am not married but things are very rough for me. My elder sister died in 2001, leaving three children for me. This is my first time of trafficking in drugs,” he stated.

The third suspect, Ayodele Abiola, from Ogun State, was nabbed having a Guinean International passport, bearing the name, Kaba Mohammed. He claimed to have ingested 60 wraps of substances that tested positive for cocaine. According to the NDLEA spokesman, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, he is still under observation to excrete all the wraps of drugs he had swallowed. Ayodele travelled to Brazil, where he got the drug for which he would have been paid $2,000.

His words: “My situation was very sad. Imagine! I am still single at my age, after sojourning in Matoto, Guinea, for 20 years. I was persuaded to traffick the drugs. Unfortunately, my first trip happened to be a bad one. My sponsors were even annoyed with me for swallowing only 60 capsules. I know I have offended my nation and disrespected my national flag, but I pray for forgiveness. I have been very sad since I was arrested.”

Ofoyeju said all suspects would soon be charged to court.

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Obama's Kenyan Family, So Poor It Hurts

2009-09-17T20:26:00.001Z

African kin seek Obama’s help

But president offers no special aid or access

President Obama’s relatives put up a sign showing his lineage in the village of Kobama - which means “land of Obama,’’ where his great-grandfather is buried. (Photos By Boniface Mwangi for The Boston Globe)

By Farah Stockman Globe Staff / September 13, 2009

KOGELO, Kenya - After Barack Obama was elected to the US Senate in 2004, a delegation from the remote African village where his father was raised journeyed to Washington, seeking financial help. But Obama offered them advice, not money.

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Now that Obama has moved to the White House, expectations of financial benefit have grown even greater in this tiny hamlet where water is still delivered to thatched huts on the backs of donkeys.

“There are still those who are waiting for him to send millions,’’ said Nicholas Rajula, a Kogelo businessman.

Dreams alone seem to be sustaining those counting on an economic boom in this rural corner of western Kenya, near Lake Victoria, where the American president’s father - also named Barack Obama - grew up and where many of his relatives remain.

In Kogelo, the village where Barack Sr. was raised, there is no restaurant or post office to speak of. Two hours from the nearest city, it is not on most maps.

Still, the price of land here has skyrocketed because of rampant speculation about an Obama family museum that the Kenyan Ministry of Tour ism has promised to build. And there have been some modest, but tangible, signs of progress that seem tied to the village’s new notoriety. Within a week of Obama’s election victory last year, the government began to pave the main road to town. It also brought in an electricity and water lines to Obama’s step-grandmother’s compound.

Some relatives have also set up foundations, trying to raise money for development projects using the Obama name. And strangers are suddenly a common sight in the market, attracted by safari companies that advertise heritage tours about the first African-American US president. A tourist hotel is planned.

But what is missing is a direct infusion of cash from Obama or the US government, say local residents and members of the extended Obama family, some of whom say they have relayed funding requests through e-mails and letters to Washington. That expectation might come as a surprise in the United States, where such gifts are not an obligation and Obama is not considered a particularly wealthy man. But in Kenya, where politicians are often judged by how much financial help they funnel to family and tribe, the lack of cash donations from the president has caused some consternation.

Rajula, the Kogelo businessman who funded the delegation’s trip to Washington in 2005, said Obama encouraged the group - which included his own uncle - to form self-help organizations and apply for funding through official channels, such as USAID.

“There is no money that comes from his pocket,’’ Rajula said.

A White House official said: “The president’s policy of pointing aid requests to official channels is consistent with his message of good governance’’ in Africa.Continued...

France Drops Racist Anti Immigration Law - Check It Out

2009-09-15T16:19:00.003Z

DNA tests for would-be immigrants on hold

Article published on the 2009-09-14 Latest update 2009-09-14 11:14 TU

Eric Besson, French Immigration Minister and former Socialist Party member, in Paris, May 2008.
(Photo: AFP)

France' s Immigration Minister Eric Besson has said he will refuse to sign a decree into law because it contains too many restrictions. Besson considers that he cannot respect the law to the letter, and that the date of application - 31 December 2009 - is too close to allow the law to function as it was intended.

Several immigrant support organisations expressed their joy on Monday at the government's decision not to implement the law on DNA test for immigrants' relatives seeking to join them in France.

SOS Racisme, one of the leading immigration and anti-racism lobbies in France said referring to law as a "populist measure aimed at identifying foreigners as cheats", that "the detestable chapter of DNA tests for family reunification is closed for once and for all."

Although SOS Racisme was celebrating its own efforts that it says rendered the law unoperational, another group which helps asylum seekers in France, France Terre d'Asile, while welcoming a decision that "goes in the right direction," was more reserved.

France Terre d'Asile underlines the fact that the law passed in 2007 on immigrations controls, contains other measures which tighten up reunificiation processes in France.

The law, which was adopted when current Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux was in charge of France's immigration portfolio, was to apply to citizens of nine countries in Africa and Asia: lAngola, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Cap Verde, Dominican Republic, Guinea-Conakry, Ghana, Madagascar and Pakistan.

Besson said he was not "in a position to respect the spirit of the law nor could he respect it to the letter."

There was considerble protest in France at the time of the parliamentary debate on the law. The highest legal authority, the Conseil Constitutionnel - or Constitutional Council - gave its green light but with reservations, that meant the DNA tests could not be used systematically. MORE

White South Africa Seeks Refugee Status in Canada

2009-09-12T07:56:00.003Z

Refugee claim 'shocks' South African diplomat

Norma Greenaway, Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, September 03, 2009

South Africa's top diplomat in Canada says he's "shocked out of his wits" a white South African claiming persecution because of his skin colour has won refugee status in this country.

He says the ruling, if left to stand, could seriously damage relations between the two countries. Abraham Sokhaya Nkomo, South Africa's high commissioner to Canada, dismissed as "outrageous" Brandon Huntley's contention his life would be in danger because of his skin colour if he returned South Africa. In an interview yesterday, Mr. Nkomo vowed to pursue every avenue to get the Harper government to appeal the ruling--made last week by a one-man refugee board -- to the Federal Court of Canada.

William Davis, who made the ruling, accepted Mr. Huntley's refugee claim on grounds he would "stand out like a sore thumb" because of his colour in any part of a country where, according to Mr. Davis, there is an "inability or unwillingness by the government and security forces to protect white South Africans from persecution by African South Africans."

Citing reports and news stories about violence and racial tensions in South Africa, some of which were entered in evidence by Mr. Huntley's lawyer, Mr. Davis concluded Mr. Huntley's fear of persecution by black South Africans is "justified."

Mr. Huntley, a former carnival worker who lives in Ottawa, told immigration officials he was attacked six or seven times by black South Africans and that those beatings left him with scars on his stomach, right eye, right side of the body and hands.

South Africa's governing African National Congress denounced the ruling, saying the reasoning for granting Mr. Huntley refugee status "can only serve to perpetuate racism."

Mr. Nkomo said he had already met with officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and is seeking a meeting with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney in a bid to get the ruling appealed. "We will pursue all avenues," Mr. Nkomo said.

UPDATE: Sept' 11 2009 Skin colour asylum ruling challenged

The federal government is taking the rare step of appealing a ruling that granted asylum to a white South African who claimed his skin colour would put his life in danger if he returned to his home country. Alykhan Velshi, a spokesman for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, confirmed the government will ask the Federal Court to review a contentious Immigration and Refugee Board decision, which has made headlines around the world and has been widely denounced as racist. South Africa's high commissioner to Ottawa, Abraham Sokhaya Nkomo, said the ruling would pose a threat to South Africa's pursuit of a "harmonious, non-racist society." The ruling accepted Brandon Huntley's contention that he would be persecuted in South Africa because of his skin colour.

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Canada Plans on Cutting Down Refugees Claimants Wait time by almost 80%

2009-09-12T07:44:00.002Z

Make refugee claims fast, fair: report

Remove failed claimants quicker, study proposes

Norma Greenaway, Canwest News Service

Published: Friday, September 11, 2009

In a report released yesterday, Peter Showler proposes reforms that, contrary to what the federal government is contemplating, do not include fast-tracking claims from people fleeing countries where residents are generally deemed to be safe from persecution.

Mr. Showler argues that fast-tracking claims from such countries "ignores the human rights reality of many democratic countries."

His proposed reforms would reduce the length of time for removing failed claimants to an average of 13 months, down from the four to six years it takes under the current review-riddled process.

Mr. Showler's formula would also limit the role of the Federal Court of Canada in reviewing refugee board decisions and tighten the rules under which refugees can try to remain in Canada on "humanitarian and compassionate grounds" or seek an assessment of the risks they face if they were forced to return to their home country.

The report lands as the government drafts legislation that could be introduced in Parliament within weeks to speed the refugee claims process and stem the flow of "bogus" refugee claims clogging the system.

Fast-tracking claimants from "safe" countries is among the measures being readied for the package, which is aimed at tackling the backlog of 60,000 refugee claims.

If Parliament is dissolved for a fall election, however, the Harper Tories are expected to roll out their proposals for immigration and refugee reforms during the campaign.

The government put the spotlight on the refugee issue this summer by slapping visa requirements on visitors from Mexico and the Czech Republic on grounds that refugee claims from those countries were mushrooming out of control.

Mr. Showler rejects the idea of fast-tracking from selected safe or nominally democratic countries as good refugee policy.

"Even claimants from the United States who are deserters from the Iraq war can raise difficult legal issues and exceptions that must be considered," he said in a statement accompanying the report. "These are issues that are most appropriately decided by a fast, fair and final hearing and not by a list that would automatically deny Canada's protection."

Mr. Showler's report echoes complaints made by the government and all opposition parties: that the long delays in handling claimants hurt legitimate refugees, attract fraudulent claimants and damage Canada's reputation for protecting individuals escaping violence, torture and death.

"Removal within 13 months discourages migrants or unscrupulous consultants from using the asylum system inappropriately," it says.

Mr. Showler, who was IRB chairman from 1999 to 2002, is director of the Refugee Forum at the University of Ottawa's Human Rights Research and Education Centre.

The Maytree Foundation sponsored his study.

Mr. Showler proposes replacing the current IRB, which is staffed with political appointees, with a Refugee Tribunal that would include a refugee claim division and a refugee appeal division.

The members of those divisions would be highly competent experts -- at least half of which would be lawyers -- selected by an independent committee.

Under the proposed timetable, refugee claims would be decided in six months and reviewed in four months and a failed claimant would be removed within three months of being rejected.

The case would go to the Federal Court of Canada for review only if there were an issue of law at stake.

Refugee claimants currently wait up to 18 months for a first decision from the IRB.

The Fakest Dockie Men Are Abroad, be Warned

2009-09-11T11:39:00.002Z

'Greedy' home affairs official held

10 September 2009, 10:14

By Poloko Tau

A home affairs official was arrested after she tried to extort money from a foreign Premier League soccer player who was applying for a work permit.

The 36-year-old was arrested in a sting operation set up by the Department of Home Affairs and the police at her workplace in Springs on the East Rand yesterday.

After her arrest the woman led police to her house where they arrested a 38-year-old man. Both have been charged with fraud.

Springs police spokeswoman Amanda Greybe would not reveal what was found at the official's house yesterday but said: "It looked like home affairs itself at the house".

The Cameroonian soccer player had initially made an application for a work permit at the Anderson Street office in Joburg. Here he was given a form to fill in.

"When he struggled to fill in the form, a friend introduced him to a man in Yeoville who said he was an 'immigration agent'. He demanded R3 500 to help him get his papers within 15 days and took his passport," Greybe said.

"Throughout the 15 days the agent called with all sorts of excuses and demanded more money and arrangements were made for the man to pay him R4 500. His (the agent's) phone was constantly off after receiving the money."

Greybe said the Cameroonian then met someone else who was experiencing the same problem with the same "agent" and together they hunted him down.

When they found him, the "agent" said he was working with a woman in Springs and gave them her number.

The Cameroonians lodged a case at the Yeoville police station and the man was arrested on Monday.

The police and the two men then set the trap for the woman.

A phone call was made and they were told it would cost "R5 000 to process their papers".

"All she wanted was money and more money. I tried to get her to give back my passport and forget about the whole thing but she refused and demanded cash," the 21-year-old aspiring Cameroonian soccer player said.

Yesterday the soccer player paid the woman the money, gave the police officers a missed call and they pounced, catching the woman with the money in hand.

Home Affairs spokeswoman Cleo Mosana said: "We're committed to rooting out corruption in the department.

"We urge the public to report corrupt officials so that we could arrest more officials."

Police said they expected to make more arrests.

A TYPICAL African Student Life in Moscow - RUSSIA

2009-08-02T12:20:00.006Z

Moscow's African students - cutesy of the bbc, recompiled by The Blaze, Aug 2 2009


		Start of the day Africans studying in Russia face the twin problems of financial hardship and racism. The BBC News website's Patrick Jackson visited Moscow's Russian Friendship of the Nations University (RUDN). Maria De La Fe Esono Bioko, from Equatorial Guinea, is studying agriculture and economics. She recently got a computer for her coursework.


		Room-mate Veronica Chidimma Nwogwugwu, from Nigeria, shares the small room with Maria. She only arrived in the autumn term and must learn Russian before beginning her studies in medicine. Some 1,000 students from 43 African states are currently enrolled at RUDN out of a total of about 24,000.


		Neighbours Maria and Veronica's room is paired with a larger one sleeping three others. Olivia Akande Temitope (from left), Joelen Oluyemisi Ajibola and Lily Dorgu are all Nigerians too. Olivia has been voted Miss Africa among Russia's African students, thought to number about 15,000. The students feel rather cramped and believe their unit is designed for only three people. It is a common complaint at RUDN.


		Missing home Maria came to Russia in 1999 and has not been back to Equatorial Guinea since because of the price of air tickets. This little elephant and some music are her only souvenirs of home. She calls her family regularly from her mobile phone. "I really want to get home, I really miss it," she said. "I finish this June and then I'm going back there to work."


		Documents Her passport, her student ID card and her academic record book go with Maria wherever she goes. Like other foreign students, she is constantly asked to produce her documents by the Russian police. Student reps believe that hundreds of Africans have stayed behind illegally after graduating - some because they could not afford the ticket home.


		On campus The RUDN campus is a big place, its halls of residence dotted with cafes, shops and hairdressers' shops. Set in a southern suburb of the city, the RUDN has existed since 1960. In Soviet times, it was known as Patrice Lumumba University after the DR Congo leader assassinated in 1961. Post-Communist Russia still awards grants to foreign students.

Moscow's African students


		In the snow Veronica and Lily were off for lessons, wrapped up well for the freezing cold. Many students can spend most of the time on campus, protected by the university's own police station and security guards. After the horrific hostel fire of November 2003 in which 38 people died, a new fire alarm system was installed in students' rooms. The charred building is still being renovated, floor by floor.


		Pushkin's language Veronica and Lily's Russian language lesson lasted five hours. On the desk of their teacher, Valentina Alexeyevna, was a small portrait of Pushkin, Russia's best-loved poet, who was of partial African descent. Also in class were students from Haiti, Kenya and Vietnam and all seemed to have made excellent progress in just a few months.

Moscow's African students


		Beaten but unbowed Mukhtar Ahmed Osman, from Somalia, is coming to the end of his five-year civil engineering studies and is now well used to the frost and snow he never saw at home. He has been through much worse: three years ago, a gang of teenagers beat him unconscious on a snowy Moscow street. His faculty is off-campus and he still goes out into the city. He says that Igor, a close Russian friend, tells any racists they run into: "If you've got a problem, you deal with me".

Moscow's African students


		Cost of living Gerald Kombila, a business and tourism student from Gabon, gets a grant of $1,000 per quarter from his home country. Gabon used to pay for a trip home every two years, he says, but that has now changed to three. It is still something of a model for other African states which often pay little or delay grant money for months at a time. According to student reps, about 100 Africans at RUDN live in poverty on less than $15 a month.


		Studies aside Maria and the other students from her unit are in a campus cafe for a modest bite to eat. They may be dressed for going out but the men's attention is elsewhere this evening: Senegal are playing Egypt. There are occasional social events to brighten up the long, cold winter evenings and a concert of world music was billed for the following day.

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So after the above you still interested in visiting Moscow, Russia? In that case, consider the following links and read extensively on the issue, watch videos on youtube about Africans' everry day struggle for survival life in the country. Take no one's word for it, 99% of the time, those in Moscow would lie about their condition. Repeat - 99% of the time, they lie, perhaps out of shame or to boost of their self esteem in your mind.

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Smart Ass African Scammers Give The Others Bad Name: RUSSIA

2009-08-02T11:52:00.003Z

Moscow police crack African gang's 'Eddie Murphy' scam

By Andrew Osborn in Moscow

Sunday, 2 August 2009

Taking their lead from the Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America, a gang of Africans based in Moscow succeeded in conning several Russian businessmen out of tens of thousands of pounds by posing as flamboyant African government ministers, according to police.

In the 1988 film which inspired the alleged scam, Murphy plays Prince Akeem from the kingdom of Zamunda. His deception is the other way round: Akeem poses as a fast-food worker in New York, so that he can escape an arranged marriage and find a bride who really loves him.

Four Africans have been charged with fraud and face up to six years if convicted. Prosecutors say they painstakingly copied the costumes and flamboyant mannerisms of Prince Akeem and his father, King Jaffe Joffer (played in the movie by James Earl Jones) to trick their Russian victims. The scam was said to be based on a tried and tested method usually employed on the internet. One of the gang would pretend to be the nephew of a wealthy minister, in one case the former deputy prime minister of Guinea-Bissau. He would explain that his uncle wanted to smuggle $22.5m (£12.5m) into Russia in an African diplomatic pouch, and was willing to give a cut to anyone who would help him. There was inevitably a catch; the victim would need to put up $43,000 in cash to bribe an African embassy in Moscow to take delivery of the pouch.

To overcome the scepticism of potential victims, the "nephew" would say that his "uncle" was flying in especially for negotiations. The victim would then be driven out to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where one of the gang members would be waiting outside the VIP exit in elaborate traditional African dress, complete with a gold Rolex watch borrowed for the occasion, gold-rimmed glasses, a huge gold medallion and an ostentatious ring. He would not be alone; a large retinue of clucking manservants would surround him. Investigators later discovered that they were African students at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, being paid by the hour.

The "uncle" would greet his relative extravagantly, talk loudly in English - even though all the fraudsters spoke good Russian - and communicate with his victim through an interpreter. Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reported that the "uncle" was a Nigerian citizen, had a family in Belarus and had spent several years scratching a living in Moscow as an unofficial cab driver.

Ruslan Zakayev, a Moscow businessman, was one of those who fell for the act and handed over $43,000. Police say there were many other victims who would not come forward, "because they themselves were planning to break the law", and that the gang was caught only when an undercover detective posed as a potential victim.

2009 Assement of Sweden By An African Migrant

2009-08-02T00:01:00.001Z

Immigrant in Sweden Says: MY EXPERIENCE IN SWEDEN
August 1, 2009 at 9:58 am

I lived in several European countries and that gave me a good knowledge that makes me able to compare racism and discrimination in these countries.
Unfortunately I have never been to US. Anyway I can say that Sweden is the most racist and cynical European country. A humane country on the books given the numbers of refugees Sweden has taken in but one has to consider the interests behind any Swedish action for what Sweden gives with one hand it takes away with the other. They do not let refugees in because they are generous and nice guys.
Swedes are unable to accept others “as equal”. Swedes are xenophobes who are completely convinced that their country is the best in the world.
Sweden is a country of racism and intolerance.
Swedes boast about giving free courses in Swedish to all immigrants when in reality they make people attend no ending courses (terrible didatics and pedagogy) to let them out of the job market. It´s a trap.
Swedes boast about their excellent health care system but they do not say that when their health care system fails it is usually with immigrants.
Some will say that Sweden has been pretty homogenous and that immigrants and other minorities are a recent phenomenon but it is not true. What about the assimilationist policies that Sami people and Finns have been suffering for more than one century?
The Swedish judicial system is openly rasistic with 95% ethnic Swedes as judges and lawyers. Swedish policemen are 99% ethnic Swedes and they discriminate and persecute immigrants.
Coming back to Sweden from UK I was stricken by a photo of an immigrant with an arabic name saying “Welcome to my city Stockholm”. How ridiculous! They need photos! In UK when you arrive at the airport you can see many immigrants or people with immigrant descent working in the airport, all kinds of people with strong foreign accents, women with muslim scarfs, sikhs with turbans working as immigration officers. In Sweden they use “photos” of immigrants because they have no immigrants working in the airport. Oh…sorry, I forgot. Of course they have immigrants at the airport, immigrant engineers and doctors that are unable to find a job in racist Sweden can at least drive taxis.
Sweden boasts about giving financial aid to refugees but what Swedes do is to give refugees a miserable income to live in segregated areas where there is nothing to do. These poor people are constantly humiliated by social service workers and suffer from depression.
Swedes have an exceptional intrinsic skill of ostracizing and alienating their immigrants, making them pariahs.
Swedes make them feel unworthy and guilty even though all they want is a job.
Swedish media has made it a rule to associate immigrants with problems.
Swedes would say “The segregation in Sweden is not unique.”
No, it is not but it is the most cynical!
Swedes smile at you and stab you in the back.
And it is an illusion to think that Western Europeans are not discriminated in Sweden. The only criterium to be discriminated in Sweden is to be a “non Swede”! If you are not one of them “you are nothing”.
Even if you speak good Swedish (bra svenska) you have no chance in the racist job market. Swedes think they are superior and it doesn´t matter if you have education, skills or experience if these were gained outside Sweden.
Even if you are a second, third generation of immigrant descent, Swedes will never consider you Swedish.
Other Swedes will say: “You are most welcome to come and study in Sweden. We are one of the few nations that has no fee for foreign students who comes here to study.”
But Sweden needs qualified personal so it is just a question of interests. The irony is that these foreing students after graduating go on unemployed because of Swedish employers´ racism and discrimination.
In line with this it is not so strange that onward migration to a third country has grown popular not just among foreign students and workers residents in Sweden but also among those with immigrant descent that were born and raised in Sweden.
Sweden is the most racist country in Europe. The Swedish race purity department was only shut down in 1976. Sweden had important connections with nazists that placed their money in Swedish banks.
Sweden is the country of double moral, saying one thing, doing another thing.
Besides, as Swedes themselves say ” Sweden is boring, cold and dark”, that is why they drink so much and behave like pigs. A very very depressing place.
I know a lot of Swedes trying to escape from misery emigrated to US in the past. Were they treated the same way they treat immigrants nowadays?

Russia's Obama -Better Believe it : Afro Bushfaller Makes Us Proud

2009-08-01T18:36:00.002Z

Russia May Soon Have Its Own Obama from Guinea-Bissau

1.08.2009

Source: Pravda.Ru

The campaign to elect the municipal government of Russia’s Volgograd region has turned into a scandal. The candidates use all possible methods, including the racial issue, to attract electors’ attention, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports.

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A native of Guinea-Bissau, Joakim Krima, a 37-year-old graduate of the Volgograd Pedagogical University, set out his wish to run for the head of the regional government. The “black Russian” was born in Africa and moved to Russia’s Volgograd region 12 years ago. Krima, who sells watermelons, refers to himself as a Russian citizen. He says that his name is Vasily Ivanovich (in honor of Vasily Chapayev, a legendary commander of the Red Army).

The billboards with Joakim Krima’s image and “The New Head of the Region” slogan have been erected along many regional highways recently. Local reporters have already dubbed him as “the Volgograd Obama.” Local people joke that if he is elected, he will work like a slave for the region.

Volgograd is a city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River. The city was the site of the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II.

Volgograd originated with the foundation in 1589 of the fortress of Tsaritsyn at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga Rivers. The fortress, which took its name from the local name Sary Su (Yellow Water/River in the Tatar language), was established to defend the unstable southern border of Tsarist Russia and became the nucleus of a trading settlement. It was captured twice by Cossack rebels, under Stepan Razin in the rebellion of 1670 and Yemelyan Pugachev in 1774. Tsaritsyn became an important river port and commercial centre in the 19th century.

Under Stalin, the city became heavily industrialized and was developed as a centre of heavy industry and trans-shipment by rail and river. During World War II (Great Patriotic War), the city of Stalingrad became the center of the Battle of Stalingrad as well as the pivotal turning point in the war against Germany. The battle lasted from August 21, 1942 to February 2, 1943. 1.7 million to 2 million Axis and Soviet soldiers were either killed, wounded or captured, as well as over 40,000 civilians killed. The city was reduced to rubble during the fierce fighting, but reconstruction began soon after the Germans were expelled from the city.

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Micheal Jackson's Other Son?

2009-07-31T11:58:00.002Z

Joe Jackson: Bhatti 'looks like a Jackson, acts like a Jackson'

July 31, 2009

Michael Jackson's father, Joe, believes that 25-year-old aspiring rapper Omer Bhatti, a longtime friend of the pop singer's, is actually Jackson's child, KTLA News reported Thursday.

"Yes, I knew he had another son. Yes, I did," Joe Jackson said in an interview posted on NewsOne.com.

He added that Bhatti has talents similar to those of the Jackson clan: "He looks like a Jackson, acts like a Jackson, can dance like a Jackson."

At Michael Jackson's memorial service, Bhatti was seated in the front row, next to the Jackson family. Bhatti often traveled with Jackson, and 2003 court records show he was living at the Neverland Ranch when authorities searched it during their investigation into child molestation charges against Jackson, KTLA News reports, adding that Bhatti is seeking a DNA test to confirm paternity.

Meanwhile, a custody agreement has been reached for Jackson's three acknowledged children. Jackson's mother, Katherine, and Deborah Rowe, the biological mother of two of Jackson's children, agreed that Katherine Jackson will retain full custody of the children, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Rowe will be allowed to visit the children and will have legal parental rights. The women agreed to hire a child psychologist to advise them on Rowe's visits. Rowe will not receive any money under the agreement, which will go before a judge on Monday, the Times reports.

Blind Cameroonian Migrant Elong-Ewing Still Excels - Now Suck On That for Inspiration

2009-07-27T09:16:00.004Z

The triumph of a blind clothing designer

Mason Ewing overcame more than just an inability to see.

By Mildrade Cherfils - GlobalPost

Published: July 26, 2009 11:47 ET

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MEAUX, France — The obvious impediment to Cyril Elong's success as a clothing designer is that he cannot see. But the blind creator of streetwear label Mason Ewing has won fame for incorporating Braille into his designs.

The less obvious impediment to Elong's success is the physical abuse he suffered as a young immigrant to France.

Elong testified against his great-aunt and great-uncle at their 2004 trial. The punishment they meted out when he wet the bed, did poorly in school or engaged in common adolescent mischief, he said, included having his head thrust against the bathtub, and pepper rubbed into his eyes and on his genitals.

The abuse Elong suffered during the five years he lived with them and did their chores, he said, had permanent consequences: He has been legally blind since age 15, when he woke up from a three-week coma induced by an epileptic fit.

But to spend any time hating his abusers or other relatives who did nothing to stop it would give them too much importance or publicity. Instead, he prefers to remain indifferent in the face of such “hypocrisy.”

“I’ve erased them from my life,” the now 27-year-old said. “For me, they don’t exist.”

Emerging from that period of trauma and turmoil, Elong created a company, started a foundation and transformed himself into Mason Ewing. The logo emblazoned across his T-shirts and tank tops is of a multi-cultural baby who engages in various activities, like skateboarding or golf. The Braille writing describes the activity and tells the color of the clothing.

Becoming a designer was a way for Elong, now known as Ewing, to be closer to his mother and to fulfill her dream. She was a designer and model in his native Cameroon but died when he was nearly 4 years old. Now, Ewing is pursuing his own dream of working in the cinema. He is developing a pilot for a television show inspired by the U.S. hit series “Malcolm in the Middle” in order “to do something atypical” that does not exist yet in France.

“Me, I don’t give up,” Ewing said from his apartment located about 25 miles from Paris. “I’m relentless; I fight like a titan.” READ THE REST

Chinese Camambrus vs The Bushfallers - Guangzhou July2009

2009-07-26T09:57:00.003Z

Hundreds of Africans Protest in Guangzhou

New Tang Dynasty TV Jul 24, 2009

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Africans protest in front of a police station in the Yuexiu District of Guangzhou. (NTDTV)

Hundreds of Africans surrounded a police station in the Yuexiu District of Guangzhou on July 15, protesting the death of a Nigerian man allegedly caused by police pursuit.

According to the Guangzhou Institute of Urban Management, there are currently about 20,000 Africans applying for official residency in Guangzhou.

The Guangzhou police are said to have arrived at a local trade mart to check the residence registrations and passports of some of the African residents. A Nigerian man was pursued by the police and ended up falling to his death from an 18-meter (59-foot) building. His body was brought to the Kuangquan Police Station by hundreds of Africans during their protest.

According to Radio Free Asia, the police did not take coercive measures as they do with most petitioners; rather, they established security zones and allowed the protesters to continue to gather until eight in the evening. Representatives were sent by police station to negotiate with African representatives as well.

Some of the protesters told Hong Kong TV reporters that although they paid the appropriate legal fees to extend their stay, local officials did not provide them with necessary documents, and that the police were actually falsely accusing, pursuing, and arresting people in an attempt to extort money. They released people after receiving the money, the protestors said.

Deutsche Welle, a multi-media news broadcasting service based in Germany reports that the so-called “African streets” in Guangzhou is where the African immigrant population is most concentrated, and that Africans have become an important component of the foreign population of Guangzhou and other major cities in China.

Professor He Wenping, the director of the West Asia and Africa Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says that the Africans in China come mainly from Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali and Uganda, and are mostly engaged in businesses such as the sale of textiles, shoes, and small appliances.

2009-07-26T09:49:00.001Z

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Pregnant African to be resentenced

By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff

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BANGOR, Maine — A pregnant, HIV-positive African woman convicted of having false documents will be resentenced on Aug. 5 in U.S. District Court after winning her appeal of a sentence that would have forced her to give birth behind bars.

Quinta Layin Tuleh, 28, of Cameroon has been free on bail since June 15 pending the outcome of her appeal to the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Tuleh, whose due date is Aug. 29, agreed last month to live in Portland and receive treatment at the Frannie Peabody Center as part of her bail conditions. The center offers support to people diagnosed with AIDS and the virus that causes the disease.

Tuleh was released on bail a few days before she was scheduled to be transferred to Carswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, according to the U.S. Marshal Service in Bangor. The facility provides specialized medical and mental health services to female offenders, according to information on the U.S. Bureau of Prisons’ Web site.

U.S. District Judge John Woodcock in May sentenced Tuleh to 236 days in prison — more than twice as long as the recommended sentence of 114 days — for having false Social Security and employment authorization cards. The federal prosecutor and Tuleh’s court-appointed defense attorney both urged the judge to sentence her to time served, or 114 days.

Woodcock said that to ensure Tuleh received proper medical care through the birth of her child and to increase its chances of being born free of HIV, he was sentencing her to federal prison until two weeks past her due date.

“Everything seems to be fine,” Zachary Heiden of the Maine Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday of Tuleh’s pregnancy. “She seems to be doing very well.”

The appellate court did not offer Woodcock any guidance on what Tuleh’s sentence should be. Its order, dated June 24, simply said, “Vacated and remanded” for resentencing. The resentencing date was set Monday when the court clerk in Bangor received the appellate court’s mandate.

Heiden said Tuesday that he would file a sentencing memorandum on or before Aug. 3 asking that his client be sentenced to time served, or 144 days. Heiden said he expects that Woodcock also will sentence Tuleh to two years of supervised release, as he did in May.

Tuleh still faces deportation because of her conviction. Once she is resentenced, removal proceedings against her are expected to begin. She would not be taken into custody but would be given a date for a hearing in U.S. Immigration Court in Boston, Patrick Mullen, an agent with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement in Portland, said at Tuleh’s bail hearing.

The African woman is in the process of applying for asylum in the U.S., according to court documents, on the basis that she has been the victim of a crime. She may have suffered abuse while working for her former employer, who has not been named, in Aroostook County, according to an affidavit filed by her immigration at-torney with the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project in Portland.

Tuleh arrived in September 2008 in the U.S. at New York City and lived in Maryland until early January, when she went to Presque Isle to work as a nanny for a family, according to court documents. She was arrested Jan. 21 at the Presque Isle Airport after false documents were discovered in her luggage. Tuleh told investigators that she had quit her job in a dispute with the woman for whom she worked.

She became pregnant before she came to Maine, according to her previous attorney, but did not confirm the pregnancy until after her arrest. Her HIV status was not known until a few days before her sentencing in May.

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Countries Cameroonians Can Visit Without A Visa - Updated October 2008

2009-07-26T09:18:00.000Z

The Cameroonian passport is issued to citizens of Cameroon for international travel.
UPDATED JULY 26 2009. ECUADOR & KOSOVO now added, as well as GEORGIA increased its visa on arrival for Cameroonian Passport holders to almost a year.

Now understand the lingo:

VISA ON ARRIVAL simply means you are allowed to fly out to the country but in other to enter the country, you have to justify your purpose of visit. I will advice you have a hotel reservation or tourist voucher prepaid and ready. Say you are there for touristic purposes only and wouldnt be for more than a week. They will still issue you the typical 1-3months visa. Keep it cool and confident and if they suspect you, they might try fright therapy, if you trip, you will be deported. Maintain your stance and everything will be alright.

VISA FREE simply means when entering the country, they have no right to even question your motives beyond purpose of visit. You say whatever reasonable, like Tourist, and show a bank statement or tourist voucher, whatever if asked. Typically, they have no right to even demand these, but we blacks are often times maligned and suspected in a most discriminating fashion. But know these for sure, Visa free means Visa free. THEY CANNOT deport you, NEVER. If they have to anyway, they will grant you access and then have you rearrested for some bogul story and kick out. But it is very much unlikely to happen.
I have received repors from fellow Visa free advantage takers who says they had some small hiccup at the port of entry, eg singapore, because the custom officer of the passport control personel did not know it was visa free for Cameroonians and was shocked as hell how come a negro from Africa is allow free access into their super rich country, just like that. Insist politely and demand he ask his superior for the info. They are too dumb though, most of these Passport Controls robots.
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UPDATED JULY 26 2009

A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies, for the purpose of international travel, the identity and nationality of its holder. The elements of identity are name, date of birth, sex, and place of birth. Most often, nationality and citizenship are congruent.

A passport does not of itself entitle the passport holder to consular protection while abroad or any other privileges, in the absence of any special agreements which cover the situation. It does, however, normally entitle the passport holder to return to the country which issued the passport. Rights to consular protection arise from international agreements, and the right to return arises from the laws of the issuing country. A passport does not represent the right or the place of residence of the passport holder in the country which issued the passport.

Types of Passports

The terminology related to passports has become generally standardized around the world. The typical passports include:

Ordinary passport, also called tourist passport: Issued to ordinary citizens.

Official passport, also called service passport: Issued to government employees for work-related travel, and to accompanying dependents.

Diplomatic passport: Issued to diplomats and consuls for work-related travel, and to accompanying dependents. Having a diplomatic passport is not the equivalent of having diplomatic immunity. A grant of diplomatic status, a privilege of which is diplomatic immunity, has to come from the government of the country in relation to which diplomatic status is claimed. Also, having a diplomatic passport does not mean visa-free travel. A holder of a diplomatic passport usually has to obtain a diplomatic visa, even if a holder of an ordinary passport may enter a country visa-free or may obtain a visa on arrival.

In exceptional circumstances, a diplomatic passport is given to a foreign citizen with no passport of his own, such as an exiled VIP who lives, by invitation, in a foreign country.

Emergency passport, also called temporary passport: Issued to persons whose passports were lost or stolen, and who do not have time to obtain replacement passports.

Collective passport: Issued to defined groups for travel together to particular destinations, such as a group of school children on a school trip to a specified country.

Family passport: Issued to family members -- father, mother, son, daughter. There is one passport holder. He or she may travel alone, or with another family member, or with other family members. A family member who is not the passport holder can only travel with the passport holder.

Laissez-passer: A document which is not a passport, but which serves the function of a passport. Laissez-passer are issued by international organizations to their officers and employees for official travel.

Alien's passport: A document which is not a passport, but is a document issued under certain circumstances, such as statelessness, to non-citizen residents.

In Latvia, an alien's passport is a passport for residents to whom the government denied citizenship and associated rights. It is used as an internal passport inside Latvia, and as a travel document outside Latvia.

Internal passport: A document which is not a passport, but is an identity document which keeps track of migration within a country. Examples: the internal passport of the former Soviet Union and present Russia; or the hukou residence-registration system in mainland China. National identity cards in France, Belgium, etc. plays the same function.^{[citation needed]}

Camouflage and Fantasy Passports: A Camouflage passport is a document that appears to be a regular passport but is actually in the name of a country that no longer exists or never existed. Companies that sell camouflage passports make the rather dubious claim that in the event of a hijacking they could be shown to terrorists to aid escape. There is no known instance of this happening. Because a camouflage passport is not issued in the name of a real country, it is not a counterfeit and is not illegal per se to have. However attempting to use it to actually enter a country would be illegal in most jurisdictions.

A fantasy passport is likewise a document not issued by a recognized government and invalid for legitimate travel. Fantasy passports are distinguished from camouflage passports in that they are issued by an actual, existent group, organization, or tribe. In some cases the goal of the fantasy passport is to make a political statement or to denote membership in the organization. In other cases they are issued more or less as a joke or for souvenir purposes.

Visa-free travel for Cameroon Passport Holders ONLY

The following countries allow visa-free or visa-on-arrival travel for Cameroonian citizens :

Africa

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Burundi	Visa issued on arrival [1]
Cape Verde	Visa issued on arrival [2]
Central African Republic	3 months [3]
Chad	3 months [4]
Comoros	Visa issued upon arrival [5]
Congo-Brazzaville	3 months [6]
Djibouti	1 month visa issued on arrival [7]
Madagascar	90 day visa issued on arrival for MGA 140,000 [8]
Mali	3 months [9]
Mauritania	3 months [10]
Mozambique	30-day visa issued upon arrival for US$25 [11]
Nigeria	90 days [12]
Seychelles	1 month [13]
Togo	7 day visa issued on arrival [14]
Uganda	3 month visa issued on arrival for $50 [15]
Zambia	3 month visa issued on arrival for $50 [16]

Americas

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Dominica Ecuador	6 months [17] 90 days [19]
Grenada	3 months [18]
Haiti	3 months [19][20]
Montserrat	3 months [21]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	14 days [22][23]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1 month [24][25]

Asia

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Bangladesh	90 day visa issued on arrival for $50 [26]
Cambodia	30 day visa issued on arrival for US$ 20 [27]
Laos	30 day visa issued on arrival for US$ 30 [28]
Maldives	30 days [29]
Macau	30 day visa issued on arrival for 100 MOP [30]
Nepal	60 day visa issued on arrival for US$30 [31]
Philippines	21 days [32]
Singapore	30 days [33]
Syria	15 day visa issued on arrival [34]
Timor-Leste	30-day visa issued upon arrival for US$30 [35]

Europe

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Azerbaijan	30-day visa issued upon arrival for US$100 [36]
Georgia Kosovo	360 day visa issued on arrival for 100 GEL [31] 90 days [40]

Oceania

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Cook Islands	31 days [39]
Micronesia	30 days[40]
Nauru	30 days [41]
Niue	30 days [42]
Palau	30 days [43][44]
Samoa	60 days [45]
Tuvalu	1 month [46]
Vanuatu	30 days [47]

Now lets see how other West African passport holds up to ours :p

Nigerian passport I Gabonese passport I Ghanaian passport I

Democratic Republic of the Congo passport I South African passport

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