Eerie footage shows brand new Angolan city designed for 500,000 lying empty Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight-storey blocks of apartments But it has no residents, and the £75,000 cost is too much for slum-dwellers Fears the £2.2billion project, built in three years, could lay empty for years Just a fraction of the billions China has poured into Africa in recent years It was supposed to be a state-of-the-art city for 500,000 - but eerie footage shows how a Chinese-built urbanisation is at risk of becoming Africa's first 'ghost town'. Constructed on the outskirts of Angola's capital city Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight-storey blocks of flats, a dozen schools and more than 100 shop units. But, crucially, it has no residents, and many of the nearby slum-dwellers cannot afford the £75,000 price-tag to move in. Scroll down for video... Empty: It was supposed to be a state-of-the-art city for 500,000 - but eery footage shows how a...

As proven by hundreds of thousands of American scientists, engineers, architects, metallurgists, chemists and demolition experts, this murderous act was an inside job carried out by spy agencies. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=hZEvA8BCoBw&fe ature=player_ embedded http://www.citizeni nvestigationteam .com/news. html http://www.kpfa. org/archive/ id/69875 http://www.kpfa. org/archive/ id/69316 http://www.kpfa. org/archive/ id/69693 http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=8n-nT-luFIw&fe ature=related http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=Sm73wOuPL60&fe ature=related most people still find the 9/11 attacks inexplicable and believe George W. Bush's assertion that, "We did nothing to provoke that terrorist attack." WHY 9/11?, a new video narrated by Daniel A. McGowan, Professor Emeritus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, challenges this assertion and delves deeper into the origin of  those attacks.  view it here:  http://vimeo. com/15528714  

Adopted and and opened for signature, ratification and accession by the UN General Assembly by resolution A/RES/63/117 on 10 December 2008 [ Ratification information ] Preamble The States Parties to the present Protocol , Considering  that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Noting  that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights1 proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, Recalling  that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants ...

LESSONS WE MUST LEARN FROM MATATU INDUSTRY WORKERS E.G. TOUTS. In our modern society there is this category of people who we mostly view from a negative angle yet they have very important lessons for us in our modern career world, dating and relationship games as well as tolerance and endurance in the modern world tough social-economic conditions. We normally blame them for road carnage, rude behavior towards customers (travelers/passengers), road overlapping and causing traffic jams, over charging and hiking fares without notice, and at times roughing travelers to an extent of beating them. But in all these, these guys have very important lessons that we can learn if we are willing to learn from them and apply in real life situations. Read on. Colorful Matatus. UNITY AND HARMONY These people among the so many members of the modern society are among the most united  and  harmonious  people amongst themselves. There is a lot of team work in them. Imagine thi...

Very good news here for victims of economic, social and cultural rights violations; the Optional Protocol the ESCR crossed the required threshold of state ratifications on Tuesday and enters into force on May 5th, henceforth enabling individual complaints against abuses linked to povrty, discrimination and neglect. Pillay welcomes major breakthrough enabling individual complaints on economic, social and cultural rights GENEVA (6 February 2013) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday applauded the upcoming entry into force of a key Protocol to an international treaty which will, for the first time, enable individual complaints on economic, social and cultural rights, thereby helping place all human rights on an equal footing. After crossing the required threshold of state ratifications on Tuesday, the  Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights  will enter into force on 5 May. “The entry i...

Seven years after independence, President Kenyatta issued a quiet decree on the acquisition of beach plots and what came to be known as second-rowplots. Only Coast provincial commissioner Eliud Mahihu could identify andrecommend those who qualified for these plots.The rationale was that Africans needed a leg-up to invest in the lucrativetourist industry and had to be given priority. Patrick Kamotho Githinji Contesting for Central Ward Representative on NARC. http://barazalataifa.blogspot.com/2013/01/its-official-patrick-kamotho-central.html The reality was that those who earned Mr Mahihu’s favour were highly placedpolitical and civil service elites and their business associates.Having very few of their own in the right offices, the coastal communitieslargely missed out on the ensuing scramble for the beach plots, now worthbillions. Coast Province bears the dubious distinction of having the largest numberof squatters in Kenya — an anomaly that did not begi...