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Echoes of the 100 Most Influential Africans in Germany:Dr. Alemazung Dr. Alemazung holds double MA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and a PhD in Political Science on the States Constitution, Political Transformation and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa from the University of Kiel, Germany. Currently Dr. Alemazung is the Project manager for the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria at Engagement Global gGmbH, an institution under the federal ministry of economic cooperation and development in Germany in charge of civic and political education in German federal states. He is also an associate lecturer at the University of…

Meet the 100 most influential Africans in Germany 2014 It  is another year and  another edition of 100 most influential Africans in Germany. We are keeping faith of the tradition which started in 2006 after the publishing of our 50 prominent Africans in Germany. We then moved up to the 100 most influential Africans in Germany which was first published in 2009. As usual, one out of these 100 nominees would eventually emerge as the African Man of the Year in Germany. This person is usually selected under thorough scrutiny by the editorial team. This special edition which normally generates…

Diaby Karamba: African Man of the Year Germany 2014 The Marsassoum, Senegal-born politician came to Germany on a scholarship in 1985. After a  the one-year language course at the University of Leipzig, Diaby gained an adminission into the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, where he studied chemistry. He graduated in 1991 with an MSc. Degree. Five years later, he bagged a PhD. from same University. In 1996, he joined the Eine-Welt-Haus (One World House) as Project Co-ordinator, a position he held until 2001. Later, he moved to the DAA (Deutsche Angestellten-Akademie) Halle, an Adult Continuous Education centre, where he was in…

The Jihad Against Boko! Civilians Kill 200 Boko Haram Terrorists In Borno Attack The rise of the civilians against terror took the Boko Haram saga to a new turn in the early hours of Tuesday morning when citizens of Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge local government area, Borno northeast, who had fore-knowledge of an impending Boko Haram attack, decided not to remain sitting ducks but prepared for battle. According to reports we received from Civilian sources in Borno, over 400 Boko Haram terrorists stormed Rann and neighboring villages in the early hours of Tuesday, with their usual convoy of hilux trucks,…

PRESS RELEASE                                                                                      Date: 12/05/2014 Boko Haram cannot and must not be allowed to keep the country and Nigerians on hold: A joint Statement on Security Challenges in Nigeria by Nigerians In Diaspora Organization (NIDO) Germany and Concerned Nigerians Germany We wish to express our profound outrage and condemn in the strongest terms the twin bombing at Nyanya in Abuja suburb that claimed the lives of scores of person, the abduction of more than 200 school girls on April 14 in the north-eastern town of Chibook and other senseless and evil onslaught against…

Dr. Brimah will Fight Boko Haram; Asks President Jonathan for Executive Authorization 26th April, 2014 Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, GCON Secretary to the Government of the Federation For onward transmission to the President, Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Request For Executive Authorization to Recruit, Mobilize, Train and Deploy Concerned Volunteers Against the Boko Haram Insurgency Dear Mr. President, Following our call on April 23rd, 2014, we have been inundated by responses from thousands of Nigerians, who have been saying one thing and only one thing: we will go and fight…

African Heritage Media Network feiert 10jähriges Jubiläum – Festwoche zum Thema “Afrikanische Migranten in Medien und Politik” Hamburg, den 5. Mai 2014 – Zum zehnjährigen Bestehen veranstaltet das Medien-Netzwerk African Heritage Media aus Hamburg vom 12. bis 18. Mai 2014 eine Veranstaltungsreihe, die das Leben und den Alltag Migranten, von Deutschen mit afrikanischen Wurzeln und von farbigen Deutschen in Politik, Medien und Arbeitswelt beleuchtet. Den Anfang macht am Montag die Podiumsdiskussion “Migranten in deutschen Medien – was hat sich geändert.” Am Donnerstag wird die Veranstaltungsreihe fortgesetzt mit dem Thema “Die Rolle von Migrantinnen und Migranten in der kommunalen Entwicklungspolitik”. Auf…

Our Plan To Wage Jihad To Free The Abducted 200 Girls Assalamualaykum, We engage in Jihad (Struggle, Strive) with Boko Haram because of the destruction of villages, Government properties, the kidnappings of our brothers and sisters and the killing of innocent people in Nigeria. It is written in Holy Quran 22:39:40,  Allah(s) Declares in the Quran: Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory. 40. [They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right – only because they say, “Our…

Neuer Preis ausgelobt Kommune bewegt Welt – Der Preis für herausragende kommunale Beispiele zu Migration und Entwicklung (foto:Kameran Shwani) Bonn, 7. April 2014. Städte, Landkreise und Gemeinden engagieren sich vielfältig für eine global nachhaltige Entwicklung, oft unterstützt von zivilgesellschaftlichen Initiativen und zunehmend auch von Migrantenorganisationen. Dieses gemeinsame Engagement sichtbar zu machen und zu fördern ist das Ziel des Wettbewerbs, den die  Engagement Global gGmbH – Service für Entwicklungsinitiativen 2014 erstmals auslobt. Mit Preisen von insgesamt 50.000 Euro werden nun erstmals herausragende Beispiele ausgezeichnet. Bewerbungsschluss ist 4. Juli 2014. Vielerorts arbeiten Kommunen, Migrantenorganisationen und Eine-Welt-Akteure bereits zusammen: in…

US: African Star Amida Brimah’s UConn Wins NCAA Basketball National Title Monday April 7th, the University of Connecticut basketball team, the UConn Huskies defeated the Kentucky Wildcats 60-54 to win the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Final four title as the best college team in the United States. The UConn Huskies were the underdogs in this competition and no one saw their win coming. Among the super UConn team was college freshman, Amida Brimah, #35, standing tall at 7 feet; the team Center. Averaging 2.3 shot-blocks, he is a powerful defensive center. Born 1994, Amida, 18, who only moved to…