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World Ultra Wealth Report 2012 – 2013

From: Yona Maro

Global recovery continues to display signs of weakness. Heightened Eurozone financial market and sovereign distress, stuttering recovery in the U.S. and softer than expected growth in major emerging market economies are the main drivers behind the IMF’s recent adjustment of its forecast for global growth downwards to 3.5% for 2012 and 3.9% for 2013. The two main assumptions that the forecast is founded upon are policy action in the Eurozone that allows financial conditions to ease gradually and recent monetary policy changes in emerging market economies gaining traction.

The continual recurrence of financial market distress leading to sovereign distress and bailout packages that provide temporary relief in the Eurozone heightens the potential for uncontrolled default and Euro exits. Both these scenarios will have a severe impact on global economic growth prospects and wealth growth.

This report is an analysis of global developments and trends in wealth and ultra wealthy populations for 2012 to 2013 based on Wealth-X’s proprietary research.

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Making a Difference Through Geothermal Energy

From: Yona Maro

In this International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, it is important to recognize that energy is a prime driver of economic development, and access to energy has direct positive impacts on the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Inadequate access reduces societies’ opportunities for meeting the basic needs provided by energy services and opportunities for gainful employment.

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Run Up To Kenya’s 2013 General Elections

From: Yona Maro

This document contains a preview of the previous elections in Kenya which caused violence and fragmentation. Questions are raised if Kenya’s next elections to be held on March 4th 2013 are going to be of much difference.
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Web Index 2012

From: Yona Maro

Although the Web has been an important catalyst of social, political and economic change over the past two decades, its impact – both negative and positive – has been unevenly felt both within and across countries. Moreover, there is relatively little public debate on the reasons why some countries have moved faster and more effectively than others to harness the Web as an accelerator of development.

To begin to address this gap, the Index combines existing secondary data with new primary data to rank countries according to their progress and use of the Web. The Index is both an analytical tool for researchers and a resource for policy makers in various sectors, including the public sector, private sector, and NGOs.

The Web Index is a composite measure that summarizes in a single (average) number the impact and value derived from the Web in various countries. There are serious challenges when attempting to measure and quantify some of the dimensions the Index covers (e.g. the social and political), and suitable proxies are used instead. Also, as the Web Index covers a large number of countries, some of which have serious data deficiencies or were not covered by the data providers.

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Declaration of African Government in Exile on the Republic of the United States of Africa

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A Declaration of the African Government in Exile

The Presidency of the Republic of the United States of Africa in exile

Department of the Presidential Press

For Emergency Worldwide Release
Los Angeles, USA
February 14, 2013

Presidential Proclamation – the universal declaration of the republic of the United States of Africa (as federal union of 56 sovereign African states)

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA

A PROCLAMATION

Section 1: The Constitution of the Republic of the United States of Africa and the Congressional decree of the African Continental Congress authorize the President of the Republic of the United States of Africa to proclaim the Republic of the United States of Africa and to inform all African citizens, Diaspora and all the world.

Section2: In proclamation of the November 21, 2009 of the Declaration of the United States of Africa (unification of Africa) the constitution establish the New Republic of Africa as federal union of 56 sovereign African states.

Section 3: As first legal and legitimate President of the Republic of the United States of Africa, I have decided on behalf of suffering and oppressed people of Africa that the New Republic constitutionally defined as federal union of 56 sovereign African states and thousands of local autonomous governments, meet the eligibility requirement of the Democratic, constitutional, international and national law, and also the legal rights of Native Africans. In order to re-establish the natural and legal rights of Native Africans and the people of the Republic of the United States of Africa,

I have decided to proclaim the Republic of the United States of Africa. For this purpose. The articles 1, 2, and 3 of the Constitution of the Republic of the United States of Africa as legitimate and sovereign federal republic, state and government must be enforced worldwide immediately.

Section 4: The Constitution of the Republic of the United States of Africa as amended declare the Native Africans as legal and legitimate owners of African continental land.

Declare foreign interests in Africa as commercial and industrial properties not the rights to own the African land or the country.

Declare all treaties signed on African countries illegal, undemocratic and unconstitutional and authorize the African Congress. National legislature of Africa constitutional power to write treaties and bilateral accords. The Constitution as amended declare the legal and democratic rights of Native Africans to freely determine their own future by establishing a federal republic and state of Africa, a federal union of 56 sovereign African states.

Section 5: The reconstruction of Africa is a global opportunity. The reconstruction of Africa will increase global industrial and economic production, bring together in Africa thousands of Africans and foreign architects, bankers, engineers, investors, contractors and will create more than 500 million jobs in Africa and also on other continents.

Section 6: The Constitution of the Republic of the United States of Africa as amended, authorize the President of the Republic of the United States of Africa today on February 14, 2013 to proclaim the new Republic of the United States as legal, sovereign and legitimate federal republic and state of Africa (a federal union of 56 sovereign African states).

Now therefore, I Theophile Leyamalakoyoh Yockot, legal and legitimate President of the Republic of the United States of Africa, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Law of the Republic of the United States of Africa.

Do hereby proclaim and establish the universal sovereignty of the Republic of the United States of Africa, native Africans and African people on February 14, 2013. The new Republic of the United States of Africa is declared as sovereign, legal, democratic and legitimate state and republic, a federal union of 56 sovereign African states by the power of the natives and African people.

I call upon world leaders, excellencies, majesties and international communities and African states governments and leaders to respect and observe from this February 14, 2013 the natural and democratic rights of Native Africans and the New Republic of the United States of Africa and its people.

In witness whereof, I Theophile Leyamalakoyoh Yockot have here unto set my hand this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our God two thousand thirteen and of the independence of the Republic of the United States of Africa the 2009.

H.E. Theophile Leyamalakoyoh Yockot

First President of the Republic of the United States of Africa and

Chief of African Federal Government-in-exile

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IN CONGRESS, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION
OF THE INDEPENDENCE/THE REPUBLIC OF THE 55 SOVEREIGN STATES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA

Theophile Leyamalakoyoh Yockot
President of Congress
(Deputy/Representative from Gabon)

Jean C. Nana Tchokonte
Secretary General of Congress
(Deputy/Representative from Cameroon)

IN CONGRESS NOVEMBER 21, 2009

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE/REPUBLIC OF THE 55 SOVEREIGN STATES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA

WE THE NATIVE AFRICANS AND THE PEOPLE of the United States of Africa have natural rights and international sovereignty to freely determine our own future and the future of our posterity. Also we have the rights to reunify Africa and to ordain and establish the sovereign independent and indivisible Republic and State of the United States of Africa.

When God created humanity, all human beings are created free, equal and independent in a wonderful earth in which all people will live a happy life. The gift of freedom and the right to life given by God established universal respect for all human kind. This includes the civilization, family, historical origin, race, color, sex and the age. In fact, the refusal for any world government to recognize these natural and modern human rights we force today to establish an absolute separation with the oppressors, pillagers, invaders, violators, tyrants, dictators and those who support them in their inhuman, cruel, greedy, criminality, evils and uncivilized governments and leaders and also to establish the Republic of the United States of Africa.

We, the native Africans and the people of the United States of Africa, own our life and hold these truths to be absolute evidence and a declarative to God and to the whole world that ALL human beings are created free, equal, and independent. However, with different opinions and talents, among these rights are life, freedom, liberty, justice, equality, peace, and the pursuit of happiness. To protect and promote these rights, democratic governments and societies are established with the consent of the people through their representatives. But when any form of government becomes oppressive, dictatorial, and/or destructive, it is the right and power of the people to democratically abolish it and establish a new government based on democratic principles, policies, respect for humankind and human dignity and prosperity for all Africans.

A Government for the People.

BUT, when a perpetual machine of abuses and violations affect our life, development, safety, happiness, peace, and the future of human beings as a free people by God, we have the power and right to change the form of government, international cooperation and relations, and provide a new security for African people, our families and our future. Such has been the long patient suffering of the natives and people of African countries, and such is now the necessary to end all forms of dictatorship, oppression, destruction, inhuman, evils and cruelty in African governments and in illegal international cooperation.

The history of dictatorships, monarchical, greedy and cruel Western European governments, and leaders of France, United Kingdom of Great Britain, China, Italy, The Netherlands (Dutch), Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, Norway, United States of America, United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund as well as the history of dictatorships, monarchical greedy and cruel governments and leaders of African countries have led to the total establishment of cruel and tyrannical powers. These absolute atrocities have led to repeated human suffering and abuses upon natives and free people of Africa.

In Order to Support Our Declaration of Independence, Here Is A Presentation of Evidence of Absolute Atrocities and Abuses by World Powers and African Governments

1. The inhuman and illegal colonial treaties and accords signed especially since 1400 not beneficial to African people or governments. Those treaties do not allow fair trade economic and social development or cultural and political advantage for Africans. Those illegal treaties establish an absolute and total power of western European governments and leaders on African governments, presidents and people. They establish and promote tyranny, wars, corruption, ethnic conflicts and violence, injustice, inequality, dictatorship, poverty and human suffering in Africa.

2. The illegal and undemocratic African constitution and declaration of independence written by 1957 by greedy and cruel Western European governments and leaders and United Nations establish the concentration and centralization of powers in the hand of one person who later will become a dictator and despot. The concentration and centralization of powers establish poverty and ethnic conflicts, division and violence, injustice, inequality, dictatorship, authoritarian, oppression and undemocratic governments and leaders and human suffering for all Africans.

3. The lack of sovereignty in African countries. There is no freedom and human rights afforded to the people. No written constitution or declaration of independence for the national agenda. Africa has been too dependent on inhuman and uncivilized Western European governments and leaders.

4. The lack of a balance of powers between the president and elected officials.

5. There is no open market or a central bank for the government to function economically, which has attributed to the devaluation of African currency and value.

6. Illegal military and economic debts owed to foreign countries and institutions.

7. High international taxes and tariffs.

8. Inflated costs for imported goods forced by international banks.

9. Lack of private ownership of property in Africa by Africans.

10. Isolationism of all Africa and its people.

11. African resources are not owned or operated by Africans but by Western European governments, China, Russia and other countries for their self-enrichment.

12. International supplies of illegal weapons to rebels and warlords by Western European and United States government as well as multi-national corporations.

13. Illegal assassination and imprisonment of leaders trying to create stability in African countries.

14. Dictatorships supported by Western European, United States and the United Nations.

15. Ignorance and greed of educated Africans and military in cooperating with the raping of the African society and economy.

16. The lack of scholars and the intelligence for offering a real plan to stabilize African governments.

17. Lack of national, provincial, local budgets, institutions, and governments.

18. Lack of laws and policies protecting African people.

19. Lack of a viable infrastructure to support any national African economic and development system.

20. The lack of democratic and economic institutions and reforms to carry out social, cultural and economic programs.

21. The lack of separation and balance of power, check and balance, decentralization and transparency between national, provincial and local governments. Also between the President, governors, mayors and prefects.

22. The lack of presidential, executive, legislative and judicial powers.

23. The lack of world democratic organization at United Nations to promote global democracy and prosperity.

24. The global dependency of African nations on Western European, United States and the U.N., IMD, World Bank, etc.

25. The total concentration of power in the hands of dictators (African Presidents).

26. The United Nations does not recognize African countries and its people as being independent and free people but as private properties of Western European governments and leaders

27. The lack of civilized leadership in African countries.

28. The lack of common African currency and economic markets to promote development.

29. The lack of constitutional and democratic powers and duties assigned to elected officials (legislators).

30. Today in Africa, more than 50 million people and children have died because of wars, poverty, ethnic violence, conflicts, and preventable diseases. More than 800 million people and children leave with $1 Afro/dollar a day and do not have any future.

31. There is extreme human suffering and poverty in Africa and all over the world in black communities that need change because all human beings are equal and have the right to live better lives.

32. Political, social, and economic systems established in Africa by greedy Western European governments and leaders, through dictatorships and illegal declarations of independence and illegal constitutions have divided and destroyed millions of African families. Separated parents to their children created a parking of millions of orphans, unemployed and suffering people and children. These same dictatorships, oppressed and destructive governments and leaders have established an extreme despaired society in which the real solution is the immediate establishment of one African federal, democratic and republican state and government, the United States of Africa with the main purpose to end poverty, human suffering, wars, ethnic violence and disease throughout the establishment of republican, democratic, federal, state and local democratic governments, societies, institutions, organizations and reform.

33. More than $700 billions of African money have been stolen by its leaders, their families, their entourage, Western European governments and multinational corporations and are deposited in European, Chinese, and American banks.

34. During 600 years of Western European colonization and post-colonization, oppression, slavery, apartheid, illegal cooperation, tyranny and pillage of the African continent, more than $930.8 trillion has been collected through illegal exploitation of human and natural resources, fraud, customs, taxes, misuse of funds and has been transferred to world banks, industrialized nations of Europe, International Monetary Fund, USA, and China today.

35. All Western Europeans, United Nations, and Chinese government and leaders to maintain African presidents in power and human suffering in Africa have established military bases and an army of mercenaries in African countries to wage wars against poor and innocent natives and people of Africa. They pretend that African countries are former European colonies. People of African countries are natives of Africa not former European colonies.

36. Millions of Africans are separated from their families, children, and continent by international inhuman and cruel immigration law.

37. Every day, thousands of African immigrants, desperate and suffering, abandon their families and children and risk their lives, are jailed or die, trying to reach the United States or Western Europe where they believe they can find a better life or freedom.

38. During six hundred years of Western European colonization and post-colonization in Africa, African people and countries have been paying taxes to Western European governments, without representation in their Parliaments.

39. Today, Western European governments have established a new policy in which African Presidents are replaced by their sons and daughters.

In every street and district of African countries there is human suffering, oppression, dictatorship, poverty, unemployment, bloody wars, ethnic conflicts, humiliation, servitude and undemocratic societies. African people and leaders for change have launched democratic campaigns and called for change and reminded the United Nations and inhuman and cruel Western European, African and Chinese governments and leaders about our suffering. They have refused to recognize and reestablish our full rights as Native Africans, human beings and free people.

By declaring our total separation today, we want to hold them and the rest of the world accountable for human rights abuses, long suffering, tyranny, dictatorship and crime against humanity.

We, therefore, as native Africans, the people and representatives of the United States of Africa assembled in the Continental Congress, in the City of Los Angeles, District of Crenshaw, in the Democratic Republic of the United States of America, appealing to God, the Supreme Judge of the World, our judgment and decision as free and good people of these United States of Africa to ordain and establish a sovereign, legal, free, independent, representative, Democratic, Federal, Republican and Indivisible Republic, State and government of the United States of Africa with separation and balance of powers, checks and balances and total division and decentralization of powers, government and institutions. We the native Africans and the people and representatives of the United States of Africa, in order to end poverty, human suffering, the wars, violence against families, women and children, refugees, famine, ethnic conflicts, illegal domination, unsafe, inhuman, and cruel conditions of the people, human rights abuses, undemocratic government and leaders, tyranny, oppression, abuse of power, monarchical regimes and illegal international cooperation, dictatorship, corruption, and illegal imprisonment of African leaders for change, to restore human dignity and the rights of Africans, to establish better, peaceful African societies and a brighter future for all African natives, African people, immigrants including youth, children and our posterities, to establish the common African foreign and national policies as legal political and economic cooperation and development with all foreign countries based on mutual respect, interests, and equal partnership, to define the foreign interests in Africa as the ownership of intellectual, commercial and industrial properties, but not the ownership of African land, people, governments or the country., to establish justice and equality for all, to form the first African government with multi ethnic group presidential cabinet, supreme court and Congress, to establish and promote the African prosperity. To defend and protect the declaration of independence and the Constitution to establish the rights to vote, citizen Bill of Rights, freedom of religion, the rights of candidates, democratic rights, speech and press, the rights to paid taxes, to peaceful assembly, the rights to petition governments for reforms, to have a trial by jury, to competition contracts, appointments, scholarship, to competitive prosperous, peaceful, civilized and democratic society but prohibited to practices against nature. To establish the independence of judiciary, legislative and election system and equal distribution of African wealth and natural resources to the people and their districts. To establish and promote the NDUMU lingual and Arabic as the official and national languages of the United States of Africa. To establish and promote the industrialization, professionalization, modernization and the democratization of the United States of Africa. Equal and full rights of the people, the state and rules of law, to establish African real socialism and capitalism partnership in which the profit is distributed and redistributed among ALL people, to establish universal health care, housing, education, and a job program for ALL, open, transparent, free, competitive and democratic election for ALL, family, parents, women and children’s rights, open, regulated and free economic market, regulated by the government, to promote and enforce decentralization of government’s power and institutions (Democratic institutions), to establish African treasury, market, stock exchange, the African entertainment industry, the Central Bank and corporation as a safe place to invest, and its currency, “the Ossi”, as a new global safe and trading currency/money (economic institutions), to establish the respect for the Constitution of the United States of Africa (the Presidential, Governorship, Mayoralship, Prefetorship, and Congressional Legislative term limits), and to establish a common Democracy, peace, security, stability, and prosperity for all, Africans. We do ordain and establish the independent, sovereign, representative, Federal and Democratic Republic, State and government of the United States of Africa, a federal perpetual, perfect and indivisible union of 55 sovereign African/Ondouaman states comprised of all Ndumu and Arab African states with (the African federal government, states and locals governments), referendums, elections, districts, legislatures, courts, treasuries, investments and democratic institutions.

We, the native and free people of the United States of Africa, solemnly declare, establish, publish and confirm that these United African states are and have the right to be free democratic and independent states with no ties to Western European and African governments. They are totally dissolved from all allegiance to the British, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Belgium, Netherlands (Dutch), Italian, United Nations and African governments. In fact, all political and illegal connection, treaties, accords, pacts, protocols, signed between the former African countries and the states and governments of France, Great Britain, China, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands (Holland), Italy, Germany, United States of America, African governments, and United Nations are totally dissolved and illegal.

We the people of the United States of Africa totally dissolve all treaties and bilateral agreements/accords, illegal purchase, ownership and sale of African lands, governments and currencies, economic and defense cooperation, signed illegally between former African governments and foreign governments including the Berlin Conference Treaty, the treaty of Windsor, the CFA and the Treaty of Rome. In addition, the Constitution of the United States of Africa and the Declaration of Independence dissolves all treaties signed by traditional tribal chiefs and kings. Such treaties and agreements will be considered illegal and fraudulent. These treaties and agreements were never approved by the African Parliaments or referendums. Finally, these illegal treaties and agreements are the root causes of underdevelopment, undemocratic governments and leaders, poverty, wars, corruption, ethnic conflicts in Africa they establish illegal ownership of Africa by Western European government leadership. The Declaration of the Republic and the Constitution establish the writing of new treaties and accord, approved by African Congress (the National Legislature) and states legislatures, based on equal partnership, joint ventures and stock, mutual respect and interest and equal economic development cooperation with all foreign countries.

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of Africa re-establish and restore the legal sovereignty, the legal right to pursue the legal ownership of Africa, its land and the right of legal property of land, people to native Africans through the government of United States of Africa. The Declaration of the Republic and the Constitution of the United States of Africa paid a direct amount up to $930.8 trillion to the new government of the United States of Africa for restitution and direct settlement for the 610 years of the colonization, slavery, post colonization, apartheid, poverty, wars and crimes against humanity, and illegal taxes paid to Western European governments by native Africans without a representation to Western European parliaments. The money is legal money by the power of the people of the United States of Africa. The money is deposited to the African National Treasury in the reserve bearing account. The money will be used for the reconstruction, modernization and industrialization of Africa. Therefore, as a free and independent republic and state, we, the people of the United States of Africa have the supreme powers and rights to declare our new nation, to promote a common defense, economic, social, general welfare, agricultural, environmental, cultural, scientific, technological, industrial and educational development and policy, to establish stability, peace. To establish and declare the Ossi as new global trading and reserve currency with the dollar, the Euro and the Yuan. To regulate, commerce, trade, cooperation and diplomacy with all foreign countries and among the states of the United States of Africa. To establish and promote the public and private cooperation and partnership, to borrow money on the credit of the United States of Africa, to establish the lease of African land by federal government and the sale only of municipal land by states and local governments except ancestral lands. To establish, capitalize and regulate the African currency, Central Bank, regulated free market, stock exchange, to immediately establish the new government of the United States of Africa, the emergency federal, states and local treasuries, budgets, bonds, investment programs, funds, national tax code, sale taxes, property taxes, tax declarations and refund, the reconstruction plan, the equal, fair and legal treaties, bilateral, agreements, trade, economic and defense cooperation with all foreign countries who recognize and respect the sovereignty of the Republic/people of the United States of Africa, to establish the New Republic of United States of Africa as state of law, and litigate state, also, the respect for human rights and dignity and happiness for all people. To guarantee, protect and exercise the international sovereignty of the New Republic of the United States of Africa, of its states, the autonomy of local governments and democratic institutions, regulated free enterprises, public and private partnership, investment programs, big and great ideas and innovations, to promote African democratic, social and economic reforms by tightening the fiscal and monetary policies, opening African economic market to national, domestic and foreign investors/investments, putting trillion dollars support package, reform African financial, corporate and labor market policies, opening Africa to businesses, reform the public and private financial sectors, boosting domestic growth, lending safely trillion dollars to African investors, entrepreneurs and to the national, states and local banks, joining the organization for economic cooperation and development. To establish and promote the African foreign policy based on equal partnership, mutual respect and interests, and global economic cooperation, the African culture, law, society, history, science, engineering and technology. To determine freely our future, solve our problems, contract alliances, print our currency (money), conclude peace, levy taxes, declare wars and do all things and acts that a free and independent state and nation may have the right to do. In order to support this sacred declaration, we the natives and People of the United States of Africa firmly place our trust to God. We mutually pledge to our one free state and nation, people and each other, our blessing, history, life, family, interests, respect, honor, wealth and our great future.

Representative States of the United States of Africa

1. South Africa 28. Somalia

2. Botswana 29. Swaziland

3. Cameroon 30. Zimbabwe

4. Chad 31. Benin

5. Cote d’Ivoire 32. Burundi

6. Ethiopia 33. Central African Republic State

7. Ghana 34. Congo

8. Kenya 35. Democratic/Republic of Congo State

9. Mali 36. Djibouti

10. Niger 37. Eritrea

11. Saotome and Principe 38. Gambia

12. Sierra Leone 39. Guinea Bissau

13. Sudan 40. Liberia

14. Togo 41. Malawi

15. Zambia 42. Mauritius

16. Angola 43. Namibia

17. Burkina Faso 44. Rwanda

18. Cape Verde 45. Seychelles

19. Comoros 46. Tanzania

20. Equatorial Guinea 47. Uganda

21. Gabon 48. Egypt

22. Guinea 49. Libya

23. Lesotho 50. Tunisia

24. Madagascar 51. Algeria

25. Mozambique 52. Morocco

26. Nigeria 53. Mauritania

27. Senegal 54. Saharawi Democratic Republic State

South Soudan State

DONE IN CONGRESS BY THE UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF REPRESENTATIVES OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES (STATES) PRESENT. THE 21st DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEAR OF GOD TWO THOUSAND AND NINE OF OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

As Representatives whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names and power.

Signature: ________________________________________

Theophile Leyamalakoyoh Yockot
President of Continental Congress
(Deputy/Representative from Gabon)

Signature: ________________________________________

Jean C. Nana Tchokonte
Secretary General of Continental Congress
(Deputy/Representative from Cameroon)

IMPORTANT NOTE

These are lists of some of the important world documents and information and research that have helped us to create and to write the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the Republic and the State of the United States of Africa and to prepare and achieve the unification of Africa in one Democratic State.

In fact, a lot of information here has been used and borrowed to compose these important documents. Also, if you believe that your ideas have been used, please contact Theophile Leyamalakoyoh Yockot, President of the Constitutional Convention, (Deputy/Representative from Gabon) at (323) 962-3440.

REFERENCES

Los Angeles Times

USA Today

New York Times

American Government

Marshall Plan

Wall Street

The World Almanac

The Constitution of the United States (by Floyd G. Gullop)

California Real Estate Finances

Time Magazine

Investor’s Business Magazine

Jeune Afrique Magazine

Newsweek

The Economist

Los Angeles Daily News

Fortune Magazine

U.S. News and World Report Magazine

Forbes Magazine

Los Angeles Sentinel

Wikipedia International

National Geographic

African Business Magazine

The Africa Report Magazine

The New African Magazine

New African Woman Magazine

Ronald Reagan

United Nations Constitution

World Bank

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Ebony Magazine

Black Enterprise Magazine

The functioning of the governments of the United States, Britain, Canada, and Japan.

The Constitution of the State of California, the Municipal Code of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, and the City of Santa Monica.

We also researched many other books, too numerous to mention here.

Copyright 2009: United States of Africa Government

Global Employment Trends 2013

From: Yona Maro

The report examines the crisis in labour markets of both advanced economies and developing economies. The epicentre of the crisis has been the advanced economies, accounting for half of the total increase in unemployment of 28 million since the onset of the crisis.The report estimates the quantitative and qualitative indicators of global and regional labour markets and discusses the macroeconomic factors affecting the labour markets in order to explore possible policy responses. In examining the impact of macroeconomic developments on labour markets, the report looks at negative feedback loops from households, firms, capital markets and public budgets that have weakened labour markets. It finds that macro imbalances have been passed on to the labour market to a significant degree. Weakened by faltering aggregate demand, the labour market has been further hit by fiscal austerity programmes in a number of countries, which often involved direct cutbacks in employment and wages, directly impacting labour markets.

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Attack on Bundestag convoy in Tanzania

From: Yona F Maro

Heavy attack in Africa on six Bundestag Member!

The car convoy of parliamentarians came Friday morning in Zanzibar under fire. A previously unknown perpetrated an attack on the vehicle of the military police with a heavy stone. He smashed the windscreen.

6:45: The convoy with 2 jeeps driving off to the hotel, direction airport. Military police sit in the first car. You should protect the MEPs. The six members of Parliament and the German Ambassador to Tanzania, Klaus-Peter Brandes sitting in the second car.

Shortly before 7 o’clock then the attack. The ambush, approaching a masked, attacked the police jeep with the stone. A pop, the windscreen chips. The car enters the spin.

Instead of stopping, increase the pace of both jeeps and jets–for fear of further attacks. Only, the convoy stops at the airport. The driver gets out of the car, is slightly injured. The MEPs and the Ambassador are intact.

“We had luck in disguise,” the FDP members of Parliament Heinz-Peter Haustein said relieved. “That was a fanatic, who came out of the ambush. It would have are different.”

According to Haustein, who sat second jeep, the bombers could have been also accomplices. “So it was quite right that the convoy is – continued to upset any more people.”

Meanwhile, members of the Parliament are back in Germany. In the afternoon landed their plane in Berlin.

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Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition

From: Yona Maro

This report focuses mainly on human rights abuses associated with the CIA’s post-September 11, 2001, secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations.

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Final Draft of The Zimbabwean Constitution

From: Yona Maro

This document carries the final version of the draft constitution which was approved by the principals to the Global Political Agreement (GPA), from ZANU-PF and the two MDC factions, as well as by the co-chairs of the country’s Constitution Select Committee (COPAC), which led the process and was mandated to ‘ensure a people-driven constitution’.

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The 2012 Global Green Economy Index

From: Yona Maro

Dual Citizen is an international consultancy that advises stakeholders in the global green economy on communications strategy and associated analytics. This is the third edition of their annual Global Green Economy Index (GGEI), an analytic tool designed to help governments, international organizations and investors improve their “green” branding and communications strategies. Specifically, the GGEI evaluates the green reputations of 27 countries as judged by expert practitioners; it then benchmarks these perceptions against Dual Citizen’s proprietary, data-driven measure of national green performance.
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Transforming Education for Girls in Tanzania: Endline Research report

From: Yona Maro

This report is the culmination of 5 years’ work by the Transforming Education for Girls in Nigeria and Tanzania (TEGINT) project partnership, in particular by Maarifa ni Ufunguo, ActionAid Tanzania, the Institute of Education and Professor Ophelia Mascarenhas, who led the endline research and is the author of the full endline research report (unpublished).

This research summary report was compiled and edited by Louise Wetheridge, TEGINT International Project Manager, in November 2012 from the full report authored by Professor Mascarenhas.

The TEGINT project began in January 2008 and ended in December 2012. The project intended to achieve a transformation in the education of girls in Nigeria and Tanzania, enabling them to enrol and succeed in school by addressing key challenges and obstacles that hinder their participation in education and increase their vulnerability to HIV and AIDS. Research was an integral part, contributing to deepening understanding and responsiveness to key issues for girls’ education in Tanzania, Nigeria and internationally, advancing the project’s implementation and influencing advocacy initiatives.

The themes covered by this research report, including girls’ empowerment and attainment, teacher engagement, school management and school levies, remind us of the critical importance of paying attention to perpetual gender gaps and learning from the rich experiences of girls’ education projects such as from TEGINT.
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Graduation Speech : Class of Coxsackie-Athens High School 2010

From: Yona Maro

The following speech was delivered by top of the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010

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Here I stand

There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, “If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to find Zen? The Master thought about this, then replied, “Ten years . .” ?The student then said, “But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast — How long then?” Replied the Master, “Well, twenty years.” “But, if I really, really work at it, how long then?” asked the student. “Thirty years,” replied the Master. “But, I do not understand,” said the disappointed student. “At each time that I say I will work harder, you say it will take me longer. Why do you say that?” ?Replied the Master, “When you have one eye on the goal, you only have one eye on the path.”

This is the dilemma I’ve faced within the American education system. We are so focused on a goal, whether it be passing a test, or graduating as first in the class. However, in this way, we do not really learn. We do whatever it takes to achieve our original objective.

Some of you may be thinking, “Well, if you pass a test, or become valedictorian, didn’t you learn something? Well, yes, you learned something, but not all that you could have. Perhaps, you only learned how to memorize names, places, and dates to later on forget in order to clear your mind for the next test. School is not all that it can be. Right now, it is a place for most people to determine that their goal is to get out as soon as possible.

I am now accomplishing that goal. I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker. While others would come to class without their homework done because they were reading about an interest of theirs, I never missed an assignment. While others were creating music and writing lyrics, I decided to do extra credit, even though I never needed it. So, I wonder, why did I even want this position? Sure, I earned it, but what will come of it? When I leave educational institutionalism, will I be successful or forever lost? I have no clue about what I want to do with my life; I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I’m scared.

John Taylor Gatto, a retired school teacher and activist critical of compulsory schooling, asserts, “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness – curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don’t do that.” Between these cinderblock walls, we are all expected to be the same. We are trained to ace every standardized test, and those who deviate and see light through a different lens are worthless to the scheme of public education, and therefore viewed with contempt.

H. L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not “to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. … Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim … is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States.”

Comment: The full passage reads: “The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever pretensions of politicians, pedagogues other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”

To illustrate this idea, doesn’t it perturb you to learn about the idea of “critical thinking.” Is there really such a thing as “uncritically thinking?” To think is to process information in order to form an opinion. But if we are not critical when processing this information, are we really thinking? Or are we mindlessly accepting other opinions as truth?

This was happening to me, and if it wasn’t for the rare occurrence of an avant-garde tenth grade English teacher, Donna Bryan, who allowed me to open my mind and ask questions before accepting textbook doctrine, I would have been doomed. I am now enlightened, but my mind still feels disabled. I must retrain myself and constantly remember how insane this ostensibly sane place really is.

And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporatism and materialism or insist on change. We are not enlivened by an educational system that clandestinely sets us up for jobs that could be automated, for work that need not be done, for enslavement without fervency for meaningful achievement. We have no choices in life when money is our motivational force. Our motivational force ought to be passion, but this is lost from the moment we step into a system that trains us, rather than inspires us.

We are more than robotic bookshelves, conditioned to blurt out facts we were taught in school. We are all very special, every human on this planet is so special, so aren’t we all deserving of something better, of using our minds for innovation, rather than memorization, for creativity, rather than futile activity, for rumination rather than stagnation? We are not here to get a degree, to then get a job, so we can consume industry-approved placation after placation. There is more, and more still.

The saddest part is that the majority of students don’t have the opportunity to reflect as I did. The majority of students are put through the same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it. I will never be able to turn back these 18 years. I can’t run away to another country with an education system meant to enlighten rather than condition. This part of my life is over, and I want to make sure that no other child will have his or her potential suppressed by powers meant to exploit and control. We are human beings. We are thinkers, dreamers, explorers, artists, writers, engineers. We are anything we want to be – but only if we have an educational system that supports us rather than holds us down. A tree can grow, but only if its roots are given a healthy foundation.

For those of you out there that must continue to sit in desks and yield to the authoritarian ideologies of instructors, do not be disheartened. You still have the opportunity to stand up, ask questions, be critical, and create your own perspective. Demand a setting that will provide you with intellectual capabilities that allow you to expand your mind instead of directing it. Demand that you be interested in class. Demand that the excuse, “You have to learn this for the test” is not good enough for you. Education is an excellent tool, if used properly, but focus more on learning rather than getting good grades.

For those of you that work within the system that I am condemning, I do not mean to insult; I intend to motivate. You have the power to change the incompetencies of this system. I know that you did not become a teacher or administrator to see your students bored. You cannot accept the authority of the governing bodies that tell you what to teach, how to teach it, and that you will be punished if you do not comply. Our potential is at stake.

For those of you that are now leaving this establishment, I say, do not forget what went on in these classrooms. Do not abandon those that come after you. We are the new future and we are not going to let tradition stand. We will break down the walls of corruption to let a garden of knowledge grow throughout America. Once educated properly, we will have the power to do anything, and best of all, we will only use that power for good, for we will be cultivated and wise. We will not accept anything at face value. We will ask questions, and we will demand truth.

So, here I stand. I am not standing here as valedictorian by myself. I was molded by my environment, by all of my peers who are sitting here watching me. I couldn’t have accomplished this without all of you. It was all of you who truly made me the person I am today. It was all of you who were my competition, yet my backbone. In that way, we are all valedictorians.

I am now supposed to say farewell to this institution, those who maintain it, and those who stand with me and behind me, but I hope this farewell is more of a “see you later” when we are all working together to rear a pedagogic movement. But first, let’s go get those pieces of paper that tell us that we’re smart enough to do so!

Very well said, young lady!

Larry

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Sustaining community action. Strategy 2013 – 2020

From: Yona Maro

This new global strategy articulates our determination and our strengths as an Alliance.

It has been developed through wide consultation with Linking Organisations and other partners, and has been approved by our international board of trustees.

The strategy provides high-level direction and sets 17 ambitious but measurable goals for the whole Alliance. The targets have been set up until 2015, at which point we will review our progress and revise the goals up until 2020 accordingly.

Linking Organisations will use this strategy – together with their own national plans – to shape their future strategies. The international secretariat will use it to develop our operational plan.
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Sudan: Resolving the Abyei Crisis

From: Yona Maro

The report calls for the resolution of the dispute over Abyei, a resource-rich region straddling South Sudan and Sudan. After the Enough Project traveled to the region and conducted interviews with member of Abyei’s two communities in December 2012, the urgency of resolving the disputed territory’s status and subsequently preventing violence during this year’s dry season became even more apparent.

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Global Risks 2013

From: Yona Maro

The Global Risks Report 2013 analyses 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections, based on a survey of over 1000 experts from industry, government and academia.

This year’s findings show that the world is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to tackle environmental challenges. The report highlights wealth gaps (severe income disparity) followed by unsustainable government debt (chronic fiscal imbalances) as the top two most prevalent global risks.
Link: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalRisks_Report_2013.pdf


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Beyond Theory: e-Participatory Budgeting and its Promises for eParticipation

From: Yona Maro

This paper concerns the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a strategy for reinforcing democratic processes -broadly defined as “electronic democracy” practices -and focuses on the use of ICTs in participatory democracy initiatives. By considering the experience of the e-Participatory Budgeting (ePB) in the city of Belo Horizonte (Brazil), the aim is to understand some of the possible prospects and limitations offered by ICTs in participatory processes at the local level. Given that citizen participation in the process of allocation of budgetary resources is becoming increasingly common in Europe and elsewhere, the Belo Horizonte case should be of particular interest to practitioners and academics working in the domain of eParticipation.
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Can Transparency Transform Mineral Wealth into Wellbeing?

From: Yona Maro

This paper provides a critical assessment of the linkages between mineral governance and economic development.
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10 bold ideas for ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic

From: Yona Maro

When Celine, a housewife in West Cameroon, was diagnosed with HIV six years ago, she signed up to be part of a clinical trial that gave her the antiretroviral drugs she needed, for free.

However, when doctor and clinical researcher Boghuma Kabisen Titanji met Celine five years later, she had gone without antiretrovirals for a year and a half. She had little understanding of what the clinical trial she had been a part of was studying. Meanwhile, she couldn’t afford a bus ticket to the local health clinic, and was too sick to walk there.

Celine’s case hammered home an important question for Titanji: What happens to research subjects after the research is over?

As Titanji explain in today’s talk, filmed at TEDxGoodenoughCollege, HIV researchers have a wide variety of reasons for choosing to do research in sub-Saharan Africa rather than in their countries of origin. The first reason: because 70% of the approximately 30 million people with the disease live in the region. But there are other factors, too, less high-minded ones: because review of clinical research is far less stringent there, because the poor populations there are likely to sign on for any offer of medical assistance, and because there is a far lower risk of litigation there. Whatever the reason for doing research in sub-Saharan Africa, Titanji wants to make that researchers recruit their test subjects and take care of them with proper respect.

“I do not stand here today to suggest in any way that conducting HIV clinical trials in developing countries is bad. On the contrary, clinical trials are extremely useful tools and are much needed … However the inequalities that exist between richer countries and developing countries in terms of funding pose a real risk for exploitation,” Titanji says. “How do we ensure that in the search for the cure we do not take an unfair advantage of those who are already most affected by the pandemic?”

To hear the four areas that Titanji suggests researchers think deeply about before conducting studies, watch her talk. And after the jump, 9 more powerful talks with ideas for rethinking — and hopefully stopping — the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Emily Oster flips our thinking on AIDS in Africa
The traditional thinking goes: encourage people to abstain and use condoms, and AIDS will disappear. But in this talk from TED2007, economist Emily Oster challenges this idea, pointing out that this logic only holds in areas where people feel that they are likely to lead a long, healthy life. Oster gives a surprising answer for how to actually change behavior and roll back new HIV infections — by dedicating resources to solving the other health problems that lead to low life expectancy in Africa.

Shereen El-Feki: HIV — how to fight an epidemic of bad laws
At the TEDxSummit in Doha, TED Fellow Shereen El-Feki tells the story of a man who was deported … for being HIV positive. Apparently, 50 countries around the world still have laws that allow for this. In this impassioned, talk El-Feki brings attention to the epidemic of bad HIV laws, which effectively criminalize having the disease and draw it underground.

Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV
A disproportionate number of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa and, yet, doctors are scarcer here than anywhere else in the world. At TEDGlobal 2010, Mitchell Besser shares an initiative to train HIV-positive mothers in the area to support and take care of each other, as well as to educate their communities about the disease.

Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV — let’s get rational
Self-proclaimed “public-health nerd” Elizabeth Pisani knows that there are two things that make people act irrationally: sex and addiction. At TED2010, she shares what’s she learned working with at-risk populations — that counter-intuitive measures could dramatically prevent new cases of HIV.

Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals
Data master Hans Rosling says that HIV is one of the most misunderstood diseases out there. In this talk from TED2009, Hans Rosling “plays” the HIV epidemic in a moving graph, which gives a new understanding of what can be done to halt deaths from the disease. The key: stopping new transmissions.

Seth Berkley: HIV and flu — the vaccine strategy
When will there be a vaccine for HIV? At TED2010, epidemiologist Seth Berkley shares that we are getting closer because of leaps and bounds advances in the understanding of how vaccines work. Watch for a look at the mechanics of a potential HIV vaccine.

Kristen Ashburn’s photos of AIDS
This talk shows the human toll of the AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe. At TED2003, documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn shows her heartbreaking and beautiful images of people — many of them women and children — living their lives with AIDS.

Amy Lockwood: Selling condoms in the Congo
HIV is a huge problem in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Aid organizations have flooded the country with condoms — but only three percent of people are using them. At TEDGlobal 2011, former marketer Amy Lockwood points out that the messages on the packaging for these condoms stresses fidelity, health and prudence — not exactly the things on people’s minds when they’re thinking about whether to use a condom.

Annie Lennox: Why I am an HIV/AIDS activist
Best known for her music, at TEDGlobal 2010, Annie Lennox shares what inspired her to devote her life to raising money and awareness to combat HIV and AIDS through her campaign, SING. Spoiler alert: it was the words of Nelson Mandela.

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From Poverty to Power : How active citizens and effective states can change the world

From: Yona Maro

From Poverty to Power, 2nd Edition argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets, rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid, is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. Active citizens and effective states are driving this transformation. Why active citizens? Because people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny and holding the state and the private sector to account. Why effective states? Because history shows that no country has prospered without a state structure that can actively manage the development process. There is now an added urgency: climate change. We need to build a secure, fair, and sustainable world within the limits set by scarce resources and ecological realities.

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Obstacles between Tanzanian organic spice farmers and the European market

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Most of the population in Tanzania, ca 80%, live in a reality of farming. In practice this means farming by hand, using a hoe, and depending on the rains to water the crops. Farmers typically use some of their crop for their own food and sell some in the local market, or sell to middlemen who pay very low prices and take the profits themselves. Cash crops for exports tend to be grown on large farms, benefiting only a few. Many crops that small farmers can grow and that could be exported are bulky or perishable and cheap, so that the prices can’t cover the cost of transport. But there is a crop that is easy to grow on marginal soil, light, valuable and in increasing demand in Europe: organic spices.

Tanzania grows enough spices for the entire East African region: they are sold on as far as Comoros, the DRC and Zambia. Zanzibar is known as ‘the Spice Island’ and its cuisine reflects the Tanzanian spice harvest: cardamon, cinnamon, chili, vanilla, turmeric, ginger, cloves and black pepper are delicious to eat and valuable to sell. However, African and Asian traders and consumers are looking for cheap spices without necessarily caring about high quality. European consumers, on the other hand, are conscious of the effects of their purchases on the environment, their health and the living standards of producers, and are willing to pay more for organic and fair trade products. Most spices don’t grow in Europe, so they have to be imported. Europeans are changing their eating habits and cooking with more spices. So wouldn’t it be great for African small-scale spice farmers to sell organic spices to Europe?

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