Obama orders deployment of US troops to Cameroon

The US Defense Department (DOD) began deployment of at least 300 additional troops to the West African country of Cameroon this week, the White House announced on Wednesday. The troops will help the Cameroonian army to fight the Islamists known as Boko Haram.

Pope Francis visits the US

"Our common home has been part of this group of the excluded which cries out to heaven and which today powerfully strikes our homes, our cities and our societies ... To use a telling phrase of the Rev. Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory

Paul Kagame and Museveni, Augus 2013

The United States will not support African dictators bent on changing the constitutions of the countries to allow themselves to cling onto power, the US State Department said in a statement on Friday, September 4, 2015 by State Department Spokesperson John Kirby . The statement condemned Rwanda’s Parliament and President Paul Kagame for the decision to " establish a Constitutional Reform Commission that may amend or remove executive term limits and permit President Kagame to seek a third term in 2017."

The statement by the US State Department immediately drew a scathing reply from the self styled Rwandan Foreign Minister, Louise

President Obama Greets Young People in Kenya

"A politics that's based solely on tribe and ethnicity is a politics that's doomed to tear a country apart," said President Obama during a speech in Kenya. "It s a failure, a failure of imagination." President Obama spent the week-end in Kenya on a visit aimed to deepen U.S. alliances with Kenya on trade, terrorism and wildlife protection.

Apologizing for not visiting his relatives as the traditional customs would require, he referred to the obligations of political officials

South Carolina Rep Jenny Horne asking the House to take the Confederate flag down

She is the descendent of a confederate President and she has been instrumental in taking down the flag of hate and racism.
Yes, the South Carolina House voted on Thursday morning to approve a bill removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds. The bill almost failed to pass. The debate lasted more than 13 hours.

Then, in an emotional 4-minute plea, Rep. Jenny Horne, a Republican state representative and descendant of Confederate President

US Supreme Court ACA ruling celebration

Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act, PPACA or known as Obamacare, has once again survived the challenge from Republicans, after  a 6-3 decision ruling by the US Supreme Court, or SCOTUS.  Obamacare will be the health care law that will solidify President Barack Obama's legacy for generations to come.

The ruling was about the provision in the PPACA authorizing federal tax credits for eligible Americans, whether they live in states