caption: Hope Sullivan-Masters
By Global Information Network (GIN)
Aug. 14 (GIN) The Washington, DC-based Sullivan Foundation is under intense pressure from human rights groups to cancel its planned summit in Equatorial Guinea, West Africa, where the government has been cited for torturing its opponents and many other abuses.
The Foundation, named for the late U.S. civil rights leader, Leon Sullivan, scheduled the summit called Africa Rising in Malabo, the capital city. The venue is a five-star hotel with all the amenities while 60% of local citizens live on less than $ 1 a day, lack running water and have no electricity. According to
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
African News In Brief: Pressure Grows On U.S. Group To Cancel Lavish African Summit
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