Tuesday, 14 August 2012

African News In Brief: Pressure Grows On U.S. Group To Cancel Lavish African Summit


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

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