FT.com / In depth - Africa
ft.com 11/19/2008 — Even in the remotest corners of Africa, pride and expectation were palpable as news of Mr Obama’s victory filtered through. In the northern Zambian copper mining town of Chingola – which, like much of the continent, depends on commodities and ...

World | Africa
africa.reuters.com 11/30/2008 — CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday urged supporters to work on a constitutional reform that would let him stay in office as long he keeps winning elections, a year after voters narrowly rejected this same proposal in a ...

Fox News: Palin didn't know Africa was a continent (video)
youtube.com 11/5/2008 — The Fox Report.

Sarah Palin Thought Africa Was A Country, Not A Continent
wonkette.com 11/6/2008 — WTF? Sarah Palin Thought Africa Was A Country, Not A Continent

News | Africa
africa.reuters.com 12/5/2008 — COPENHAGEN, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A Danish warship rescued a group of suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday after receivnig a distress signal from the ship, which was floundering in heavy seas, the Danish Navy said. The Naval Operational ...

Palin and Africa, Etc.
corner.nationalreview.com 11/8/2008 — I talked to Steve Biegun, the former Bush NSC aid who briefed Sarah Palin on foreign policy, and he considers the leaks against her on the international stuff "absurd." He says there's no way she didn't know Africa was a continent, and whoever is ...

Fox News: Palin Thought Africa Was a Country, Not a Continent
eandppub.com 11/6/2008 — Carl Cameron talking to Bill O'Reilly just now on Fox reveals that McCain aides were truly "shocked" at the "gaps in knowledge" Sarah Palin displayed once they were stuck with her. He said that, in the most startling shortcoming, she...

News | Africa
africa.reuters.com 12/18/2008 — (Adds detail, quotes, byline) By Jane Sutton MIAMI, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The United States sent three Algerian-born prisoners to their adopted homeland of Bosnia on Tuesday in the first release under court order from the U.S. detention center at ...

Sarah Palin 'did not know Africa was a continent', say aides
timesonline.co.uk 11/6/2008 — Sarah Palin spent "tens of thousands" more than the quoted $150,000 on clothes for the Republican campaign, met McCain aides in her hotel room dressed in nothing but a towel, and did not know Africa was a continent, according to new reports. Fox ...

South Carolina diocese stands firm on priest’s warning letter
hotair.com 11/16/2008 — A South Carolina priest who sent a letter warning parishioners who voted for Barack Obama that they may have placed themselves outside of the communion of the Catholic Church has received the backing of his diocese . The Diocese of Charleston agrees ...