The Chia Report

Cameroonian Woman Fighting Voodoo in a Minnesota Court

Taking a curse to court

By JAMES WALSH, Star Tribune

December 27, 2008

Mary Nabila Muma did not know where to turn. She believed a woman was using voodoo to steal her husband and ruin her life. ¶ "I am praying that God will use you to wipe my tears which I had [shed] for 6 years now. It is out of frustration and desperation that I file this case," says her lawsuit, filed in federal court. ¶ Over the past several years, Muma has spent thousands of dollars on her wandering ex-husband. She said he claims not to know her now because he is under the love spell of another woman. Muma, a devoutly religious woman, said she prayed for an answer. God told her to seek justice in court. ¶ So Muma now prays that a federal judge will come to her rescue. ¶ What, exactly, can a judge do in her case? For starters, she said, the judge could deport the other woman to Cameroon. Then the judge could put her ex-husband in jail. ¶ "I am ready for him to go to jail," Muma said. "Then this girl will stop the voodoo and he can come back to normal." ¶

Corrupt Chicago Politics Makes Me Feel at Home In Cameroon, Nigeria…

By Innocent Chia

Excepting the frigid glacial snow whether, the skyscrapers with Chicago’s very own Sears Tower, the flyovers and oh…the curse (bleeping***) words, and a few more white faces; news out of Chicago these last 4 days is universalizing corruption and making habitual perpetrators puff their cigars with giddy excitement. Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich is facing mind-boggling charges of corruption to auction the Senate seat vacated by the Junior Senator from Illinois, President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama. While the alleged price-tag of a half million to a million dollars is impressive by any standard, the “pay-to-play” game is the last example that the United States wants for the world to follow, not especially with its bludgeoned global image that seeks redemption. The incoming administration of President-Elect Obama clearly has its work cut out for it. Thankfully, he has never shied away from the the war to regain American lost love with the rest of world. 

 

Better Late than never...Rice Says 'Past Time' For Mugabe To Go

By Innocent Chia (With parts culled from npr.com).

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said this Friday (12/5/08) that it is "well past time" for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to leave office. The tipping point or last straw that broke the camels back and has beckoned the outcry of the international community, via the condemnation of Condoleeza Rice, is the nation's calamitous cholera epidemic and health care crisis. Although many observers and afflicted Zimbabweans see this condemnation as a step in the right direction towards salvation, there is equally surprise that there is not intrepid action to root out Mugabe. Either way, there is a strong sense, in general, that even the lame duck administration of George Bush has looked at Africa with a lot of favor and that no less fervor is expected from an Obama administration.

News Briefs from Africa

The death toll from Zimbabwe's worst recorded cholera epidemic has risen to nearly 500, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Dec. 2, in a sign of the rapidly deepening crisis. The spread of cholera, normally a preventable and treatable disease, highlights the collapse in the once relatively prosperous African nation, where President Robert Mugabe and the opposition are squabbling over how to implement a power-sharing agreement. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's party said talks on the unity government would resume in two weeks. Mugabe's chief negotiator, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, made no comment.