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PROPHETIC: The Obama Prophesy That Shall Tell All this world I the Lord thy God Am truly alive!

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By Reverend Lainie Dowell, Five-Fold Minister
Received by the hand of God unto His Servant, USA    

The matter is settled. The matter is settled. America has heard My voice, saith the Lord, but the Americans have not attended to My reply to their prayers. The nation is overruled by lawless leaches who desire to suck the blood out of the people. Their own blood shall flood the streets, because they have made a mockery out of the Lord’s voice to the entire world and not just America.

Therefore, My hand shall come down hard upon that man and woman called Barack and Michelle Obama. And then say I the Lord thy God did not do it. I shall. Surely shall.

Thus saith the Lord God! More than ever, it is My voice in the midst of the madness of the earth. For yet once more shall I call upon My Servant and let her be among the most able of them all to put a message on the table of the earth. Then let them say that I the Lord thy God hath not done it.

The fullest ever message and the even more fullest ever plausible response, saith the Lord God of all the universe.

Michelle and Barack Obama have outsmarted themselves, because of their failure to believe the God of America would never allow either of them to come into the Oval Office and destroy the nation! It is too late for them to be excused. The hand of God has descended. The Lord God’s Hand Has caught the two in the midst of their gaiety and godless lifestyle.

The Lord God Has Mandated and Has Decreed And So It Shall Be. Their Plans Shall Be Crushed! Stomped into Dust! No More Shall Americans Weep and Wail in My Hearing, because of them. And, all who have not been attentive to hear My voice in the earth, saith the Lord God, shall — surely shall — know it is I the Lord God and none other who has awakened My Servant early and sent a Word in her spirit.

Thus saith the Lord.

America and Israel. — The nation awaits My response and, yet, rejects My voice when I call. Hear yet this Word and then say I the Lord thy God hath not spoken it. All the world has shaken the faith of My people, saith the Lord God. Yet America and Israel have remained the apple of My eye. The planned attack against them shall never succeed, saith the Lord. And those who proceed to come against them shall feel the full force of My own hand, saith the Lord God.

BEWARE THE HORN OF AFRICA! FOR, I THE LORD THY GOD HAVE BEGUN THE WEEDING AND ALL gnats shall descend upon that land and overtake its fullest ever command over it. In that day shall they look and tremble at that sight and know I the Lord thy God hath done it and not another.

AMERICA! Oh My people and all shall hear it. I have loved you from your birth and I shall never allow you to be aborted. The fighter and the fight commences. If I the Lord thy God Am not in it, then tell Me this? Who has held back all of the winter and brought the earliest springtime? God has forged His hand upon those who decline to hear and obey. Then so be it.

America shall surely see all of the hand of God move and destroy all of her destroyers in the midst of My people.

Route them now! Angelic Hosts of Heaven descend and route them from My sight, saith the Lord God. For, for all of My faithless people shall not stand before My face and yet live, saith the Lord.
2012 SHALL BE THE YEAR OF THE CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE!

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The IMF predicts average growth of 5.5 percent for Africa in 2012

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AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012

The IMF predicts average growth of 5.5 percent for Africa in 2012

WASHINGTON,  – The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and encourage peace and security.

AU Ambassador to the United States, Amina Ali of Tanzania, presented the list of top priorities at a conference on 11 January held at Washington think-tank, the Brookings Institution.

Among them were the regulars – peace and security, enhanced democracy and good governance – as well as improved regional trade and greater involvement of the continent’s large diaspora in African affairs.

The first priority for Africa was the AU’s resolve to review its international partnerships to ensure they bring greater benefits to Africa.

“We are working to be able to build closer partnerships with our international partners so that Africa can really attain a sustainable economy,” Ali told the conference.

The AU wants Africa to manufacture and export finished products to its trading partners rather than just selling them the raw materials as it does now. She cited China, India, the EU and US and other rising stars in trade with the continent, including Turkey and Latin America, and said the AU had held talks on the new breed of partnerships with some of them.

The AU also wants Africa to have a veto-wielding seat on the UN Security Council, and a place at the G20 negotiating table, Ali said.

The peace and security that have eluded Africa for decades continue to be high on the list of problems that the continent needs to resolve, but she spoke only of conflict in Sudan. “The AU will continue to look into issues for Sudan,” Ali said.

A report released at the conference, Foresight Africa, highlighted other tinderboxes and called for “urgent instability and warfare policy reviews” to meet the challenges the continent faces in not only Sudan but also in Somalia and Nigeria.

The report compares the instability in Africa to the decade-old US-led war in Afghanistan, and warned that if “the current trend continues”, a swathe of Africa, stretching from the Horn to Nigeria, “is likely to experience increasing instability and warfare, while narratives of jihadist revolt and terrorist technologies circulate among its citizens”.

AU wish-list for 2012
Revamped international partnerships to bring more benefits to Africa
Peace and security
Good governance and a better democratic process
Fewer internal trade barriers leading to an Africa-wide free trade zone
Greater involvement in African affairs for the diaspora
Improved food security

The unrest could affect Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan, Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia, the report says. Clearly, the AU has to do more than just supervise goings-on in Sudan and its new neighbour, South Sudan.

The AU also pledged to “review the mechanism for democratic process in Africa” after the wake-up call from the uprisings in the Arab world, including North Africa, a year ago, Ali said.

The AU will press member states to sign a charter ratified by the AU assembly in 2007, which aims to strengthen democracy and good governance in Africa, she said.

The charter was inspired in part by concern that “unconstitutional changes of governments” are a key cause of insecurity and “violent conflict” in Africa, and by a determination to “strengthen good governance through the institutionalization of transparency, accountability and participatory democracy”.

As of November last year, 38 of the AU’s 54 member states had signed the charter, but only 10 had ratified it. It is notable that nearly all the countries in the areas of Africa that are “likely to experience increasing instability and warfare” have signed the charter, with the exception of Somalia and Eritrea in the east and Cameroon in the west.

Food security

The AU will take steps to establish “food reserves” that give areas that face drought a “cushion” against famine, said Ali. She also voiced fears that parts of west Africa could be hit by drought this year, highlighting the need to rapidly establish food reserves – a tough challenge in a time of high food prices and an economic crisis in Europe, which has hit Africa.

Africa also has to “secure access to markets and competitive prices for farmers” or “risk inciting unrest” and food riots, the Foresight Africa report says.

AU officials will push in 2012 to establish a free trade zone that spans the length and breadth of the continent, Ali said. It would boost commerce between countries, a key step towards development.

At present, less than 15 percent of African trade stays on the continent – the rest is sold abroad.

The last item on the AU wish-list is greater involvement of the African diaspora, said to outnumber Africans at home, in the continent’s affairs.

The AU is due to host an African diaspora summit in May, Ali said.

Ali stressed the importance of the diaspora to the continent: remittances represent a larger revenue source for Africa than overseas development aid.

kdz/oa/mw source www.irinnews.org

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Lost opportunity for help: At least three million people in southern and central Somalia depend on humanitarian aid

Posted by African Press International on January 13, 2012

SOMALIA: ICRC suspends aid deliveries

At least three million people in southern and central Somalia depend on humanitarian aid

NAIROBI,  – One of the few aid agencies excluded from a ban imposed by Al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia has suspended food and seed distributions to 1.1m people in the south and centre of the country after local authorities repeatedly blocked its deliveries.

“The suspension will continue until we receive assurances from the authorities controlling those areas that distributions can take place unimpeded and reach all those in need, as previously agreed,” said Patrick Vial, the head of the ICRC delegation for Somalia, in a statement released on 12 January.

Without specifically mentioning Al Shabaab, which controls most of the region, the ICRC said deliveries intended for 240,000 people in the Middle Shabelle and Galgaduud had been blocked since mid-December 2011.

“We are actively seeking the cooperation of the local authorities to restore conditions that will allow the resumption of the suspended activities as soon as possible,” Vial said.

Some three million people in southern and central Somalia are need of humanitarian assistance because of the combined effects of drought and conflict. Of these up to 250,000 still live in famine conditions, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF), which launched operations against Al-Shabaab in Somalia in October, appealed for more humanitarian assistance to be provided to areas it had captured.

“We are calling on international organizations with the ability to provide humanitarian aid in areas under KDF/TFG [Transitional Federal Government of Somalia] control to do so,” Maj Emmanuel Chirchir told IRIN.

Currently, Chirchir said, KDF/TFG and Ethiopian forces control parts of Gedo region and several supply routes in the south.

“The environment exists for aid work in areas and supply routes controlled by KDF/TFG because KDF/TFG can provide escort to aid workers; the aid agencies have to iron out with KDF/TFG ways and means of guaranteeing the security of aid workers,” he said.

According to OCHA Somalia spokesman Russell Geekie, “Decisions about where humanitarians operate are based on need and the prevailing security situation so organizations are monitoring the situation closely.”

Another senior humanitarian official told IRIN: “”Aid agencies are continually reassessing security in Somalia and do operate wherever it is safe enough. But they generally avoid being associated with any armed group, to demonstrate their neutrality.”

“We cannot eat security”

Haji Hiifow, a resident of the town of Buurgabo, 90km from the Kenyan border and which is under the control of combined Kenyan and TFG forces, said the area was still reeling from the effects of a prolonged drought and has not recovered yet, despite the recent rains.

Hiifow said area residents and internally displaced people (IDPs) who fled to Buurgabo from other towns were facing food shortages. He said that there was no aid agency operating in the area.

Although the town was relatively secure now, Hiifow said, “we cannot eat security; we need something to eat and medical help”.

Js/am
source www.irinnews.org

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