Sep 11, 2015 Hundreds of Somalian women recently took to the streets of Mogadishu in protested against the militant group, Al-Shabab. Gathered with the common purpose of condemning terrorism, the women sent a clear message to Al-Shabaab, saying; “your time is over”. With over 500 Somali women in attendance, the rally garnered support for the ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 The Euromoney Egypt Conference recently held in Cairo. The two day event, which was tagged “Financing the Future”, was the 20th installment of the annual financial summit. According to the conference’s website, the two day event focused on the role of investors in the country’s financial future. Speaking at the event’s opening, ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 South Koreans who were separated from their family members in the North by the Korean War recently welcomed an agreement reached by the two Korean governments to hold family reunions. The agreement came on the heels of a recent armed confrontation between the two Korean countries. The family reunion was necessitated after ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 Japanese stocks recently took a dip, taking the benchmark Nikkei index into negative territory. This occurred after soft trade data out of China evoked concerns over the economic health of the Asian giant. Defensive shares such as drug makers and food companies were battered; a sharp reversal of their spectacular outperformance earlier ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 According to Libyan authorities, no less than 100 migrant, heading to Europe, were recently detained after arriving at the port of Tripoli. The migrants, who consisted of various nationalities, were apprehended as they prepared to make the dangerous sea-crossing to Europe in an inflatable dinghy. Ashram Badri, head of the Tripoli coast ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 During the 4th Annual Biosafety Conference, Kenya’s vice president William Ruto recently announced that within two months the ban on Genetically Modified Foods will be lifted. The announcement re-igniting debates over biosafety in a country where 75 percent of its population rely on agriculture for sustenance. Kenya had set up a biosafety ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 Ahead of the papal visit in late September, Fidel and Raul Castro have reconcile relations with the Church after declaring Cuba an atheist state. Baptized as Roman Catholics and educated by Jesuits, Fidel and Raul Castro turned against the Church after seizing power in the 1959 revolution. The Castro brothers went on ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 The International Paralympic Committee recently marked the one year countdown to the start of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with a two-day festival. The event, which was organized to get people into the spirit of the games, also marked the Brazilian Independence Day. The festival featured the official start ... Read More
Sep 9, 2015 Liberia was recently declared Ebola- free by the World Health Organization for the second time. According to UN health agency, the declaration ushered in a 90-day period of heightened surveillance aimed at preventing the re-emergence of the disease. Over 11,000 people have died in West Africa since the outbreak of the Ebola ... Read More
Sep 9, 2015 In trending news, Ebonylife TV’s movie “Fifty” is still generating major traffic both on traditional and social media. The most recent of which saw American based cable and satellite television channel CNN tweeting about it. The tweet which reads:” Brand new film by @MoAbudu and @BiyiBandele wants to show African women like ... Read More
