Archive for: September, 2023

Meet the mega cultural group with super sounds  

KOFI AYIM At full strength, it is a 35-member ensemble, including 15 female performers. Each one of them plays at least a drum or two and may be an expert in several local, national, and West African cultural dances. Formed on November 11, 2006, by the late Badu Odartey Evans, and by Lawrence Quaye in […]

Sweden: Oil executives on trial over Sudan war crimes

Two former executives at a Swedish oil firm face accusations of complicity in war crimes in present-day South Sudan. The case is expected to be the biggest in Sweden’s history. The former CEO of Swedish oil company Lundin Oil, now known as Orron Energy, went on trial together with the firm’s ex-vice president in Stockholm […]

After Primary, Rhode Island Looks Set to Have Its First Black Member of Congress

Gabriel Amo, a moderate Democrat who served in the Obama and Biden administrations, won a special House primary to succeed Representative David N. Cicilline in the deep-blue state. KAYLA GUO Gabriel Amo, a moderate Democrat who served in the Biden and Obama administrations, won a raucous Democratic special primary election in Rhode Island’s First Congressional […]

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