The world must do more to unleash Africa’s full potential in agriculture, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said while also urging the continent’s leaders and development partners to combat growing social and economic inequalities. “Greater equity presents a common challenge to the continent as a whole and can help foster peace and stability,” Secretary-General […]
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by Husseini Yushau BabalWaiz The recent kidnapping of the 276 Nigerian school girls by the Islamist group—Boko Haram, (a phrase in Hausa language that means; western education is unlawful) has generated immense passion and attention from around the world. The media attention has been obsessive and viral. The hash tag created on social media; #Bring […]
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MAMDOUH THABET, The Associated Press MINYA, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian judge sentenced to death the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader and 682 other people Monday in the latest in a series of high-stakes mass trials that have been unprecedented in scope, drawing sharp condemnation from international rights groups. The verdicts — which were appealed by […]
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by Adeleke Mainasara Education Ministers in Africa are key to Africa’s rising to occupy its place in the global arena, Dr. Martial De-Paul Ikounga, Commissioner for Human Resources Science and Technology (HRST) of the AU said at the opening of the Sixth Ordinary Session of the Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union […]
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Some of the schoolgirls abducted by suspected militant Islamists in northern Nigeria are believed to have been taken to neighbouring states, a local leader has told the BBC. Pogo Bitrus said there had been “sightings” of gunmen crossing with the girls into Cameroon and Chad. Some of the girls had been forced to marry the […]
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US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday May 2 made a surprise visit to South Sudan where a power struggle between supporters of President Salva Kiir and his rival, former deputy president Riek Machar, has been raging since December 2013. Both sides have been accused of widespread atrocities. Before Kerry met with President Kiir, […]
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and private collections, out of the reach of their true owners’ hearts, minds and memories. In a recently-released film, The Monuments Men, in which a group of Second World War soldiers embark upon a mission to save pieces of art before they are destroyed by the Nazis, Lieutenant Frank Stokes, played by George Clooney, notes: […]
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Nigeria has “rebased” its gross domestic product (GDP) data, which has pushed it above South Africa as the continent’s biggest economy. Nigerian GDP now includes previously uncounted industries like telecoms, information technology, music, online sales, airlines, and film production. GDP for 2013 totalled 80.3 trillion naira (£307.6bn: $509.9bn), the Nigerian statistics office said. That compares […]
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Ghanaian Political Historian Mike Ocquaye has argued that homosexuals are “sick” people who need “psychotic” treatment. He said gays must therefore stop fighting for their “deviant” behaviour to be accepted in society as normal. “It has persistently been argued that homosexuality should be accepted because some men and women are born with hormonal and other […]
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DAKAR, Senegal — Jennifer Lazuta, Special for USA TODAY The rising death toll in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has sparked fear across the region with at least 80 already having died from the nearly always fatal virus. “Every day we’re reading about it in the newspaper, hearing about it on the radio, and wondering when […]
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