Bananas Thrown at Italy’s First Black Minister
ROME – Some of Italy's top politicians on Saturday rallied behind the country's first black minister after a spectator threw bananas at her while she was making a speech. Integration [Read more]
ROME – Some of Italy's top politicians on Saturday rallied behind the country's first black minister after a spectator threw bananas at her while she was making a speech. Integration [Read more]
HONORARY CITZENSHIP GRANTED FOR PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS Los Angeles, CA (July 29, 2013) – In August of 2013, on Ghana’s Emancipation Day, the country will recognize an icon [Read more]
Over the past month our collective focus in South Africa has turned to the health of Nelson Mandela with much speculation turning to what the future of the country will [Read more]
THE HAGUE, Netherland, July 16, 2013/ — Statement from the ICC President: International Criminal Justice Day: Fifteen years ago, on 17 July 1998, history was made. Gathered in Rome, [Read more]
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a veteran feminist activist and politician was appointed Wednesday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new executive director of UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of [Read more]
Joseph Shabala and his South African multiple Grammy Award winning choral group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo that first gained worldwide prominence from their collaboration with Paul Simon on his 1986 Graceland [Read more]
Benny Steinmetz acquired half of the iron deposit underneath the Simandou mountains in Guinea in 2008. Simandou is one of the richest concessions in all of mining. It is said to [Read more]
For the first time, the U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program is offering rewards for information on key leaders of terrorist organizations in West Africa: al-Qaida in the [Read more]
The growing importance of the Caribbean in foreign direct investment and its relevancy to global economic growth was high on top of the agenda at the recently concluded third annual [Read more]
Sierra Leoneans and the world at large are eagerly and impatiently waiting to hear and to see what His Royal Highness, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz’s historic and high [Read more]
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 77 percent of women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world’s highest percentage. That compares with 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent [Read more]
Sierra Leone's President, Dr. Ernest Bai koroma has extended an official invitation to the “world’s richest Arab”, His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of Kingdom [Read more]
Come Monday, June 10, Apollo Theater will induct legendary R&B and Funk super star Chaka Khan into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame at its 8th annual Spring Gala Benefit [Read more]
Africa is one of the regions in the world with the highest visa requirements “Africa is one of the regions in the world with the highest visa requirements. Visa restrictions [Read more]
PRESS RELEASE THE HAGUE, Netherland, May 31, 2013/ — Today, 31 May 2013, the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (http://www.icc-cpi.int) rejected the challenge to the [Read more]
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