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Libya Faces New Round Of Fighting With Foreign Backers
“Why is Libya so lawless”? That was the question on the lips of some of the reporters covering the dangerous new level of confrontation facing Libyans by internal and external forces including foreign countries in Europe and the Middle East. The capital, Tripoli, is now the scene of serious fighting between rival forces as negotiations…
Read MoreEbola Outbreak Not A Global Emergency, Says World Health Group
The World Health Organization has declined to declare the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo a global health emergency because the disease is currently limited to two provinces, reports Science. On the same day, WHO reported the efficacy of an Ebola vaccine that is going through a preliminary trial to be 97.5 percent at…
Read MoreSudanese Demands For A Civilian Government Remain Firm
Protests that began over the skyrocketing price of bread and shortages of food and fuel have accomplished what few people believed was possible in a country ruled by a leader with an iron fist. A Sudanese people’s movement was born on the streets of Khartoum. Hundreds of thousands of women and men hunkered down and…
Read MoreAfrican Leaders Build Weapons Stockpiles Aided By Russian Dealers
There’s a new “rumble in the jungle” in the words of Muhammad Ali but George Foreman isn’t a part of it. What’s changing on the African landscape is the configuration of allies and business partners. Russia, most notably, is making a comeback in weapons sales to Africa, topping western and Chinese arms sellers by a…
Read MoreAfrican Philanthropist Corrects Misleading Migration Reports
Africans migrating from the continent make up a much smaller share of the global migrant population than is commonly reported and should be viewed as a positive phenomenon, not a threat. Those were the opening remarks of Sudanese philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, speaking at a weekend conference hosted by Ibrahim’s foundation in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Citing…
Read MoreOver 100 Kidnapped Girls In Nigeria Reach Five Years In Captivity
The 112 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria and still being held by Boko Haram will have spent five years in captivity if they are not released by next Sunday. That was the sad message released by members of the Bring Back Our Girls movement who have been urging more action by the…
Read MoreAfrican Culture Comes Alive in ‘The Burial of Kojo’ by Blitz the Ambassador
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia “The Burial of Kojo” — among the offerings from Ava DuVernay’s Array Now Film Distribution Company and currently airing on Netflix, has been called quite the marvel that flexes visual storytelling muscles that you didn’t know existed. Critics have also lauded the new flick for taking “unexpected risks with…
Read MoreEx-President’s Theft From Gambia Tops $300 Million
Experts who follow the money are still scratching their heads as to how a quarter of a billion dollars vanished from the national coffers along with former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh at roughly the same time. Before his flight into exile in 2017, Jammeh ruled the small palm-fringed country in West Africa with an iron…
Read MoreGhana’s Crown Jewel Of Biodiversity Threatened By Bauxite Mining
Environmental groups in Ghana are waging an eleventh hour battle to stop the government of Ghana from opening the Atewa Forest Reserve – a crown jewel of biodiversity and a source of three rivers – to commercial large-scale bauxite mining. “We don’t want it,” said Chief Nana Larbikrum, 79, from a tiny settlement on the…
Read MoreLast Minute Stay Of Deportation For Liberians In The U.S.
Liberians living in the U.S. received a bit of good news from Washington this week. Scheduled Deferred Enforcement Departure (DED) would be extended for one year, postponing the trauma and chaos of deportation scheduled for the end of March. The threat of losing protected status brought opposition and protests from several leading U.S. lawmakers including…
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