Africa
IMBIZO Host Committee-NY Honors Nelson Mandela
The observance at the New York State Building in Harlem in conjunction with New York State Senator Bill Perkin’s office “Honoring the Life & Legacy of Tata Nelson Mandela” is [Read more]
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Africa
Black Is Beautiful: Models Who Bleach Their Skin Banned From Dakar Fashion Week
Adama Ndiaye is the founder of Senegal’s Dakar Fashion Week. She has recently put a ban on certain models in her fashion show. Why? Because they are doing something that [Read more]
Europe
What Do You Think? Twin Black Girls Marry Twin White Men
Adopted twins Teyolla and Keyolla Loux do everything together. Teyolla and Keyolla even married together. The Loux twins married the Crow twins, Eric and Shawn. Teyolla married Shawn, and Keyolla [Read more]
Europe
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]
Africa
Ghana to Honor Nana Rita Marley During Nation’s Emancipation Day Celebration
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]
Africa
South Africa, 95 years of “critical but stable”
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]
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The International Criminal Justice Day is commemorated on 17 July
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]
Africa
South African Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka appointed as new UN Women Executive Director
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]
Africa
Ladysmith Black Mambazo headlines Celebrate Brooklyn! African Music Performances
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]
Africa
How Former Guinean Dictator Lansana Conte Sold Guinea’s $50 Billion Wealth for $0
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]
Africa
U.S. Offers $7 Million Rewards for Boko Haram Leader Abubakar Shekau
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]
Africa
New York Forum Fosters Caribbean Investment
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]
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The Visit of the Saudi Prince and the Richest Arab Business Tycoon to Sierra Leone: What Should We Make out It?
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]
Africa
Nigeria Women Leads the World in Skin Bleaching
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]
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President Koroma Invites Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed
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]