Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged a $30 billion investment in Africa on August 27, 2016, noting that his country has faith in Africa’s future. Abe was in Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). He said the $30 billion in public and private support for education, healthcare…
African Models on the Rise Breaking into the seemingly glamorous world of modeling is no easy task, but models from African nations are taking the challenge in stride. Following in the steps of legends such as Iman and Alek Wek, a new generation is emerging on the international fashion scene. Amilna Estevao is just 17…
Julian Assange, the controversial leader of Wikileaks, promised this week that his organization will continue its efforts to wreak havoc on the United States’ presidential election by releasing more emails that are reportedly damaging to Democratic nominee and former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Assange, who remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in…
Recently, a fight over burkinis and Islamic practices led the mayor of a village in Corsica to institute a local ban on the controversial bathing suits. This comes as the region has found itself in the midst of a migration of Muslims and other groups, triggering tension among nationalists. The actual fight that spurred…
On June 9, 2016, the World Health Organization declared Liberia free of the transmission of Ebola. The announcement came 42 days after the last confirmed Ebola patient in the country tested negative for the second time. Liberia was first declared Ebola free in May 2015, but the disease reemerged 3 times, bringing the toll to…
The video of young Omran Daqneesh waiting silently in an ambulance, covered in blood and dust after being rescued by an aid worker from the rubble of his family’s home in Aleppo, Syria, has circulated the internet over the past few days, turning the toddler into the face of the civil war’s devastating effects on…
Thousands of Haitians have died since the start of a cholera outbreak in the fall of 2010 following the devastating earthquake that ravaged the country. Cholera has since become endemic to Haiti and hundreds more continue to die every year. Many experts believe that the UN was responsible for the epidemic. The UN has taken…
Michael Henson may have just had the world’s worst date–one that ended in a jail cell. The 35-year-old was arrested in Dayton, Ohio, on August 16th for allegedly attempting to have sex with a vehicle. A woman called the police after witnessing Henson drop his shorts and insert his genitals into the front grill…
The Putin-Trump Connection When you hear this story you may be primed to tune out and chalk it up to a wild conspiracy theory. However, in this very rare case such an assumption would be a mistake. As it turns out, there may actually be a connection between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, and there…
A recent study published in Ecology and Evolution showed that the DNA of Namibian desert elephants is the same as elephants in the Namibian savanna. Since these two groups of elephants act so differently from one another, it was assumed for years that they were totally separate elephant groups. This study both demolishes that old…
