Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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Massive Diamond Discovered in Sierra Leone
Recently an African pastor, Emmanuel Momoh, of Sierra Leone found one of the largest diamonds ever unearthed. The 709 karat diamond was discovered by the pastor in the region of Kono, which is a diamond-rich area. At 709 karats, the diamond is the thirteenth largest diamond ever found. The largest diamond ever mined was…
Against All Odds, Cameroonian Teenager Wins Google Coding Challenge
Nji Collins Gbah, a 17-year-old student from Cameroon, is the latest winner of the Google Code-In Challenge, an annual contest that encourages young students around the world to show off their programming skills. Nji has certainly made his nation proud by becoming the first African to earn this prestigious award; moreover, he did so…
Fake News Causes Problems for Miss South Africa
In late February 2017, news reports appeared on social media sites relaying the supposed arrest of Miss South Africa Ntandoyenkosi Kunene. The headline, originally published on the fake news site, te1egraph.co.uk, stated that Ms. Kunene had been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport with two kilograms of cocaine hidden in coffee bags. The story was…
Neon Pink Tap Water?
Residents of Onoway, a small town in the pristine Alberta province of Canada, were surprised to see bright pink and light purple water coming out of their faucets and shower heads in early March. According to Canada’s National Post, the strange incident was first noticed by a town resident who promptly called her neighbor to…
