Soccer fans rushed the field after the home team won an unexpected victory over Egypt’s top squad Wednesday, setting off clashes and a stampede that left at least 73 people dead and 1,000 injured in Port Said, a Mediterranean port city, officials said. Associated Press, AP reports that it was the worst incident of soccer [...]
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan said he did not contest for election as the Chairman of African Union, contrary to reports in the media. In a statement signed on his behalf by Reuben Abati, his media spokesperson, the President said that he was “defeated” by President Yayi Boni of Benin Republic in the “contest” to [...]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced yesterday at the World Economic Forum. The donation comes in the form of a promissory note, not as cash, which the Gates Foundation said “gives the Global Fund the flexibility [...]
The United States is urging Nigerians to stand united against “enemies of civility and peace” in the radical Muslim sect Boko Haram. U.S. counter-terrorism officials are in Nigeria after attacks Friday killed at least 185 people in the northern city of Kano. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says U.S. counter-terrorism officials are meeting with Nigerian [...]
An Idaho man accused of firing shots at the White House pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he tried to assassinate President Barack Obama, reports the Associated Press (AP). A lawyer for Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez entered the plea on his client’s behalf during a brief appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington. Ortega did [...]
Faced with the failure of its observer mission to curb the violence in Syria as the stark features of a civil war emerge, the Arab League on Sunday unexpectedly floated an ambitious peace proposal that would require President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to a deputy and start negotiations with his opponents within two [...]
A Nigerian peacekeeper with the United Nations and African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), has been reported killed in an ambush in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region. A UNAMID statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the UN headquarters in New York, stated that the deceased who was on patrol with his [...]
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