By Global Information Network
A NIGHTMARE COMES TO A CLOSE AS LIBERIA IS CALLED ‘EBOLA-FREE’
May 14 (GIN) – With no new infections in 42 days, Liberia has been declared free and clear of Ebola by the World Health ...
U.S. OFFERS FINANCE PACKAGE TO KENYA FOR REFUGEE CAMP
May 4 (GIN) – At a meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Secretary of State John F. Kerry this week pledged an extra $45 ...
NIGERIAN WRITER HEADLINES BLOCKBUSTER WORLD VOICES FEST
May 1 (GIN) – Prize-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is hoping to break down some stereotypes at the upcoming World Voices Festival sponsored by ...
HUNDREDS OF NIGERIAN GIRLS FREED, TRAUMATIZED
May 4 (GIN) – Boko Haram, fleeing to a new hideout, has abandoned hundreds of women and girls in the Sambisa forest where the ...
POLICE BEATING BLACK SOLDIER, SEEN ON VIDEO, SPARKS RIOTS IN ISRAEL
May 4 (GIN) – A video that caught an Israeli police officer and a volunteer shoving and punching a black soldier in uniform outraged ...
NIGERIA ’S ANTI-CORRUPTION PLEDGE RESONATES IN FAR-OFF ZAMBIA
Apr. 27 (GIN) – Nigeria’s president-elect is already making waves with his pledge to attack corruption, starting with the missing $20 billion allegedly swiped ...
XENOPHOBIA FOSTERED IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS, CRITICS SAY
Apr. 27 (GIN) – The practice of denying children without visas or with refugee parents admission to South African public schools has helped foment ...
CHAOS GROWS IN BURUNDI AS PRESIDENT REJECTS ADVICE TO STEP DOWN
Apr. 27 (GIN) –Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, overriding objections to an ill-advised third term, now faces a growing popular movement to oust him after ...
EAST AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST WINS MAJOR PRIZE
Apr. 19 (GIN) – On Earth Day, Apr. 22, Kenyan activist Phyllis Omido will take the stage in Washington DC to receive the Goldman ...
FIRST GENOCIDE OF 20TH CENTURY WAS IN AFRICA, SAYS NIGERIAN WRITER
Apr. 19 (GIN) – An Anglo-Nigerian writer has respectfully urged Pope Francis to look beyond Armenia for the first genocide of the 20th century. ...
