Photo credit: Reuters Tens of thousands of protesters joined two rival marches in <London on Saturday – the Unite the Kingdom rally organized by far-right figure Tommy Robinson, and a pro-Palestinian demonstration. The BBC reports that over 4,000 police officers were deployed to the capital to manage a so-called “sterile zone” between the two marches. Officers also…
Photo credit: The New York Times Former CIA Director Robert Gates said Cuba’s greatest national security risk to the United States is not an imminent military attack, but the possibility that the island’s deepening crisis could produce another mass migration emergency like the 1980 Mariel boatlift. The Latin Times reports that Gates told Margaret Brennan in…
Photo credit: NBC News WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday after more than 300 suspected cases and 86 deaths. In a social media post, the World Health Organization stated that the outbreak does not meet the criteria for a…
Photo credit: Daily Galaxy For generations, women in southwest Morocco’s Ait Baamrane region spent up to four hours a day walking to wells and hauling back five-gallon barrels of water on their heads. Europe Says reports that each barrel weighed nearly 50 pounds. The task consumed their mornings, kept girls out of school, and shaped…
To Yoruba men, the topic should be familiar. For those of my readers who aren’t Yoruba, I’m appealing to them to research its meaning. For the ladies, don’t you think I’m a chauvinist, I’m giving you the honour to either research or not. But I don’t think it will be too much for you to…
The main characters of the Abacha era are now exposing themselves. According to Mr Galadima, a self styled Abacha boy, the goggled one was advised by the likes of Saddam Hussein and Muhammad Gaddafi to stash Nigeria’s money abroad because the U.S. and other countries may block Nigeria’s accounts. A pertinent question the journalist should…
Photo credit: Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his patience with Iran was wearing thin and claimed that Chinese President XI Jinping agreed Tehran should reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though Beijing gave no sign it intended to intervene directly. ThisisBeirut reports that Speaking aboard Air Force One while returning from Beijing after…
