The blogosphere is mourning the loss of London’s DJ Roberto Allen of Vibes FM, one of London’s leading community radio stations. Allen reportedly died of a heart attack. Although the cause of death has not been confirm...
The blogosphere is in a tizzy over World Cup USA Team goalie Tim Howard. Despite a crushing 2-1 loss to Belgium, the world wide web went wild (say that really quickly) over Howard, who managed to save nearly everything except the ...
BBC News Africa is reporting that Nigerian gospel singer Kefee Don-Momoh has died. Kefee reportedly collapsed and slipped into a coma while on a flight to Chicago last week. The flight reportedly made an emergency landing in Los A...
Andrea Janus of CTV News is reporting that Turks and Caicos Premier Rufus Ewing is “not closing the door completely” on the idea of his nation becoming Canada’s 11th province. Mr. Ewing says the fate of the island nation will depe...
The South China Morning Post is reporting that two attacks by Boko Haram gunmen killed 30 people near Chibok, the northeast Nigerian town where the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month. The author writes: ̶...
Reuters is reporting that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will visit Chibok, the northeastern village from where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted a month ago by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, senior government offici...
BBC News Africa is reporting that formal agreements for plans to build a new railway line in East Africa with Chinese help have been signed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The railway will run from Mombasa to Nairobi and will e...
Nearly four weeks into the kidnappings of 276 girls in Borno State, Nigeria, feelings of frustration with Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan’s lack of action, anger at extremist group Boko Haram, and anxiety about the fat...
Oren Dorrell of USA Today is reporting that the radical Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has kidnapped 234 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok. Boko Haram opposes the ed...
BBC Africa is reporting that communities in sub-Saharan Africa are being “hurt” by high fees charged by money transfer operators, according to the charity Comic Relief. The article reports: “Restricted competitio...