Nigeria may have given up their efforts recover the women and girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, but thank goodness, the captors have not given up on themselves. More than 60 girls and women kidnapped by Nigeria’s Boko Haram escaped their captors. The women who escaped had been abducted from Kummabza village in late …

A new report out Tuesday suggests that climate change is not just a distant threat, nor liberal propaganda as some Fox pundits might suggest, but a reality that is already impacting Americans. The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists say, …

We’ve seen the  damning psychological  effects of European colonialism. We know that it has prompted an obsession with colorism, and caste systems, both real and imagined. We know that conquered people bought into to the tale of pale superiority, good hair and fine features. We know that in parts of …

  EUSKIRCHEN, Germany – A World War II-era bomb exploded in the German town of Euskirchen near Bonn on Friday,  killing a construction worker after his mechanical digger dislodged it and  injuring eight other workers. Television footage from the scene showed  the mangled wreckage of the digger’s cab and a …

When South Sudan became the world’s newest state in 2011, the hopes of the international community were far above the turmoil that exists today. By igniting long-standing ethnic rivalries, a political fallout within South Sudan’s ruling party, SPLM, is urgently testing the fragility of Africa’s infant nation.  With thousands reportedly …

(Reuters) – The United Nations received reports from local sources in South Sudan on Tuesday that between 400 and 500 people had been killed and up to 800 wounded in the latest violence, and the government said it had arrested 10 politicians in connection with a “foiled coup”. “Two hospitals …

(Elle.com) “I’m proud to represent a multicultural France,” gushed Flora Coquerel last Saturday as she accepted the title of Miss France 2014. Unfortunately, some of her countrymen did not feel the same kind of egalitarian pride. Within minutes, social media was drowned in comments: Miss France set Twitter on fire with …

In honor of the passing of legendary Statesman and freedom-fighter Nelson Mandela, President Obama ordered that government officials lower all U.S. flags to half-staff. It is a posthumous honor bestowed on several  international  luminaries in the past– Pope John Paul II, assassinated Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin, Princess Diana of Wales, …

A CNNiReporter took a picture of a Haitian man tied to a tree, bloodied and beaten in the Dominican Republic.  According to the witness, police claimed, “He tried to rob somebody.” Whether the police claim is valid or not, grave injustices are happening against Haitians in the Dominican Republic every …

At least 10 Haitian migrants were killed Monday after a coastal freighter headed for United States capsized about ten miles off the coast of Staniel Cay in the central Bahamas. 110 were rescued after clinging to the hull and mast of a wooden sloop  until  being spotted by the U.S. …

In spite of the fact that Islam in Africa dates back to the 7th Century and has flourished there since, according to various reports, one African nation has become the first to outlaw Islam. Rumors are swirling around the internet in reaction to statements made by an Angolan minister, calling …

“I need your help,” a young man shouted on Monday, during President Obama’s speech at the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center. “You have a power to stop deportations for all,” he added, calling for the president to halt the deportations of  some of the 11 million undocumented workers in the …