On Tuesday, May 23, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Bronx Borough President Ruben Díaz, Jr. will host a City Resource Fair during City Hall in Your Borough week. Top representatives from City Hall, the Department of Transportation, Department of Finance, … Read More
On the occasion of Africa Day, celebrated every year on May 25, the African Member States group at UNESCO is organizing an African Week, which will run from May 22 to 24, 2017. The Week, dedicated to the reflection and … Read More
Cairn Energy, one of Europe’s leading oil and gas exploration companies drilling for oil offshore Senegal, has announced the results of a successful appraisal well offshore the West African country. “Rig performance continues to be excellent and operations have been … Read More
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Thursday condemned “in strong terms” the latest Transparency International (TI) report alleging massive graft in the defense procurement in the military in the last two years. ` In a press conference on Thursday, Defense Spokesman, … Read More
Botswana Federation for Public Sector Trade Unions (BOFEPUSO) intends to sue government for selling the country’s biggest copper producer BCL Mine. Tobokani Rari, BOFEPUSO Secretary General told media on Thursday that government has never been transparent with the sale of … Read More
Increasing tobacco taxes to reduce demand for tobacco could generate revenue for African governments to finance universal health coverage, health promotion as well as other development programmes, according to the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti. … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested the past 3 months more than 41,000 individuals who are either known or suspected of being in the country illegally. This reflects an increase of 37.6 percent over the … Read More
By Mayor Bill de Blasio Too many of our public school students and their families are living in fear. They don’t know how new immigration policies coming from Washington might affect them. They worry about what might happen if Immigration … Read More
An estimated 3,000 Annual Meetings attendees will get a chance to see the work of African designers at the 2017 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in India, from 22 – 26 May. Beautifully dressed models will walk … Read More
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda told on Monday the United Nations Security Council that her Office is considering launching an investigation into alleged migrant-related crimes in Libya, including human trafficking. “My Office continues to collect … Read More
African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has underlined the need to redouble international efforts in support of Somalia to allow the administration of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, also known as Farmajo, to overcome the many challenges facing the … Read More
Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo named on Friday Supreme Court justice Sophia Akuffo as the new Chief Justice. Justice Akuffo, who has been a judge of the Supreme Court for more than 20 years, takes over from Mrs. Georgina … Read More
The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, on Saturday visited Kinshasa, DR Congo, to discuss with national authorities and partners ways to mount a rapid, effective and coherent response in bvtop the ongoing Ebola … Read More
Photos by Isseu Diouf Campbell West African street vendor Souleymane Porgo regained consciousness yesterday evening at the intensive care unit of Lincoln Hospital. His brother Issa, a cab driver who has not been to work since the incident occurred said … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell Community members gathered on 149th street and 3rd avenue in the Bronx on May 9, 2017, a week after West African street vendor Souleymane Porgo was brutally assaulted, to speak out against violence and call for … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell In a video that captured the assault of West African street vendor Souleymane Porgo, you see Porgo collapse and hear the sound of his skull hit very hardly the ground. Porgo was attacked by a group … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) President and CEO James Patchett announced at a press conference last month that nearly $80 million in projects are already in the pipeline to be awarded to McKissack and McKissack, … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell Actress, screenwriter and executive producer Ebbe Bassey talks about the making of her second short film Saving Father. Saving Father is a short narrative film about a daughter trying to convince her widowed and actively dating … Read More
A major campaigner against racial abuse in sports, Garth Crooks, has called for all “self-respecting black players” to boycott Italian Serie A games in response to ban on Ghanaian player, Sulley Muntari. Muntari was banned after being issued with a … Read More
Governments in Africa need to understand the integral role that technology plays in the economy, treating it as a single sector rather than a broad, cross-cutting and transformational issue, delegates to the 2017 World Economic Forum on Africa meeting heard … Read More
