Africa
Nigerian president orders renewed efforts to free kidnapped girls
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered a stepped-up drive to free 223 schoolgirls whose abduction by suspected Islamists has ignited a ...WHO declares polio global health emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday declared the international spread of wild polio virus in 2014 a public health crisis and ...Massive explosion kills seven in Somali capital
At least seven people including a prominent Somali official have been killed in a bomb attack by al-Shabab fighters in the capital ...World marks Press Freedom Day
Saturday is World Press Freedom Day, an annual observance established by the United Nations in 1993 to support freedom of expression.Olympic Capitalism: Bread and Circuses Without the Bread
The author ofProtesters mark May Day across the globe
Labor and trade unions across much of the world organize demonstrations to mark International Workers\' Day on May 1.Abducted Nigerian girls sold into marriage to Islamist extremists
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks again are being sold to as wives to Islamic militants for as little as $12 each, it ...South Sudan peace talks resume in Ethiopia
Peace talks between South Sudan\'s government and rebels aimed at ending a four-month-old civil war resumed in the Ethiopian capital on Monday, ...Militants kill second Somali lawmaker, threaten more attacks
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu Tuesday, the second Somali member of parliament (MP) killed since Monday, media reported.Rebels kill hundreds of civilians in South Sudan massacre, says UN
South Sudan rebels have killed hundreds of people based on their ethnic origins and nationality after seizing the oil hub of Bentiu ...




