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The Togo national football team plans to return home from the Africa Cup of Nations tournament, on the advice of its government after an attack by militants on Friday. What is your reaction? The Togo team bus was ambushed and players were shot at on their way to a tournament venue in Cabinda, Angola. Three [...]

Nestle, one of the world’s largest food companies, has shut down a factory in Zimbabwe after a dispute with the government, it announced Wednesday. The company came under pressure from the government to buy milk from suppliers not of its own choosing, it said. The dairy at the center of the dispute is owned by [...]

Rapper Keith Murray recently returned to the United States after a trip to Mozambique in Africa, where the rapper was raising awareness about the plight of children with HIV/AIDS. Keith Murray took up the cause of HIV/AIDS awareness after losing his mother to the deadly disease when he was just 20-years-old. Three years later, he [...]

Below is the Wikipedia entry under criticism for Prouct Red: “Product Red has been criticized for not having an impact proportional to the advertising investment, for being much less efficient than direct charitable contribution,[4] and for having a lack of transparency with regards to the amount of money going to charity as a percentage of [...]

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When is the last time you saw a gay African??…. Dont worry, I’ll wait…Africans NEVER like homos….This isnt news…Just for a laugh though, Peep the representatives ^ As a gay man in Uganda, Frank Mugisha is used to the taunts, the slurs and the daily harassment of neighbors and friends. But if a new bill [...]

Audio Here: Malcolm X – Message To  The GrassRoots We want to have just an off—the—cuff chat between you and me —— us. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand. We all agree tonight, all of the speakers have agreed, that America has a very [...]

Greater access to anti-retroviral drugs has helped cut the death toll from HIV by more than 10% over the past five years, latest figures show. The World Health Organization and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) say an estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. That figure is up from 33 million [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device. A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while [...]