Michelle Obama added her voice to the global campaign to bring home the missing Nigerian girls, who were kidnapped from their school on April 15. The First Lady posted to Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday a photo of her holding a white sign with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls written in black marker. On Twitter, she signed […]
Armed gunmen entered a mall in Nairobi, Kenya, sparking an intense standoff with police after opening fire on shoppers and diners. The Westgate Mall in Nairobi was the scene for an attack that left 39 confirmed dead this morning, including family members of the president of the country. Two gunmen are amongst the dead. A […]
From the streets of Pretoria to Twitter and even aboard the International Space Station, people around the world and beyond it came together to celebrate legendary former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela as he turned 95 years old . The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in South Africa urged people around the world to […]
Former South African President Nelson Mandela was admitted to the hospital just before midnight Wednesday due to his recurring lung infection, the South African president’s office said today. “Doctors are attending to him, ensuring that he has the best possible expert medical treatment and comfort,” the government’s statement said. Mandela, 94, spent 18 days in […]
A 9-year-old girl in Mexico has reportedly given birth. The girl, identified as “Dafne” by The Telegraph, reportedly delivered a 5.7 pound baby by cesarean section on Jan. 27 in Zoquipan Hospital in Jalisco, an area in western Mexico. The girl was 8 years old when she became pregnant. “The father is a boy who is 17, but […]
Just who is Joseph Kony, anyway? If you learned his name from the viral video that rocketed the notorious leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to fame this week, the film producers’ campaign to make Kony a household name appears to have succeeded — but not without a massive backlash. The half-hour video in […]
Hospitals and morgues were flooded with the injured and dead after a string of coordinated bomb attacks on police stations in the city of Kano, Nigeria on Friday. The Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the strikes, which the BBC said would be the organization’s most deadly attack to date. The group has said […]
