10 March 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General today expressed concern about the situation in the Maldives following the decision of…
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11 March 2014 – As the fighting continues in South Sudan, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned today that the approach…
11 March 2014 – The best hope for peace and stability in Somalia, the Horn of Africa and beyond remains…
11 March 2014 – With 44 people missing and feared drowned after a smugglers’ boat capsized off the coast of…
10 March 2014 – As the2014 session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women got under way…
This past Monday, the Human Rights Committee commenced its one hundredth and tenth session in Geneva from March 10-28. During…
One of the two cases against satellite TV company DISH Network settled last week, with Disney ending its quest to…
As Facebook turned ten years old last month, a legal case it brought against Power Ventures almost six years ago…
The campaign for open access to publicly funded research was going in the right direction: the White House issued a…
Yesterday we told you about the PonoPlayer, a high-resolution (FLAC) audio music player dreamt up by Neil Young that was announced at SXSW. Today, the PonoPlayer Kickstarter campaign is live and is looking to raise at least $800,000 in the next 34 days…
We extensively covered the prolific story of Flappy Bird, including its rise and fall from glory (and app stores). But now, it appears the little app that could might be making a return to digital shelves, according to its creator, Dong Nguyen. According…
Not too long ago, you had to be a techno-wizard to engage in piracy. The act usually involved paying for access to Usenet’s servers, participating in complicated Newsgroups, and figuring out how to download the goods – all with usually painfully…
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – March 11, 2014) – LX Ventures Inc. (TSX VENTURE:LXV) (“LXV” or the “Company”) announces that it…
Modern Nigeria emerged through the merging of two British colonial territories in 1914. The amalgamation was an act of colonial convenience. It occurred mainly because British colonizers desired a contiguous colonial territory stretching from the arid…
KADUNA, Nigeria — For years, they were out to kill each other. And they almost did. But now Pastor James Wuye and the Imam Muhammad Ashafa work side by side trying to heal the divide between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims as the heads of the Interfaith…
KAFANCHAN, Nigeria — The highway from Kaduna wove through a maze of military checkpoints and then continued past the rusting hulks of abandoned factories and textile mills that long ago left Nigeria, as did the jobs they once produced. Down the highway…
It’s a common enough scenario in Nigeria and across Africa: how to get rid of pesky mosquitoes whose buzzing disturbs sleep and whose bites can carry malaria and other diseases. Two Nigerian start-ups have tapped this — and other aspects and quirks…
Healthcare services have collapsed in the northern part of Nigeria’s Borno state as doctors, nurses and pharmacists flee for their lives from brutal violence unleashed by Islamist Boko Haram militants. Medical professionals say health services in the…
Thousands of refugees are fleeing harrowing scenes of atrocities and body-strewn streets in northern Nigeria, the UN said Tuesday. The UN’s refugee agency said violence in the area had prompted some 2,000 people to flee into neighbouring Niger over…
KADUNA, Nigeria — The waters of the River Kaduna swirl forward under a bridge that spans the long, turbulent divide between this city’s Christian neighborhoods to the south and its Muslim communities to the north. Kaduna, which literally means “…