27 June 2014 – Thousands of people are fleeing new violence and reprisal attacks in and around the town of…
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GENEVA, Switzerland, April 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Sixteen civilians, including three national staff members with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins…
American senior citizens are gradually finding their way to the Internet, but lagging the overall population in online usage, a survey showed Thursday. The Pew Research Center report showed that 59 percent of US adults age 65 or older use the Internet…
The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing war in their country has surpassed one million, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday. Refugees from Syria, half of them children, now equal a quarter of Lebanon’s resident population…
As the world marks the 2014 World Water Day today (Saturday), many Nigerians have renewed the call for the erection…
Russian prosecutors on Thursday were investigating a journalist who jokingly appealed to President Vladimir Putin to send troops to his region of Vologda to liberate its population from corrupt officials. In a witty appeal posted on Facebook this month…
Nigeria’s population of 170 million is a growing market for smartphone manufacturers. But there’s a lack of locally-made games with Africa-centered content and in stepped Nigerian entrepreneur Hugo Obi. VOA’s Laurel Bowman brings us his story.
China’s working-age population continued to decline last year, the government said Monday, as Beijing grapples with a demographic time bomb that is one of its biggest challenges. The country introduced its controversial one-child policy in the late…
ThA Ne small number of surviving giraffes in western Africa is on the rise again, after 366 were counted in southwest Niger in 2012, up from 311 the previous year, official figures published Tuesday showed. The latest figure includes 177 males and 189…
Rice dealers on Tuesday in Asaba appealed to the FG to extend the last day for the proposed ban on…