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500 People Feared Dead in Mediterranean
VOA News – The U.N. refugee agency is confirming reports up to 500 people may have lost their lives when an overcrowded boat capsized and sank earlier this month in the
US Supreme Court Considers Fate of Millions of Undocumented Immigrants
VOA News Katherine Gypson WASHINGTON – The nation’s highest court will consider the fate of as many as 4 million undocumented immigrants Monday, when Supreme Court justices hear opening arguments in
Ecuador earthquake: Desperate search for survivors as deaths rise
BBC News – Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has warned that the death toll from a powerful earthquake which has killed 272 people is likely to rise. There were desperate scenes
Leaked Memo Says Ghana Terror Threat ‘Real’
VOA News – West Africa has been on high alert following recent terror attacks on hotels in Mali, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. And now in Ghana, a leaked security
Akufo-Addo had reservations about Gitmo 2 – US Ambassador
Citifmonline.com – The United States government has revealed that the Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, expressed “definite reservations” about the decision of the US
Panama Papers: Nigerian Preacher TB Joshua Denies Offshore Activity
Newsweek – Nigerian mega preacher TB Joshua opened a company in a known tax haven, according to reports stemming from the Panama Papers leak. Joshua— a hugely popular Nigerian televangelist
Nigeria: Religious Bill – Listen to the People, Archbishop of Lagos Advises El-Rufai
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Martins, has advised the Kaduna State Government to listen to the key stakeholders in the state before it introduces its proposed religious
Ghana: Stop giving people political tags – Palmer Buckle
Ghanaian Times – According to the archbishop, anybody who commented on any development issue was tagged as being an NDC or NPP supporter and that was making a lot of
Nigeria claims arrest of Ansaru jihadist leader Khalid al-Barnawi
The Nigerian army has announced the arrest of Khalid al-Barnawi, leader of the Boko Haram offshoot Ansaru. The US government had offered a multi-million-dollar bounty for his capture. Nigerian military
Khalid al-Barnawi: Nigeria Islamist group head ‘arrested’
BBC – The leader of al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group Ansaru has been arrested in Nigeria, authorities there say. A military spokesman said Khalid al-Barnawi was captured in Lokoja, capital of the
