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June 4, 2010
Nigerian lawmakers approved a Muslim politician as the new vice president of Africa’s most populous nationlast Tuesday, despite the legislative session descending into screaming chaos at several points.
May 18, 2010
Nigeria swore in its new president, a Christian, this week after months of leadership confusion while its elected president was receiving medical treatment. Goodluck Jonathan, who has been Nigeria’s acting president since February, officially became president of Nigeria.
May 18, 2010
South Africa’s renewed commitment to combat AIDS has drawn praise, but in the worst-hit province in the worst-hit country in the world, life , and death , hasn’t changed much because of stigma and a lack of resources.
May 9, 2010
Here, she talks about the riveting documentary, which will be voiceovered by Wyclef Jean and Edwidge Danticat and told from the perspectives of 6 year-old orphan Candy Jeune and a freed slave named Marc Kenson Oliphi.
April 30, 2010
The most remarkable moment at this year’s Oscar® ceremony may have been the interrupted acceptance speech that was heard around the world. But the 21-year-old woman whose life inspired the film that won the Best Documentary (Short Subject) award is far more remarkable still.
April 22, 2010
Howard Dodson, Jr., a national leader in the movement to preserve African American history, will retire from his position as Director of The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in February 2011.
April 19, 2010
Almost three months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, women advocates and U.N. officials are increasingly worried that Haitian women are being sidelined in national relief and reconstruction efforts.
April 8, 2010
Under pressure from critics, Gov. Bob McDonnell on last Wednesday called it a “major omission” not noting slavery in declaring April Confederate History Month in Virginia.
April 1, 2010
Hundreds of women and children marched through Somalia’s capital last Monday to protest the destruction of tombs of Somali clerics, some a century old, by al-Qaida-linked militants wielding sledgehammers and pickaxes.
March 27, 2010
Ben Affleck launched a new initiative last Monday to raise money and awareness over atrocities committed against women and children during years of conflict in eastern Congo, Affleck told The Associated Press.
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