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Suzanna Lubrano, the Cape Verdean Zouk artist has released a new powerful, thrilling single and clip titled “Tardi Di Mas”. Suzanna Lubrano is working on a new LP to be released later this year The songstress with a honey-like voice says that the new song is totally different from all the songs she did [...]
It is discriminatory and illegitimate to deny irregular immigrants in Italy a right to marry in the country, Constitutional Court has ruled. The Court made the ruling in a case against the City Council of Chiari which had issued an order barring all irregular immigrants from celebrating their marriages in the area. In August 2009, [...]
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General Office for West Africa (UNOWA), Said Djinnit, has said the political and military crisis facing Mali since last January is “a serious source of threat” to peace and security in the West African region. The UNOWA official was speaking at joint press conference aimed at “synchronizing the [...]
The house building boom across Harare, Zimbabwe has caused land degradation as the scramble for building sand has fuelled rampant sand poaching. Truck loads of sand are transported daily from illegal extraction locations dotted across the city to construction sites; but as the sand poachers smile all the way to the bank they leave behind [...]
The Congolese in Rome will host a public debate in Rome on 22nd April 2012. It will examine the current political situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jean-Pierre Mbelu, a political analyst based in Brussels will be the key speaker at the event to be held at San Luigi dei Francesi Church in via [...]
The Zimbabwean government through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received an amount of over $400 000 from a United Kingdom based organization towards the resuscitation and support of the maternal and new born survival in the country. Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) donated US$431 210 to the Ministry at a signing ceremony held [...]
Mali’s Dioncounda Traore was sworn in as interim president of the West African country on Thursday after leaders of a March 22 coup agreed to hand back power to civilians. Traore, previously the speaker of the national parliament, was sworn in by Supreme Court President Nouhoum Tapily at a brief ceremony in the capital Bamako. [...]
A man believed to have smuggled hundreds of millions of pounds worth of drugs into the UK has been jailed for 30 years. Adegboyega Adeniji, 48, of Sandmere Close in Hemel Hempstead was stopped by border officers at Heathrow after he arrived on a flight from Amsterdam on 4th April 2011. During his arrest [...]
An art exhibition dedicated to African Queens and heroines will be held in Vedano Olona (VA), from 17th to 24th March 2012. The exhibition organised by Rosalba Calabretta of “Solidarité Nord-Sud” Association will narrate African history by focusing on her great women. It is part of the mission of “Solidarité Nord-Sud” Association to promote African [...]
The West African regional body Ecowas has suspended Mali after last week’s military coup. A delegation of several Ecowas heads of state is to go to Mali to press the coup leaders to restore democracy. The decision to suspend Mali was taken at an emergency meeting held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. “We cannot allow this [...]