What it means to be 10 years old and pregnant

The first thing people notice about me is my bulging tummy. The stares I get when I go for antenatal classes are many. Most expectant mothers are eager to hear my story but I am not too keen to share it. My name is*Irene Namagambe, I am 10 years old and pregnant. I would not […]
World Bank Approves Largest Ever Guarantees for Ghana’s Energy Transformation

The World Bank’s Board of Directors today approved a record investment of $700 million in guarantees for Ghana’s Sankofa Gas Project – a transformational project that will help address the country’s serious energy shortages by developing new sources of clean and affordable natural gas for domestic power generation. The Board approved a unique combination of […]
Trevor Noah Says He Will Take Daily Show To A Slightly Different Direction

INCOMING “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah has said politics and the media will remain targets of the program but the perspective will be distinctively his. “The show still has its voice. It’s just I’m at the helm taking things in a slightly different direction, but still trying to get to the same end place,” Noah […]
New Study Finds A New Way To Detect Breast Cancer

A new study performed at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has found a new cancer marker for detecting Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC). BLBC is one of the deadliest types of breast cancer because it does not respond to common medical therapeutics and is often referred to as the “triple negative”. It is associated […]
Women Dupe Islamic State out of Thousands of Dollars by Posing as Potential Brides

Once the terror group wired funds to the con artists, they allegedly simply deleted the accounts and pocketed the money A trio of young Muslim women have been conning ISIS by setting up fake social media accounts and getting the terror group to send them money to travel to Syria to become jihadi brides, according […]
Benghazi Theme Park and Educational Center to Open in Arizona

From a distance, the Benghazi Theme Park and Educational Center could pass for one of the many Anglo Territorial dwellings that pepper the eastern edge of the Mojave Desert. However, by the time you reach Fourth Ring Road, the picturesque Arizonan landscape gives way to a dusty narrow street lined with palm and date trees, […]
ISIS Is Now Using CHEMICAL Weapons

Islamic State fighters have been firing chemical weapons at Kurdish troops in Syria and Iraq. The Conflict Armament Research (CAR) group and Sahan Research said the jihadis had targeted Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga with a weapon filled with a chemical agent near Mosul Dam on June 21 or 22. The UK-based organisations also documented two such […]
The family with 34 children – and counting

Jeane and Paul Briggs have 34 children – 29 of whom were adopted from other countries including Mexico, Ghana and Ukraine. Now their family is about to get even bigger. In 1985, Jeane Briggs was at church when she was shown a photograph of a two-year-old boy. He was living in an orphanage in Mexico, […]