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Kenya’s Mukhisa Kituyi appointed new head of UN Trade and Development body, UNCTAD
The General Assembly today confirmed the appointment of Mukhisa Kituyi of Kenya as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)...
Eldoret City benchmarks Minneapolis
The bottom line is, you must be organized to achieve your goals, and resource development planning is what gets you organized. A total of...
Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art to host panel on “Health, Hair, and Heritage”...
The Sanaa Circle, a friends group of the National Museum of African Art, will present a panel discussion in support of the museum in...
Colorado grants driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law on Wednesday a measure that grants driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants, making Colorado the eighth state in...
Shabelle Grocery’s secret Ethiopian restaurant now offers a lunch buffet
The exterior of Shabelle. Photo: Jeremy Iggers/TC Daily Planet
The little Ethiopian restaurant hidden away inside the Shabelle Grocery used to be one of the...
Hepatitis B: A Serious infection that can be prevented
This article highlights a specific type of hepatitis that is important to know about during pregnancy - hepatitis B.
What is hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B is...
Obama to finally visit Africa as China becomes Africa’s largest trading partner
President Barack Obama, whose father was born in Kenya, will make the first major African tour of his presidency since taking office in 2009....
South African university makes Zulu compulsory
A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year.
The decision by the University...
Protestors target excessive phone rates for immigrant detainees
At the West County Detention Facility, inmates can pay upwards of $20 for a five-minute phone call to friends, relatives or lawyers. While the...
US Green Card lottery might be discontinued in 2014
Around 100,000 people will be chosen from several million hopefuls to get a US Green Card on Wednesday, in what could be the last...
Aging undocumented Immigrants – a burden or a boon?
As the debate over immigration reform tugs predictably back in Washington, an undercurrent of ageism and disability bias has been flowing beneath more obvious...