• Arab League Joins Campaign for Sudan Aid Corridor
  
  Khartoum increasingly pressured to allow humanitarian access to provinces of Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile Read more...

• Guinea-Bissau Prepares For Arrival Of ECOWAS Peacekeepers
  
  Five weeks after a military coup, the country is preparing for the installation of the new transitional government Read more...
   

• Rights Group: Mali Facing 'Worst Crisis Since Independence'
  
  Amnesty International says population displacement, human rights abuses, and food shortage have thrown Mali into major crisis Read more...
   

• Same-Sex Marriage
  Obama Endorsement Not Popular in Africa
  
  DDAKAR - American President Barack Obama's public support for same-sex marriage has sparked criticism in sub-Saharan Africa, where gay men and women continue to face discrimination, violence and jail time in many countries because of their sexual orientation. Read more...
   

• Convicted warlord, Taylor, claims prosecutors paid witnesses
  
  UNITED Nations (UN) prosecutors have been accused ...Read more...
   

• Bounty placed on Iranian rapper for song
  
  An Iranian rapper is facing death threats and has a $100,000 bounty on his head for a song that some say insults an Islamic Shiite imam. Read more...
   

• Mobster's body exhumed from Vatican site
  
  Mob boss' body exhumed from Vatican
  Rome (CNN) -- The body of a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops on a Vatican property has been exhumed in an investigation into a teenage girl's disappearance. Read more...
   

• Does the U.S. have a plan B for Syria?
  
  Fifteen months into the crisis in Syria, and the Obama administration is waiting. It's waiting for Russia to stop supporting al-Assad, for economic sanctions to work and for an organized Syrian opposition to present a coherent vision for a post-Assad Syria. Is there a plan B? Read more... | WHAT OPTIONS ARE LEFT?
   

• Greeks set election date amid possible bank panic
  
  What happens if Greece leaves the euro?
  Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece will hold new elections on June 17, state media reported Wednesday, amid a political and economic crisis that could have effects far beyond the country's borders. Read more...
   

• Charles Taylor: Preacher, warlord
  
  Charles Taylor, leader of the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) waves to recruits 28 May 1990 upon seizing the port of Buchanan, 200 kms (120 miles) from the capital Monrovia.
  (CNN) -- A lay Baptist preacher or a brutal national leader found guilty of war crimes by an international court: in Charles Taylor, the myth and the man, became inseparable. Read more...

Click here for Previous Day Intl.
May 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

Disclaimer
The Views and Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual writers not those of NigerianNews. All facts and their accuracies are the responsibilities of the authors. Please also note that some authors may use pseudo names or generic emails, to which NigerianNews has no way of verifying. Therefore an author's identity should not be inferred on the basis of name, subject matter, or any other characterization presented here. NigerianNews is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

Privacy Policy