Photos: Akon visits Nigeria's Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed in NY

Singer Akon visited Nigeria's Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed in New York yesterday April 22nd. They discussed the Great Green wall project, a pan-African proposal to “green” the continent from west to east in order to battle desertification. More photos after the cut...

Photos: Akon visits Nigeria's Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed in NY

Singer Akon visited Nigeria's Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed in New York today April 22nd. They discussed the Great Green wall project, a pan-African proposal to “green” the continent from west to east in order to battle desertification. More photos after the cut...

16 year old girl beaten to death in school by classmates over a boy

A 16-year-old girl of Howard High School of Technology has died after she was attacked after she came out of the school's bathroom on Thursday.
The school Principal, Stanley Spoor said the 10th grader was allegedly attacked by two students in the restroom around 8:15 a.m., just before classes began at the Wilmington, Delaware school.

The teenager who was identified by friends as Amy Inita Joyner-Francis according to The News-Journal, was found in a critical condition after the bullies banged her head against a bathroom sink nd was rushed in a state police helicopter to the A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children, where she later died from her injuries.

The Mayor, Dennis Williams said:

"I am so upset that a young lady lost her life today, things like that shouldn’t happen,". "My heart bleeds for the family, the kids that go to this school, the administrators and this city.

Students said that the fight was over a boy and that the victim was fighting with another girl in a bathroom when she was jumped by some other girls.

"She was fighting a girl, and then that's when all these other girls started banking her- like jumping her- and she hit her head on the sink," Kayla Wilson, a student at the school said.

Gary Fullman, chief of staff to the Wilmington mayor, told KTLA:

'There was an altercation that initially started between two people, and my understanding is that additional individuals joined in against the one person,'

Police wouldn't reveal any details of the case, but confirmed they are interviewing two female students believed to have been involved in the attack.
Parents and guardians were told to come get their children from the school yesterday.

All classes at the school were canceled for the rest of the day.

Angry female students protest topless against campus rapes

Protests began on Monday at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa against incessant rape on the campus. Topless female students with 'this is mine scrawled on their breasts' were seen among the protesters demonstrating against the rape culture on a university campus. The police have tried to disperse students using pepper spray and stun guns.
The students started demonstrating after a list of suspected rapists on campus was leaked on social media on Sunday.

Many students, who were raped on campus said they have reported rapes to the university as well as police, but that their complaints have been ignored by campus authorities, the BBC reported. 

Students are demanding the university suspend 11 alleged rapists on campus who were listed on the leaked list on social media and change its policies on how rape victims are treated.

On Tuesday afternoon female students danced topless with some writing 'this is mine' on their breasts to show only they can decide to do with their bodies.

On Wednesday, more than 200 students were attacked with rubber bullets and pepper spray and stun grenades by police officers who were trying to disperse the crowd even after the vice chancellor of the University had begged the police to stop attacking his students.
Eastern Cape police arrested five students during the protest . They were later released without bail and are due to re-appear on charges of public violence in July.

According to Naledi Mashishi of the Students Representative Council, five students were arrested and one hospitalised after police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets at them.

 Members of  the Students Representative Council said they will only stop if they are assured "no protester will face disciplinary action or be  penalised for participating in the protests”. 
University lecturers have also joined in the demonstration.

National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union told Eyewitness News : “We decided to join the strike of the students because of the brutality of the police. 

"We can’t watch our children being treated the way they were yesterday; so we took a decision that it’s too much now."

The protests are now being wound down as university staff agree to set up a task force to research the allegations.

Lectures are due to resume nextbMonday.

According to statistics released, South Africa has the highest number of rapes in the world.

Female Ugandan University professor strips naked to protest office lock-out

A controversial Ugandan professor Dr. Stella Nyanzi of University of Makerere who is famous for her threats and antics during Uganda's general election, stripped naked to protest the decision by Makerere Institute of Social Research to vacate her from the office to make space for a new program. She accused the director Mahmood Mamdani of being a dictator.

"Mahmood Mamdani locked me out of my office, even after the Deputy Vice Chancellor refused him to continue with evicting me. I have found his ugly padlock barring my access to my office. This is the third day"  she wrote on her Facebook page.

She then threatened to strip naked in three hours if her office was still under lock. She eventually made good on the threat and posted a video of her nude protest. She also took nude  photos and posted them along with verbal threats.

"I have thrown my clothes outside Mamdani's office. I am naked as I cry out for my office," she wrote.

Facebook deleted her account but later reinstated it. Mamdani eventually budged and allowed Dr. Nyanzi access to her office.

The Ugandan Minister of Ethics and Integrity said that Dr. Nyanzi will be imprisoned for the immorality and porn she displayed on social media.

Graphic photos: Man left completely deformed after acid attack

The young man is Ghanaian. A man reportedly poured acid on him, leaving him completely deformed. The people who shared the pics said they are planning on raising funds for a reconstructive surgery. Quite sad!

Photos: Goodluck Jonathan meets with Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest, founder of Walk Free Foundation

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday met with Mr. Andrew Forrest, founder of The Walk Free Foundation, the world's preeminent anti Modern slavery body, in New Jersey. Mr. Forrest is an Australian billionaire and mining tycoon, and has pledged to give half his fortune to charity.

Also present at the meeting is his daughter, Grace.

"As part of my efforts to promote liberty in Africa and all over the world, I met with Mr. Andrew Forrest, founder of Walkfree International Foundation, the world's preeminent anti modern slavery body. I was presented with a copy of the foundation's annual Global Slavery Index which I commend and wholeheartedly endorse. The Goodluck Jonathan Foundation will partner The Walk Free Foundation to spread Liberty around the world and especially in Africa." the former president posted on his official Facebook page.

Photos: Goodluck Jonathan meets with Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest, founder of Walk Free Foundation

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday met with Mr. Andrew Forrest, founder of The Walk Free Foundation, the world's preeminent anti Modern slavery body, in New Jersey. Mr. Forrest is an Australian billionaire and mining tycoon, and has pledged to give half his fortune to charity.

Also present at the meeting is his daughter, Grace.

"As part of my efforts to promote liberty in Africa and all over the world, I met with Mr. Andrew Forrest, founder of Walkfree International Foundation, the world's preeminent anti modern slavery body. I was presented with a copy of the foundation's annual Global Slavery Index which I commend and wholeheartedly endorse. The Goodluck Jonathan Foundation will partner The Walk Free Foundation to spread Liberty around the world and especially in Africa." the former president posted on his official Facebook page.