Edited by Nelly T. Reports have claimed Islamic State militants have stormed the town of al-Qaryatain and killed around 21 Syrian Christians. Russian backed Syrian forces and their allies reclaimed the town earlier this week. Up to 300 Christians remained in the city after Islamic State captured it last August, head of Syrian Orthodox Church said. Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG They came in from the beach, getting out of the wooden dhows they’d seized from fisherman around the Horn of Africa. Hundreds of Al-Shabaab fighters descended on the shores of Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in Somalia. Their shirts hung baggy, combat fatigues stolen from African Union forces clad over thin arms and legs. While an estimated ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG   What makes a country happy? Is it wealth, freedom or a trustworthy government? According to the latest World Happiness Report,compiled by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations, all these factors are key, and measuring happiness is fast becoming a good measure of social progress. Six key factors were measured to establish a ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG U.S. intelligence estimates now put the number of ISIS fighters in Libya between 4,000 to 6,000, double the number in the war-ravaged country last year, according to the top U.S. military commander in Africa. Gen. David Rodriguez, commander of U.S. Africa Command, said the intelligence community estimates the number of ISIS fighters in Libya at “around ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG Africans athletes are braking their own world records and I do not know how far do they want to go  ?Every week , long and middle distances runners are coming up with new world records.For example, last Sunday, Kenyan Amos Kipruto and Ethiopian Tusa Rahma both achieved their best in 22 nd Rome International Marathon. Amos ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG The current leader of the NDP(New Democratic Party) in Canada is facing leadership battle of his political future that will be decided by more than 1,500 delegates from across Canada who are meeting in Edmonton,Calgary,Canada. These delegates will cast their votes on whether the current Part’s leader remain or go and eventually elect someone else. Some ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG Many of us do not know who is Angelique Kidjo, she is an African artist and Gram-my Award-Winning Musician. Universally, she is regarded as one of the most influential African artist. In 2002, she was appointed as the UNICEF GOODWILL AMBASSADOR and in five years later she founded BATONGA FOUNDATION , a non-profit organization that aims ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG As many as 100 people are confirmed dead and many more are seriously injured after fire destroyed a Hindu’s temple in India.It started when fireworks stored in the building was suddenly sparked during fire’s show. The blaze was so powerful that caused the part of the temple to cave in. The Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG THIS IS A SHOCKING NEWS ABOUT AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM. A former sailor is a free man after spending 33 years in the United States prison for a crime authority now claims he did not commit. New DNA evidence cleared Mr. Alan Howard of a wrongful murder and rape convictions. The question is, how many more like ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG The news of the surrender followed by announcement by the Nigerian military last week by what it called operation safe corridor , the program designed to rehabilitates and integrates the BOKO HARAM insurgents  who are willing to put-down their weapons and integrate into society. Therein, repentant insurgents would go into vocational training for a period of ...