NBA To Co-Launch Professional Basketball League In Africa
The NBA announced Saturday it is helping launch a professional basketball league in Africa. The new league will be called the Basketball Africa League, or BAL, according to the joint…
Ebola spreads to high-risk area of Congo: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread southwards into an area with high security risks, the World Health Organization said. The outbreak, the country’s worst, has…
Newmont takes top gold producer spot with $10 billion Goldcorp buy
(Reuters) – Newmont Mining Corp said on Monday it would buy smaller rival Goldcorp Inc for $10 billion, creating the world’s biggest gold producer in the face of dwindling easy-to-find…
Fund managers hoping for stock rally look to emerging markets
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After emerging market stocks led global equity markets lower in a brutal 2018, some U.S.-based fund managers are betting that the asset class may have the…
Nobel Peace winners urge global action vs. sexual violence
The Congolese doctor who shares this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the use of rape and sexual violence as weapons of war on Monday called for…
South Sudan health workers to get Ebola shots as Congo outbreak grows
(Reuters) – Some 2,000 healthcare and frontline workers in South Sudan are to be offered Ebola vaccines to try to stop any importation of the viral disease from an epidemic…
How War Could Undermine One Of Medicine’s Brightest Success Stories
Earlier this month, Europe’s drug regulatory agency approved a new treatment for the deadly disease known as sleeping sickness. The medication is poised to help eliminate this ancient illness, which…
Marigold Akufo-Addo – The Black Stars of Ghana – Art District
For Marigold Akufo-Addo art has always been a way of life. As she tells Safia Dickersbach in a conversation in her home in Accra, Ghana, she had to be surrounded…
Congo approves clinical trials for Ebola treatments
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Congolese authorities have authorized clinical trials for four experimental Ebola treatments, which will allow researchers to collect valuable data about their effectiveness, the health ministry said on…
Man charged with killing teenage African immigrant
A 22-year-old man is in jail after being charged with fatally shooting a teenage immigrant from Africa whose body was found along an Albany-area bicycle path last week. Authorities say…