Zimbabwean-born academic honored in U.S. for championing gender equality
A Zimbabwean-born academic who taught herself to read from her brother's schoolbooks is among several prominent women being immortalized in bronze as part of...
Algeria says OPEC, non-OPEC members likely to renew oil output cut...
Algerian Minister of Energy Mohamed Arkab on Saturday said in Algiers that "all ministers of OPEC and non-OPEC countries endorse the principle of renewing...
UN agency partners Botswana to end child marriages: official
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has partnered with Botswana's ministry of health and wellness in a bid to end child marriages and gender based...
Renowned Nigerian poet Gabriel Okara dies at 97
One of Nigeria’s famous writers, poets and novelists, Dr. Gabriel Okara, has died at the age of 97.
The poet died at the Federal Medical...
