Watch out for the Wolf! Lupita Nyong’o gets a kiss from Hollywood heavyweight Leonardo DiCaprio at the Producers Guild Awards By SARAH BULL
She’s been the toast of the awards season so far, picking up prize after prize for her role in 12 Years A Slave. And on Sunday night, Lupita Nyong’o got yet another seal of approval as Hollywood heavyweight Leonardo DiCaprio stopped to give the Kenyan actress a kiss on the red carpet at the Producers’ […]
Read More →Luxury and farce but no progress at South Sudan peace talks
 By Will Davison, Correspondent / Sheraton Addis, the palatial Ethiopian hotel that is hosting talks on the conflict inSouth Sudan, feels somewhat like an oasis. Nestled beneath the sprawling residence ofEthiopia’s prime minister and near Emperor Haile Selassie’s Jubilee Palace, it monopolizes a neighborhood in the heart ofAddis Ababa, a capital city experiencing a […]
Read More →Nigerian scammer uses Christian dating website to defraud woman of $500,000
CALIFORNIAN police are on the lookout for a Nigerian fraudster who used the Christian website www.ChristianMingle.com to fleece an American woman of $500,000 using the pseudo name David Holmes claiming he was an Irish citizen. Â In a ruthless exploitation of love, the Nigerian scammer hooked up with the 66-year old woman online falsely claiming […]
Read More →Bauchi Sharia court carries out first punishment under Nigeria’s new anti-gay laws –
NIGERIAN authorities have meted out the first punishment to a gay man under new anti-homosexual regulations that came into effect earlier this month after President Goodluck Jonathan signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill into law. Â Defying global pressure, President Jonathan signed the Draconian bill into law earlier this month despite human rights bodies […]
Read More →Terrorism: Army Declares Commitment to Train Officers for Asymmetrical Warfare
Soldiers in combat ready outfit •Partners US on counter-terrorism Senator Iroegbu The Nigerian Army as part of its efforts at transforming into a force better able to tackle the contemporary security challenges, has declared its commitment towards sustained training of its officers on asymmetrical warfare. The Chief of Transformation and Innovation Maj-Gen Ibrahim Sani, […]
Read More →Dominican Republic: Justifying the unjustifiable The Constitutional Court decision on citizenship rests on prejudice and discriminatory practices.
The author responds to a previous Al Jazeera article justifying the recent DR law [Reuters] The Constitutional Court decision to strip thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship has unleashed a flurry of commentary both inside and outside the Caribbean nation. Some like Dominican-American author Diaz Junot, and an array of Latin American human […]
Read More →The Horn Times Breaking news
January 17, 2014 Terror plot to turn Ethiopian Epiphany celebration into an inferno uncovered. *Christians and Muslim communities urged to be vigilant against the government’s plot….. (Report compiled by Getahune Bekele-South Africa) According to our well-placed sources in the inner circle of the ruling minority junta’s powerful and complex security apparatus, the regime has already […]
Read More →We have seven positions that have been tweaked and tailored by sex experts to help you reach orgasm every single time — plus, a few extra tricks so the road to bliss is even more of a sure thing.
Your Orgasm — Guaranteed! BY JENNIFER BENJAMIN When it’s a mind-blowing, bed-rattling orgasm you’re after, keeping it simple is absolutely key. Sure, wild, crazy, never-knew-my-body-could-bend-that-way booty keeps your lust life exciting, but if the goal of the moment is to break pleasure records, you have to stick to the basics. “Trying to accomplish complicated acrobatics […]
Read More →Eastern Sudan farmers get back disputed lands from Ethiopia
(KHARTOUM) — A joint Sudanese-Ethiopian committee would start today to hand over agricultural lands to residents of more than 17 Sudanese villages located in eastern Atbara River along the Ethiopia-Sudan border. The agricultural lands remained a source of dispute for more than 100 years. Governor of Al-Gadarif State, in eastern Sudan, Abdelrahman al-Khidir told Akhir […]
Read More →South Sudan rivals may sign truce soon: sources (ST)
From left: Igad’s executive secretary Mahmoud Maalim, acting head of South Sudan’s delegation Makuei Lueth, Igad special envoys Lazarus Sumbeiywo, Seyoum Mesfim and Mohamed Ahmed al-Dabi, head of South Sudan’s rebel delegation Taban Deng hold a joint press conference in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on January 6, 2014. (Photo AFP /Carl De Souza) By […]
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