During a visit to a local farm while working with development agency USAID, Ugandan entrepreneur Juliet Tumusiime realized that a huge amount of banana stems are left over from banana cultivation and simply discarded. Looking for a way to use the waste, she struck upon an innovative business idea. Almost…
As French citizens get set to vote in runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday hundreds of contenders have bowed out…
Voters in Britain are primed to end a 14-year era of Conservative rule, in a momentous general election that…
A club of Eurasian countries spearheaded by China and Russia to advance their leaders’ vision of an alternative world order…
Sierra Leone officially banned child marriage on Tuesday with President Julius Maada Bio signing into law a bill to…
Allegations of sexual abuse against a child by a Syrian man in Kayseri, Turkey, have sparked overnight riots that…
More than a hundred people were killed in a crush at a religious gathering in India’s northern state of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in…
The head of Gaza’s largest hospital has claimed he was repeatedly tortured during his seven months in Israeli detention, following…