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In Pictures: Vogue Italia celebrates Black History Month
Franca Sozzani, editor for Vogue Italia, continues to prove herself as a bastion of resistance to the racist image that Vogue has carved for...
Facebook, the new health hazard…
A group of scientists have recently put a forward a theory that seeks to prove a correlation between some ailments and social networking sites...
When Alicia Keys morphs into a “Chameleon”
African American singer-songwriter, actress, Alicia Keys, who gave birth to her first son, Egypt, last month, posed for the November 2010 edition of Vogue...
Kevin Prince Boateng: The story of a genius in the making
If imitation is the measure of success then I am a genius, a paraphrased quote from Oscar Wilde credits mavericks and loners whose behaviour...
Football: Eto’o takes home Italy’s second biggest paycheck
Samuel Eto'o's decision to transfer from FC Barcelona to Inter Milan in 2009 cannot be underestimated. The Cameroonian striker is, according to a list...
Of Gaddafi and Arab racism towards Blacks
"We don't know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and...
Libya and Spain discuss controversial immigration pact
Libya and Spain have met ahead of an African and European summit to discuss the development of Africa and the control of illegitimate immigration...
Vogue Paris versus Italian Vogue: Messages for Black people
Rose Cordero has graced the cover of Vogue Paris. This is the first time in eight years, after the Ethiopian Liya Kedebe, that a...
Will Italy legalise xenophobic and anti-African laws?
Point-based residence permits, buses for immigrants, removal of public benches to prevent immigrants from gathering… These are some of the new proposals from the...
Ethiopian government admits major dam collapse
Ethiopian government has confirmed the collapse of the recently inaugurated
Gilgel Gibe II hydropower plant; the biggest of the country’s power producing dams with a...
Ghana-Italy: Rajevac stood up by Balotelli
Who will Mario Balotelli play for? Ghana or Italy? The promising Inter forward is torn between his home country and his roots, following Ghana...
Uganda gets tough on rivaling foreign oil companies
The government of Uganda has threatened to throw out rivaling oil companies in the country if their disagreements threaten the exploration of...
Italian foreign minister promises support to Somalia and Uganda
The Italian minister of foreign affairs, Franco Frattini has said that the government of Italy has committed itself to support, by training and helping...
African Immigrants in Italy: A shadow of ethnic cleansing?
To give a dog a bad name in order to hang it has become synonymous to the plight of African immigrants in Italy. The...
Italy: Anti-immigration law reminiscent of Nazi era mass deportation law?
Being an illegal immigrant is an offence under a new Italian law, passed on 8 August. The law was promulgated by President Silvio Berlusconi...
Gaddafi, African Union chairman accused of collaborating with Italy against Africans…
Libyan Leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi and current chairman of the African Union, has compared the US to al-Qeada, accused the international community of ignoring...
Nigeria: Agip to clean up or suffer destruction
Italian oil giant, Agip have been accused of dumping harmful toxic waste in Ndokwa community in Delta State, Nigeria, and the community's youths have...
McDonald Mariga to move from FC Parma to AC Milan
AC Milan, top Italian football team, is reported to have shown interest in Kenyan striker McDonald Mariga, although no official announcement has been made...
Ghana international Muntari gets Italian football ban
Ghanaian midfield dynamo Sulley Muntari has been given a three-match ban after seeing red in what was just his second League game for Inter.
The...
Concerned France clarifies Italy – Libya colonial reparation
Only three days after Italy's reparatory treaty with Libya to compensate the African country for damages during the colonial period, France says there cannot...
Everton has not given up on Victor Obinna
Everton have failed to obtain a work permit for the Nigerian Olympic star Victor Obinna Nsofor.
The English Premier League side had hoped to take...
Inter loan deal to move Victor Obinna to Everton closed
It is widely reported in Italy that Everton football club of England have completed the loan signing of the Inter Milan, Nigerian sensation Victor...
Aksum Obelisk successfully remounted at its original site
The third and last block of the Aksum Obelisk was successfully mounted by UNESCO Thursday in its original location in Aksum, northern Ethiopia, the...
Sicilian fishing boat crew to be awarded for saving stranded africans
Two Sicilian fishing boat captains due to be honoured on World Refugee Day next week for saving people at sea were recently involved in...
Mugabe in Rome to “explain” to world leaders he has often blamed
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe who made his first European trip to Rome Sunday for a global food summit is expected to use...
15th Century Florence, Apartheid and Xenophobia
The historical Bonfires of the Vanities were curious affairs, in which the more of one's wealth one destroyed in the ritual fire, the higher...
Kenya football loses McDonald Mariga for 2010 World Cup qualifier
Italy-based Kenyan professional soccer player, McDonald Mariga, has been locked out of the national team for this weekend's 2010 World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations...
Return of Obelisk of Axum improves Italy – Ethiopia relations
Lauding last April’s return of the Obelisk of Axoum -- stolen by the Italian government under Mussolini who tried to colonise Ethiopia between 1935...
Egyptian Billonnaire to sell Italian stock sale under investigation in the US
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris said at the World Economic Forum in Sharm El Sheikh that he is currently looking at three American companies to...
UNESCO regrets Italian Castello di Moncalieri
The Director- General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, Wednesday decried the fire damage to the Castello di Moncalieri, in the Italian Province of Turin, inscribed...