NIGERIAN GIRL IN SPACE
27.10.2006

World Space Week Youth Inspiration Program and TerreStar Networks Send Exceptional Nigerian Student on a Trip to Weightlessness Kennedy Space Center, Fla. – September 21, 2006 – Stella Felix of Nigeria on Saturday becomes the first high school student from Africa to experience the exhilaration of zero gravity on a parabolic flight from the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC).  more....

SOUTH AFRICA WINS UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT
27.10.2006

South Africa, last week scored a major diplomatic coup by being elected to a position on the Security Council of the United Nations. Belgium, Indonesia and Italy were also elected to serve as non-permanent members of the Security Council.  more....

$ 545 MILLION GRANT TO GHANA
27.10.2006

President J. A. Kufuor of Ghana has inaugurated an authority called the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), the body set up to oversee the implementation of the Ghana Program of the Millennium Challenge Account. Inaugurating the board, at the Castle in Osu, seat of government, the President emphasized that the $545 million grant from the government of the US was unprecedented and significant and charged board members to be “business-like in approach, defend the national interest, and ensure that farmers adopt the best practices in order to lay the foundations for modern agriculture in the country.”   more....

MADONNA PLEADS FOR UNDERSTANDING
27.10.2006

My husband and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After learning that there were over one million orphans in Malawi, it was my wish to open up our home and help one child escape an extreme life of hardship, poverty and in many cases death, as well as expand out family. more....