Did you know that Liberia helped sponsor a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly last week calling for the world to correct the way Africa is represented on maps? Did you know that the familiar world map hanging in classrooms across Liberia has, for generations, made Africa appear much smaller compared with Europe,…
“Well, the effort is useless because no black country would ever develop… Black countries meaning the 54 that is on the continent, the 13 black countries in the Caribbean, the Black communities in the United States… you are never ever going to develop.” The quote above encapsulates the central argument of Franck Zanu, a Benin-born…
A Florida surgeon accused of killing a patient on the operating table by removing his liver rather than his spleen was driving passengers for Lyft when he was arrested in a dramatic confrontation, video footage shows. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The body camera video,…
NewsFeed “Right is right, wrong is wrong, and Trump’s wrong.” Former Marine Brian McGinnis, whose hand was broken by police and a congressman earlier this month in a protest at the US Capitol, says Donald Trump is “wrong” when it comes to the joint US-Israeli war on Iran. Published On 17 Mar 202617 Mar 2026…
Why hasn’t HR evolved at the same pace as other lines of business? Of course, there are some excellent solutions out there, SAP and Workday, among them, but these are expensive options; do you really a Rolls Royce when a sturdy Toyota Hilux will do? Both SAP and Workday can claim that their sophisticated technology will…
Competition Commission deputy commissioner Hardin Ratshisusu Artificial intelligence poses a challenge for competition regulators, which must balance a desire for innovation and economic growth with the possibility that monopolistic, AI-driven markets could develop, leading to the exclusion of some segments of society. If regulators are unable to get this balance right, they could stifle the…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Friday ordered Meta to change its privacy policies after ruling that it trampled the freedom of expression of a porn star by closing her Instagram account. Esperanza Gomez, one of Colombia’s best-known adult content actresses, said she posted photographs of herself in her underwear as part of her job. Gomez, who…
Colombia’s highest court has ruled that Meta violated a porn star’s right to freedom of expression when it deleted her Instagram account. The South American nation’s Constitutional Court said on Friday that the tech firm had removed Esperanza Gómez’s account “without a clear and transparent justification” and without offering similar treatment to other, similar accounts….
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The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 signatures. The map most commonly used is called the Mercator projection. Map projections are how cartographers (map makers) “flatten” the three-dimensional Earth…
