SOMALIA Another Bomb Attack Hits Mogadishu At least 23 people were killed and more than 30 people were injured on Saturday in a double car bombing in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. This occurred just two weeks after a truck bombing, one of the deadliest bomb attacks in the country’s history, claimed the lives of 358 […]
KENYA Protesting has been banned in the Kenyan cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu. The ban follows weeks of protests that broke out after President Uhuru Kenyatta was announced the winner of the August 8 elections. Though the vote was annulled last month by Kenya’s supreme court, after findings of the election commission’s failure to […]
WaZoBia restaurant is one of the few restaurants in Philadelphia that serves authentic Nigerian food. Located at 616 N. 11th Street, WaZoBia is patronized by students, professionals, and families. The restaurant’s name is a combination of the phrase “Come in,” in the three major languages in Nigeria. Wa in Yoruba, Zo in Hausa, and Bia […]
ANGOLA A New Era For Angola Joao Lourenco, former defense minister of Angola, became the first new president of the country in 38 years. He took over power from Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who hand-picked him to be his successor, and has ruled Angola since 1979, after it’s independence from Portugal in 1975. Angola’s ruling […]
AFRICA The Zeitz Mocaa The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz Mocaa), Africa’s largest contemporary art gallery, opened this past Friday in Cape Town, South Africa. The Museum, designed by English Architect Thomas Heatherwick, houses around 100 galleries and will feature 21st century work from Africa and the Diaspora. A rather large number of […]
This Week In The World In keeping with our mission of making Temple a more globally-conscious campus, Freely Magazine will post a global news update each week, covering the week’s biggest stories from all around the world. Be sure to check out our website each Sunday for your weekly dose of global news! Africa The […]
AFRICA New World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus holds a news conference May 24 in Geneva W.H.O appoints its first Director General from Africa For the first time in the World Health Organization’s history, an African national has been voted to head the agency. Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was appointed as Director General of […]
Middle East [dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]t was a devastating and violent week in the Middle East, following a chemical bombing in Syria that killed more than 80 people and severely injured many more. The attack allegedly involved sarin gas, a nerve agent that causes nausea, foaming at the mouth, and difficulty breathing, which can be extremely harmful, […]
Africa Hosni Mubarak Freed after 6 Years in Detention [dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]osni Mubarak, former Egyptian president was freed on Friday, after spending a six-year imprisonment that followed his overthrow during the Arab Spring. Mubarak dominated the country for three decades as president, but after being forced from office in 2011, he went through a series of […]
Africa [dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]ccording to UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien, more than 20 million people face the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and North-East Nigeria. In South Sudan, 100,000 people are facing starvation, and a further million are classified as being on the brink of famine. Continued fighting in the country, […]
In 2014, Hoa Thuy Quynh Nhu Nguyen, left Bien Hoa in Dong Nai, Vietnam, for the United States. Hoa spent her first year in the states improving her English in the Intensive English Learning Program at Temple University. Upon completion, she became a Media Studies and Production Major in the School of Media and Communication. […]
