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http://ift.tt/2shabD2 Opposition activists demonstrate against President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas on May 29, 2017.<br />Demonstrations that got underway in late March have claimed the lives of 59 people, as opposition leaders seek to ramp up pressure on Venezuela's leftist president, whose already-low popularity has cratered amid ongoing shortages of food and medicines, among other economic woes. / AFP PHOTO / LUIS ROBAYO Two leading Venezuelan opposition figures were wounded in anti-government protests Monday, as demonstrators vowed to intensify pressure on President Nicolas Maduro and against his plans to hold a constitutional assembly. Henrique Capriles, a former opposition presidential candidate, said he and his team were beaten by National Guard troops as they left a rally that had been broken up by tear gas. “They cornered us, they beat us… They robbed us all. They took my team’s watches, radios, gas masks. When I asked them ‘What’s wrong with yo...

http://ift.tt/2s9WLZk (FILES) This file photo taken on February 13, 2017 shows then National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (L) and Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, before a joint press conference between Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.  AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN Donald Trump, just back from his first international trip as US president, geared up to combat concerns Sunday over aides’ ties to Russia including explosive reports that his son-in-law sought a secret communications line with Moscow. The latest furore was stirred up after The Washington Post reported late Friday that Jared Kushner — arguably Trump’s closest White House aide, and husband to the president’s eldest daughter Ivanka — made a pre-inauguration proposal to the Russian ambassador to set up a secret, bug-proof link with the Kremlin. Kushner, 36, even suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the United S...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Lagos – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) says former President Olusegun Obasanjo will speak on African trade at the bank’s 24th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) scheduled for June 28 in Kigali. This was announced in a statement by the bank’s spokesman, Mr Obi Emekekwue, on Wednesday in Lagos. Emekekwue said the President, African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, and Okechukwu Enelamah, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria would also speak at the event. He said Prof. Justin Lin, Director, Centre for New Structural Economics and Honorary Dean, National School of Development, Peking University, China and Ade Ayeyemi, Chief Executive Officer, Ecobank Transnational, would speak on integration. He said that Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, Anastase Murekezi, the Prime Minister and Claver Gatete, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, among others, would address the four-day event. According to Emekekwue...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Hanoi – Three men were killed by lightning while they were digging a grave in central Vietnam, state media reported on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in Hung Trach District in Quang Binh province as five members of an extended family dug a grave for a recently deceased relative, police newspaper An Ninh Thu Do reported. Two others were injured, the report said. In a separate case, lightning also killed a 42-year-old woman in nearby Quang Nam province on Tuesday, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said. The post Lightning kills 3 men while digging grave appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2pyxeIl

http://ift.tt/2oLF8Sp < Previous 1 of 10 Next > Coconut rice Bunmi at a beach in Badagry Point of no return (also known as Gberefu Island) was a major slave port during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade era. Whispering Palms is a resort located at Iworo, Badagry Have you ever met a woman whose best food is beans? Bunmi is unusual. I mean after watching BBN contestant Marvis relish eba, every other day for 90 days, I never imagined a more awkward favourite food for a female. Badagry is a city of trade. It’s the custodian of Nigeria’s history of slave trade with footprints from that colonial era now turned into tourism attractions. From the first well dug in Nigeria, to the first primary school (St Thomas Anglican), down to the museum that exhibits articles of trade from that era, Badagry is bursting at the seams with history. And it’s not just history. Food. Good food made possible by the abundance of sea food in the surrounding waters. Yes, ...