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Japan’s population declines in 2015 for first time since 1920 Japan Times Japan’s population stood at 127,094,745 as of Oct. 1, 2015, the final results of the census showed, down 0.8 percent from the previous census five years earlier and marking the first decline since the survey began in 1920. Of the total population, including […]

United States: Disparity in college student loan debt more than triples after graduation Brookings Institution The moment they earn their bachelor’s degrees, black college graduates owe $7,400 more on average than their white peers ($23,400 versus $16,000, including non-borrowers in the averages). But over the next few years, the black-white debt gap more than triples […]

Africa: Gambia Says It Will Leave The ‘International Criminal Court’ The U.S. is not a member of the International Criminal Court Rebecca Hersher NPR Gambia says it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court in The Hague — the third nation to do so this month. The small West African country alleges that the court […]

Dubai – Construction begins on world’s tallest building the Dubai Creek Harbour Reuters Dubai said on 10 October 2016 it had started building what would be the world’s tallest tower, another record for the city that is already home to the highest skyscraper – the Burj Khalifa. The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour – a […]

‘Racist’ Gandhi statue banished from the University of Ghana campus campus Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying African heroes ‘come first Jason Burke The Guardian A statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be removed from a university campus in Ghana after professors launched a petition claiming the revered […]

Chinese built railway opens linking Ethiopia to Djibouti Xinhua ADDIS ABABA- African people cherish a dream that one day the capitals of all African countries will be linked by high-speed railways, Chairperson of African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma once said. Perhaps, the African people have never come closer in their endeavor towards making the dream […]