At the second United Nations Sustainable Energy for All Forum, held this past week in New York City, Akon, announced his new ‘Solar Academy.’ The Academy will launch this summer in Bamako, Mali and is part of his Akon Lighting Africa initiative, which aims to bring electricity to some of the 600 million Africans who lack it. More on the click.
On Friday, May 15th, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy – was awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Yale University. And not everyone is happy about it; in fact, 4000 people and counting have signed a petition calling for Yale to withdraw the degree. Read the petition after the click.
According to the Kano state Attorney General, the case against the 15 year old girl who killed the 35 year old man she was forced to marry with rat poison, has been dropped. Reasons? Because she’s a minor and the victim’s family forgave her. More on the click.
