World Lens — Week in Review: July 26
Ghana’s President dies, Oprah called ignorant and more.
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Ghana’s President John Atta Mills Dies at Age 68 - John Atta Mills, president of Ghana, died Tuesday, just days after celebrating his 68th birthday. Following his death, Vice President John Mahama was swiftly inaugurated as president. (Photo: AP Photo/Christian Thompson)
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Britons Raise Voices of Protest forThe Voice - After successful mobilization in protest of the British Olympic Association’s refusal to grant journalists from Britain’s largest Black newspaper, The Voice, access to the Games to cover the events for its readers, Olympic officials reversed their decision and the paper will attend the Games. (Photo: Courtesy of The Voice UK)
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Oprah Blasted for “Ignorant” India Special - After Oprah Winfrey’s Indian Oprah's Next Chapter special aired on Indian television this week, several local publications blasted the media maven, calling her coverage of the country, “myopic, unaware, ignorant and gauche.” (Photo: WENN.com)
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Nine Ivorian Women Sentenced Over Genital Mutilation - Nine women in Ivory Coast were sentenced to two years in prison each for involvement in female genital mutilation, marking the first time such a case results in jail time in the West African nation. (Photo: SIA KAMBOU/AFP/GettyImages)
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Haitians Sue U.S. Catholic School Over Sexual Abuse - Twenty-three Haitian men who were students at a Catholic school in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, have filed a lawsuit against a Massachusetts priest, claiming the priest did nothing to prevent the school’s former director from sexually abusing them over a 10-year period. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Caribbean Nations Send 300 Delegates to AIDS 2012 - AIDS 2012, the world’s biggest HIV Conference, began in Washington, D.C., on July 22, and a robust Caribbean delegation of over 300 activists and representatives from civil society and government agencies showed up in an attempt to help stem the region’s HIV drug shortages and other issues. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Cholera Rains on Cuba’s Carnival Parades - Last week, Cuban authorities suspended the country’s traditional summer carnivals slated to take place in the eastern cities of Bayamo and Manzanillo due to an outbreak of cholera in the region.(Photo: REUTERS/Sophia Paris/MINUSTAH /Landov)
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Holy Month of Ramadan Begins - Muslims around the world began celebrating Ramadan Thursday evening. A major tenet of Islamic faith, observing Ramadan requires Muslims to show devotion to God by maintaining the discipline to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex between dawn and sunset for one month. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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Sudan Talks Break Down - Despite South Sudan’s generous $3 billion per year offering to neighbor Sudan for oil revenue the country lost when South Sudan seceded earlier this year, talks between the two countries broke down Monday as Sudanese negotiators called the South’s pledges “nothing new.”(Photo: EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP/GettyImages)
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America’s Religious Right Touts Anti-Gay Laws in Africa - Although a world apart, a new report alleges conservative U.S. Christian groups have made Africa their latest battleground in the push to keep anti-gay and anti-abortion legislation on the books. (Photo: EPA/JON HRUSA /LANDOV)