Global Week in Review: Meet Africa’s First $20 Billion Man
Plus, Lydia Nsekera is FIFA's first woman executive.
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Meet Africa’s First $20 Billion Man - Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has become one of the top 25 richest people in the world. After a surge in the stock value of his largest holding, Africa’s richest man became the first African entrepreneur with a $20 billion fortune. Dangote has surpassed Russia’s richest man and has caught up to American billionaires like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to Forbes. (Photo: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings)
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Young Somali Journalists Risk Death - Somali journalists working at Shabelle Media — the country’s largest news outlet — have faced an overwhelming murder rate. Some Shabelle journalists as young as 15 have taken to sleeping at the office in fear of being killed on the street.(Photo: REUTERS/Feisal Omar)
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Google Invests Millions in South African Solar Project - Google has made its first renewable energy investment in Africa in the generous amount of $12 million (103 million Rand). The funds will go to the Jasper Power Project, a 96-megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Has This All-White South African Town Returned to Apartheid? - The exclusive, all-white settlement of Kleinfontein, South Africa, has sparked a major debate around race relations and apartheid in the rainbow nation. Only individuals of Afrikaans descent who speak the Dutch-based Afrikaans language are permitted to reside there.(Photo: AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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Canada Has Eritrean Diplomat Expelled - Canadian authorities have banished the only accredited Eritrean diplomat from the country following claims of alleged extortion. The contention centered on Eritrea’s "taxing" of Canadian-Eritreans for military defense funding.(Photo: REUTERS/James Akena)
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Nigeria Outlaws Gay Marriage - A bill passed by Nigerian lawmakers could ban gay marriage and the formation of gay rights organizations in the West African country. Both Nigeria’s Senate and House of Representatives have approved the anti-gay marriage bill. Offenders could possibly face 10 to 14 years in prison. Nigerian President Jonathan Goodluck would need to sign the bill into law for it to take effect.(Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)
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FIFA Elects Its First Woman Executive - Lydia Nsekera of Burundi has made history by becoming the first woman elected to the FIFA Executive Committee (ExCo.) Having also been the first woman co-opted into the committee last year, Nsekera has blazed a path for two other women at this year’s FIFA Congress.(Photo: Esdras Ndikumana/AFP/Getty Images)
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Somalia Demands Action for Brutal Killing in South Africa - A Somali expatriate was stoned to death by a mob in South Africa and the Somali president wants answers. President Sheik Mohammed has demanded justice from South African head of state Jacob Zuma for the death of 25-year-old Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good.(Photo: REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri)
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Japan’s Prime Minister Provides Africa With Billions in Aid - Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presented the continent of Africa with $32 billion in aid at a three-day conference on African development. "Africa will be a growth center over the next couple of decades until the middle of this century…now is the time for us to invest in Africa," he told conference attendees.(Photo: AP Photo/Toru Yamanaka, Pool)