Akon has stated that he has invested over $1 Billion in China over electricity. In his remarks, here is what he has to say;
Africa lacks electricity, water, basic infrastructure, there is a lot of progress to be made. And you see the misery, you just want to help, it's no longer a frenzy, I'm not wearing jewelry anymore.
I saw so many people in need, until I feel guilty when I visit Villages putting on earrings that cost 50,000 dollars is useless.
It's just the pat in the eye that only serves to make the beauty in front of others.That's why I decided to use my money to help others.
Austrian vice-chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, on Saturday resigned following the release of a secret video in which he is seen appearing to offer government contracts in exchange for political support.
The far-right leader said he offered his resignation to Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in order to prevent the collapse of the governing coalition between Kurz’s conservative People’s Party and his far-right Freedom Party (FPOe).
Although he insisted he did not break any law, Mr Strache admitted to the “extremely embarrassing, drunken affair,” which saw him appearing to offer infrastructure contracts to a woman posing as a wealthy potential donor from Russia while in Ibiza in July 2017.
Mr Strache also apologised to his wife and his supporters for what he called “alcohol-fuelled macho behaviour partly intended to impress the attractive woman” posing as a would-be donor during the six-hour encounter.
“I behaved like a teenager,” he said.
It is unclear who set up the apparent trap and who recorded the meeting.
Mr Strache blamed “criminal networks,”. He said the incident had been a “targeted political attack” on Austria’s right-wing government.
An inspiring opera singer who received not one but two sets of transplanted lungs over the course of her life has died at the age of 35, according to her family. Charity Tillemann-Dick was a champion of organ donation, which allowed her to continue doing what she felt she was born to do.
CBS News' Seth Doane met Tillemann-Dick back in 2012 at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic about a month after she underwent her second double lung transplant. She showed us her therapy sessions and sense of humor.
She loved to sing from an early age, but at the age of 20 developed something called idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, which is when oxygen is not absorbed by the body and forces the heart to work overtime.
She had her first emergency lung transplant in 2009 and, later, needed another after her body started to reject them. After being placed on advanced life support, they found a match.
"Organ donation, in certain respects, it brings us closer to immortality," Charity said in 2012. "Because literally a part of us goes on living after we're gone."
Live – and sing – she did.
CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook met Tillemann-Dick several years later after she wrote a book about her experiences. She held a special performance with the daughter of her lung donor.
"I think she gives me voice," Tillemann-Dick said of her donor.
Her family said humor is what got her through.
"It's each of our dreams to spend our lives with the people – with the thing that we love most – and I'm so grateful to be given another opportunity to sing and to share," she said. "And it brings me more joy than I can express. And I express a lot of things so that's saying something!"
She often went by the name "Charity Sunshine." Her husband wrote, "She passed away with family by her side and sunshine on her face."
The chief of police in Springtown, Texas, showed that when it comes to supporting local businesses, he’s not afraid of a little laxative.
The police department shared images of Chief Motley buying and eating a pizza from a restaurant that had just reopened after being shut down by the health inspector. Mr. Jim’s Pizza in Springtown was forced to close during an inspection after an employee reportedly bragged on social media about putting Miralax on another employee’s pizza without that employee’s knowledge.
According to police, three employees put the laxative on at least one pizza that another employee ate, causing that employee to get sick, CBSDFW reported. The incident took place around 8 p.m. on April 20th.
The employees claimed they did not taint any of the pizzas that were sold to customers. The Huffington Post reported that the employees involved in the incident were terminated.
Health inspectors cleared the restaurant to reopen on April 22. As an act of good faith, Chief Motley stopped by and purchased a pie. He stated “we are not going to let the foolishness of a couple individuals hurt one of our local businesses."
Several hours later, the department updated their Facebook post to let their followers know that Motley had eaten the pizza and there were no issues. He even reportedly went to the gym for leg day, and after all that, he still claimed that everything was good.
Rescue workers were digging through collapsed buildings along South Africa’s eastern coast, where more than 50 people were killed when heavy rain caused flooding and mudslides, authorities said on Wednesday.
Hundreds have been displaced, mainly in the port city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province. Flooding also killed at least three people in Eastern Cape province, state broadcaster SABC said on Wednesday.
Victor da Silva, a resident in the coastal town of Amanzimtoti, said his family managed to evacuate before the floods destroyed their home and cars.
“On Monday, the water was just crazy. And yesterday morning I got here, everything was fine, my garage was still here, the other part of the house was still here, and it just couldn’t stop raining,” Da Silva said. “And then an hour and a half later, everything poof (vanished) because the rain just hasn’t stopped.
Reuters reported that he escaped his home in Amanzimtoti just before part of it collapsed.
“I nearly lost my life, and my neighbour, I believe, is in hospital,” Fourie said.
The region had been hit by heavy rains for days, but authorities did not foresee the downpour late on Monday, said Lennox Mabaso, a spokesman for the provincial Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs department.
“As a result, there was flooding and some structures were undermined and collapsed on people,” Mabaso said. Some people were swept away by the water, he said.
Multiple dwellings collapsed in the mudslides, said Robert McKenzie, a KwaZulu-Natal Emergency Medical Services spokesman.
South African Weather Service forecaster Edward Engelbrecht said the heavy rainfall occurs “from time to time, especially during this time of the year.”
He said the rain should start to clear by Thursday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa visited affected communities in KwaZulu-Natal and is scheduled to go to the Eastern Cape in the next few days.
“This is partly what climate change is about, that it just hits when we least expect it,” he said, adding that funds would be provided by the government to assist those hit by the floods.
Last week, 13 people were killed during an Easter service in KwaZulu-Natal when a church wall collapsed after days of heavy rains and strong winds.
India Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it has appointed 17 coordinators to help Indians leave Libya, Indian External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj said.
“We have appointed 17 coordinators to help Indians leaving Libya.
“Indian Embassy is helping them with Exit Visa even in cases where their visa has expired.
“Presently, the airport is operational. Please avail of this opportunity,’’ Mr Swaraj wrote on Twitter.
Recently, the minister asked Indians in and around Libya’s Tripoli to leave the country immediately as the government of India would later be unable to evacuate them.
Mr Swaraj said in spite of massive evacuation from Libya and the travel ban, there were more than 500 Indian nationals in Tripoli.
Heavy fighting has erupted south of Tripoli after Libya’s UN-backed government announced a counter-offensive against insurgent forces.
Libya has been torn by violence and political instability since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011.
He described how the accident occurred when he was four years old and needed to be brought home from kindergarten because there were no buses available.
Ms Abdulla’s brother-in-law drove her to school to collect Omar and the family was driving home, with mother and child in the back seat, when they were hit by the bus.
As the bus hit, Ms Abdulla threw herself around her son to protect him from the impact. While she suffered a severe head injury, he escaped with just a bruise.
Omar described how his mother was left untreated for hours because the family was unable to call for help before she was transferred to a clinic in London Dailymail said.
There, doctors diagnosed a vegetative state, meaning she was completely unresponsive but able to feel pain.
She was transferred back to the UAE and put on a ventilator and feeding tube to keep her alive, spending the next few decades hooked up to machines.
But in April 2017, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, heard of her case and gave her family a grant for treatment.
Ms Abdulla was flown to Germany where she underwent surgeries to repair her muscles while being given medication to improve her sleep patterns.
Around a year later she began making strange sounds, and within three days she called out to Omar using his name.
”It was her! She was calling my name, I was flying with joy; for years I have dreamt of this moment, and my name was the first word she said,” he said.
Now, she is able to call the names of her loved ones, recite prayers and hold conversations with people.
A medical report issued from Mafraq Hospital last month says that she is ”currently able to communicate with self and surrounding in a very reasonable manner especially in familiar situations.”
However, the report adds that she still needs regular physiotherapy to treat issues with her muscles.
Authorities here in Colombo, Sri Lanka said an international terror group likely supported an obscure local Islamist group in carrying out a series of bombings that killed at least 310 people on Easter Sunday, weeks after the government had received warnings from the U.S. and India about a possible attack.
Government officials of this island nation said some of the suicide bombers and others arrested were linked to an obscure radical Islamist group known as National Thowheeth Jamath, a group the government singled out to police for monitoring as a possible threat after the foreign security services issued their warning.
The sophistication of the Easter-morning attacks indicated to Sri Lankan and international terror experts that whoever carried them out likely had help from experienced international terrorists, perhaps even al Qaeda or Islamic State, Sri Lankan officials said.
“We have found that NTJ was involved in the attacks,” said Rajitha Senaratne, a government spokesman and the country’s health commissioner, using an abbreviation for what he called “a local organization.”
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