US President Barack Obama is set to announce a $3bn (£1.9bn) plan to boost food security and farm productivity in Africa, US officials say. They say the initiative is aimed at alleviating shortages as world food supplies are being stretched by rising demand in Asia’s emerging markets. Food security is expected to be on the agenda of this weekend’s G-8 meeting. The summit near Washington is being dominated by Europe’s...

SFA exclusive footage! Wednesday May 9 2012- West Coast First Nations ‘Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Riders’ and community supporters gathered in front of the Enbridge’s annual general meeting of shareholders at the King Edward Hotel here in downtown Toronto,to send a clear message of disapproval for Enbridge’s plan to build pipelines and oil sands through out Sacred First Nations territory. Led by 11 year old...

Tools fashioned from stone and bone thousands of years ago, clay pipes crafted hundreds of years ago – these are some of the artifacts in a new exhibition opening at the University of Toronto. Uncovering Our Early Past: First Nations in Toronto opens May 11, 2012 in the Anthropology Building at 19 Russell Street. “For thousands of years, long before European newcomers arrived, the area we now call Toronto was home to the ancestors of...

  Racism and a legacy of colonialism are preventing the West from recognizing the potential of African innovation. Affordable technology is helping people all over Africa propel an economic revolution. Investment is pouring in from India, China, and other emerging markets. But the West, in my eyes, is ignoring one of the 21st century’s most important stories. There are reasons the West has historically overlooked African innovation....

The Magazine Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world. Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years. Warscapes is motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the...

TORONTO, ON:     Jamaica 50th Celebration, Inc. is hosting a series of lunchtime events called Summer SINTINGS. A Sinting is a happening, a chance to get together, as Jamaicans LOVE to dance and have fun. Summer Sintings are a weekly series of free-to-the-public interactive events around the Greater Toronto Area that bring the fun to YOU! Sintings take place at public parks and squares during lunch hours with Caribbean Food,...