African Fashion was taken to a new level in July this year when Adiree Fashion Agency presented the first African Fashion Week New York. The show brought together an ensemble of talented African designers.

The Soba Golf Course is the first golf course to open in Sudan.

President Yar’Adua at age 58 died after an ongoing struggle with an acute heart condition. A state funeral will be held in his native Katsina, followed by seven days of national morning.

Nigeria’s football team, the Super Eagles will lodge at the Protea Waterfront Hotel after rescinding their agreement with the Hampshire Hotel.

Khalid Deng, former Sudanese slave has been free for two years. He was born into slavery after his mother’s abductor’s raped her in a cattle camp in north Sudan.

Yinka Shonibare will make history on May 24th, when his artwork, “Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle,” is exhibited at London’s Trafalgar Square.  He will be the first black British artist whose work will be displayed at the Fourth Plinth in the north-west of Trafalgar Square.