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Cameroon is part of an 8,700-strong regional task force also comprising troops from Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Benin that aims to destroy Boko Haram, which though based mainly in Nigeria has become a major threat to wider regional security.          Cameroon's army, backed up by a regional task force, has killed at least 100 members of the militant Islamist Boko Haram group and freed 900 people it had held hostage, the west African country's army and defence ministry said on Wednesday.   Army spokesman Colonel Didier Badjeck said troops had conducted a sweep operation between November 26-28 along Cameroon's long border with its western neighbour Nigeria. Both Badjeck and the defence ministry, which gave a brief statement on state television, cited the same figures of militant deaths and the number of people freed. Other military sources in Cameroon confirmed that a military operation had taken

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World AIDS Day recognizes the everyday lives and particular struggles of people around the world living with AIDS and HIV, but one population has been long overlooked. According to recent findings from the World Health Organization that analyzed data from 15 countries, transgender women are nearly 49 times more likely than the general population to contract HIV. This means that, just for being who they are, they are part of the population at highest risk for acquiring HIV. But according to advocates, the transgender community's HIV problem remains an "invisible" epidemic, as trans women are too often ignored in health advocacy, stigmatized for their diagnosis or criminalized. Mic spoke to the Human Rights Campaign's Noël Gordon, a senior specialist for HIV prevention and health equity, who argued that transgender women "find themselves a

On Thursday night, the Public School boys took to Sotheby’s to unveil their curation for the auction house, bringing with them perhaps a higher dosage of leather jackets than 72nd Street and York Avenue is accustomed to seeing.   The exhibit from the first-time curators Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne will be open Monday and Tuesday and is titled “Prints & Multiples.” The too-cool-for-school guys that they are, Chow and Osborne breezed in late to their party and chatted with the evening’s crowd, mostly friends and art-world appreciators, by the bar. Chow and Osborne know Tad Smith, the chief executive officer of Sotheby’s, from his days at Madison Square Garden, when the designers did a line for the Knicks in 2014. “The CFDA had reached out to us to see if we’d be interested, and I guess Sotheby’s had reached out to them,” Chow explained. “It sort of just happened.” “The lot that we looked through was really big, but it was actually really easy,” Osborne a

The red carpet at the 2015 American Music Awards, held Sunday at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, had the requisite amount of sheer, sequins, and skin Add caption as well as fashion moments like Harry Styles in a floral Gucci suit, Kendall Jenner in Oriett Domenech, Selena Gomez in Givenchy and Zendaya in Ungaro. Naturally, host Jennifer Lopez donned a parade of sparkly outfits at the three-hour show,

In his latest interview, Rocky speaks on the passing of  A$AP Yams , his style influences, the creative process for his latest album, and more.   johnson will be released bi-annually and will cover topics including men's style, music, cars, food and interior design. The inaugural issue is already in stores across the pond with plans to sell it online worldwide later this week.

MORE than four days after four siblings were killed in a mudslide which rammed into their home in the early hours of last Saturday, the  agony of death still  hangs heavily  in the Otun-Araromi community.  The building, located at 50, Otun-Araromi Street, Orisa-Magodo- Isheri, Lagos, was besieged by sympathisers, most of whom could not hold back their tears. Owned by Mr. Okeoseye Odia, a former police officer who works with Aero contractors, the house  is situated on a valley behind Magodo Estate in Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State. As at Wednesday when The Nation visited, the pains of the tragedy had yet to wear off the faces of the members of the community.  Sympathizers have not ceased thronging the building to commiserate with the bereaved family. Also, onlookers are visiting to see the scene of the tragedy where nature’s fury swallowed the lives of four young boys without warning.Nature should not