Reuters | Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty, according to a new criminal code signed by veteran President Teodoro Obiang, adding to a growing list...
AP | African Union (AU) chairperson Macky Sall said Tuesday that Africa “does not want to be the breeding ground of a new Cold War,” alluding...
Antigua Observer | The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday issued a statement on the increasingly disturbing situation in Haiti. The following is the text of the communique:...
Reuters | Ghana has declared the end of an outbreak of Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, that was confirmed in July, the...
AFP | The Queen’s death has put the wind at the back of republican movements in a region once dominated by the British empire, analysts say,...
By Gregory Simpkins A lot of attention has been given to China’s involvement in Africa, and of course, the ongoing participation of Europe’s former colonial powers...
Haiti’s President of the Senate Joseph Lambert has told the nation that a new governance structure will be in place within the next 48 hours. In...
“Africa should be allowed the space to choose its own partners and should never again find itself as a battleground for influence among the global powers.”...
Reuters | U.N. children’s agency UNICEF on Thursday named Vanessa Nakate, a 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist, goodwill ambassador. Inspired by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, Nakate began her...
BKR Capital, the first institutionally backed Black-led venture fund in Canada, has celebrated its first anniversary by closing a fundraising round that blew past its targets....
Haiti announced on Wednesday new prices for fuel even as protesters took to the streets throughout the capital, against the move and crippling traffic in the...
Bloomberg | João Lourenço was sworn in for a second term as president of Angola, 3 weeks after he won a disputed election that was challenged...
AP | Fifteen years after being rejected as too controversial, Malcolm X is the first Black honoree to be inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame....
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Carla Barnett has acknowledged that the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) has not kept “pace with the...
Reuters | William Ruto was sworn as Kenya’s 5th president on Tuesday, taking the helm a week after the country’s top court threw out petitions challenging...
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has condemned persons whom he said want to acquire political power in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country without first seeking...
SABC | The Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says he has spoken to outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta about the handing over process that will see Ruto officially...
By Gregory Simpkins Between 1870 and 1900, the so-called “scramble for Africa” resulted in almost all the continent coming under European colonial control. The United Kingdom...
Reuters | Antigua & Barbuda plans to hold a referendum on becoming a republic within the next 3 years, the Caribbean nation’s prime minister told British...
Reuters | The Zambian government expects its economy to grow at 4 percent per year in the medium term and is focused on resolving the country’s...
Ghanaian plant geneticist, and professor, Eric Yirenkyi Danquah has been awarded the 2022 Africa Food Prize at the AGRF2022 Summit. The event took place on the...
AP | Thousands of people in Haiti’s capital and other major cities organized new protests on Wednesday to demand safer streets, more affordable goods and the...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Carla Barnett, says while the current arrangements allow for Caribbean people to “pick up and move from one CARICOM state to...
Bloomberg | The giant refinery being built in Nigeria by Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote, will finally start operations by mid-2023, according to state oil company,...
PRNewswire | Early last month, SparkCharge, the world’s first mobile EV charging network, announced its CEO and Founder, Joshua (Josh) Aviv, had participated in the signing...
Reuters | Ethiopia’s government has decided to open up the country’s banking sector to foreign investors, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday, the latest measure...
The government of Guyana says the country is expected to earn US$1.1 billion from the energy sector this year. According to a report from the country’s...
By Gregory Simpkins Agency is defined as “the sense of control you feel in life, your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behavior, and the...
AP | Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won...
AFP | Ethiopian Airlines, the leading African flag carrier, on Wednesday reported a surge in profit for the last financial year, in sharp contrast to the...
AP | Serena Williams eliminated number two seed Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 in the US Open’s second round Wednesday night to ensure that the...
AFP | More than 50,000 fighters including former rebels from rival camps in South Sudan’s civil war were set to be integrated into the country’s army...
California Rep. Karen Bass has been formidable in the polls since announcing her run for mayor of Los Angeles, and now, she seems to be pulling...
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court on Monday upheld a motion by a self-described gay man challenging the constitutionality of sections of the Offences Against the Person...
Reuters | Walmart Inc., has launched a 6.4 billion rand (US$377.6 million) offer for the remaining 47 percent of South African retailer Massmart it does not...
By Gregory Simpkins Elections play a significant part in the establishment and maintenance of representative democracy worldwide, but all too often, the entirety of the process...
AFP | Angolans and world leaders gathered on Sunday for the state funeral of former president José Eduardo dos Santos. The memorial service was held at...
AP | Angolans are anxiously watching the vote counting in their election race between the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party and...
AFP | After a glittering 27-year professional career in which she became one of the greatest players of all time, Serena Williams is preparing to bid...
Bloomberg | Kenya Airways Plc is looking to reduce jet-leasing costs by more than a third as the carrier targets break even by 2024. Negotiations with...
AP | Angolans are voting in an election in which President João Lourenço is seeking a second term and longtime opposition party National Union for the...
AP | A couple of thousand protesters in Haiti’s capital and other major cities blocked roads, shut down businesses, and marched through the streets Monday to...
AFP | South Africa’s unemployment rate fell for a second consecutive quarter despite widespread power cuts and devastating floods, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said Tuesday....
By Faustine Ngila A new cybersecurity center in Togo is poised to add into efforts by individual African countries to secure the continent’s cyberspace. In November...
Bloomberg | Nigeria has appointed Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, to lead a committee commissioned with eliminating malaria in the West African nation as the mosquito-borne...
The United States Department of State has announced a leadership programme in honor of the late Caribbean-American Secretary of State Colin Powell. The State Department said...
Consumers in Barbados will be paying less for gasoline and diesel come Friday as Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced that the price of fuel at the...
Reuters | Angolan voters will choose next Wednesday, in what looks like the closest ever election in Africa’s second-biggest oil producer. Who are the main players?...
By Chuka Onwumechili The Confederation for African Football (CAF) recently announced plans for a continent-wide Africa Super League. It will kick off with 24 clubs from...
Reuters | Ethiopia has completed the third phase of filling the reservoir for its huge dam on the Blue Nile river, the government said on Friday,...
Media and entertainment mogul Byron Allen believes the news and media industry needs more inclusion, an issue he will address now that he is the owner...
A number of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are seeing an increase in Black students applying and enrolling after years of decline. “The percentage of...
By Cara Anna | The Associated Press Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over 5-time...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been a lot of discussion about the African Diaspora and its importance in US-Africa trade and general relations. However, just counting...
By Gregory Simpkins The Biden Administration is about to release its Africa policy within days of this writing. Most U.S. Administrations do this at some point,...
Bloomberg | South Africa’s TymeBank plans to acquire a local lender to small businesses to help the banking startup backed by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe...
Bloomberg | Los Angeles Lakers basketball star LeBron James is betting on the boom in cycling with an investment in Germany’s Canyon Bicycles GmbH. Canyon has...
Reuters | Nigeria has added more than 10 million new voters to its election register, most of them youths, ahead of a presidential vote next February,...
The Organization of American States (OAS) says that following an invitation from the Government of St. Kitts & Nevis, it will deploy an Electoral Observation Mission...
By Gregory Simpkins I have written previously about Nigeria being the “essential nation” in Africa. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), successive U.S. Administrations have...
Barbados is scheduled to host more than 700 African businesspeople, investors, and representatives of financial institutions during the first Africa-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) from...
AFP | Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) reported a fresh discovery of offshore oil and natural gas by Italian firm Eni on Thursday, expanding the potential of...
Reuters | Nigerian opposition Senators pushed for President Muhammadu Buhari to face impeachment, 10 months before the end of his second term in office, over the...
Jamaica has launched a gender and climate change strategy and action plan (GCCSAP) that it says has been developed and guided by a national gender and...
The chief executive of 3BlackDot Holdings Inc. has bought the business, making it one of the few Black-owned media companies at a time when many marketers...
Reuters | – Burkina Faso’s former president, Blaise Compaore, has apologized to the family of his late predecessor, Thomas Sankara, whose 1987 murder a military court...
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, Monday proposed a single-item referendum asking citizens of the country to decide whether or not to replace...
As the burgeoning Guyanese offshore oil and gas industry goes from strength to strength, powered by the Stabroek block, government revenue from domestic production is on...
AFP | Liberia has allowed dual citizenship, reversing a longtime ban viewed by some as hypocritical as many elites secretly held US citizenship. The bill, signed...
By Gregory Simpkins I count myself blessed to have been involved in the creation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and nearly a dozen...
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is buying the Black News Channel (BNC), with plans to revive the bankrupt cable news outlet and significantly grow its distribution...
Bloomberg | A Nigerian startup backed by private-equity firm Lightrock LLP is looking to deploy electric vehicles in about 8 African countries by next year as...
Business Wire | PAVmed Inc. (“PAVmed”), a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company operating in the medical device, diagnostics, and digital health sectors, has announced that its...
The main Opposition St. Kitts & Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) on Monday welcomed the announcement of the August 5 general election date, saying it brings to...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
Reuters | Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is meeting on Thursday with his predecessors and longtime rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie in an effort...
Earlier this week, the internXL digital platform announced its commitment to provide quality jobs for the next generation of Black innovators with free training courses and...
Kenya will become a regional hub for medical equipment, which will help neighboring countries get required medicines faster.
Bloomberg | The Las Vegas Raiders, grappling with allegations of a hostile work environment, named Sandra Douglass Morgan to be the team’s president, making her the...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley says that come mid-July, the public will no longer be required to wear masks. The Prime Minister made the...
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
AP | Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the US Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the...
Bloomberg | Actor Idris Elba is in talks to take part in a bid for state-owned broadcaster Channel Four Television Corp. that could be valued at...
Rwanda will host the new African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, a venture by the African Development Bank (AfDB) that is expected to boost the continent’s access to...
AP | A newcomer to politics has ousted Grenada’s longest serving prime minister in a tight general elections on the eastern Caribbean island-nation. Dickon Mitchell’s National...
Reuters | Nigeria’s Chief Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad has resigned on health grounds, two sources in the president’s office said on Monday, but there was no...
By Gregory Simpkins On May 30, 2019, the framework agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) entered into force, But this continental body still...
Reuters | Commonwealth members voted to keep Patricia Scotland as secretary-general of the 54-nation club after some members including Britain tried to oust her, 2 sources...
Reuters | Africa must wean itself off dependence on food and medicine imports, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said, as the institution approved...
AP | LeBron James and Naomi Osaka are becoming teammates in the entertainment world. Tennis star Osaka and her agent and business partner, Stuart Duguid, are...
Bloomberg | Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera fired his head of police and said he won’t delegate duties to Vice President Saulos Chilima after they were named...
By Imali Ngusale The 5th of June was set aside by the African Union (AU) to observe and commemorate the Day of the African Child (within...
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19), according to an officially released statement. The statement by the Office of the Prime...
Kenyan engineer Norah Magero, has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2022 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation with Vaccibox, a small, mobile, solar-powered fridge that safely...
When Colombians on Sunday elected their first leftist president ever, they also voted for their country’s first Black vice-president. Francia Márquez, a Black single mother who...
By Gregory Simpkins The Corporate Council on Africa recently hosted a briefing in Washington by United Nations High Representative for Infrastructure. Raila Odinga, a Kenyan politician...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says investment flows to the region reached US$134 billion last year, up from US$88 billion in 2020....
Bloomberg | Ethiopia’s wheat output will jump 70 percent this year as the populous Horn of Africa nation ramps up production to shelter itself from supply...
AP | US President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the appointment of former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as a top adviser, filling a key White...
Reuters | Uganda has revealed that recent exploration surveys have shown it has gold ore deposits of about 31 million tons and it wants to attract...
Barbados is set to host the 11th Caribbean Urban Forum (CUF), the major annual regional event on urban planning, development, and land management from Wednesday June...
Bloomberg | African Rainbow Energy and Power (AREP), backed by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe, is looking to boost renewable power generation sevenfold to become one...
By Gregory Simpkins Many people who are not familiar with international affairs see situations as strictly black and white; villain and victim. While there is some...
By Sabrina Lynch The impact of COVID–19 caused immense financial distress for small businesses across the country, particularly African American entrepreneurs, who were one of the...
AP | The Bank of Jamaica is preparing to issue a nationwide digital currency for the first time in its history following recent approval from legislators....
AFP | More than 2,300 delegates from Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party converged on the capital Abuja ahead of a key primary election on...
AP | Haiti’s government has nominated a fifth judge to oversee the investigation into the killing of President Jovenel Moïse, magistrate Bernard Saint-Vil told The Associated...
Bloomberg | Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who’s running for president for a fifth time, drew ahead of rival candidate Deputy President William Ruto in an...
Haiti has named a candidate for the position of director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to replace the Dominica-born Carissa Etienne, who has served...
Reuters | Deaths on the African continent from COVID-19 are expected to fall by nearly 94 percent in 2022 compared to last year, modelling by the...
It’s called the “bachelor barrier” – the undergraduate degree requirement that many African American and other people of color don’t meet, which keeps them from a...
JIS | The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, is exploring opportunities for collaboration with tertiary institutions in the United States, particularly Historically Black Colleges...
Bloomberg | Vista Equity Partners is almost halfway to raising the US$20 billion target it set for its flagship fund, according to people familiar with the...
According to capital market data from the Nigerian Exchange dated May 20th, MTN Nigeria’s market capitalization stood at N5 trillion (about US$12 billion), making it one...
Government ministries in Barbados have been asked to work with the major players in the sector to come up with ways to shield Barbadians from rising...
AP | Gambia’s government is setting up a special prosecutor’s office to investigate for severe human rights violations and potentially charge former dictator Yahya Jammeh, who...
Bloomberg | For Black Americans, job prospects have improved since 2020. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the gains eked out over the...
Grammy Award-winning artist and entrepreneur Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has invested in Altro, a Black-led, free app helping users build credit through existing spending habits. TechCrunch reports...
AP | WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday....
Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been listed in the US publication, 2022 TIME100, as one of the most influential people in the world. In the...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will vote for “a candidate of their choice” when Commonwealth leaders meet in Rwanda next month to choose the next Commonwealth secretary...
Reuters | Ghana has started a bulk purchase initiative to buy gold locally to raise the gold component of its reserves, Central Bank Governor Ernest Addison...
Reuters | A South African court on Tuesday granted another adjournment in former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal corruption trial, as his legal team pushes for...
On May 13, Cornell Engineering presented billionaire and philanthropist Robert F. Smith with a Distinguished Alumni Award. During his acceptance speech, the founder and CEO of...
Reuters | Nigerian entrepreneur Mustapha Gajibo has been converting petrol mini-buses into electric vehicles at his workshop, but he is now going a step further to...
Legislators in Cuba’s parliament have declared that the Spanish speaking Communist island will observe May 25 as Africa Day to celebrate the roots and formation of...
Bloomberg | Kenya may be poised to have its first female deputy president after one of the leading contenders in this year’s general election picked a...
Reuters | Ghana is committed to managing its debt without assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said, expressing his confidence that...
Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis, Timothy Harris, said on Tuesday he had asked Governor General, Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton, to dissolve parliament with immediate...
Bloomberg | Standard Bank Group Ltd. has named a female Black person to chair Africa’s biggest lender by assets for the first time. Nonkululeko Nyembezi has...
AP | The US Senate confirmed economist Lisa Cook on Tuesday to serve on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, making her the first Black woman...
When Fawwaz Ibrahim moved to Canada at age 16, he never imagined himself being an athleticwear aficionado. As a matter of fact, adjusting to a Canadian...
Reuters | State-owned operator Ethio Telecom launched a 5G mobile phone service on Monday in a key step ahead of competition from new entrants in an...
Two-time NBA champion Kevin Durant has been named as a minority owner of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) club NJ/NY Gotham FC. Thirty Five Ventures...
Bloomberg | Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced his candidacy for long-delayed presidential elections that will be held later this month. “I am announcing my re-election...
AP | Carnival Corp. – the world’s largest cruise company – has revealed that CEO Arnold Donald will step down on August 1. Donald has led...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) trade and economic development ministers say the region needs to develop robust strategies to respond to the impact the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is...
Reuters | Africa’s top public health body urged all those purchasing COVID-19 vaccines for the continent to place orders with South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare, saying the...
The two fastest-growing companies in Africa are in Kenya, according to a new ranking released by the Financial Times on Tuesday, and 5 of the top...
AP | U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado will serve as New York’s next lieutenant governor, New York governor Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday. Delgado, a Democrat, will take...
Reuters | Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Sunday his government would hike the country’s minimum wage by 12 percent immediately to help workers cope with...
Grenadians were still awaiting the imminent announcement for the date for the next general election after Prime Minister Keith Mitchell said he would be approaching Governor...
Bloomberg | When Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, decided to construct a refinery in southern Nigeria on a plot of swampland almost half the size of...
Disgruntled members of the coalition Team Unity government Tuesday confirmed that they had filed a motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister of St. Kitts...
Farmerline Group has secured a US$6.4 million Pre-Series A investment and US$6.5 million debt to strengthen its supply chain for agribusinesses; reduce the cost of farming,...
AP | Spelman College, one of the nation’s only two historically Black colleges for women, on Monday chose as its president an epidemiologist who spent decades...
Reuters | Sister Alphonsine Ciza spends most of her day in gum boots, white veil tucked under a builder’s hat, manning the micro hydroelectric plant she...
The Guyana government says it has received its first entitlement lift of the Unit Gold crude from the Liza Unity Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO)...
Thanks to Chris Montana, Du Nord Social Spirits is the first Black-owned distillery in the United States. Montana and his wife, Shanelle, started the company together...
The Central African Republic has become the first country in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as a payment currency. In a worldwide first, the National Assembly unanimously...
St. Kitts & Nevis Governor General, Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton Thursday said he is awaiting “formal legal advice” before acting on an “undated” letter sent...
AP | The crowded field to buy Chelsea now features 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams and seven-time Formula One champion Sir Lewis Hamilton. A long-standing...
Kenya’s former president, Mwai Kibaki, has died at the age of 90, President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced. He was president of Kenya from 2003 to 2013....
Bloomberg | Namibia’s nascent oil industry sees a window of 10 years to get going before the move toward net-zero emissions makes it too late to...
Reuters | Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) President Alassane Ouattara has named Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, governor of the West African central bank, as his vice president in...
Prime Minister Timothy Harris has been given a deadline to resolve the issues facing the coalition Team Unity government or dissolve Parliament and pave the way...
AFP | Kenya’s Evans Chebet held off two past champions to win the men’s crown and reigning Olympic champion compatriot Peres Jepchirchir captured the women’s title...
Reuters | Ugandan film producer Raymond Malinga, whose work will feature in an upcoming Disney anthology of animated films from across Africa, hopes the project will...
Several important developments relating to demands by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for reparations payments from Europe for the slave trade have occurred in recent weeks with...
Howard University has announced that the school’s president, Wayne A. I. Frederick, will retire by June 2024. Frederick was appointed as interim president in 2013 and...
AP | Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Monday that he will run for president in next year’s election. Osinbajo, 65, formally declared his intention to...
JIS | Jamaica’s remittance inflows exceeded US$3.3 billion for 2021, representing an increase of over US$2.9 billion for 2020. Minister of State in the Ministry of...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced a new multi-billion-dollar initiative to help member countries battle soaring import costs and foreign currency challenges stemming from the...
AP | The corruption trial in South Africa of former President Jacob Zuma has been postponed again on Monday pending the outcome of the ex-leader’s appeal...
AP | The US Senate is expected to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black woman on...
Late last year, venture capitalist Adeyemi Ajao traveled back to his native Spain to tend to his 92-year-old father. The elder Ajao asked his son about...
AFP | Former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré has been jailed for life for his role in the assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 35 years...
AP | Cavalier Johnson became the first African American elected mayor of Milwaukee, overwhelming a former alderman to win the right to finish the last two...
AFP | Nigeria’s government has lifted a nationwide midnight curfew and limitations on gatherings along with other restrictions imposed more than 2 years ago to curb...
AP | The last time President Barack Obama was in the White House was on January 20, 2017, when he left to escort his successor –...
By Wanjohi Kabukuru | The Associated Press AP | From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a...
Reuters | Dangote’s 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) oil refinery being built in Nigeria is due to begin production by the fourth quarter of 2022, Group...
Dominica has called on the 54-member Commonwealth grouping to re-elect its General Secretary, Baroness Patricia Scotland, for a second consecutive term saying that despite the challenges...
Reuters | Democratic Republic of Congo’s parliament on Wednesday voted to remove Economy Minister Jean-Marie Kalumba from his post, blaming him for the soaring price of...
St. Lucia on Tuesday signaled its intention to become the fifth Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to have full membership of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court...
Press Release | Russom Woldemichael, owner and founder of shoe and leather goods company Barcon Getta, knows that a journey of a thousand miles begins with...
AP | Maine Senator Susan Collins said Wednesday she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley has announced the removal of most of the restrictions that were implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking during...
Bloomberg | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) joined the East African Community (EAC), bringing the regional trading bloc’s market size to a quarter of...
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley wants to see the dismantling of the old global order and it being replaced with a new order that promotes world...
AP | The governing body of the U.N.’s labor agency has picked a Togo executive to be the agency’s new leader and the first director-general from...
AP | Zimbabwe has launched a new COVID-19 vaccination campaign that includes jabbing children aged 12 and above to rescue a drive faltering due to vaccine...
Howard University has announced that it’s planning to spend US$785 million for the largest campus construction initiative in the institution’s history. As part of the Howard...
Grenada on Tuesday announced a lifting of some restrictions under its Quarantine COVID Regulations that will ease requirements for travelers to that eastern Caribbean country. Effective...
Reuters | Ethiopian Airlines on Thursday named Chief Operating Officer Mesfin Tasew Bekele to succeed CEO Tewolde Gebremariam who is retiring early to focus on his...
Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali has told international investors that the Caribbean region is a stable platform with all of the components for a modern and emerging...
Reuters | Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote opened a 3-million-tonne fertilizer plant at a cost of US$2.5 billion on Tuesday to target African and foreign markets even...
Jamaica is to be positioned as the technology and innovation hub of the Caribbean, says Prime Minister, Andrew Holness. “We are known for our athletes, music,...
The East African | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will officially be admitted to the East Africa Community (EAC) next week, adding a 90...
Reuters | Ethiopia said on Friday it had decided to postpone the planned partial privatization of state-owned telecoms firm Ethio Telecom because of the prevailing economic...
Press Release | Harris-Stowe State University (HSSU) announces that Dr. LaTonia Collins Smith is the 21st President of the University. Dr. Collins Smith is the first...
The Bahamaian government says it remains “cautiously optimistic” about the country’s progress in the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic as it announced a further relaxation...
The Rowley administration in Trinidad & Tobago has dismissed the tactics of the main opposition United National Congress (UNC) party as “scaremongering” and re-affirmed its commitment...
AP | The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, educator and social activist, for a craft that is “sustainable...
Reuters | Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday used his new party’s nomination to stand for Kenya’s presidency in an August election to lambast President Uhuru...
AP | The largest African American population growth in pure numbers over the past decade didn’t take place in Atlanta or Houston, long identified as hubs...
Reuters | Nigerian court has stopped Shell Plc from selling any assets in Nigeria until a decision is reached on the company’s appeal of a nearly...
AP | Former U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, though he’s feeling relatively healthy and his wife,...