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,...
Climate champion and prime minister of Barbados Mia Mottley has defended her country’s plans to resume fossil fuel exploration off its coast, saying that developing nations...
Reuters | Former Zambian President Rupiah Banda, 85, died at home on Friday after a short battle with colon cancer, his family and the presidency said....
Reuters | Kenya lifted its remaining COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, including a ban on large indoor gatherings such as religious services and a requirement to present...
The widow of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is urging the authorities to ensure that all those who played a role in his murder be arrested...
Reuters | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed experienced jurist Raymond Zondo as the country’s new chief justice effective April 1, the presidency said in...
AP | Democrat Stacey Abrams became the biggest name so far to qualify to run for Georgia governor Tuesday, saying she is “trying again to do...
AP | Congress gave final approval Monday to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have pledged their support for the incumbent Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland, for a second term as head of the 54-member grouping....
AFP | US vaccine maker Moderna announced Monday that it would build its first mRNA jab-manufacturing facility in Africa after signing an agreement with Kenya’s government...
Bloomberg | Nigerian former Vice President Atiku Abubakar plans to run for president in elections next year. Abubakar, 75, made the announcement while speaking to lawmakers...
Bloomberg | Nigerian lawmakers have passed a constitutional reform bill that will allow state government’s supply electricity in Africa’s most populous country, breaking the monopoly of...
Reuters | Tennis great Serena Williams raised US$111 million for her new early stage venture capital firm Serena Ventures, according to the fund’s blog post on...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will discuss a draft protocol aimed at pushing forward the further implementation of aspects of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)...
Press Release | The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) have nominated Dr. Miriam Were of Kenya for the 2022...
Reuters | A company controlled by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler will give control of valuable mining and oil assets back to the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell on Wednesday called for the total elimination of roaming charges within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) as the regional grouping signed the...
AFP | Nigeria’s electoral body said Saturday it was postponing the 2023 presidential and parliamentary polls by one week, due to a delay in passing a...
If confirmed by the Senate, Jackson would become the sixth woman ever to serve on the court, which currently has 3 female justices.
Press Release | The Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) received a US$2 million grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation to support the preservation and...
Reuters | Operator TotalEnergies has made a significant discovery of light oil and associated gas off the coast of Namibia, the company said on Thursday. Two...
Bloomberg | One of the world’s first central bank digital currencies is experiencing serious growing pains. DCash – a digital version of the Eastern Caribbean dollar...
Bloomberg | A Kenyan technology company, MarketForce, raised US$40 million in a funding round led by V8 Capital Partners of Nigeria to expand its digital retail-distribution...
AP | The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in...
Guyana has announced that it will be pursuing a low carbon transportation infrastructure to reduce the demand for imported fossil fuels for vehicular transport in 2022....
AFP | Ethiopia will start generating power from its “controversial” mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, government officials told AFP. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization, has been named the keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s...
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
Bloomberg | Jamaica’s Prime Minister said the country is on track to launch its own e-currency this year, as the island-nation joins the ranks of those...
Reuters | A South African judge on Wednesday dismissed a bid by former president Jacob Zuma to appeal an earlier ruling rejecting his attempt to have...
Barbados’ Health Minister Ian Gooding-Edghill announced over the weekend, that the country will no longer have a curfew. Speaking at a press briefing on Saturday, Gooding-Edghill...
AFP | Travel on South Africa’s luxury Blue Train, which connects Cape Town to Pretoria in two days, has been suspended until further notice after several...
Businessman and philanthropist Robert F. Smith is furthering his efforts to support students at historically Black colleges and universities through a new project. The Vista Equity...
Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum Yibeltal Aemero Alemu said Sudan and Ethiopia reached an agreement to peacefully resolve the border dispute. Yibeltal did not specify when bilateral...
Leaders of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have agreed to co-sign a letter being sent to United States President Joe Biden as they announced...
AFP | Angola has recovered assets worth more than US$11 billion that had been looted from state coffers and stashed in countries around the world, the...
AFP | US sprinting great Justin Gatlin announced his retirement from athletics on Thursday, hanging up his spikes after a career tinged by doping controversies that...
Press Release, Orca Communications | Meet Duane Cheers and Danita Claytor, the co-founders of Everything Legendary, a Black-owned plant-based food brand with legendary flavor, that have...
"Over the past two years, the African continent has gotten smarter, faster and better at responding to each new surge in cases of COVID-19." - Matshidiso...
St. Lucia prime minister Phillip J. Pierre has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s office (PMO). It...
Successful bid would Allen the first Black majority owner of an National Football League team.
AFP | Prosecutors on Tuesday called for a 30-year jail term against Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore for the 1987 murder of his predecessor, revolutionary...
By Kristina Hinds Last month, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley won a stunning landslide victory in the Caribbean nation’s first general election since it declared itself...
Press Release | The Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) and Chair of the Association of Commonwealth...
AFP | Senegal’s President Macky Sall declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team’s first ever African Cup of Nations crown following their...
Proposed transition plan comes as Ariel Henry's government faces a crisis of legitimacy.
Press Release | The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is moving to create a “financing ecosystem” to support the rescue, recovery and repositioning of its Borrowing Member...
This is not Moderna’s vaccine, it is the Afrigen mRNA hub vaccine.
AFP | West African leaders hold a key summit on Thursday as a wave of coups buffet a region struggling with poverty and a long history...
Serena Williams, A&T Capital back Nigerian startup Nestcoin
Reuters | Ethiopian Airlines is due to resume flying the Boeing 737 MAX plane on Tuesday, but opinions are divided on the airline’s first flight using...
Growth predicted for 2022, is also underpinned by expectations of accelerated implementation of several large infrastructure projects across the region.
By investing in women, the fund hopes to unlock the potential of women-led businesses in Africa, and, ultimately, the economic transformation of their countries.
Mottley administration moves to make constitution and parliament relevant to current demands.
"Let us talk from the heart how to foster greater collaboration between Africa and the Caribbean and the role we all have to play." - Tony...
America's largest Black-owned bank offers small dollar, short term loans with no credit check
AP | West African neighbor states on Friday suspended Burkina Faso in the aftermath of this week’s coup, making it the third nation in the regional...
AP | Ernie Francis Jr., the driver who earned national recognition when he won a race in Tony Stewart’s summer all-star series, has been hired to...
Chakwera dissolved his entire cabinet this week, saying some ministers had to account for graft accusations made against them.
Bloomberg | Ethiopia’s council of ministers lifted a state of emergency in the Horn of Africa nation on Wednesday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said. “The...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 rattled Trinidad & Tobago on Tuesday night but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, according to...
AFP | World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is all but guaranteed a second term after a procedural vote on Tuesday (January 25) made...
AP | Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley was sworn in for a second term Thursday after her party appeared to have swept every legislative seat in...
Bloomberg | Nigeria’s giant new Dangote oil refinery will start processing crude in the third quarter of this year. Mechanical work on the refinery is complete...
Smith would become the NFL’s first Black controlling owner of a franchise.
For the first time in its history, the Jamaica Defence Force, is being headed by a woman. “Humbled and privileged.” Those were the words of Rear...
Barrow promises economic progress after he is sworn in for second presidential term
Barbadian voters bought into the philosophy that they are “safer with Mia” wholesale and re-elected the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) into government with a consecutive...
"With the incredible growth of Omicron globally, new variants are likely to emerge," warned WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Barbadians are today casting their ballots for a new government, 3½ years after they had overwhelming elected the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to victory in 2018....
Press Release | After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave driven primarily by the Omicron variant is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in...
Jamaica - along with the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank - has become a global pioneer in creating digital currency.
AP | Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the former president of Mali who took office in a landmark election held after a destabilizing coup only to be ousted...
Robert F. Smith should be applauded for helping make a difference and providing hope to millions of people in underserved communities
Reuters | The vice president of Democratic Republic of Congo’s parliament Jean-Marc Kabund resigned on Friday over what he described as “bullying”, “humiliation” and “torture”. Kabund,...
Reuters | Jamaican authorities have detained a former Haitian senator who was a key suspect in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in July, Jamaican...
AP | The director of Africa’s Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) said the organization is talking to Pfizer about bringing its COVID-19 treatment pill to...
AP | Deon Lendore, an Olympic bronze medal-winning sprinter for Trinidad & Tobago and former NCAA champion at Texas A&M, was killed in a head-on collision...
The target is to reach 75 percent of the population by June this year.
This coin will ensure generations of Americans learn about Maya Angelou’s books and poetry that spoke to the lived experience of Black women.
AFP | Nigeria’s ruling party chief and influential former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Monday he intends to run for the presidency in the...
PRNewswire | The Propel Center, the global HBCU technology and learning hub intended to level the playing field and open greater doors of opportunity for their...
Kenya is set to lead the world’s peer to peer cryptocurrency market for the second consecutive year according to Marius Reitz, the general manager for the...
Discoveries add to the previously announced recoverable resource estimate for the block, of 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels.
West African community imposes additional sanctions on Mali
"We are working very hard with the ministry of health to develop vaccines. We shouldn't make noise about it until we succeed." - Muhammadu Buhari
Sidney Poitier always insisted on playing smart, poised and thoughtful African and African American characters.
Press Release | University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is ranked No. 2 in the annual Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings that are designed to spotlight top education...
Reuters | Africa’s top public health official said on Thursday that severe lockdowns were no longer the best way to contain COVID-19, praising South Africa for...
The Central Bank of Barbados (CBB), has introduced a foreign exchange platform that allows a person to apply for funds to be remitted abroad. The new...
The Jamaican central bank, Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), announced that it has successfully completed the trial of its central bank digital currency (CBDC). The 8-month pilot...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has condemned the armed attack on Haiti’s Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, and urged the Haitian authorities to address “this prevailing untenable security...
Reuters | Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, 6 weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup...
Reuters | Vista Equity Partners will acquire a majority stake in Salesloft Inc, valuing the sales engagement software company at US$2.3 billion, the Wall Street Journal...
Press Release | “We have come to the end of what has been a very challenging year for our community and its member states. However, we...
Reuters | Research by South African scientists suggests that Omicron could displace the Delta variant of the coronavirus because infection with the new variant boosts immunity...
The Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Wednesday said the Caribbean could serve as a production site for goods such as vaccines and...
AP | Gambia’s former dictator, Yahya Jammeh, should face prosecution for murder, torture and sexual violence, according to a new report by a truth, reconciliation and...
Actor Forest Whitaker and best-selling author Dambisa Moyo join group of NBA Africa investors.
"I need for us to unite around a common cause, unite behind a single government, unite behind a single leader." - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley
Seven-day mourning period is planned in Cape Town before Tutu’s burial.
Sources close to Hamdok had said previously he would only remain in office if he had political support.
AP | South Africa’s noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country’s dramatic omicron-driven surge has passed its peak, medical...
CBDC to facilitate financial inclusion