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
AFP | A Madagascan minister was one of 2 survivors to have swum some 12 hours to shore Tuesday after their helicopter crashed off the island’s...
I am expecting that other countries in the region will consider and do what they feel is right within their own national considerations - Carla Barnett
PRNewswire | Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group division Allen Media Broadcasting is proud to announce it has signed a purchase agreement for its acquisition of the...
Bloomberg | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa returned to duty after recovering from COVID-19. The president ended his period of self-isolation and will chair the final...
Jamaica Observer | The Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Carla Barnett, is warning that the region should brace for the impact of wide-scale economic...
AFP | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) said Thursday that the latest Ebola outbreak was officially over, as the country marked 42 days with...
"There will be no fatality, nor oil curse, or ruinous competition if there is political will to cooperate across the board" - Macky Sall
Sewell takes office on January 1, 2022
AFP | South Africa’s High Court ordered former president Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside the decision to release him on medical parole,...
AP | Lewis Hamilton is now a “Sir” as well as a seven-time Formula One champion. Hamilton received a knighthood Wednesday as part of Queen Elizabeth...
AFP | Sharon Bowen was named as chair of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), its parent company announced, becoming the first Black woman to hold...
Goals of a basic income system are to alleviate poverty and replace other need-based social programs
Non-Ghanaian nationals not fully vaccinated may be denied entry and returned to the point of embarkation at a cost to the airline
Ramaphosa is receiving treatment for mild COVID-19 symptoms after testing positive for the disease
Press Release | During a launch event at Dunbar High School with JPMorgan Chase and Youth Guidance to announce the D.C. expansion of their respective programs,...
Five months after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, his wife says she will never forget what “caused blood to flow in the hearts of all”...
Reuters | Nigeria plans to ban flights from Argentina, Britain, Canada and Saudi Arabia from this week in retaliation for being added to those countries’ red...
The Bahamas government has reversed its policy of imposing travel restrictions on persons coming from certain African countries, indicating that the decision had been taken due...
Reuters | Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles earned Time magazine’s “Athlete of the Year” honor, the publication said on Thursday. The 24-year-old gymnast travelled to...
South Africa alerted the world to Omicron late last month
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced changes to the measures aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19. The new measure will come into effect from December...
AP | New York Attorney General Letitia James suspended her campaign for governor on Thursday, saying she will run for reelection to her current position to...
AFP | Burkina Faso’s premier and government resigned Wednesday as protests mounted against officials’ inability to combat a wave of jihadist attacks. President Roch Marc Christian...
The Champions of the Earth award is the UN's highest environmental honor.
Barrow garnered more than 53 percent of the vote.
Our health team has advised that it is not necessary at this time to impose a travel ban on South African countries - St. Kitts &...
Election is seen as a test of Gambia's democratic progress and its ability to leave the Jammeh era behind.
Gebru’s effort is an attempt to forge a research group outside of corporate or military influence that tries to prevent harm from AI systems by focusing...
Reuters | Senegal’s economy will grow 5 percent in 2021 thanks in part to solid industrial output, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday, revising...
AP | Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation’s first Black...
Nabaweesi will lead the Center’s health policy research on minority health and education inequities in rural and urban communities
Xinhua | Zimbabwe on Monday launched a national HIV/AIDS strategic plan which is set to guide resource allocation and implementation of the country’s HIV response for...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated the Government and People of Barbados on the country’s 55th anniversary of independence and its transition to republican status. CARICOM...
Barbados becomes world's newest republic
AP | Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper’s daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction,...
Central Bank planning to introduce CBDC - will cut transaction costs and boost participation in the formal financial system
Bridgetown, Barbados – Cabinet Secretary Hugh Allman has announced that Barbados expects several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government to attend celebrations to mark the island-nation’s...
The Nigeria Country Risk report which has been released by Fitch Solutions has projected the West African country’s economy to grow by 2.8 percent in 2022....
Trice Edney News Wire | With protests having erupted in cities across the country over police violence targeting Black men and women, the civil rights and...
Prime Minister Ariel Henry has sworn in his new Cabinet more than 4 months after he assumed leadership of Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel...
The Seventh Caribbean Sustainable Energy Forum (CSEF) hosted by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE) which...
Publishing houses have sprouted across Africa in recent years, along with literary reviews, festivals and regional prizes.
James Mitchell, former Prime Minister of Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, has died. Mitchell had been ailing for several weeks and returned home last Thursday from...
The final decision will now be made by the East African Community Heads of State Summit at a later date.
Reuters | After a century and a half hidden in private collections, 13 stolen Ethiopian artefacts have finally returned home following months of negotiations. “Our country’s...
AP | U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a trailblazing Black Democrat in Texas who has served in Congress for nearly 30 years, announced Saturday that she...
AP | Sudan’s deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military on Sunday that will see him reinstated, almost a month after a military coup...
Barbados becomes a republic on November 30.
The WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world”.
Reuters | Three civil society groups have taken the South African government to court over its plan for new coal-fired power, which they say threatens people’s...
New curfew hours will remain in effect for a three-week period
Reuters |Nigeria will start a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign later this week, aiming to inoculate half of its targeted population by the end of January, government...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley has announced plans to revoke the State of Emergency. Speaking during a media conference, the prime minister said that...
The Mottley administration says it has established what is being referred to as the world’s first metaverse or digital embassy. A statement from the Ministry of...
Barbados is close to making a decision on administering the Pfizer vaccine to children five to 11 years old, Chief Medical Officer Kenneth George said on...
AP | A day after becoming the first Black American woman to win a World Cup speedskating race, Erin Jackson made it two in a row...
He was viewed by many in South Africa as the last apartheid ruler, not the leader who helped steer the country away from violent racial oppression.
The government of Guyana has announced that only fully vaccinated people will be allowed into the country. “After the end of November, the mandate will be...
Rashford waged a high-profile campaign last year to persuade the Conservative government it should extend free meal vouchers to vulnerable young people.
The technology has enabled small businesses in remote areas in Kenya to access affordable power, and has been adopted to solve a new problem: keeping COVID-19...
Reuters | Media entrepreneur Byron Allen has raised US$10 billion in preferred equity and debt for his bid for U.S. regional TV station operator Tegna Inc.,...
Press Release | Whole genome sequencing (WGS) testing to detect COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) variants will be underway at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Medical Microbiology Laboratory...
Reuters |West Africa’s main political and economic bloc imposed sanctions on Sunday against Mali’s transitional leaders after they informed the organization they would not be able...
New capital is designed as a high-tech "smart city", will ease congestion in Cairo.
The Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Elizabeth Riley, says the protracted nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a radical shift...
Adams will become the second Black mayor of the America's most populous city.
These investments will get us to a certain size and a certain increased level of profitability, but if you want to take an institution to the...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says it stands ready to support the approval for recommendation of treatments against the coronavirus (COVID-19), including...
Unemployment declines to 15.9 percent
"Chinese investments in Africa are “going on very well. The next thing I would ask from them is to allow our products to enter their market...
Robert F. Smith gifts thousands of shares of stock to Help Black and Latinx Kids become shareholders
AP | The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is running unopposed for a second five-year term. Tedros, the first...
A one meter rise in sea level can displace approximately 110,000 people in CARICOM member states - Mia Mottley
James is expected to make an announcement later this week
Reuters | The African Union has suspended Sudan’s participation in all activities until the restoration of the civilian-led authority, it said in a communique dated Tuesday....
At least 9 health centers across Jamaica have begun house to house vaccination as of Sunday, October 24, 2021. Healthcare teams, including public health nurses and...
Nigeria joins the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in being among the first jurisdictions in the world to roll out national digital currencies.
In an unprecedented move, NAACP partners with venture backed technology company Hello Alice to support the NAACP's proactive mission of improving the lives of African Americans...
Reuters | Sudan’s ruling council head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced on Monday a state of emergency across the country and the dissolution of the transitional sovereign...
Mason, will be sworn in on November 30, as the country becomes a republic.
Trinidad & Tobago’s Electoral College are meeting today in a special sitting to consider an opposition inspired motion aimed at removing President Paula Mae Weekes from...
"If there is anything, we have learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic is the essence of self-reliance" - Uhuru Kenyatta
Bloomberg | Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is looking to generate more income from hotels and land, win service contracts and boost cargo revenue to prepare...
AP | Colin Powell, who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and peace but whose sterling reputation was forever stained when he went before the...
Zuma still faces corruption charges in a separate case in which he is accused of receiving bribes from French arms firm Thales.
Patricia Deveaux elected as speaker of the House of Assembly while Senator J. Lashell Adderley appointed as president of the Senate
“Henrietta Lacks was exploited. She is one of many women of color whose bodies have been misused by science" - WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has said that access to its offices across the region will be restricted to people showing proof of being vaccinated against the...
IMF forecasts stronger growth for Jamaica as it downgrades global recovery
The Barbados government has announced plans for the establishment of safe zones as the country continues to be impacted by the COVID-9 pandemic that has claimed...
Compaoré is charged with complicity, undermining state security and concealing corpses
All hackathon participants will have an opportunity to interview for a Zillow internship
AFP | Guinea’s new prime minister Mohamed Beavogui on Thursday promised to follow a plan to restore civilian rule set out by the West African state’s...
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley is lobbying for a vaccine plant to be established in the country. Speaking to reporters following the opening of the 15th...
Reuters | The novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. Gurnah was born on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. His work focuses on...
The Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Carla Barnett says an effective response to the post coronavirus (COVID-19) economic situation must include significant and broad debt...
Economies of Angola, Nigeria and South Africa were expected to come out of recession this year.