Roosevelt Skerrit was sworn in as Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Sunday, hours after his Dominica Labour Party (DLP) was given a fourth consecutive...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on Saturday, inaugurated its diplomatic office in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, with Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley saying it could become the most...
Reuters | Police in Kenyan police arrested the Nairobi County governor, Mike Sonko, on Friday on corruption charges, a high profile move in the country’s much...
The government of St. Vincent & the Grenadines has announced a ban on the distribution, sale or use of plastic bags, single-use plastic bags and food...
AP | Namibia’s president won another term Saturday but the longtime ruling party lost its powerful two-thirds majority in its most challenging election since independence nearly...
AP | Sudan’s transitional government announced Friday it overturned a moral policing law that criminalized revealing clothing for women and drinking alcohol and moved to dissolve...
Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has denied media reports that his ruling New National Party (NNP) had received campaign financing from the Grenada Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA),...
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu As Osibisa’s “Welcome Home” played in the background, 126 African Americans and Afro Caribbeans, dressed in colorful traditional costumes, became Ghana’s newest...
Reuters | Two former Guinea-Bissau prime ministers advanced on Wednesday to next month’s presidential run-off, the electoral commission said, with incumbent Jose Mario Vaz finishing a...
By Felix Tih and James Tasamba The decision of West African nations to withdraw forex reserves from France, “fraught with implications”, warn experts The proposal of...
Reuters | South African Airways has resolved a dispute over wages with 2 unions which have been on strike since November 15, the Commission for Conciliation,...
AP | For global music star Angélique Kidjo, that image of her grandmother having to use a closet as a bank is driving her desire to...
Premier Easton Taylor-Farrell was sworn into office on Tuesday, a few hours after leading his Movement for Change and Prosperity (MCAP) into reversing its 2014 electoral...
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago | The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has reiterated its commitment to finding a peaceful solution to the political and economic...
AFP | Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse says he has begun closed-door talks with civil society groups and the private sector, as well as moderate elements of...
Reuters | On Wednesday, Ethiopia’s Sidama people will vote in a referendum on whether to form their own self-governing region in the southern part of the...
AP | Workers began striking Friday at South Africa’s troubled state-owned airline over nearly 1,000 expected job cuts, with flights now canceled until at least Tuesday....
AP | For more than 2 decades the citizens of Gambia knew life was deeply troubled under dictator Yahya Jammeh, who fled into exile nearly 3...
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called on her Caribbean Community (CARICOM) counterparts to have more regular meetings to discuss issues critical to regional integration. Addressing...
AFP | Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan made a commitment to resolving a dispute over a large Ethiopian-led dam project after talks on Wednesday. The 3 nations...
AP | Daniel Cameron made history in a resounding win in the race for Kentucky attorney general, becoming the first African American in state history to...
A broad coalition of Haitian groups in the Haitian Diaspora wants an urgent resolution of the current political crisis in the French-speaking Caribbean country, saying that...
Reuters | President Mokgweetsi Masisi, sworn in for a 5-year term on Friday, promised to drive a transformation of Botswana’s economy, creating more jobs and countering...
Reuters | Kenya’s economy is likely to expand by 6.0 percent next year, rising from projected growth of 5.8 percent this year, due to a favorable...
AP | Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution...
AFP | Mozambique’s incumbent President Filipe Nyusi has won re-election in a predictable landslide victory that will put him in office for a 2nd term of...
Guyana’s President David Granger returned home Tuesday night from Cuba after having completed a scheduled medical evaluation following his diagnosis with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma last year. A...
Reuters | Delaware Governor John Carney nominated on Thursday the first African American to serve on the state’s supreme court and also nominated a current member...
AP | Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi will remain in office after his ruling party won enough parliament seats in this week’s election, the country’s chief justice...
AP | Music artist and actress Queen Latifah was among the honorees recognized by Harvard University for their contributions to black history and culture. Harvard awarded...
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) says it will give an opinion “within a reasonable time” as it concluded hearing arguments in the request for an...
By Adam Valavanis Sierra Leone currently ranks as one of the least developed countries in the world, with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of...
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he intends to make his country, the most modern nation in the Caribbean by the next 20 years. “Jamaica must...
Students from the Faculty of Law and Economics of the State University of Haiti (UEH) are continuing their hunger strike to force President Jovenel Moïse out...
International credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) says The Bahamas may actually be able to recover from the catastrophic Hurricane Dorian without too much economic...
AP | President Jovenel Moïse broke his silence Tuesday and said it would be irresponsible for him to resign amid Haiti’s unrest, which has entered a...
Reuters | Ethiopia postponed by a week a referendum on self-determination for its ethnic Sidama community that would have created the country’s 10th autonomous region, Fana...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said yesterday that it is “deeply concerned” about the protracted political crisis in Haiti where opposition parties have been staging street demonstrations...
Reuters | Former South African president Jacob Zuma will appeal a high court decision to deny him a permanent stay of prosecution on charges related to...
AP | Haiti’s embattled president faced a 5th week of protests on Monday as road blocks went up across the country after opposition leaders said they...
AP | Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s 2-decade border conflict...
AP | Haiti’s economy is paralyzed. Demonstrators fight police, block roads and loot stores several times a week. President Jovenel Moïse is avoiding public appearances. And...
AFP | Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and other major cities in the Caribbean country have been convulsed by widespread protests demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse....
Reuters | During a high-level meeting at Ethiopia’s foreign ministry in July, officials were shocked by social media reports that their prime minister was visiting Eritrea....
Reuters | Montgomery, the capital of the southern U.S. state of Alabama, known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement for its 1950s bus boycotts...
Jamaica has launched a National Tree Planting initiative that will aim to plan 3 million timber and ornamental trees over the next 3 years. The initiative...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 rattled 3 Caribbean islands early Monday, but there have been no reports of injuries or damage, the Trinidad &...
AP | Haitians braced for more upheaval as opposition leaders, emboldened by a massive protest demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse, pledged to remain on...
AP | Irrigation ministers of three key Nile Basin countries were meeting Friday in Sudan’s capital, seeking to resolve differences over Ethiopia’s soon-to-be-finished Blue Nile dam,...
Caribbean Ministers of health, agreed on a collective approach to eliminate more than 30 communicable diseases and related conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean by...
AP | Nigeria’s president on Thursday called “unacceptable” the recent deadly attacks on foreigners in South Africa that angered many African countries and led to an...
AP | The operation dubbed “Find Jovenel Moïse” organized by opposition leaders demanding the resignation of Haiti’s president ended abruptly when he appeared at the National...
AP | Thousands of demonstrators set fires Monday and chanted calls for Haiti’s president to resign as the opposition to Jovenel Moïse tried to increase pressure...
Guyana President David Granger has announced March 2, 2020 as the earliest date for fresh regional and general elections, more than a year after his coalition...
The Government of Trinidad & Tobago says it is working through its various agencies to take all necessary steps to prepare for the impact of tropical...
The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice Claudette Singh, says an election can be held by the end of February next year. Guyana’s President...
AFP | A lawyer representing relatives of victims killed in an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash said Tuesday he is seeking documents from manufacturer Boeing and...
AP | The US National Hurricane Center says it expects Hurricane Humberto to lash Bermuda with high winds and heavy rain later this week. The centre...
The Holness administration has indicated that it is committed to holding referenda to decide on a number of issues of national importance, including replacing Queen Elizabeth...
AP | One woman and her husband huddled on top of a bedroom dresser for two days, surrounded by floodwaters. Another man sat in his wheelchair...
The growing intensity of weather systems is the new norm, and the way business is done in the Caribbean has to change, says Barbados’ Prime Minister...
Reuters | South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have agreed to form a transitional government by the middle of November, the information...
The Bahamas Government says it has suspended the crackdown on illegal migrants in the Abacos and Grand Bahama, as the death toll from the passage of...
The Prime Ministers of St. Lucia and Barbados touched down in The Bahamas earlier today to hold talks with Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis about relief...
AP | Robert Mugabe, the longtime leader of Zimbabwe who was forced to resign in 2017, has died at 95. His successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, confirmed Mugabe’s...
PRNewswire | A few weeks ago, Grammy-nominated rapper, Jeezy announced a new partnership with telecommunications entrepreneur, Freddie Figgers, founder of Figgers Communications. Through this partnership, Jeezy...
Bahamians who have not been impacted by Hurricane Dorian are being urged to open their homes and hearts to those who have suffered loss as a...
Reuters | Sudan’s prime minister has approved 14 members of his cabinet, the first to be appointed since the fall of long-term leader Omar al-Bashir in...
Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has described the establishment of the 4th campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) here as a...
Freeport, Bahamas – AP | Practically parking itself over the Bahamas for a day and a half, Hurricane Dorian pounded away at the islands Tuesday in...
AP | Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas on Sunday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, its nearly 300 km/h (186 mph) winds ripping off roofs...
Reuters | Ethiopia on Thursday granted its ethnic Sidama community a referendum in November on self-determination, with a view to creating the country’s 10th autonomous region,...
Reuters | Residents of Barbados and other Caribbean islands braced for heavy rains as tropical storm Dorian churned west-northwest, with officials cautioning that it could approach...
A tropical storm warning is now in effect for several island-nations in the Eastern Caribbean as Tropical Storm Dorian continues to trek towards the chain of...
VOA | Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has survived an impeachment vote in parliament, ending a weekslong push by opposition parties to unseat him over corruption and...
Passengers arriving at the Grantley Adams International Airport here will no longer be required to fill out immigration/customs forms, also known as ED forms, as of...
Reuters | Nigeria marked 3 years free of endemic wild polio on Wednesday with health officials saying the nation’s progress in fighting the crippling viral disease...
The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Gary Bodeau says legislators will seek to resume their attempt today to debate a motion aimed at impeaching President...
“Africa must not be under-ambitious!” – Akinwumi Adesina AfDB | The African Development Bank’s US$13 billion investment in Southern African region since 2012 is delivering...
AFP | Sudan’s deposed military leader Omar al-Bashir, who ruled the country for 30 years, arrived in court Monday, August 19, in Khartoum for the start...
Reuters | Sudan’s main opposition coalition and the ruling military council on Saturday signed a final power-sharing agreement, paving the way for a transitional government following...
The Government of Guyana is predicting a 4.5 percent growth of the local economy after recording a 4 percent increase for the first 6 months of...
Reuters | Sudan’s main opposition alliance will nominate economist Abdalla Hamdok to serve as prime minister in the country’s transitional government, sources told Reuters on Thursday....
Tullow Oil, Monday said that it had discovered “high quality” oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs after drilling the Jethro-1 exploration well in the Orinduik Block, offshore Guyana in...
The government of St. Lucia has given the nod to the re-establishment of a marijuana commission that has been given the mandate to consult and provide...
Jamaica and Kenya have signed 4 agreements, which will facilitate collaboration in sports, culture, tourism, among other areas. The signing followed a bilateral meeting between Jamaican...
The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Gary Bodeau, says a motion to indict President Jovenel Moïse for treason will be placed on the agenda ahead...
Bloomberg | Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo voluntarily renounced his U.S. citizenship, a country where he lived, received education and worked. “This follows the completion of...
AP | Mozambique’s president and the leader of the Renamo opposition signed a peace accord on Thursday to end years of hostilities that followed a 15-year...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will sit in October to hear a request for an advisory opinion by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)....
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative for Jamaica, Constant Lonkeng Ngouana, says that the island-nation has made tremendous progress over the last 6 years and is...
Reuters | Nigeria is backing its commitment to join Africa’s recently agreed free trade zone by setting up a committee to implement the agreement, and promising...
The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) is warning about “recurrent episodes of heat stress” as it noted that the drought situation is continuing....
By Simon Clark Unraveling of Ghana project sets back America’s plan to counter China’s growing influence in Africa. When the U.S. government’s private-investment arm teamed with...
Doctors treating Guyana President David Granger for non-Hodgkin lymphoma have expressed “satisfaction” with the latest results of his tests in Cuba, “and indeed his recovery process”,...
Reuters | Zimbabwe’s Tourism Minister Prisca Mupfumira has been detained for questioning by a newly formed Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), it said on Thursday. Mupfumira is...
Reuters | Kenya’s presidency Labor Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani as Finance Cabinet Secretary on Wednesday, a day after incumbent Henry Rotich was charged with corruption. Rotich,...
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says he has written to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth requesting that retired educator, Susan Dougan, be named as...
AFP | Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse on Monday named Fritz-William Michel prime minister, following the resignation of his predecessor who failed to win parliamentary approval for...
Reuters | Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of National Treasury (Finance Minister) Henry Rotich was arrested on Monday on suspicion of corruption related to the construction of two...
Reuters | Kenya unveiled Africa’s largest wind power plant on Friday, a project aimed at reducing electricity costs and dependence on fossil fuels and moving the...
AP | Former South African president Jacob Zuma on Friday abandoned his testimony to a state commission probing corruption allegations against him, asserting that he was...
Bloomberg | Ethiopia’s electoral agency plans to conduct a referendum this year on the creation of a 10th state, the first of a series of votes...
Barbados is considering building dams in some agricultural areas to deal with the drought situation, Agriculture and Food Security Minister, Indar Weir, has said. Several Caribbean...
AP | Sudan’s pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council signed a document early Wednesday that outlines a power-sharing deal, but both sides are still at...
The Organization of American States (OAS) says Grenada’s Permanent Representative, Yolande Smith, has assumed the chair of the OAS Permanent Council. The chair of the Permanent...
Aljazeera | Leaders from 8 West African countries met in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Friday to discuss ditching their currency – the CFA franc – for...
AP | A transition agreement between Sudan’s ruling military council and a pro-democracy coalition was scheduled to be signed Saturday, a top African Union (AU) diplomat...
The African Continental Free Trade Area is the largest since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1994 AFP | African nations officially launched a...
Dominica Prime Minster Roosevelt Skerrit says the ban on single-use plastic bags will take effect from 2020. He said that about a 100,000 re-usable shopping bags...
Outgoing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, Timothy Harris, praised the regional integration grouping for its stance on the economic and political situation in Venezuela, saying it must...
AP | Leaders of Sudan’s pro-democracy movement on Friday welcomed a new power-sharing agreement with the ruling military council as a victory for their “revolution,” raising...
Reuters | Nigeria will sign an Africa free trade agreement at the coming African Union summit, according to a statement posted on the Nigeria presidency’s Twitter...
Reuters | Bob Collymore, the chief executive who helped to turn wireless company Safaricom, into East Africa’s most profitable company with an US$11 billion valuation, has...
AFP | A special government panel has recommended that President Muhammadu Buhari sign Nigeria up for a landmark African free trade agreement, ahead of a key...
AP | Guyana’s State Assets Recovery Agency says it has launched an investigation into whether corruption played a role in the previous government’s 2015 decision to...
A Kenyan tribunal canceled an environment license for a planned US$2 billion coal-power plant near the coastal town of Lamu, saying the developers hadn’t consulted the...
AP |A leading Sudanese opposition figure said on Wednesday the African Union (AU) and Ethiopia will present a new and joint proposal for a solution to...
AP | Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, a retired general who served as defense minister before being picked as the chosen successor to Mauritania’s outgoing president, won the...
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) says 9 regional countries have increased their level of coverage as the Caribbean completed its insurance portfolio for the...
Press Release | The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled on a trio of cases related to the motion of no confidence that was made in...
AP | Sudan’s military council is urging protest leaders to resume negotiations on the transition of power, but says talks “should not be preconditioned.” Gen. Abdel-Fattah...
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse yesterday met with representatives from various sectors on Monday in an effort to find a solution to the political crisis gripping the...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 rattled Trinidad & Tobago on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The Seismic Research...
AP | Egypt’s former president, Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was removed...
Jamaican Prime Minister, Andrew Holness says a visa waiver agreement is to be implemented between Jamaica and Ghana. Holness said the Foreign Affairs Ministers of both...
Reuters | Sudan’s ex-president Omar al-Bashir was charged with corruption-related offences on Sunday, as he appeared in public for the first time since he was removed...
Embattled Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, insisting that he will not allow “anyone to put chaos and disorder in the country under any pretext,’ on Wednesday said...
The Trinidad & Tobago Court of Appeal has dismissed a judicial review by former international football official Austin Jack Warner, challenging his extradition to the United...
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse will not bow to demands of protesters and resign amid allegations of embezzlement of funds linked to the PetroCaribe oil initiative, according...
AFP | Protest leaders have agreed to end a campaign of civil disobedience launched after a crackdown on demonstrators and to resume talks with Sudan‘s ruling...
AFP | Several thousand demonstrators marched through Port-au-Prince on Sunday to demand the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse over allegations of embezzlement. Led by dozens...
The governments of Antigua & Barbuda and St. Kitts & Nevis have strongly defended their respective Citizenship by Investment Programs (CBI) that some regional countries use...
AP | Ethiopia’s prime minister arrived in Sudan on Friday to try and mediate between the ruling military and the country’s protest leaders amid an army...
Reuters | The African Union’s Peace and Security Council voted on Thursday to suspend Sudan from all AU activities until a civilian government has been formed....
The Barbados government Tuesday night formally announced plans to sell its shares in the cash strapped regional airline, Leeward Island Air Transport (LIAT), but insisted that...
Bloomberg | South Africa’s economy, which contracted the most in a decade in the first quarter as the nation suffered the deepest power outages since 2008,...
Barbados’ prime minister is butting heads with creditors over how to cut one of the world’s largest sovereign debt loads, creating a sticking point in the...
AFP | A panel of judges on Friday accused Haitian President Jovenel Moïse of being at the center of an “embezzlement scheme” that siphoned off Venezuelan...
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) comes into effect with ambitions to cover all of the continent’s 55 countries. AP | African leaders are celebrating...
AP | Edward Seaga, a former Jamaican prime minister who shaped the island-nation’s post-independence politics and cultural life, died Tuesday at 89. Seaga’s death was announced...
A new United Nations report has warned that the economic recovery in the Caribbean has lost momentum, and is blaming the situation on slowing external demand,...
Nigeria will sign the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) as soon as President Muhammadu Buhari approves an impact-assessment report he asked for, the country’s trade...
Reuters | Senegal started acquiring turbines for its first large-scale wind farm on Thursday, the biggest such project in West Africa that will supply nearly a...
Reuters | Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has so far taken 40.44 percent of votes cast in the May 21 presidential election, with 75 percent of the...
AP | Newly elected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is showing signs of cracking down on corruption Wednesday as the country’s new parliament voted him to...
AP | One of Africa’s best-known authors and gay rights activists, Binyavanga Wainaina, has died at age 48, a colleague and friend said Wednesday. The Kenyan...
Barbados has removed visa requirements for several African countries as the government seeks to increase the number of tourist arrivals, and make it easier for investors...
Two major economic announcements in Jamaica indicates that the country has regained confidence to achieve growth and the launch of the Electronic Single Window (ESW) is...
Reuters | Malawians on Tuesday voted in presidential and parliamentary elections seen as a tough test for incumbent President Peter Mutharika who is running against the...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers have reiterated the region’s non-interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela where opposition forces backed by the United States are seeking...
AP | Sudan’s ruling generals and opposition leaders behind the protests that drove President Omar al-Bashir from power last month said Wednesday they have made significant...
The Secretary Gneral of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Irwin LaRocque, Monday called on the United States to lift the “unwarranted economic embargo and sanctions” against Cuba....
Guyana will have to wait a little longer before it is known if they are to return to the polls, as the Caribbean Court of Justice...
AP | The Nigerian army says it has rescued 54 women and children held captive by the extremist group Boko Haram. A statement issued Monday by...
AP | South Africa’s president on Sunday vowed to purge his African National Congress (ANC) party of “bad and deviant tendencies” as he prepares to appoint...
AP | The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is coasting to a comfortable lead in South Africa’s presidential and parliamentary elections with 83 percent of the...
The chairman of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Timothy Harris, says peace will continue to be elusive in Venezuela until the “contending parties are encouraged to...
Reuters | Early vote tallies suggest South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party will retain power after an election on Wednesday, but analysts said its...
AP | Former US President Barack Obama’s post-White House memoir is not expected to be released this year, setting up the likelihood that the highly anticipated...
Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Cleviston Haynes says the outlook for the economy has become more favorable as macroeconomic indicators continue to improve in...
AP | South Africans voted Wednesday in presidential and parliamentary elections, with early signs of a relatively low turnout, as voters say they are disillusioned by...
AP | Campaigning for South Africa’s upcoming elections reached a climax Sunday with mass rallies by the ruling party and one of its most potent challengers,...
An earthquake, with a magnitude of 4.2 rattled Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Center (SRC) of the University of the West Indies...
AP | Baltimore’s mayor resigned under pressure Thursday amid a flurry of investigations into whether she arranged bulk sales of her self-published children’s books to disguise...
By John Campbell On April 25, the managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, said that Aliko Dangote’s new Lagos oil refinery...
The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Tuesday appealed for “calm and peace” in Venezuela where Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó has embarked upon what he called the final...
Reuters | The African Union (AU) said on Tuesday that Sudan’s military rulers should hand over power to a civilian-led transitional authority within 60 days. In...
AP | The family for John Singleton says the Oscar-nominated filmmaker was taken off life support Monday after suffering a stroke almost 2 weeks ago. In...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will meet in Trinidad & Tobago early next month to discuss security issues within the 15-member regional integration movement. Antigua & Barbuda,...
AFP | Sudanese protesters Sunday welcomed a breakthrough in talks with army rulers who agreed to form a joint civilian-military council, paving the way for the...
More than 80 exhibiters and 140 buyers from the Caribbean and other countries are expected to attend the 2nd annual Jamaica International Exhibition (JIE), slated for...
Reuters | Sudanese judges will march on Thursday from the Supreme Court in Khartoum to a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry, joining for the first time...
Reuters | Another tropical cyclone is expected to make landfall on Mozambique’s coast on Thursday, just over a month after a more powerful storm struck the...
Guyana’s President David Granger has been advised to avoid a heavy workload and have only a few public engagements for now, following the completion of his...
AP | Sudan’s military rulers said Monday evening that they are communicating with all political forces to name a prime minister and form a civilian government...
By Getachew T. Alemu Ethiopia’s growing population, standing at a little over 100 million and growing at an average of 2.5 percent per annum, is the...
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) celebrated its 14th anniversary yesterday, with its president, Justice Adrian Saunders, saying that the Trinidad & Tobago-based regional court has...
Haiti has seen its fuel supply increasingly challenged since a program designed by Venezuela to supply fuel in the Caribbean collapsed last year amid the raging...
AP | Sudan’s new ruling military council announced Sunday that it will name a civilian prime minister and Cabinet but not a president to help govern...
AP | The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to completely end its peacekeeping operations in Haiti on October 15 and establish a political mission to...
Antigua & Barbuda has denounced the latest round of economic sanctions against Venezuela as the United States seeks to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office in...
AP | Tens of thousands of Sudanese marched toward the center of the capital Khartoum on Thursday, cheering, singing and dancing in celebration as two senior...
Jamaica’s Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Pearnel Charles Jr., says that the island-nation is well positioned to benefit from...
Press Release | Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, made the following statement in response to recent outbreak of Black church burnings: “What is...
AP | Twenty-five years after the start of a genocide that killed some 800,000 people, Rwanda is rebuilding with hope and shines with a new light,...
AFP | Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse today confirmed Jean-Michel Lapin in his post as the country’s new prime minister, just weeks after the Chamber of Deputies...
AP | The U.N. peacekeeping chief says the United Nations supports the desire of Haiti’s leaders to end its stabilization mission in the country in October...
AP | Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg issued an apology Thursday on behalf of Boeing stating the company is “sorry for the lives lost in the recent...
AP | The pilots of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet followed all of Boeing’s recommended procedures when the plane started to nose dive but still couldn’t...
Business Wire | Vista Equity Partners will commit US$1.5 million in funding and continue to partner with Girls Who Invest to promote pathways for women to...
AP | Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot easily won the Chicago mayor’s race Tuesday, earning support from every part of the city to defeat a longtime...
AP | Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down on Tuesday after 20 years in office, and six weeks of massive nationwide protests aimed at pushing him...
Reuters | Ethiopia will release a preliminary report on Monday into the cause of an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people last month and led...
AP | An inquiry panel handed over a report Friday to Gambia’s president on the financial dealings of ex-leader Yahya Jammeh who was recently accused of...
The division within the Caribbean community (CARICOM) on the Venezuelan crisis at the Organization of American States (OAS) surfaced for the 2nd time within 3 months,...
Reuters | Kenya has ordered the closure of the Dadaab refugee camp by the middle of this year with the race now on to find homes...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has hit out at the European Union (EU), as it has blacklisted some member states within the regional body. In a statement...
Reuters | The preliminary report on the March 10 Ethiopian Airlines crash will very likely be released this week, Ethiopia’s transport ministry spokesman told reporters on...
The Mia Mottley administration in Barbados has outlined a series of new fiscal measures aimed at turning around the ailing economy. In delivering the 2019-20 budget...