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...
AP | A Kenyan teacher from a remote village who gave away most of his earnings to the poor won a US$1 million prize on Sunday...
AFP | Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse on Thursday named a new acting prime minister, Jean-Michel Lapin, after lawmakers voted to censure his predecessor’s 6 month old...
Barbados has reiterated the need for the Caribbean to remain a zone of peace and insisted that only the Venezuelans could decide on the future of...
AP | Mozambique on Wednesday began 3 days of national mourning for more than 200 victims of Cyclone Idai, one of the most destructive storms southern...
AP | More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique 4 days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies...
Reuters | Hundreds of protesters, mostly students, took to the streets in and near Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Monday, continuing a 3-month wave of demonstrations that...
– Over 1,000 African entrepreneurs from African 54 countries to participate in the 2019 Cohort – Event to be livestreamed on TEFConnect – Africa’s...
AP | Preliminary information from the flight data recorder of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed a week ago and killed 157 people shows “clear similarities”...
Hamilton, Bermuda | Bermuda has become the latest Caribbean country to ban all variants of the Boeing 737 Max airliner from the island-nation’s airspace after a...
The April 1 deadline for the importation, wholesale and retail of petro-based plastics remains in place, and government will be closely monitoring the prices being charged...
Reuters | Congo’s new president, Felix Tshisekedi, pardoned 3 prominent political prisoners and 700 regular ones on Wednesday, state TV reported, a good will gesture signalling...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has unveiled a 5-year strategic plan that will, among other things, strengthen its bonds with people of...
The main opposition United National Congress (UNC) Tuesday urged the Trinidad & Tobago Government to “take immediate action to suspend” the intended lease of 12 of...
Press Release | A federal court in Maryland Tuesday, denied the government’s attempt to block the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)’s lawsuit...
AP | Frantic rescue efforts were underway in Nigeria on Wednesday after a 3-story school building collapsed while classes were in session, with scores of children...
AP | The crown jewel in Ethiopia’s transformation to continental power in recent years is Ethiopian Airlines, the state-owned company that calls itself “the new spirit...
AP | thiopian Airlines has grounded all of its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft as “an extra safety precaution” following the crash of one of its...
AP | Hundreds of air passengers were stranded Wednesday in Kenya because of a strike at Nairobi’s international airport by the Kenya Aviation Workers Union. Kenya’s...
Reuters | Zambia plans to swap its Chinese debt from dollars to yuan in a bid to ease pressure on the copper producer’s foreign reserves, its...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 rattled Trinidad & Tobago as the Carnival celebrations ended here on Tuesday night. The Seismic Research Center (SRC) of...
(Press Release) – African leaders had a new message for foreign companies seeking the diamonds, gold, rubies and emeralds so plentiful in desperate dirt-poor countries and...
Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have been granted a 5 year deferral on the freedom of movement of Caribbean nationals under the CARICOM Single Market and...
AP | Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says he is not running for president in 2020. Holder, a Democrat, said in a Monday opinion piece...
The Seismic Center at the University of the West Indies says an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.3 was felt in southern Dominica yesterday. The Seismic...
Reuters | Botswana’s president on Friday dismissed a report that the country had offered Zimbabwe a US$600 million diamond-backed loan and said his government had only...
Jamaica’s macroeconomic prospects “remain positive as the indicators and outputs continue to show signs of recovery”, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor, Brian Wynter, has said....
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been declared the winner of the presidential election. Buhari won easily, by nearly 4 million votes, despite widespread criticism that he...
An earthquake, with a magnitude of 4.6 rocked several Caribbean islands early Wednesday morning, the Trinidad & Tobago-based Seismic Research Center (SRC) of the University of...
Reuters | Botswana has offered to lend Zimbabwe US$600 million to support its diamond industry and local private firms, a state-owned newspaper reported on Tuesday, amid...
Caribbean countries have been warned that the rainfall over the next 3 months may be “drier than usual” in some island-nations resulting in a progressively increase...
AFP | Senegal was voting in a presidential poll on Sunday with Macky Sally confident of being reelected after his main challengers were banned from running....
Opposition political parties say they will hold fresh demonstrations across Haiti today in their demands for the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse, even as the Government...
The St. Kitts & Nevis government says it will consider and consult further on creating the framework for the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes after...
AP | Former U.S. President Barack Obama and Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry told a roomful of minority boys on Tuesday that they matter and...
Reuters | Nigerian fuel suppliers have cut the price of gasoline to encourage people to travel to vote in presidential elections this Saturday after the poll...
AP | Authorities in Haiti said Tuesday that 5 Americans are among 8 men who have been detained with automatic weapons and other arms, and they...
Reuters | Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa retired 4 generals on Monday, in the first major shake-up of the armed forces since he took office and including...
AP | Haitians on Friday vowed to keep protesting until President Jovenel Moïse resigns despite his announcement of upcoming economic measures designed to quell more than...
President Jovenel Moïse has cancelled a visit to Italy as opposition inspired protests for his removal from office continued in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country....
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has hinted at more layoffs within the public service, as she promised to update Barbadians on her administration’s external debt restructuring...
Protesters are demanding President Jovenel Moïse resign for failing to tackle corruption. The rallies have become increasingly violent in recent days. A 5th day of anti-government...
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is ramping up its research activity to help regional governments better tackle challenges related to environmental sustainability, economic and fiscal resilience,...
AP | The widows of 4 Nigerian activists have opened a civil court case against oil company Shell, alleging it was complicit in the deaths of...
The President of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Adrian Saunders says he remains convinced that in order to gain stronger support in...
AP | Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was elected chairman of the African Union at the continental body’s summit in Ethiopia. Also at the African Union...
AP | Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Haiti’s capital on Thursday to demand the ouster of President Jovenel Moïse amid months of protests....
Reuters | Former Ivory Coast rebel leader Guillaume Soro resigned as parliament speaker on Friday in a split with President Alassane Ouattara that could signal his...
The Bahamas Government is urging the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping to be “resolute” in establishing a framework and a timetable to implement concrete measures to end...
Reuters | Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo demanded mining deals be more beneficial for Africa on Tuesday, calling on governments to end fiscal incentives traditionally used to...
AFP | At least 28 Haitians have drowned off the coast of Abaco in the Bahamas, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) said Sunday. “Thus far,...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has chastised the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Luis Almagro about his “unilateral” stance in accepting Juan Guaidó...
AFP | The Central African Republic government and 14 armed groups struck a deal Saturday to end years of fighting that has killed thousands, the parties...
Acting Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire yesterday ruled that the motion of no confidence passed in the National Assembly on December 21 last year, that brought down...
The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center recorded a 4.4 earthquake that rocked sections of the twin-island republic early Thursday. According to preliminary data,...
The Jamaica government says it will, in the coming months, be looking at privatizing a number of assets under its portfolio. “In the coming months, the...
AP | R&B star James Ingram has died at the age of 66. Media reports suggest he had brain cancer. Long time friend Debbie Allen confirmed...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders yesterday ended a meeting with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressing optimism that the international organization will assist in establishing...
Caribbean Community(CARICOM) leaders are to meet with the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, on Monday to discuss the ongoing political situation in Venezuela where the...
Leaders from across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), met via video conference on Thursday in a special emergency meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis in Venezuela. While...
Reform Alliance to be headed by Van Jones AP | A coalition of big names in sports and entertainment pledged their high-profile platforms and US$50 million...
(Press Release) – Strengthening the macro-fiscal capacity of the Finance and the Public Service Ministry and its agencies responsible for economic policymaking is among the strategies...
AP | Felix Tshisekedi has been sworn in as the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), cementing the Central African nation’s first...
“If France did not have the African colonies, which it is impoverishing, it would be the 15th international economic power and instead it is among...
Reuters | Ethiopia has pardoned more than 13,000 people in the past 6 months who had been charged with or convicted of treason or terrorism, state-affiliated...
AFP | Sicley Williams was ready to escape what she found an unfriendly climate in the United States and take a leap of faith, leaving her...
AP | Kenya’s security forces have killed the Islamic extremist gunmen whose assault on a luxury hotel and shopping complex took 14 innocent lives, the country’s...
Extremists launched a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya’s capital Tuesday, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the...
The Barbados government has put a temporary freeze on borrowing, even as it reported an improvement in the island-nation’s economic position. “Over the next 4 years...
AP | Delivering a stinging defeat to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), judges on Tuesday acquitted former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and former...
AP | Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir was defiant Monday in the face of more than 3 weeks of protests demanding his resignation, reiterating at a rally...
Several countries in the Caribbean region were rocked by a magnitude 3.4 earthquake early Sunday. According to reports from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the...
Reuters | Haitian President Jovenel Moïse led tributes on Saturday to the victims of the country’s deadly earthquake on the 9th anniversary of the tragedy. Moïse...
Grenada is working with China prepare a national development plan 36 years after the Caribbean island-nation was invaded by American forces due to concerns in Washington...
The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) says chances of drought and recurrent dry spells have increased, except in the Bahamas and Cuba, during...
AP | Opposition leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi has been declared the winner of the long-delayed presidential election, the electoral commission announced...
Minority entrepreneurs run one-third of startups and profitability rate for women entrepreneurs increases dramatically since 2015 according to a new study released today by Babson...
(Press Release) – In an effort to safeguard Jamaica’s energy security, the Holness administration will take legislative action to retake ownership of the 49 percent shares...
AP | World War II African American fighter pilot John Lyle, a Tuskegee Airman, is dead at age 98. Lyle’s wife, Eunice, says he died Saturday...
Gambians heaved a sigh of relief when longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh flew into exile in early 2017 after a surprise election defeat. Two years after a...
Guyana’s main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is challenging a move by the government to use the issue of dual citizenship in a bid to overturn...
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has reiterated a call for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to adopt a united position regarding the European...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Seismic Research Center (SRC) of the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), has said an earthquake with...
Guyana’s Speaker of the National Assembly Barton Scotland ruled yesterday that the controversy over the validity of the recently passed no-confidence motion should be settled by...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia’s US$4 billion dam project on the River Nile, which has been beset by construction delays and criticism from Egypt, will start initial operations...
The Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque Tuesday congratulated Haiti on its 215th anniversary of independence noting that the resilience, courage and determination...
(Reuters) – Police in Sudan fired tear gas at hundreds of people trying to march to President Omar al-Bashir’s palace on Monday to protest against soaring...
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has condemned the “bullying” tactics adopted by the European Union (EU) with regards to the Citizenship by...
AFP | Former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s 17-year run as the woman Americans admire most is over. Another former First Lady, Michelle Obama, has deposed Clinton...
AP | Shehu Shagari, Nigeria’s second president, whose tenure was sandwiched between 2 military rulers in an era rocked by coups, has died. He was 93....
AP | Election officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) began counting ballots Sunday evening, although many polling stations stayed open into the...
(Reuters) – Guyana’s parliament voted late on Friday in favor of a no-confidence motion in the government, triggering new elections in March in a surprise defeat...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Irwin LaRocque, Monday said the 15-member regional integration grouping had made “some significant advances” during the past 12 months and was looking...
Haiti has signed an agreement that will allow the Haiti Renewal Alliance (HRA) to conduct an inventory of all Haitians in the Diaspora worldwide. The agreement...
The Rowley administration in Trinidad & Tobago, complaining that the country has been in an “analysis paralysis”, on Tuesday announced plans to introduce legislation to decriminalize...
AFP | South African police said Wednesday, an arrest warrant had been issued for Grace Mugabe, wife of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, after she allegedly...
Haiti’s Prime Minister Jean Henry Céant has called for a truce to street demonstrations by opposition parties as the country prepares to celebrate the Christmas holidays....
Thousands of protesters from opposition parties gathered in Port-au-Prince to demonstrate against President Jovenel Moïse. Moïse and other high-ranking Haitian officials were implicated in the PetroCaribe...
The Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has met with the Prime Minister of Aruba Evelyn Wever-Croes on associate membership in the...
NAACP President Derrick Johnson travels to Ghana (Press Release) – Ghana’s Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for greater interaction and collaboration between Africa and people...
AP | Former U.S. President Barack Obama was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award at a gala in midtown Manhattan...
AP | Ethiopian military officials on Friday announced they are moving troops away from the border with Eritrea, months after the former rivals made a surprising...
An opposition leader in St. Kitts & Nevis, Denzil Douglas has filed a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Timothy Harris, whom he says presents...
AP | The Trump administration wants to see an increase in U.S. investment and trade in Africa as part of a new strategy aimed at countering...
The Holness administration late Tuesday night failed to get support for its efforts to extend the state of emergency (SOE) in place since January 2017 after...
(Reuters) – Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrived on Thursday for his first-ever visit to Somalia, in another sign of rapidly changing relations in the region following...
AP | Sales for Michelle Obama’s memoir have topped 3 million and the former first lady is extending her book tour into 2019. “Becoming,” published 4...
The head of the Seismic Research Center (SRC) at the St. Augustine campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Joan Lutchman, is reiterating calls...
BBC | An impeachment motion submitted earlier this week by some Somali legislators against President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has been dropped because of a lack of...
The Barbados government says it will soon develop a framework for medical cannabis, even as it noted that decriminalization of marijuana for recreational use will have...
More Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nationals are to be allowed to seek work in fellow member states, it has been revealed, as CARICOM leaders reaffirmed their commitment...
South African Energy Minister Jeff Radebe has dissolved the board of the Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA), suspended the chief executive officer and appointed Rob Adam as...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness Tuesday reiterated that the decision to establish a commission to review his country’s relationship with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was not...
South Africa’s National Assembly approved a lawmakers’ report that favors changing the constitution to make it easier to expropriate land without compensation, the latest twist in...
AP | Oprah Winfrey on Thursday delivered a rousing tribute to Nelson Mandela, a century after he was born, and urged the youth of South Africa...
The President of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Adrian Saunders says more still needs to be done to educate the regional public...
(Reuters) – Farms and factories dragged South Africa out of its first recession in almost a decade, data showed on Tuesday, as the economy grew by...
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a...
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar said on Monday he will boost oil sector investment, cut costly fuel subsidies and double the size of...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has reiterated its support for the World Trade Organization (WTO) amid growing concerns to the multilateral trading system. The Guyana-based CARICOM...
Alex Cooke | The Canadian Press Wanda Robson still finds it hard to believe that her big sister is the new face of the CAD$10 bill...
Guyana’s President David Granger, has began the 2nd phase of treatment at a hospital in Cuba after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a disease in...
AP | Africa’s leaders applauded Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for making substantial reforms in his country as they met to consider improvements to the continent-wide...
The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Fund (CDF) says regional countries could receive less funding for projects in the future because some countries have not been meeting their...
AFP | African leaders are set to gather this weekend for a special summit aimed at pushing through long-debated reforms to their pan-continental body. The changes...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agriculture ministers have been presented with a study that analyses the weaknesses and opportunities in intra-regional food trade and transportation, the Guyana-based Caricom...
(Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told the European Parliament on Wednesday that South Africa will enact land reforms in adherence to the country’s constitution...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has resigned, the presidency said on Tuesday, following calls from opposition parties to stand down in recent...
Trinidad & Tobago continued to be rattled by earthquakes in recent days with the latest occurring on Sunday night when a tremor with a magnitude of...
AP | Ethiopia has arrested 63 intelligence officials, military personnel and businesspeople on allegations of rights violations and corruption, the country’s attorney general announced Monday. The...
AP | The Houston area’s courts are going to be a lot more diverse thanks to a group of 17 African American women and their “magic.”...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) trade and economic affairs ministers are set to meet in Georgetown, Guyana later this month to discuss developments regarding the CARICOM Single Market...
Caribbean Court of Justice head respects outcome of referenda The president of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Adrian Saunders said that the...