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...
The 9-member Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is considering establishing a trust fund to finance the St. Lucia-based Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC), similar to...
Voters in Antigua & Barbuda as well as Grenada are casting ballots today to decide whether or not to replace the London-based Privy Council with the...
Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) president, Justice Adrian Saunders, says he remains perplexed that Caribbean people are still finding “excuses” in support of the London-based Privy...
(Reuters) – Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki says Eritrea and Ethiopia have built trust since signing a peace deal in July, but need to iron out further...
Several Caribbean countries, including The Bahamas and Jamaica, have recorded improvements in absolute terms on the ease of doing business, indicating that they are getting closer...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday swore in the country’s first female supreme court president, building on efforts by reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to achieve...
The majority of people in Antigua & Barbuda favor replacing the London-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), according to an opinion poll...
(Reuters) – South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar returned to the capital Juba on Wednesday to celebrate a peace deal, more than 2 years after conflict...
AP | A new report says African nations are failing to create enough jobs for a booming young population even as some countries have seen strong...
Grenada is expected to maintain economic growth for the 6th-consecutive year, based on prelimiary data for the first half of this year. Describing this as a...
Ethiopian lawmakers on Thursday unanimously elected the country’s first female president, days after approving one of the world’s few “gender-balanced” Cabinets. Seasoned diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde succeeds...
AFP | Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse removed 2 top government officials Monday as part of a purge of people linked to a corruption scandal that has...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 was felt in sections of Trinidad & Tobago on Sunday afternoon. The Seismic Research Center at the University of...
The Mottley administration in Barbados has revealed that at least 1,500 public workers will be laid off over the next few weeks as it seeks to...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed his ambitions his country to reach 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 – up from the official policy of...
St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Timothy Harris has revealed that the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS) has been invited to deploy forces across the federation....
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says it stands ready to provide assistance to Haiti, one of its 15-member countries that was hit by a number of earthquakes...
An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale rattled Haiti during the early hours of Monday, less than 48 hours after one killed 12 people and...
South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to accept his resignation and the South African leader will now decide his fate, Johannesburg-based...
(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck close to Haiti on the evening of Saturday, October 6, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS) and local...
AFP | Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday October 5 for their work in fighting...
AP | Declaring “a true measure of leadership is not indispensability,” Ethiopia’s prime minister on Wednesday urged the next steps in the country’s sweeping reforms as...
Several Caribbean countries were rattled as 2 earthquakes hit the region within a 6-hour period, the Trinidad & Tobago-based Seismic Research Center (SRC) of the St...
Ghana’s economy is almost a quarter bigger than previously estimated after the West African nation’s statistical agency changed its base for measuring gross domestic product (GDP)....
he Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has officially opened its Country Office in Haiti – the first outside its headquarters in Barbados. CDB president William Warren Smith,...
Jamaica has made significant progress in reducing its debt from 147 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), and is projected to fall below 100 percent by...
(Reuters) – At least 136 bodies have been retrieved after a ferry sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzania’s top police official Simon Sirro said on Friday, and...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled plans Friday to reallocate 50 billion rand (US$3.5 billion) of the national budget, set up a new infrastructure fund and...
Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell Tuesday defended the decision to hold a referendum on whether or not Grenada should adopt the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court...
Barbados has announced that it is phasing out machine-readable passports in favor of electronic passports, following a recommendation by the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) as...
AP | Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge smashed the marathon world record, winning the Berlin race in 2 hours, 1 minute, 39 seconds on Sunday. Organizers of...
Three Caribbean island-nations were yesterday again shaken by earthquakes that measured a maximum of 3.3 on the richter scale according to the U.S. Geological Survey, (USGS)....
Leaders from Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace agreement on Sunday during a summit in Saudi Arabia, yet another sign of warming ties between two nations...
AFP | Lawmakers at Haiti’s lower house voted in favor of the new government in the early hours of Sunday after a marathon session lasting more...
South Sudan’s president and main rebel leader signed a final peace deal to share power in a transitional government, the latest bid to end an almost...
Caribbean finance ministers have agreed on the urgent need for a deposit insurance system, to provide some protection for depositors against losses due to the failure...
Haiti has unveiled a new government, 2 months after former Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned following days of protests against fuel price rises. The unrest...
AFP | Ethiopia reopened its embassy in the Eritrean capital on Thursday, state media reported, the latest step in restoring ties after both nations ended decades...
Rand plummets as economy contracts The South African economy has fallen into recession, compounding concerns about its weakening currency, plans for land reform and fallout from...
(Reuters) – Ghana may issue a 100-year US$50 billion bond as part of a long-term industrialisation plan that aims to wean the West African country off...
Citizens of Grenada will be voting in a referendum on November 6 to determine whether or not the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)...
Bridgetown, Barbados – A number of issues will be on the agenda next week when Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads meet in Barbados for the 9th Meeting...
Following South Africa’s landslide vote in the parliament regarding land expropriation without compensation, Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has urged Namibians to participate in land expropriation talks....
AP | Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed, in his first press conference since taking office vowed Saturday to continue with dramatic reforms “at any cost” and...
A strong earthquake rocked several Caribbean countries yesterday evening, sending people scampering into the streets as buildings swayed, and walls collapsed damaging several vehicles. The Seismic...
AFP | Former UN Secretary General and Nobel peace laureate Kofi Annan died Saturday at the age of 80, prompting a barrage of tributes and condolences...
The Mia Mottley administration has revealed that Haitians will no longer require visas to enter Barbados. A government statement said that the position is in keeping...
(Reuters) – Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won re-election with 67 percent of the vote in a run-off against opposition rival Soumaila Cisse, the Ministry of...
Election officials in Mali are counting ballot papers after a presidential runoff that observers say was mostly peaceful, even as sporadic incidents of violence broke out...
Mali’s incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will probably win a 2nd mandate in elections on Sunday when he faces the same politician he defeated in a...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are being urged to collaborate with their counterparts in the Indian Ocean and Pacific States to achieve greater results when the development...
AP | Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila is not running again in December’s long-delayed elections, easing concerns by the opposition and international community...
AFP | Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has nominated Jean Henry Ceant, 61, to be his next prime minister. Moïse unveiled his choice following 2 days of...
The National Emergency Advisory Council (NEAC) was scheduled to meet to determine the extent of the damage caused by the heavy rains that pounded the Grenada...
Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge and China’s Ambassador to Guyana, Cui Jianchun, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between both country’s on cooperation within...
Zimbabweans voted on Monday in the first election since the resignation of former president Robert Mugabe, a watershed moment they hope will spark a recovery in...
The ExxonMobil-controlled Stabroek Block offshore Guyana has now been confirmed to have the equivalent of more than 4 billion barrels of oil. ExxonMobil announced early last...
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says there is significant room for cooperation between the BRICS member states – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa –...
AP | Elbert “Big Man” Howard, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party who served as newspaper editor, information officer and logistics genius behind the group’s...
Reuters – China and South Africa urged fellow BRICS governments on Wednesday to fight protectionism and promote multilateral global trade in the face of tariff threats...
AP | A 33-year veteran of Boston’s police force was named the city’s first black police commissioner on Monday, ushering in a new era for a...
The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) says there is a potential for flooding and flash floods across the region during the next 3...
The theme is “BRICS in Africa: Collaboration for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Organizers of the 10th BRICS Summit at the...
Jamaica’s Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) is reporting an increase in the number of foreigners acquiring Jamaican citizenship, which totaled more than 10,000 persons over...
AFP | Haiti’s president says he will appoint a new prime minister as soon as possible following the resignation of the country’s 2nd-highest official. President Jovenel...
(Reuters) – Liberian President George Weah said on Monday he would take measures to tackle rampant inflation and poverty, including injecting US$25 million into the forex...
Newly appointed president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Adrian Saunders has expressed disappointment with the reluctance of the government of Trinidad & Tobago to...
AFP | Embattled Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday following deadly protests and violence sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices....