Lungu facing challenge to repair economy in his second and final term. Zambian President Edgar Lungu, has been inaugurated earlier today after his narrow re-election last...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has taken out a home loan to repay state money spent on non-security upgrades to his private residence, his office said...
Dallas police Chief David Brown is retiring, bringing an end to a tenure marked by police unions that at one time demanded his resignation and by...
Members of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) chanted slogans outside its headquarters earlier this week demanding that President Jacob Zuma step down in a...
South African anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu will have surgery on Wednesday to relieve an infection that has confined him to hospital since last month, his family...
Antigua & Barbuda will vote in a referendum by March 2017 on whether to retain the London-based Privy Council as its final court, even as a...
Nigeria – Africa’s biggest economy is officially in recession. Nigeria released data on Wednesday showing its gross domestic product declined by 2.06 percent in the second...
Kenya is on its way to breaking the devastating cycle of drought, poverty and hunger over the next decade, a leading scientist said as he was...
NAACP marks 53 years since the March on Washington The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued the following statement in observance of...
Ping seeking to ‘break’ Bongo dynasty Gabon’s most prominent opposition candidate said Sunday that early results show he will win this central African country’s presidential election,...
South African anti-apartheid campaigner, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has admitted himself to a Cape Town hospital for treatment of a recurring infection, according to his family...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 rattled 3 Caribbean islands on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries. The Trinidad &...
Nigeria’s military says it believes an air strike has fatally wounded Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and other commanders of the homegrown al-Qaeda-linked movement. Boko Haram...
Once project is completed, the bridge will provide easier access and increased trade. The Harris administration in St. Kitts & Nevis is in the process of...
The U.N. continues to claim diplomatic immunity – but admits role in introducing cholera to Haiti. The United Nations (U.N.) has admitted – for the first...
Ali Bongo widely expected to be re-elected president. Gabon’s main opposition parties have chosen former Foreign Affairs minister Jean Ping as their candidate in the forthcoming...
Lungu narrowly avoids an election run-off with a slim majority. Zambia’s president has been re-elected in a closely contested vote, the country’s election panel said Monday....
Goodluck Jonathan seen to have the credibility and gravitas to head AU election observer mission to Zambia The African Union (AU) late last week appointed former...
Former NBA star and current owner of the Charlotte Hornets, Michael Jordan gives the African American museum a US$5 million boost. Michael Jordan has made another...
By Dennis Matanda, Ryan Elcock & Emmanuel Musaazi | The Habari Network In Part 1 of this series, we started on an alarmist note; we introduced...
A multinational task force battling the al-Qaeda-linked-Boko Haram said on Thursday it had recaptured the only town in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state that was still held...
Security forces have arrested a regional leader of al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group Ansar Dine in central Mali on Tuesday, after it claimed an attack in the region...
Jordan: I can no longer stay silent on on the shootings of African Americans and the targeting of police officers. Basketball icon and entrepreneur Michael Jordan,...
Outgoing Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns amid Wikileaks email scandal Donna Brazile has assumed the role of Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair following the resignation of...
Incumbent John Dramani Mahama will face Nana Akufo-Addo in the coming presidential elections. Ghana will hold its presidential election on December 7, after parliament voted against...
The initial state of emergency was imposed by the Keita administration after al-Qaeda-linked terrorists attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako in November last year. Mali...
By Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda Washington, DC | July 18, 2016 In preparing this paper, Stephen Lande and Dennis Matanda leverage their extensive first-hand experience...
It is hoped that Rowley’s visit to Jamaica will resolve the differences between the two biggest economies in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Trinidad & Tobago Prime...
Morocco has opted to return to the African Union. The African Union – which replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 2001 – includes all...
The Bahamas has issued a travel advisory for any of its citizens visiting the United States, recommending that young men in particular take care in cities...
South Africa’s anti-corruption watchdog said on Thursday it will receive additional funds to investigate whether President Jacob Zuma allowed the wealthy Gupta family to make government...
A Minnesota officer fatally shot a man in a car with a woman and a child, an official said, and authorities are looking into whether the...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) late last month released an online tool that enables anyone in the world to see at a glance how the institution’s...
Patrick Manning, a geologist who led the resource-rich Caribbean nation of Trinidad & Tobago as prime minister through a boom in its petrochemical sector until his...
A “significant” amount of oil and gas has been discovered in a second oil well located offshore Guyana. According to a statement by the Exxon Mobil...
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has dismissed any speculation that Jamaica is preparing to pull out of the regional economic bloc – the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)....
Nigeria’s army on Sunday said it had freed more than 5,000 people held by the al-Qaeda-linked group Boko Haram during an operation over the weekend in...
The Grenada Parliament yesterday approved legislation for the island-nation to replace the London-based privy Council with the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice as its...
The initiative will greatly improve and increase intra-African trade. Africa’s leaders are working on a plan to turn the continent into one of “seamless borders” with...
The leadership of the Haitian parliament initiated consultations with the government as legislators failed to vote on whether or not to extend the term of Interim...
Chad’s former ruler Hissène Habré has appealed against his conviction for crimes against humanity and war crimes, a spokesman for the Special African Chamber that conducted...
The main Opposition United Workers Party (UWP) led by Allen Chastanet has won Monday’s general election denying Prime Minister Kenny Anthony an opportunity of leading his...
The Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque late last week stressed that the regional grouping is unwavering in its determination to preserve Guyana’s...
Muhammad Ali, the record-setting world heavyweight champion whose personality transcended sports, has died at the age of 74. Ali’s death was confirmed in a statement issued by...
Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) President Alassane Ouattara has taken a step toward drawing up a new constitution and scrapping a nationality clause which was one of...
A special court in Senegal sentenced former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré to life in prison on Monday for war crimes, crimes against humanity and a litany...
Police in Kenya said on Wednesday they had arrested 2 people linked to Islamic State who were planning to launch an attack, seizing bomb-making materials. The...
Federal laws will no longer include outdated and offensive terms used to describe minority groups. U.S. President Barack Obama signed a bill striking the several terms,...
South African President Jacob Zuma is appealing against a court ruling that corruption charges against him should be reinstated, his office said. “The President believes that...
A leading anti-slavery campaigner in Mauritania said on Wednesday he would again run for president, one day after a Supreme Court decision freed him from 18...
By Stephen Lande and Dennis Matanda Washington, DC | May 18, 2016 United States Trade Representative Ambassador Froman should be lauded for his recent suggestion at...
Gambia has agreed to scrap the contested tariff charged on Senegalese commercial trucks thereby ending their border dispute. Gambia’s Foreign Affairs minister Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, announced the...
A former member of the main opposition Barbados Labor Party (BLP) early Friday sided with the government to defeat a motion of no confidence in the...
Kenya has indicated that it will close the Dadaab refugee camp – the world’s largest refugee camp – and is drawing up a timetable to send...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday that he did not want an apology from British Prime Minister David Cameron for calling his country “fantastically corrupt”, but...
Haiti will officially become a member of the African Union (AU) at the next summit of the regional organization in June. In 2012, Haiti indicated its...
U.S. President Barack Obama has commuted the prison terms of 58 non-violent drug offenders, nearly a third of whom were serving life sentences, the White House...
Jamaica’s National Security Minister Robert Montague has disclosed that the new Holness administration is exploring the possibility of bringing back the death penalty. According to Montague,...
A South African court has ruled that a decision to drop 738 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma should be reviewed, adding to the leader’s legal...
The Holness administration is looking to assert Jamaica’s role in the Caribbean Community and Single Market (CARICOM). Prime Minister Holness will appoint a commission to review...
South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Tuesday, hours after he returned to the capital of Juba for the...
Former Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki, prominent for charities, has died. President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Tuesday that Kibaki, 76, who was affectionately referred to as “Mama...
South Sudan has officially become the sixth member of the East African Community when it signs treaties to join the regional bloc. The signing will set...
Legislators in Jamaica will debate a constitutional amendment that would replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and make the island-nation a republic. The...
Marcel Alain de Souza of Benin has been named the new President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). de Souza...
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake has hit parts of the Caribbean including Grenada and Trinidad & Tobago. There have been no initial reports of damage or casualties....
A leaked report has revealed that the United Nations (UN) found serious sanitation flaws in its Haiti peacekeeping mission just a month after the deadly cholera...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma survived an impeachment vote Tuesday after a stormy session of parliament over a court ruling that he had violated the country’s...
Delrish Moss, a Miami police officer with 2 decades of experience dealing with the media and community leaders will take over as police chief in Ferguson,...
A new council has been sworn in to oversee Haiti’s electoral process and organize a twice-postponed runoff vote while a short-term caretaker government is in power....
South African President Jacob Zuma “failed to uphold” the constitution when he did not pay back some of the state funds used to upgrade his private...
Three people were killed and several wounded when an oil pipeline belonging to oil major, ENI exploded during repair works in Nigeria’s southern Delta region, an...
Authorities in Mali have arrested two men believed to be linked to an al-Qaeda attack on a beach resort town in neighboring Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire)...
Enex Jean-Charles – a longtime presidential adviser and administrative law professor has won approval from Haitian lawmakers to take full control of the country as prime...
It shows a third or more of stops and frisks in the first half of 2015 were made without reasonable suspicion. A new report finds evidence...
Haiti’s interim president named a new prime minister after the last one was essentially rejected by parliament in the latest chapter of the country’s political instability....
South African president Jacob Zuma’s leadership of the country appears even more shaky as the Public Protector – the nation’s top anti-corruption watchdog, will approach the...
Elections began in 5 African countries and territories, including Niger, Congo, Benin, Cape Verde and Zanzibar, while Senegal organized a referendum on presidential term limits Sunday....
An exodus of African countries from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is on the horizon following Namibia’s resolution to pull out of the court citing selective...
In a major victory for the Black Lives Matter movement, the prosecutors behind two high-profile police shooting death investigations – Laquan McDonald in Illinois and Tamir...
Haiti’s Interim President Jocelerme Privert has named a new Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) as the country moves towards staging presidential elections. In a television broadcast on...
Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) has become the latest target of a terrorist attack in West Africa claimed by Islamist extremists – linked to al-Qaeda. Armed men...
Angola’s long serving president, José Eduardo dos Santos, said on Friday he intends to step down in 2018 but gave no reason for his decision. Angola,...
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has asked to not be considered for the Supreme Court vacancy, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. According to the Department’s...
Benin’s presidential election looks likely to be a second-round runoff between Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou and businessman Patrice Talon, the country’s electoral commission indicated on Tuesday....
Barbados and St. Lucia are proceeding with the negotiation and conclusion of an agreement aimed at establishing an agreement on maritime boundaries between the 2 Caribbean...
Benin began counting votes after an election on Sunday to choose a successor to President Thomas Boni Yayi, who is stepping down after 2 terms, leaving...
Jamaica Labor Party leader Andrew Michael Holness became his island-nation’s newest prime minister on Thursday, promising to build partnerships to help Jamaica become the “center of...
Jamaica Labor Party leader Andrew Holness will be sworn in as his Caribbean nation’s newest prime minister on Thursday. The swearing-in ceremony will take place at...
Tens of thousands of Nigerian fishermen and farmers are suing multinational oil giant Shell in 2 new lawsuits filed Wednesday in a London High Court, alleging...
Guyana has stepping in to host the Caribbean Community and Common Market’s (CARICOM) annual summit next in July because Dominica is still reeling from the impact...
Haiti’s interim leader Jocelerme Privert named Fritz-Alphonse Jean – a former Central Bank governor as interim prime minister to help pull the country out of a...
It is highly likely that the incoming prime minister Andrew Holness and his Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) will continue with the current economic program with the...
Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller’s People’s National Party had been predicted to win. Andrew Holness and his opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) narrowly won parliamentary elections Thursday....
Incumbent Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson-Miller, her ruling People’s National Party (PNP) and opposition leader Andrew Holness and his Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) have wrapped up...
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected Tuesday to make a final push to close the controversial U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, hoping to honor a...
Central African Republic presidential candidate Anicet George Dologuele has said he will accept the results of the presidential election runoff of February 14. At a press...
U.S. President Barack Obama will pay a historic visit to Cuba on March 21 and 22, senior Obama administration officials said Wednesday, becoming the first president...
Officials are counting ballots in the Central African Republic capital, Bangui. The country went ahead with a presidential run-off election Sunday that many hope will solidify...
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced a civil rights lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri, over unconstitutional policing. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the federal...
A Texas legal panel voted on Monday to disbar a former prosecutor for sending an innocent man – an African American man – to death row...
U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law Monday a measure aimed at expanding electricity to millions of households in sub-Saharan Africa, a measure supporters say will...
Michel Martelly made his farewell speech to Haiti as he departed office Sunday with no successor yet chosen because a runoff election was delayed for a...
A building collapsed above a gold mine in South Africa on Friday, trapping about workers before they were saved. After several hours, only 3 people remained...
U.S. civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, who was instrumental in the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement against police violence, is running for mayor of...
Haiti’s prime minister is expected to resign as part of an effort to form an interim government to take over from outgoing President Michel Martelly, two...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, has set February 25 as the date for general elections. The vote had to come by December, but Simpson-Miller says her...
Sudan has re-opened its country’s border with South Sudan for the first time since the south’s secession in 2011, paving the way for better economic links...
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly is determined to leave office on the first day of the carnival in 2 weeks even though he has no replacement, the...
U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday he will ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons, citing the potential for...
The second round presidential election in Haiti was postponed again Sunday, although the outgoing president has less than three weeks of his term left. Haiti’s political...
Antigua & Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Thursday announced that effective April, personal income tax will be abolished in its entirety. Browne, who made the...
Police in Burkina Faso were questioning several people on Wednesday, including 4 Niger citizens, seen talking to the jihadist gunmen who killed 30 people after storming...
Burkina Faso and Mali have agreed to work together to counter the growing threat of Islamist militants in West Africa by sharing intelligence and conducting joint...
A corpse has tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone, an official said Friday, the day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak over...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever on Thursday after no new cases emerged in Liberia, though health...
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman has declined to comment regarding rumors that the leader had suffered a heart attack, saying a response to the latest speculation...
U.S. President Barack Obama will present an agenda for his final year in office and beyond on Tuesday in his last State of the Union address,...
Jude Celestin – one of the candidates in Haiti’s upcoming presidential run-off election – has refused to participate in continuing with his campaign unless there are...
Haiti’s president said on Wednesday that a delayed presidential run-off election will take place on January 24 as the Caribbean country struggles to meet a February...
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic said on Tuesday it was investigating new allegations of sexual abuse of minors by peacekeepers. Last month, an...
Ivory Coast’s government resigned on Wednesday ahead of an expected cabinet reshuffle that President Alassane Ouattara said would lead to more “efficiency”. Prime Minister Daniel Kablan...
South Africa and the United States have failed to agree on key parts of a trade agreement on the importation of poultry and pork, with the...
The anti-terrorism and terrorists related activities bill, which makes provision for the death penalty for anyone found guilty of an act of terrorism, has been passed...
Independent candidate Faustin Touadera has taken a commanding lead in the Central African Republic’s presidential race, garnering more than 23 percent of the vote with a...
Singer Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat “King” Cole who carried on his musical legacy, has died. Publicist Maureen O’Connor says Cole died Thursday...
Two U.N. police officers from Rwanda have been fatally shot at their residence in Haiti’s second largest city, officials said Thursday. The Rwanda National Police said...
Voters cast their ballots in the Central African Republic in presidential and legislative elections – which are hoped to bring an end to the clashes between...
Benin’s Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou walked away unharmed after the helicopter he was traveling in crash-landed in the north of the West African nation. It was...
Mali’s government on Monday declared a 10-day state of emergency from midnight after what security sources say follows a series of threats from unnamed jihadist groups....
Electoral authorities in Haiti have postponed presidential and legislative runoffs set for this weekend. In a brief statement issued Monday evening, Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council said...
Barbados has announced it will remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state in time for the 50th anniversary of its independence. The the island-nation has been contemplating...
Incumbent James Michel has won the run-off vote in Seychelles’ presidential election, after securing 50.2 percent of votes cast. Voting started on Wednesday and ran for...
The African Union on Friday authorized sending 5,000 peacekeepers to Burundi to stop the unrest there from deteriorating further over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s extended tenure in...
The Seychelles voted on Wednesday in the second round of a presidential election in which incumbent James Michel is seeking a third term by touting the...
Angry South Africans have come out in their thousands to demand President Jacob Zuma’s resignation. Protesters in 3 of South Africa’s largest cities demanded President Jacob...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday it did not support calls for President Jacob Zuma to stand down after his appointment of...
Jovenel Moïse – who is the leading candidate in the disputed first round of Haiti’s presidential vote – insists that critics are not providing evidence to...
Ralph Gonsalves will serve as prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines after leading his Unity Labor Party (ULP) to a fourth consecutive election victory....
Today is election day in St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Voters started casting their votes to choose a new government at 07:00 local time (06:00 EST),...
A group of activists affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement have launched an effort to end provisions that help keep block accountability from police. The...
The U.S. Justice Department will investigate the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday, a move that comes nearly...
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday laid out the most sweeping defense yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State, but he offered no U.S. policy...
Cameroon’s army has dealt a major blow to Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, killing around 100 fighters and freeing 900 hostages in a 3-day operation. Flags belonging...
South Africa’s “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius was found guilty on Thursday of murdering his girlfriend, in an appeal court ruling that could see him sent back...
Chicago’s police chief Garry McCarthy was fired on Tuesday following days of unrest over video footage showing the shooting of a black teenager and the filing...
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was elected Burkina Faso’s president, according to preliminary results announced early Tuesday, replacing the transitional government put in place after the West...
The Commonwealth of Nations – a 53 member stated organization – on Friday elected Baroness Patricia Scotland of Dominica to its top post of Secretary-General. She...
Burkina Faso held presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, the first since protests last year toppled the West African nation’s longtime leader and started a turbulent...
Kenya has been quietly lobbying for its Foreign Affairs Secretary Amina Mohammed, to become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) and the first woman...
Police in Mali have arrested 2 people suspected of links to an attack on a luxury hotel in the country’s capital that killed 22 people, the...
The Harris administration in St. Kitts & Nevis has blocked Syrians from benefiting from the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program. The government announced the immediate suspension...
The World Health Organization (WHO)’s failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa’s Ebola outbreak was an “egregious failure” which added to the enormous...
State television in Mali has reported that no more hostages are being held at a luxury hotel after a day-long siege by Islamist militants. National broadcaster...
Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people in the capital Bamako. Islamist extremists armed with guns and...
Nigeria’s former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has been arrested for allegedly stealing billions of dollars meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram Islamist extremists...
A blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday evening, killing 32 people and wounding 80 others, both the Red Cross...
The Harris administration in St. Kitts & Nevis will introduce a bill in the country’s parliament that imposes term limits on anyone holding the post of Prime...
Mali’s army has arrested Alaye Bocari, a leading financial backer of an Islamist militant group responsible for an expansion of deadly attacks in the West African...
United Nation’s peacekeepers in Central African Republic were hit on Wednesday with fresh accusations of sex abuses uncovered by a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation amid growing...
University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe announced his resignation Monday morning, a week after a graduate student began a hunger strike demanding he step down, and...
Haitians living in the neighboring Dominican Republic, are being arrested under a tough new immigration policy, then left at the border to start life over from...
Pressure mounted on University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe to resign and the board of curators was set to meet Monday as the university’s black football...
Cheers erupted in the streets Saturday as Sierra Leone marked the end of the Ebola outbreak within its borders. Neighboring Guinea still struggles to stamp out...
John Pombe Magufuli was sworn in Thursday as the Tanzania’s fifth president. Chief Justice Mohammed Othman Chande also swore in Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, the...
Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow has won a record third term in a snap general election in the small English-speaking Central American country on Wednesday, after...
A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan’s capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses...
Haiti voters will have to wait until Thursday to learn who won last weeks presidential elections or advanced into a December 27 runoff. The head of...
The Bahamas has been unsuccessful in its attempt to become the first English-speaking Caribbean nation to sit on the United Nations Human Rights Council. During the...
John Magufuli, of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party becomes the new president of Tanzania having won last weeks presidential election with 58 percent of the...
Ivory Coast’s incumbent President Alassane Ouattara won a landslide victory and a second 5-year term in a weekend vote intended to draw a line under years...
Details of St. Lucia’s first citizenship by investment initiative was announced earlier this month, at the third annual Global Citizen Forum by the country’s Prime Minister...
Nigeria’s security services have foiled an imminent terrorist attack and have arrested and charged 45 suspects over an alleged Boko Haram plot to attack the country’s...
The number of U.S. police officers charged in fatal shootings has hit the highest level in a decade in 2015, new research shows, driven by greater...
National elections took place Sunday in a number of countries. Here are the highlights: Haiti: The successor to outgoing President Michel Martelly, is expected to be...
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the Black Lives Matter movement is raising a “legitimate issue” about African Americans being treated unfairly in certain...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Monday he would push for constitutional reform if he his re-elected this week to scrap a nationality clause that...
Guinea’s electoral commission has declared President Alpha Conde winner of an October 11 election to give him a second five-year term. Conde gained 58 percent of...
Haitian President Michel Martelly and his Dominican counterpart Danilo Medina met Tuesday in the city of Barahona on the Dominican side of the border. They agreed...
Benin’s former president Mathieu Kerekou, nicknamed “the chameleon”, died on Wednesday. He was 82. “I announce with regret and deep sadness the death on Wednesday October...
Two rival Tuareg groups in northern Mali have ended a decades-old feud that has frustrated efforts to halt a conflict between the government and the Tuareg...
St. Lucia’s Citizenship by Investment program is scheduled to begin in January 2016. The program was approved by the country’s senate a few months ago. St....
South Africa’s ruling party has resolved to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), a deputy minister said on Sunday, as the Jacob Zuma administration faces...
Cities and towns across Haiti are plastered with colorful campaign ads, leaving voters struggling to differentiate between the candidates on the posters, banners and billboards. Practically...
Ghana has suspended 7 out of 12 high court judges on Monday in the wake of allegations of bribery stemming from a documentary made by an...
Suspected Islamist militants from Nigeria’s Boko Haram group killed 3 civilians and a soldier in a double suicide attack across the border in Niger on Sunday,...
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) in Jamaica has said it will send a Rapid Needs Assessment Team (RNAT) to the Bahamas on...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, one of the longest-serving members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, will step down in December, officials said Friday. In a letter to...
Hurricane Joaquin has ripped off roofs, uprooted trees and unleashed heavy flooding as the Category 4 storm dumped torrential rains across the eastern and central Bahamas...
Twice-ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide urged thousands of supporters gathered outside his house Wednesday to vote for the presidential candidate of the political faction he founded...
Citizens of Belize will be able to vote for a new government in general elections set for November 4. Prime Minister Dean Barrow has dissolved Belize’s...
After a tense meeting, the presidents of Venezuela and Guyana agreed Sunday to restore ambassadors and hold talks to resolve a long-running border dispute that flared...
In a bid to reduce tensions between the two countries, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has extended an invitation to President David Granger to a one on...
Bridgid Annisette-George has been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of Trinidad & Tobago. Annisette-George previously served as Attorney General of the twin-island nation in...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Attorney General has signed Authority to Proceed (ATP) documents, clearing the way for extradition proceedings against ex-FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner, who is wanted...
The Dominican Republic, last month began implementing a controversial immigration program targeting Haitian migrants and Dominican-born people of Haitian descent. The program centers on round-ups and...
Kenyan police officers and security services cordoned off Mombasa – east Africa’s main port for hours on Friday and raided a Norwegian-flagged ship suspected of carrying...
A 3.8 magnitude tremor was recorded off Trinidad & Tobago on Wednesday morning. According to the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center said the...
An African research fund launched in Kenya on Thursday aims to raise the quality of Africa’s scientific output and tackle diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and...
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake has shaken Trinidad & Tobago early this morning, but there have been no reports of injuries or damage. The earthquake occurred around...