Ivory Coast’s (Côte d’Ivoire) constitutional council has validated 10 candidates for the presidential election scheduled for October 25. The president of the Constitutional Council Mamadou Kone...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister-designate Keith Rowley will be sworn into office on Wednesday, after voters in the twin-island nation backed his calls for change amid...
Former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré had to be carried into court and restrained by security guards on Monday as charges were read at the re-start of...
Voters in Trinidad & Tobago chose not to give incumbent Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s coalition a new 5-year term, opting to bring back the opposition under...
United Nations officials have received new disturbing allegations that peacekeepers in the Central African Republic sexually abused 3 young women – the latest claims targeting the...
The Trinidad & Tobago Debates Commission (TTDC) Wednesday said it had been forced to call of the debates of the political leaders scheduled for later this...
Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s has been admitted to a South African hospital, for the third time in recent months. Tutu was hospitalized Monday evening, his daughter...
U.S. civil rights leader and former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Julian Bond, who emerged as one of the...
South Sudan’s leaders will meet in Ethiopia on Monday, the latest deadline set by East African mediators to reach a deal to end 20 months of...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked his newly sworn-in military chiefs with a difficult feat: to end a bloody 6-year Islamist insurgency in just 3 months,...
Trinidad & Tobago’s two main political parties continued their campaign ahead of the September 7 general election on Tuesday night with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar denying...
Africa has marked one year since the last case of recorded polio, with the United Nations celebrating Wednesday a key step towards eradicating the disease. The...
Venezuela’s vice-president Jorge Arreaza recently heard directly from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Barbados’ Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, that the regional grouping is backing Guyana in...
Voters in Haiti voted Sunday for the first time in 4 years in a test of stability for a country continually rocked by political turmoil. Voting...
South Sudan’s rival factions resumed peace talks on Thursday to end 20 months of conflict, under growing international pressure and the threat of further sanctions if...
The presidential election in the Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) has been set for October 25 this year – a crucial step toward overcoming a decade of...
South African retired archbishop Desmond Tutu left a Cape Town hospital on Tuesday after being treated for an infection since last month, his foundation said. Tutu,...
The twin-island nation of Trinidad & Tobago was struck with a 4.6 magnitude earthquake Sunday afternoon. Residents in the north and northwestern parts of the country,...
The Dominican Republic has rejected an offer by the Organization of American States (OAS) to organize talks with Haiti on resolving a tense dispute between the...
Nigeria’s army announced Thursday that it had freed 59 women and children who had been captured by the al-Qaeda-linked extremist group Boko Haram. The military raided...
The Organization of American States (OAS) has recommended mechanisms to establish dialog between the Dominican Republic and Haiti about ongoing deportations and helped those affected, especially...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari began a two-day visit to Cameroon on Wednesday in a bid to strengthen cooperation against al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Buhari’s...
By Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda Manchester Trade Limited, Inc On June 25, 2015, after what were years of advocacy, the House of Representatives and Senate...
U.S. President Barack Obama landed in Ethiopia on Sunday, beginning a two-day stay and becoming the first American leader to visit Africa’s second most populous nation....
U.S. President Barack Obama told African entrepreneurs in Kenya on Saturday they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa, and said governments had...
Trinidad & Tobago’s attorney general has revealed that he has received a U.S. request for the extradition of former FIFA vice president Jack Warner on corruption...
More than 5.8 million people have been registered to vote in the elections to be held in Haiti later this year. Haiti has a population of...
Three more earthquakes with strengths of between 4.0 and 4.5 magnitude were recorded within a 15-minute span late yesterday evening, as heightened seismic activity continued to...
Human rights and religious groups in Haiti have united to plan a “march for dignity” on Tuesday 21 July through the center of the capital, Port-au-Prince,...
An African Union-backed court in Senegal forced former Chadian President Hissène Habré to appear for the start of his trial on on charges of crimes against...
Residents in Barbados this morning reported feeling the tremors from a 5.3 magnitude earthquake that struck about off the island-nation. People living in nearby St Vincent...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall is to re-open Saturday, nearly 2 years after it was attacked by Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Islamist extremists – al-Shabaab – who killed at least...
U.S. President Barack Obama is pushing for bipartisan action to change the criminal justice system in ways that go far beyond the limited executive powers he...
John Magufuli has been nominated by Tanzania’s ruling party – Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) to run for president on its ticket in the coming general and...
Nigerian authorities have arrested the mastermind of bombings in the central cities of Jos and Zaria this week that killed at least 69 people, the defense...
The territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela regarding Guyana’s waters where oil was recently discovered has escalated. Venezuela is recalling its ambassador in Guyana Reyna Margarita...
Jamaicans will be paying less income tax from next year. The island-nation’s Senate has passed the Income Tax Amendment Act, 2015, that will facilitate the provision...
Haitian President Michel Martelly is calling on the Dominican Republic government to come to the negotiating table to hammer out a memorandum of understanding on the...
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart will assume chairmanship of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARIOM) on July 1, replacing Prime Minister Perry Christie of the Bahamas. Stuart...
The U.S. Supreme Court handed U.S. President Barack Obama a major victory on Thursday by upholding tax subsidies crucial to his signature healthcare law, with Chief...
Guyana will not stop its offshore oil exploration because Venezuela is claiming territorial waters where the “black gold” was recently discovered. Guyana’s President David Granger has...
For some time there has been discussion as to whether the Dominican Republic should become a part of CARICOM. If this Dominican Republic/Haiti matter is not...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday slammed the state of the country’s finances, claiming that the previous administration had left Africa’s biggest economy deep in debt....
The Prime Minister of Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves has described as “simply unacceptable” the decision of the Dominican Republic to implement a policy...
The suspected gunman in a shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that left nine people dead is now in custody in North...
Police in Charleston, South Carolina, were searching on Thursday for a white gunman who killed nine people in a historic African American church including the pastor,...
Hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent faced the risk of deportation from the Dominican Republic on Wednesday as a deadline for...
Voters in Trinidad & Tobago are heading to the the polls to elect a new government on Monday, September 7. The twin-island nation’s Prime Minister Kamla...
Guyana is turning to the United Nations to reach a legal settlement in its border dispute with Venezuela, describing Venezuela’s claim of a portion of maritime...
New Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met his regional counterparts in Abuja on Thursday to set up a joint military force against Boko Haram, the latest sign...
His secrets about FIFA are yet to be disclosed, but former FIFA vice president and also former National Security Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Jack Warner continues...
Guyana warned Monday it would “vigorously” resist any attempt by Venezuela to enforce a new claim over coastal waters where Exxon Mobil recently announced an important...
African leaders from across the continent have for the 25th summit of the African Union, which runs until 15 June, under the theme: “Year of women...
A judicial panel in Haiti has recommended that former Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe be barred from running for president. The panel said that Lamothe failed to...
An explosion at a gasoline station in Ghana’s capital Accra killed about 73 people, many of whom had sought shelter there from torrential rain, on Wednesday...
A multinational force being set up to combat Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in the Lake Chad region will be operational in the coming weeks, Niger’s...
Nicholas Liverpool, who served as Dominica’s sixth president from October 2003 to September 2012 died earlier this week. He was 80 years old. Prime Minister Roosevelt...
Jamaica’s National Security Minister Peter Bunting has warned that the industrial action taken by police officers places the public at risk and appealed to them to...
Nigerians celebrated their newly reinforced democracy Friday, dancing, singing and releasing white doves symbolizing peace at the inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari, the first candidate to beat...
Madagascar’s parliament has voted to impeach President Hery Rajaonarimampianina, threatening to derail rebuilding efforts after years of crisis. The vote by 121 of 151 members of...
President Desi Bouterse, 69, was re-elected after his National Democratic Party (NDP) won the general elections on Monday. With over 80 percent of the votes counted...
A three-year political crisis that delayed local and parliamentary elections has done nothing to dampen Haiti’s enthusiasm for democracy, judging by the avalanche of hopefuls now...
Aaron Mair, a civil rights and environmental justice advocate in Albany, has been elected president of the Sierra Club, becoming the first African American to serve...
Exxon Mobil Corporation has confirmed that it has made what it calls a “significant” oil discovery off Guyana in waters also claimed by Venezuela as part...
Jamaicans are being put on alert following an outbreak of another mosquito-borne illness, the Zika virus. Following meetings at the World Health Assembly now taking place...
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to put in place new restrictions on the use of military equipment by police departments, following unrest in several American cities...
Retired army general David Granger is poised to become Guyana’s new president after his multi-ethnic opposition coalition defeated a party that has been in power for...
Africa is experiencing a never-before-seen economic and political transformation. Five of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies are located here. While there are many reasons to celebrate...
Mali’s Tuareg separatists signed a preliminary agreement with the government on Thursday as a gesture of “good faith” to end decades of fighting, but wanted more...
An opposition coalition challenging the governing party and the racial politics that have long dominated in Guyana said Tuesday it appeared to have won national elections,...
Legislators in Jamaica will vote on three bills which seek to amend existing legislation to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) replace the United Kingdom-based...
Liberia is now free of Ebola after going more than 42 days – twice the maximum incubation period for the deadly disease – without any new...
Guyana votes Monday in elections pitting embattled President Donald Ramotar against an upstart opposition alliance seeking to unite voters across racial lines with its calls to...
The number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to 18, the lowest total this year. According to health officials in...
Regional carrier Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) is offering employees voluntary separation and early retirement packages as it moves to reduce its wage bill. The offer...
Nigerian troops rescued 25 more children and women from Boko Haram early Wednesday as the soldiers destroyed seven more of the extremists’ camps in a northeastern...
The death of Freddie Gray has been ruled a homicide caused by severe trauma. State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, the chief prosecutor for Baltimore, has announced that...
Kenya will not forcibly repatriate some 336,000 Somalis living in one of the world’s largest refugee camps – the Dabaab camp – however, the Kenyatta administration...
The government of St Kitts & Nevis has accepted the recommendations of an international risk management firm – IPSA International Inc., to implement reforms in its...
A day after the Nigerian army celebrated the rescue of 200 girls and 93 women in the forest stronghold of the al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram Islamists, the...
Nigeria’s army has rescued 200 girls and 93 women during a military operation to wrest back the Sambisa Forest from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group, Boko...
The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center has recorded an earthquake in Barbados. According to the data, the earthquake occurred at 5:21 pm EDT.,...
Togo’s presidential election concluded Sunday, however, voter turnout appears to have been just over 50 percent, West African and local election observers have revealed. No results...
It rained for much of Sunday, April 26, 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. And for some reason – like happens on a rainy day – lethargy set...
Loretta Lynch was confirmed the first African American female attorney general of the United States, Thursday from a Senate that forced her to wait more than...
Niger has shut all schools in the region around the capital Niamey and launched a campaign to vaccinate children aged 2 to 15 in an effort...
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted president Mohammed Mursi and 12 other defendants to 20 years in jail for involvement in the arrests and torture...
It has been confirmed that Mark Saunders is to become the next police chief of Toronto. Saunders will be taking over as the head of police...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 rocked Trinidad & Tobago on Wednesday night but there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries. According to...
Retired physician Ben Carson, considered a potential Republican presidential contender, plans a major announcement on May 4 in Detroit, CNN reported on Monday, citing his spokeswoman....
Results in Nigeria’s gubernatorial elections saw a swing toward president-elect Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) party on Monday, two weeks after it made history by...
Kenya’s police chief issued Wednesday a list of 85 people and companies, including at least 13 key money transfer companies, of suspected links to Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked...
Like everyone in the know will tell you, passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) appears to be imminent – and we, probably, have...
As forces from Chad and Niger poured into the northern Nigerian town of Malam Fatori, driving out the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist Boko Haram fighters, Nigeria’s election commission...
At least 14 people were killed on Thursday when al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al-Shabaab stormed a Kenyan university campus, taking Christians hostage and engaging security forces...
Muhammadu Buhari has been elected president of Nigeria, defeating the incumbent Goodluck Jonathan and setting the stage for the first transfer of power from the People’s...
Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari is heading for a win against the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, with 14.6 million votes to Jonathan’s 11.3 million and only...
Counting is underway in Nigeria’s presidential election, with the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan facing a strong challenge from retired military general Muhammadu Buhari. The country’s election...
Nigeria extended voting in presidential and legislative elections to Sunday after delays and equipment malfunctions disrupted balloting. Accreditation began late at about half of the polling...
Campaigning has wound to a close in Nigeria’s presidential elections, with the two leading candidates delivering their final messages to supporters before Saturday’s vote. This year’s...
Opposition lawmakers have walked out of Trinidad & Tobago’s Parliament after a no-confidence motion against the government was dismissed as frivolous by a ruling party legislator....
Chicago police officers initiated stop and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New York City counterparts ever did, and just like...
JAMPRO, Jamaica’s trade and investment promotion agency, has confirmed that the Simpson-Miller administration is in the process of developing a citizenship-by-investment program. The new initiative, is...
About 82 percent of Nigerian voters have collected the cards they need to present at polling stations to take part in Saturday’s presidential elections, officials said...
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has revealed that the island-nation will be moving towards a republican form of government “in the very near future” ending its...
Namibia’s new leader Hage Geingob was on Saturday sworn in as president, three months after he was elected in a landslide victory. Geingob marked his inauguration...
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is making no progress in curbing oil spills in Nigeria and Italian-based Eni SpA’s operations in the West African country are out...
Lesotho’s Pakalitha Mosisili was sworn in as prime minister on Tuesday, two weeks after he formed a coalition government that neighboring South Africa hopes will bring...
Latest polls indicate that opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari will defeat the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan in the upcoming presidential elections. According to political research group, Eurasia,...
A South African court on Friday struck down athlete Oscar Pistorius’ bid to block prosecutors from appealing the culpable homicide verdict handed down against him, in...
U.S. President Barack Obama told students at Georgia Tech on Tuesday he wants to make the process of repaying student loans easier to understand and manage....
Dominica has become the fourth Caribbean Community (Caricom) country to replace the London-based Privy Council as their final court of appeal, replacing it with the Trinidad-based...
Former first lady Simone Gbagbo was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison by an Ivory Coast court for her part in post-election violence that killed...
(PRNewswire) – With the release of their Spring Issue, Savoy Magazine has announced their 2015 Most Influential Black Lawyers featured list. The listing is comprised of...
Malaria was not the cause of the Zambian president’s collapse during a public ceremony over the weekend, officials said on Monday. Zambia’s new president, Edgar Lungu...
Chad and Niger launched a joint army operation against Boko Haram militants in Nigeria on Sunday, military sources said, intensifying a regional push to try to...
Negotiations between South Sudan’s government and it’s opponents were adjourned on Friday. There is no date set for the next meeting. The conflict erupted in December...
President Idriss Deby of Chad has informed the media during a press conference that the Chad military and government has narrowed down the location of al-Qaeda-linked...
A U.S. Justice Department investigation found sweeping patterns of racial bias within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department, with officers routinely discriminating against African Americans by using...
As the 2015 general elections in Trinidad & Tobogo approach, the Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her ruling coalition are taking the unusual step of filing...
Kenya burned 15 metric tons of elephant tusks and rhino horns Tuesday as part of efforts to curb poaching of the mammals in the East African...
Lesotho appeares to be heading for a coalition government following a snap parliamentary election aimed at bringing stability to the tiny southern African kingdom. The incumbent...
Namibia’s outgoing president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s US$5 million African leadership prize, an award meant to recognize good governance that had only...
For almost 15 years, organizers have been working to create a US$75 million African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. Now that museum is more than...
Prominent members of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara’s main coalition partner on Thursday rejected a deal by their party’s leader to support Ouattara’s bid for re-election...
Ugandan lawyer, Victor Ochen has been nominated for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. Ochen is the youngest African to be nominated in the history of the...
Marijuana has been pervasive but illegal in Jamaica for decades, consumed as a medicinal herb, puffed as a sacrament by Rastafarians and sung about in the...
The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to bring a lawsuit against the Ferguson, Missouri, police department over a pattern of racially discriminatory tactics used by officers,...
Mali’s government and an alliance of Tuareg-led northern separatists have agreed to cease hostilities on Thursday to ease tensions during negotiations aimed at ending decades of...
Timothy Harris has been sworn in as the new prime minister of St Kitts & Nevis. The country’s Governor General, Edmund Lawrence, has ended a potential...
St Kitts & Nevis voters have denied Prime Minister Denzil Douglas an opportunity of becoming the first regional leader to win 5 consecutive general elections and...
Timothy Harris and his opposition alliance have claimed electoral victory in the St Kitts & Nevis general elections. There is confusion regarding the outcome of the...
Schools have re-opened in Liberia for the first time after a six-month hiatus designed to stem the spread of the worst Ebola outbreak in history –...
Citizens in St. Kitts & Nevis go to the polls on February 16 to vote for a new government. The twin-island nation’s parliament was disolved on...
The former Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Patrick Manning, is retiring from politics. Manning, who failed to show up for screening by his People’s National...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is expected to receive a frosty reception when he opens parliament on Thursday, with opponents set to disrupt his nationally-televised state...
St. Lucia was struck by a series of mini-earthquakes earlier this week, however, officials said there were no reports of injuries or damages. The country’s National...
Anti-government protesters shut down Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince on Monday as the country plunged deeper into political and economic crises even as many prepared for the annual...
Former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding testified Monday that he personally knew an underworld boss who ran a notorious slum fiefdom from his parliamentary riding but...
Nigeria has postponed the February 14 presidential and legislative elections by six weeks to March 28 due to security concerns, the chairman of the electoral commission...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 rattled Trinidad & Tobago early on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damages. According to...
Tens of thousands of Dominican-born people of Haitian descent are stateless and at risk of being deported if they fail to meet a Sunday deadline to...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar signed another ceasefire agreement on Monday, edging them closer to a final deal to end a...
Voters in Nigeria will have a chance to see the leading candidates for the presidential election, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, in action, during the presidential...
The African Union has endorsed a West African plan to set up a regional task force of 7,500 to fight al-Qaeda-linked Islamist Boko Haram militants, a...
Dominica will become the fourth Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to become a full member of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice early next month,...
Latest reports indicate that Liberia is dealing with just 5 remaining cases of Ebola, in the clearest sign yet that the country is nearing the end...
Haiti has installed a Provisional Electoral Council in a key step toward averting a constitutional crisis after weeks of protests and political uncertainty. The swearing in...
Edgar Lungu of Zambia’s ruling Patriotic Front has won the country’s presidential election in a tightly fought race, the electoral commission announced Saturday. Lungu won with...
Sierra Leone on Friday lifted crippling nationwide restrictions on movement put in place at the height of the Ebola crisis, amid signs that the deadly epidemic...
Burkina Faso will hold presidential and legislative elections on October 11, a year after the West African state’s long-ruling President Blaise Compaore was ousted by mass...
Zambia’s ruling party presidential candidate Edgar Lungu took a slim lead over his rival Hakainde Hichilema after votes from half of constituencies were counted, the electoral...
Zambians flocked to the polls on Tuesday to choose the next leader of one of Africa’s most promising frontier markets, in what shaped up as a...
Haiti’s president, Michel Martelly, has announced the formation of a new government in a bid to rescue the country from a political stalemate. Late last week,...
A contingent of soldiers from Chad has arrived in northern Cameroon where it will deploy to the Nigerian border as part of efforts to contain the...
Ghana’s President John Mahama has asked African leaders to prepare a coordinated plan to defeat al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants like the al-Shabaab in Kenya and Boko Haram...
Filipe Nyusi, 56, was sworn in as Mozambique’s new president following his election victory last October, promising to modernize the economy and maintain peace in the...
Madagascar’s president has named a new prime minister after months of widespread discontent at the performance of his government. President Hery Rajaonarimampianina named Jean Ravelonarivo as...
Haiti President Michel Martelly said he will use his authority to call elections in coming months after legislators failed to enact an election law, according to...
Haiti’s parliament was dissolved, Tuesday, after the failure of last-ditch negotiations for a deal to extend the terms of its members to avert a political crisis...
Witney Schneidman The Priority The legacy of the Obama administration in Africa is very much a work in progress. Several initiatives address genuine opportunities and concerns,...
The chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Attahiru Jega, has said that the commission is prepared and committed to ensuring that next month’s presidential...
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has approved a new government, before the launch of new peace talks this month with separatists in the north of the...
Andrae Crouch, a legendary gospel performer, songwriter and choir director whose work graced songs by Michael Jackson and Madonna and movies such as “The Lion King,”...
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita named a former head of government, Modibo Keita, as the new prime minister on Thursday after the previous government resigned, state...
Staff members at a Colorado NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) office say they are waiting for more information before drawing any conclusions...
Oil major, Royal Dutch Shell, has agreed to pay compensation to thousands of residents of the Bodo community in Nigeria’s crude-rich Niger River delta region for...
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh reshuffled three major posts in his government, state television reported, a week after a failed coup attempt in the West Africa nation....
The Kenyan capital’s main international airport was shut on Sunday following the crash-landing of a domestic flight, airport officials said. The Kenyan Airports Authority said a...
Edward Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, died on Saturday at the age of...
An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale has rattled St Lucia and was also felt in the neighboring twin island-nation of St Vincent & the...
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh arrived back in the capital Banjul on Wednesday, official sources said, one day after gunfire erupted around the presidential palace and the...
Professors from 3 leading British universities say International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies favoring international debt repayment over social spending contributed to the Ebola crisis by hampering...
The second part of former South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography will be published next year. The best selling autobiography, “The Long Walk to Freedom,” depicts...
The African Development Bank has given out funds to construct a regional biomedical center of excellence and to train teachers. The loan agreements were signed yesterday...
Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced early Sunday that he was resigning along with several ministers in the wake of anti-government protests and a commission’s call for...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Friday called on African nations to withdraw from the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court (ICC), amid accusations that...
Former soldier and military leader Muhammadu Buhari will challenge President Goodluck Jonathan at February presidential elections in Nigeria, according to results Thursday from party primaries. The...
Nigeria’s main opposition coalition began a convention Wednesday to select a candidate to take on incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in February, in what will be the...
South African prosecutors appealed on Tuesday against the culpable homicide verdict and 5-year prison term imposed on athlete Oscar Pistorius for the killing of his girlfriend...
The Obama administration has issued guidelines that ban federal law enforcement from profiling on the basis of race, religion, national origin and other characteristics, protocols the...
When my wife and I found out, earlier this year, that we were pregnant with twins, I secretly went down on my knees and prayed; thankful...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have withdrawn their crimes against humanity charges against Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenyatta faced charges for allegedly masterminding post-election...
Protesters vowed a new round of demonstrations in New York on Thursday after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer in the...
Haitian president Michel Martelly announced last week that he was in the process of setting up an 11-member commission to make recommendations within the next few...
A New York grand jury has decided not to charge a police officer who killed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man with a chokehold while trying...
Actor Idris Elba and a host of international soccer stars of Africa origin have launched a public awareness campaign on Wednesday to help halt Ebola epidemic...
Kenya’s president announced a security shakeup Tuesday, accepting the resignations of both the Interior Secretary and the national police chief, in the wake of a series...
Gambia has said that it will not discuss a new law against homosexuality with donor nations that have urged the West African country to revoke it....
Canada’s former governor general Michaelle Jean has been named secretary-general of the International Organization of the Francophonie, a group of mostly French-speaking countries, many of them...
Polls have opened in presidential and parliamentary elections in the south west African nation of Namibia. About 1.2 million Namibians, about half the population, are eligible...
Nigeria’s Federal National Assembly said on Wednesday oil major Shell should pay US$3.96 billion for a 2011 spill at its offshore Bonga oilfield in the latest...
A St. Louis County grand jury has declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the case of the shooting death of Michael Brown. The...
Tunisians voted on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, with the two major parties expecting a run-off as the final step in the North...
Police in Kenya carried out new raids at mosques in the coastal city of Mombasa on Wednesday, finding explosives and arresting more than 100 people on...
An anti-government protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti has become more intense following the shooting of three people. The protesters were calling for the resignation of Haitian President...
Michel Kafando has been sworn in as transitional president of Burkina Faso on Tuesday. He is now faced with the task of leading the West African...
Authorities in Burkina Faso have named former foreign minister Michel Kafando as transitional president. Kafando will head the country until 2015. He was selected after several...
Burkina Faso officials signed a charter on Sunday intended to guide the country toward elections as various factions submitted nominations for an interim head of state...
Newly elected Malawi President Peter Mutharika earlier this week revealed that his administration would not stop any Malawian one from advocating for federalism and secession because...