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...
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...