By Emmanuel Musaazi Reading Peggy Noonan’s article titled “Apathy in the Executive” her analysis and portrayal of U.S. President Barack Obama as a failed leader in...
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday formally accepted the nomination of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to seek a second and final term of office at...
Boko Haram were suspected of killing nearly 50 pupils Monday in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, in one of the worst attacks against schools teaching...
Opposition parties, civil society groups and religious leaders adopted a plan on Sunday for a transitional authority to guide Burkina Faso to elections, after a popular...
Oscar Pistorius at his sentencing. PHOTO/Herman Verwey/Getty Images South Africa’s state prosecutors will appeal the culpable homicide conviction and 5-year jail sentence handed down last week...
Nigeria was declared free of the deadly Ebola virus on Monday after a determined doctor and thousands of health officials and volunteers helped end an outbreak...
Mozambican voter casts her ballot in the country’s general elections, Oct. 15, 2014. PHOTO/Ferhat Momade/AP Voters in Mozambique started casting their ballots Wednesday in the general...
Oscar Pistorius listens as judge delivers verdict on Friday, Sept.12, 2014. PHOTO/Alon Skuy/AP Oscar Pistorius returned to court Monday at the start of his sentencing hearing...
Sangster International Airport. PHOTO/Jamaica Observer A fire in the electrical room of the Sangster International Airport in Jamaica’s northern city of Montego Bay, Thursday afternoon caused...
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza PHOTO/Aly Ramji /Mediapix Mozambique’s president Armando Guebuza early last week rejected a luxury Mercedes-Benz given to him by a business association, insisting...
Leaders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Benin on Tuesday announced plans to step up the fight against Boko Haram Islamists with an additional battalion and a...
Senegal announced Tuesday a significant discovery of oil, with at least 250 million barrels in place. Oil explorer Cairn Energy and its joint venture partners indicated...
Former Haitian leader, Jean-Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who governed the Caribbean nation with an iron fist from 1971 until his...
Incumbent Botswana President Ian Khama. PHOTO/File With less than a month left for Botswana to have its presidential and general elections, political parties have intensified their...
Jamaica’s justice minister, Mark Golding, said Tuesday that legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the island-nation where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited...
Kenya’s gross domestic product was estimated to be 25 percent bigger after the authorities changed the base calculation year to 2009 from 2001, sending the east...
By Djifa Kothor Much has been said about the rising economic prosperity of Africa. In fact, it’s been widely reported that on average, the continent has...
An emotional Eric Holder (r) standing with U.S. President Barack Obama (l) during the announcement of his (Holder’s) resignation. PHOTO/Associated Press The departure of U.S. Attorney...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning after heading the Justice Department for 6 years. A White House official says U.S. President Barack Obama will announce...
Sierra Leone has sealed off the borders with Liberia and Guinea in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, the government spokesman said on Tuesday....
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly on Monday launched new consultations to resolve the political deadlock that has delayed legislative elections, according to...
Kenyan troops will remain in Somalia until peace and stability is restored to the region, President Uhuru Kenyatta said, one year after gunmen stormed a shopping...
Deserted neighborhood in Freetown during the 3-day national lockdown. PHOTO/Umaru Fofana/Reuters Streets in the capital of Sierra Leone were deserted on Friday as the West African...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. PHOTO/File Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday received the endorsement of former president Henri Konan Bedie for re-election...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is formalizing recommendations to deal with any possible incidence of the Ebola virus and is also improving efforts to respond to the...
Embattled Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane. PHOTO/File Lesotho will hold elections earlier than scheduled in 2017, in an effort to ease a political crisis that resulted...
The African Union was preparing Monday to send a team of 30 health workers and other specialists to help fight an Ebola outbreak that killed more...
Police in the Ugandan capital Kampala seized “substantial amounts of explosives” and suicide vests in raids on a suspected al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab cell that was planning an...
Oscar Pistorius listens as judge delivers verdict on Friday, Sept.12, 2014. PHOTO/Alon Skuy/AP A South African judge on Friday found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius listens to court proceedings, March 4, 2014. PHOTO/Reuters A South African judge cleared Oscar Pistorius of all murder charges on Thursday,...
Protestors in Ferguson, Missouri. PHOTO/Charlie Riedel/AP In an effort to combat police brutality against the African American community in the United States, the National Bar Association...
Kenyan authorities have detained 2 German nationals who they accuse of being members of the al-Qaeda-linked group, al-Shabaab, which has been blamed for a series of...
Incumbent Montserrat Premier Reuben Meade. PHOTO/File Voters Montserrat will go to the polls in two days – on September 11 to elect a new government. Nine...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File The Haitian senate entered another wave of debates this week as the legislative body faces dissolution due to President Michel Martelly’s...
Nigerian authorities are monitoring nearly 400 people for signs of Ebola after they came in contact with a Port Harcourt doctor who died of the disease...
African leaders proposed on Tuesday creating a special fund to combat Islamist militant groups growing in strength from Kenya to Nigeria. African Union states announced the...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. PHOTO/File A judge in Haiti, conducting an inquiry into acts of corruption blamed on former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has issued...
Mali’s government hopes to clinch a preliminary peace deal with northern Tuareg separatists within 8 weeks, the foreign minister said, ahead of talks due to start...
A cloud of smoke and dust from the drug laden vessel, the MV Al Noor explodes after it was destroyed by the Kenya Navy. PHOTO/Laban Walloga/Daily...
Libya’s Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni and his cabinet resigned on Thursday to pave the way to forming a new government after parliamentary elections in June, an...
West African states should re-open their borders and end flight bans put in place to halt the spread of Ebola, the Economic Community of West African...
Environmental Damage caused by oil spill. PHOTO/File Royal Dutch Shell has sold some of 4 oil fields up for grabs in Nigeria, it said on Wednesday,...
Malawian President Peter Mutharika addresses the nation shortly after he was sworn into office, June 2, 2014. PHOTO/AFP Newly elected Malawian President Peter Mutharika has vetoed...
Michael Brown. PHOTO/Facebook The funeral for Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown is scheduled for Monday at the Friendly Temple Missionary Church in St. Louis, Missouri. The...
At least 25 people have been reported killed when a gold mine collapsed near the Central African Republic town of Bambari, an official said on Friday....
Protestors in Ferguson, Missouri. PHOTO/Charlie Riedel/AP U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with community members in Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday and vowed a thorough civil rights...
Uganda’s Ministry of Health stated that there is no confirmed case of Ebola in the country. The suspected Ebola patient screened at Entebbe International Airport has tested...
Kenya is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the 3 countries worst hit by the Ebola outbreak, the government said Saturday....
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. PHOTO/File Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was summoned to appear before an examining magistrate over alleged money laundering and drug trafficking,...
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. PHOTO/File Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday denied that he ordered protesters killed during the 2011 uprising that deposed him,...
Libya’s new parliament agreed on Tuesday that the next president would be elected by a popular vote as lawmakers sought to overcome a confrontation between two...
Michael Brown. PHOTO/Facebook A candlelight vigil for Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed African American teen who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer...
When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago, the country’s president quickly went on national TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials speedily...
U.S. President Barack Obama PHOTO/Charles Dharapak/AP U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday night that he had authorized airstrikes to protect members of an ancient religious minority...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. PHOTO/File (HCNN) – Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been prohibited from leaving the country as relevant judicial authorities resumed a...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP Sudan will to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on April 2, 2015, Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman said. Registration of...
An earthquake shook buildings in Johannesburg and surrounding areas in South Africa’s most populous province – Gauteng on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring at least...
From left to right, President Macky Sall of Senegal, Former Malawian President Joyce Banda, U.S. President Barack Obama, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, and...
Uganda’s constitutional court on Friday invalidated an anti-gay bill signed into law earlier this year, saying the measure is illegal because it was passed during a...
Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete. PHOTO/File Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has named the “Icon of Democracy Award” winner for 2014 in Africa. Kikwete was also recently awarded...
Liberia announced on Wednesday the quarantine of a number of communities and the closure of schools across the country, the toughest measures yet imposed by a...
Liberia has closed all but 3 land border crossings, restricted public gatherings and quarantined communities heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation....
The wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister was kidnapped and at least three people were killed in an attack by al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram militants in Cameroon’s...
South Africa’s NUMSA manufacturing union will continue a 3-week work stoppage after its regional branches accepted a wage offer from employers but rejected conditions relating to...
An Air Algerie flight crashed on Thursday en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, an Algerian aviation official said....
Representatives of the Muslim and Christian factions battling in Central African Republic signed a ceasefire agreement on Wednesday in neighboring Republic of Congo. The ceremony was...
South Africa’s biggest employers’ group in the metals and engineering industries agreed to offer a 10 percent pay increase to low-level earners over three years to...
South African platinum miners at work. PHOTO/File World number-one platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (AMPLATS) is to sell a swathe of its most labor-intensive South African...
Labor unions representing striking South African metalworkers have submitted a lower wage demand to employers, union representatives said on Sunday, to try to end the stoppage...
Mali’s government and Tuareg separatist movement held talks in Algiers on Wednesday in an effort to end decades of uprisings by northern based separatists, though the...
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) said it would relax its demands and agree on a two-year pay deal with employers as the...
South African Workers at vehicle assembly plant. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa Nissan Motor Corporation has joined auto makers including Toyota Motor Corporation and Ford Motor Corporation in...
Police in Nigeria on Tuesday said they had arrested a senior Boko Haram Islamist commander known as “Chief Butcher” during a raid on an insurgent camp...
The United Nations (UN) has a “moral responsibility” to help Haiti end a devastating cholera outbreak, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said. The cholera has been...
The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, today appointed Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Jackson Kiprono Tuwei, a Kenyan national, as the new...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (l) and Riek Machar (c) exchange documents at the peace signing ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 9 2014. PHOTO/Reuters South...
Officials from the Keita administration in Mali government will meet with representatives of Tuareg separatist movement in Algiers on July 16, indicating progress in their stalled...
Libya will announce results of last month’s parliamentary elections on July 20, pushing back the results another week. The North African oil producer elected on June...
By Djifa Kothor Corporate social responsibility demands that corporations are not solely concerned with profit but also with the well-being of people. In Europe, and North...
Senegalese Prime Minister Mohammed Dionne. PHOTO/File Senegal has announced the appointment of Mohammed Dionne as prime minister, following the resignation last week of Aminata Toure after...
South African Workers at vehicle assembly plant. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa South Africa’s labor minister will meet with striking metalworkers and industry employers on Friday in an...
The Ebola outbreak in three West African countries is already the deadliest to date with over 500 fatalities, and is expected to be the longest on...
Security personnel stand at the site of the wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed into a commercial building on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi,...
Outgoing Jamaican Police Commissioner Owen Ellington. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica’s top cop is retiring ahead of a fact-finding inquiry into the conduct of security forces during a...
Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images A panel of mental health experts has concluded that Oscar Pistorius was...
African leaders called on Thursday for firm action against a rising Islamist militant threat creeping across the continent from Nigeria to Kenya and pledged to furnish...
South African Workers at vehicle assembly plant. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa More than 220,000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the country’s...
Smoke billows from Emab Plaza in Abuja. PHOTO/Reuters An explosion rocked a shopping mall in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Wednesday and police said at least 21...
Platinum miners in South Africa returned to work on Wednesday after wage deals ended the longest and most damaging work stoppage in the country’s history. The...
Differences over possible job cuts in South Africa’s platinum mines emerged on Tuesday as mining union Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) prepared to sign...
By Papiso Matsau Ethiopian portion of the Cape to Cairo highway. PHOTO/File “So, what time is your flight?” my mother asked. “We are not flying, we...
Thousands of miners at a mass rally called by South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) mining union were given a program on Monday...
Incumbent Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. PHOTO/File Voters in Mauritania on Saturday cast ballots in a presidential election that incumbent Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was...
Nigeria will recover US$227 million of funds illegally acquired by former military dictator Sani Abacha, the country’s finance ministry said on Thursday, after a 16-year battle...
Newly elected Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne. PHOTO/Antigua Observer Newly elected Prime Minister Gaston Browne has named a 10 member cabinet that was sworn...
The African Union (AU) ended the suspension of Egypt and Guinea Bissau from the grouping on Tuesday after both countries elected new leaders, a senior AU...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File South African President Jacob Zuma will be delivering the first State of the Nation address of his second term on...
Nigeria’s main opposition elected a veteran politician from the Christian south as its inaugural chairman on Saturday, as it looks to win voters on both sides...
Gaston Browne (pictured), led his Antigua & Barbuda Labor Party (ALP) to a landslide victory in the general elections held on Thursday and has pledged to...
Incumbent Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda Baldwin Spencer (l) and Opposition leader Gaston Browne (r). PHOTO/File Antiguans & Barbudans are voting today to elect a...
East African nations have threatened to impose sanctions on South Sudan’s conflicting sides unless they resolve their differences peacefully and end “flagrant violations” of three agreements...
Incumbent Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda Baldwin Spencer (l) and Opposition leader Gaston Browne (r). PHOTO/File Voters in Antigua & Barbuda go to the polls...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma was on Saturday admitted to a Pretoria hospital for tests following a bout of exhaustion,...
Screen grab Abdel Fattah al-Sisi takes the oath of office during his swearing-in ceremony as Egypt’s new president. PHOTO/Reuters Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in as...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Thousands of Haitians took to the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince Thursday to demand that President Michel Martelly step down and...
Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram militants have killed hundreds of civilians in new attacks in northeastern Nigeria. Witnesses say the gunmen attacked at least three...
By Djifa Kothor In 1999, Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), came to Lome, Togo to sign a peace accord. The agreement...
For the first time in more than 20 years, the United States will appoint an ambassador to Somalia in what a senior official on Tuesday described...
A South African labor court has thrown out an urgent application the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to stop platinum firms communicating directly with...
Newly elected Malawian President Peter Mutharika, signs a document as he takes an oath of office. PHOTO/Amos Gumulira/AFP Peter Mutharika, the brother of the late President...
Malawi President-Elect Peter Mutharika with his supporters during the presidential campaign. PHOTO/Malawi Voice Peter Mutharika, the brother of Malawi’s former leader, was declared the winner of...
Elias Masilela Elias Masilela has resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation – Africa’s biggest fund manager and the largest shareholder...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief, is on course for a sweeping victory in Egypt’s presidential election, early provisional results showed. al-Sisi captured 91.8 percent...
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou, the award-winning writer, poet, actress and civil rights activist, was found dead Wednesday morning inside her Winston-Salem, N.C., home. The 86-year-old icon,...
Nigeria’s military knows where the more than 200 girls abducted by al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram are but has ruled out using force to rescue them, the state...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. PHOTO/Reuters Egyptians were choosing a new president on Monday in an election likely to be won by the man who nearly a year...
Madagascar is looking to lure in investors. “The private sector will bring development and create jobs in Madagascar,” Hery Rajaonarimampianina told a business meeting in Johannesburg,...
Malawi President Joyce Banda has ordered the nullification of presidential and parliamentary election results, citing what she says are irregularities. The president says the action is...
The presidents of Cameroon and Chad on Friday concluded two days of meetings during which they fine-tuned plans and reiterated commitments to a declaration of war...
Somali militant group al-Shabaab has vowed to shift its war to neighboring Kenya by sending more fighters to attack government and civilians targets. Speaking Thursday in...
US would like the African Growth and Opportunity Act legislation renewed to continue offering opportunity for sub-Saharan African countries. Penny Pritzker, US Secretary of Commerce, Stated,...
Guinea-Bissau’s electoral commission says Jose Mario Vaz has won the presidential election. The commission says Vaz, the candidate of the ruling PAIGC party, received 61.9 percent...
Immediate past Bermuda Premier Craig Cannonier. PHOTO/Royal Gazette Bermudan premier Craig Cannonier has resigned from office after a period of public outcry over the potential misuse...
USA has come to an agreement allowing it to share some intelligence with Nigeria to bolster the search for more than 200 girls kidnapped. The Pentagon...
West African leaders on Saturday agreed to work together to wage “total war” on Boko Haram. The leaders said the Nigerian Islamist group had become a...
Ten people died and at least 70 were injured in two explosions at the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, BBCNews reports. Friday’s bombings took place two days after the U.K.,...
Kenya has rebuked Britain, the United States, Australia and France on Thursday for issuing warnings about travel to the east African country and particularly its main...
Ras Baraka (pictured), son of late militant poet and activist Amiri Baraka, declared victory Tuesday in the race to succeed Democratic U.S. Sen. Cory Booker as...
United States drones have begun to fly over Nigerian skies to generate satellite imagery and surveillance, as search for more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (l) and Riek Machar (c) exchange documents at the peace signing ceremony. PHOTO/Reuters South Sudan president Salva Kiir has said that...
The Rwandan government Tuesday launched a $329 million plan to stop malaria deaths in the country by 2018. The Rwanda Malaria Strategic Plan is a public...
Ghanaians who live outside of Africa met in Accra for a Diaspora Engagement Forum. Organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (MFA&RI) with support...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir arrived in Ethiopia’s capital on Friday to meet rebel leader Riek Machar under growing international pressure for an end to the...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party led its rivals in early election results on Thursday after a campaign in which the opposition tried to...
Nigerian police offered a $300,000 reward on Wednesday to anyone who can give credible information leading to the rescue of the nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by...
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of their strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, police and residents said on Tuesday. The...
The ascent of China as a contending economic superpower with United States and Europe (the west), has opened up an alternative philosophical and economic path for...
The head of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA), James Hospedales, has declared that the Chikungunya virus has reached epidemic proportions in the Caribbean region. According...
South Sudan’s president has tentatively agreed to revitalize peace talks that have been stalled for months, taking the necessary step toward creating a new government and...
Leon Jenkins. PHOTO/File The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP has resigned, following scrutiny of his decision to give Los Angeles Clippers owner...
The main leader of Senegal’s southern, separatist movement has declared a ceasefire, boosting hopes for peace talks that could end one of Africa’s longest-running conflicts. Salif...
Malawi President Joyce Banda at a campaign stop. PHOTO/Amos Gumulira/AFP Incumbent Malawi President Joyce Banda, on Tuesday night, stayed away from the presidential debate which was...
Environmental Damage caused by oil spill. PHOTO/File Legal arguments began in court on Tuesday in a compensation claim brought by about 15,000 members of Nigeria’s Bodo...
South African President Jacob Zuma has unveiled a bust of Nelson Mandela, a day after the 20th anniversary of the first post-apartheid elections. Zuma said on...
South Africa marked 2 decades of multi-racial democracy on Sunday, still feeling the loss of Nelson Mandela and in sombre mood just 10 days before elections...
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer says he will allow Parliament to be automatically be dissolved on Saturday and described as “unfortunate” the length of time taken by...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File Twenty years after the euphoria of South Africa’s first democratic elections swept liberation hero Nelson Mandela to power, the governing...
Mobile data subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to significantly overtake that of voice by 2019. According to the 2014 Ericsson Mobility Report, there has been...
At least 37 people have been reported killed in a train crash in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga province on Tuesday, a witness and a local...
Incumbent Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. PHOTO/File Mauritania will hold presidential elections on June 21, according to the presidency, despite a lack of agreement on...
An earthquake was felt on St. Kitts & Nevis and other islands of the Eastern Caribbean at around 3:30 pm local time (3:30 pm EDT) on...
South Africa and Malaysia have joined forces to combat modern warfare with a new research and development center scheduled to open in 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, DefenceWeb reports. Electronic...
AU Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, AU Chairman Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso at the...
South African lawmakers are in the process of enacting legislation that will seek to increase the involvement of black citizens and women in the economy. With...
Guinea-Bissau Presidential Front runner, Jose Mario Vaz at a campaign rally Vote counting began in Guinea-Bissau after a heavy turnout in Sunday’s legislative and presidential elections...
The African Union Commission (AUC), through the Infrastructure and Energy Department and the Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology of the Kingdom of Swaziland and Internet...
Following the establishment of the Customs Union in 2005, and then the Common Market in 2010, on 30 November 2013 five East African countries reached the...
Madagascar has named Kolo Christopher Laurent Roger as its new prime minister, a senior presidency official said on Friday, part of a process aimed at ending...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File South Africa’s main opposition party named 2 parliamentary officials to a panel that will probe President Jacob Zuma’s response to...
Former President of Trinidad & Tobago, Arthur Raymond Robinson died Wednesday after a prolonged illness. He was 87. Robinson, who was also a former prime minister...
Anglo’s sovereign wealth fund, the Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA), now has its first audit board that will guarantee the “highest level” of openness in its...
The principle of state sovereignty has been an integral part of international relations since the end of the Second World War and this principle guarantees smaller...
Rising from the depths of the global financial crisis, Africa’s richest are faring well. Among them is a breed of “billionaire philanthropist”: men and women who...
(Reuters) – Former Guinea Bissau President Kumba Yala (pictured), who governed the West African nation from 2000 to 2003, has died at the age of 61,...
Voter casts ballot in Mali presidential election, November 24, 2013. PHOTO/Habibou Kouyate/AFP African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has approved an observer mission to South...
St. Lucia has recorded its first case of the mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya. However, the national epidemiologists director in the country’s Ministry of Health, Nehum Jn Baptiste,...
(Reuters) – An explosion in an area of Kenya’s capital Nairobi that is popular with Somalis killed 6 people and wounded several others on Monday, the...
Opposition leader Arnhim Eustace (l) and St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves (r). PHOTO/File St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves...
President Jacob Zuma recently visited Lesotho to witness the start of phase two of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), according to iOL. It’s part of...
Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has been delayed until April 7...
Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian military chief who last summer removed the elected Islamist president, announced Wednesday that he has resigned from the military and will run...
Barbados plans to abolish its mandatory death penalty for murder convictions – a penalty that the government has bypassed for three decades. No killer has been...
Peace talks between South Sudan’s government and elements aligned to former Vice-President Riek Machar resumed in Ethiopia on Tuesday, mediators said, urging both sides to return...
One hundred and seven people have died after a boat capsized in a lake along the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan...
World Bank has approved a grant of $73.1 billion to help the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) fund the development the Inga III Base Chute (BC)...
Mozambique expects a peaceful presidential and general elections in October to maintain its image as a country that is experiencing rapid economic growth and a popular...
Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. PHOTO/File Ethiopia is on track to generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant....
The Cayman Islands were struck an earthquake according to local sources and data from the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake which measured 4.2 on the...
Authorities in Kenya have revealed that police have intercepted a car with improvised explosive devices, foiling a planned terrorist attack in the coastal city of Mombasa....
Haiti President Martelly (c) signing the protocol, while mediator Cardinal, Chibly Langlois (r) looks on. March 15, 2014. Haiti’s politicians have put aside their differences and...
South Africa’s biggest union has called a one-day work stoppage for Wednesday to highlight youth unemployment in the country, the union said. The 340,000-member National Union...
Former president of Sierra Leone., Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. PHOTO/File Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, the former president of Sierra Leone who oversaw the end of the country’s brutal...
East African states agreed on Thursday to deploy troops in South Sudan by mid-April to help enforce a ceasefire deal between government forces and rebels, the...
Victims of Haiti’s deadly post-earthquake cholera epidemic filed a new lawsuit Tuesday against the United Nations in US federal court, demanding compensation over the organization’s alleged...
(Reuters) – Libya’s parliament voted Prime Minister Ali Zeidan out of office on Tuesday after secessionist rebels humiliated the government by loading crude on a tanker...
African Union Peacekeepers in Dafur, Sudan. PHOTO/Abd Raouf/AP In the last decade, the African continent has experience dramatic political, economic and social progress. Thus changing the...
Guinea Bissau’s attorney general is seeking to block the candidate of the country’s largest party from contesting next month’s presidential election, accusing him of misappropriating public...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma said the government must push for increased black ownership of the continent’s...
Saadi Gaddafi. PHOTO/File Niger on Thursday extradited to Libya one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, Saadi, who fled as his father’s regime crumbled in 2011 and who...
A food crisis is looming in many parts of the Central African Republic where many villagers have lived in the bush for months to avoid marauding...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius listens to court proceedings, March 4, 2014. PHOTO/Reuters Oscar Pistorius asked a friend to take the blame after a pistol was...
Acting President of Guinea-Bissau, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo. PHOTO/File Guinea-Bissau’s acting president announced Monday he would not be running in next month’s general election, ending months of...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images The first witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial testified...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC) says new cases of the chikungunya virus are springing up in the Caribbean. The ECDPC said in...
Mozambique’s ruling party – the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) are set to nominate a candidate as its presidential frontrunner in a bid to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama will Thursday launch a personal quest that will outlast his presidency to help young African American men...
Five illegal miners have been found dead in an abandoned shaft near Johannesburg, emergency services said on Wednesday, highlighting the dangers of scavenging for bullion beneath...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images A South African judge ruled on Tuesday that the murder...
(Reuters) – Egypt’s government has resigned, the prime minister said on Monday, a step likely to pave the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah...
South Sudan has reversed a plan by local authorities to partially shut down oil production and evacuate foreign workers in its main oil-producing region after it...