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...
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...