The Dominican Republic delegation to the Organization of American States (OAS) made assurances that nationals who were born in the Dominican Republic of Haitian parentage will...
In 1926, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History proposed that a week in February each year be reserved to remembering Abraham Lincoln,...
Immediate Past Nigeria Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi. PHOTO/File Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday suspended the Central Bank governor in a surprise move that halted...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images South Africa’s High Court on Wednesday delayed judgment on an...
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck northeast of Barbados early Tuesday, jolting thousands from their sleep but causing no reported damage or casualties. The earthquake was felt...
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart insisted that he was “not for sale” and stated that his administration’s pledge to implement policies that would help Barbados overcome its...
Rescue workers working to free trapped miners in Benoni, South Africa. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/Reuters Rescue workers in South Africa have cleared the shaft entrance of an abandoned...
A commission from the Organization of American States (OAS) is to visit Grenada in April as part of the follow up process of the Inter American...
Nigeria’s Senate is ordering a forensic audit to track down billions of missing petrodollars. The Central Bank of Nigeria last year reported nearly US$50 billion worth...
Kenya police cracked down on an anti-corruption protest in the streets of Nairobi Thursday after accusing the U.S. government of funding political activists. Many of the...
A car bomb has exploded close to a convoy of United Nations vehicles near Mogadishu’s international airport on Thursday, killing 6 Somalis on the street, officials...
An Algerian military transport plane slammed into a mountain Tuesday in the country’s rugged eastern region, killing 77 people and leaving just 1 survivor, the defense...
The pace of development in today’s Africa is like a steam train whose cadence is – much to everyone’s surprise – getting into bullet train territory....
Talks to end a strike over pay that has crippled production at the world’s largest platinum mines will resume in South Africa tomorrow. The Commission for...
On Monday, peace negotiations between South Sudan’s warring factions will begin in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, according to Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Dina Mufti. Officials indicate that...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s Harmony Gold stopped all its operations for a 24-hour safety shift on Friday after at least 8 workers were killed in a...
Rescuers recovered 8 bodies and continued to search for another missing worker on Thursday after a fire and rock-fall at a Harmony Gold mine near Johannesburg,...
South African police are ready to present their case when Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius goes on trial on March 3 for the murder...
The ethnic and religious profiling of the Muslims community in Nigeria is similar to the tensions that precipitated the West African country’s three year civil war...
Remittances by Zimbabweans in the Diaspora sent through money transfer agencies and formal banking channels declined by 15 percent last year to $1.8 billion, the country’s...
Mandela’s will is more than a dry account of who gets what. The 40-page document, he wrote in 2004, reflects that he was a meticulous and...
South Sudan government forces have recaptured Leer, an important oil-producing area and the hometown of nominal rebel leader Riek Machar in the northern oil-producing state of...
The new president of the Central African Republic, Catherine Samba-Panza, has promised that starting next week, the country’s security forces will be re-organized to protect Muslims...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio indicated that the city will settle lawsuits on the controversial stop-and-frisk tactics by the New York Police Department (NYPD)...
The international community is urging South Sudan’s government to release the last four political detainees it arrested as the country erupted in violence last month as...
U.S. President Barack Obama is making stops in Wisconsin and Tennessee to promote the policy plans he laid out earlier this week in his State of...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will host a summit of African leaders in Washington this August, a sign that his administration is paying more attention to...
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) states that six Caribbean countries are among 63 countries worldwide that are eligible to participate in two visa...
WHITE HOUSE — President Barack Obama’s fifth State of the Union Address on Tuesday will be closely watched in the U.S. and around the world. He...
Stuart recalled that in the 1980s the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had to be called in with the country facing a fiscal deficit of nine per...
Interim President of the Central African Republic Catherine Samba-Panza takes the oath of office., January 23, 2014. PHOTO/Jerome Delay/AP Catherine Samba-Panza was sworn in as the...
South Sudan’s government and the faction aligned to former Vice President Riek Machar are scheduled to sign a ceasefire deal later on Thursday, the mediator said,...
South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has appealed for calm and dialogue ahead of a planned strike this week by tens of thousands of workers at...
Central African Republic interim President.,Catherine Samba-Panza. PHOTO/File The transitional parliament in the Central African Republic has elected the mayor of the capital, Bangui, Catherine Samba-Panza, as...
On Monday, members of the National Transitional Council are to select a new interim president tasked with leading the Central African Republic toward democratic elections before...
Madagascar President-Elect Hery Rajaonarimampianina. PHOTO/Reuters Madagascar on Friday declared Hery Rajaonarimampianina, a former finance minister backed by strongman Andry Rajoelina, as the country’s new president, after...
An overwhelming majority of Egyptians who voted on the country’s new constitution have backed the draft charter, a senior Egyptian official said Thursday. The official told...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall before the terrorist attack. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. (Reuters) – Four men charged with helping al Qaeda-linked militants launch a murderous attack on...
Egyptians voted Tuesday on a new constitution in a referendum that will pave the way for a likely presidential run by the nation’s top general months...
Haitian President Michel Martelly (l) and first lady Sophia Martelly (r) lay a wreath at a monument in memory of the victims of the January 12,...
Former Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago., Patrick Manning. PHOTO/Reuters After 2 years of being absent from parliament, the Trinidad & Tobago’s former Prime Minister and...
Former President of the Central African Republic, Michel Djotodia. PHOTO/Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images Central African Republic interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned along with his prime minister,...
Central African Republic’s interim President Michel Djotodia (pictured), is due to step down at a summit of regional leaders on Thursday amid frustration at his failure...
Newly elected President of Somalia’s Puntland, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali. PHOTO/European Press Agency Parliament narrowly elected former prime minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali as president Somalia’s semi-autonomous region...
South Sudanese rivals started peace talks on Tuesday in a bid to end the conflict that has left the world’s newest state on the brink of...
African migrants hold a sign during a protest in Tel Aviv January 5, 2014. PHOTO/Reuters (Reuters) – Several thousand African migrants protested outside Western embassies in...
(Reuters) – Senegal has seized a Russian trawler fishing illegally in its waters, the fisheries minister said on Sunday, as it seeks to curb heavy losses...
Hery Rajaonarimampianina. PHOTO/Reuters With all votes tallied, Hery Rajaonarimampianina has a commanding lead in Madagascar’s presidential run-off, although his victory speech will have to wait until...
South Sudan’s warring parties have gathered in Ethiopia Thursday for peace talks aimed at ending nearly 3 weeks of a conflict that may escalate into a...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir declared a state of emergency in two states on Wednesday as his negotiators prepared for peace talks with rebels to end...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 was felt in several parts of Trinidad on Saturday but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage....
A cross section of the crowd estimated by police at about 20,000. PHOTO/Reuters Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of the Niger capital Niamey...
South Sudan’s government has committed to an immediate ceasefire, the country’s regional neighbors said on Friday, as they urged opposition, (now rebel) leader Riek Machar to...
Election observers have certified Madagascar’s run-off presidential election as free and credible on Sunday, urging the candidates to stay calm as counting continued after the vote....
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.4 rattled Trinidad & Tobago and some neighboring islands on Monday, the Seismic Unit of the University of the West...
Fearing attacks by the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamist militant group Boko Haram over Christmas, Nigerian police said on Sunday they had ordered extra patrols, surveillance and covert...
South Africa’s largest trade union on Friday said it will no longer back the ruling African National Congress, a tectonic shift in the country’s politics ahead...
Kenya says it has opened its doors to Ethiopian companies to trade on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), as a way of encouraging the East African...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan lost his majority in parliament on Wednesday after 37 lawmakers defected from his party for a new...
The party of Mali’s new president and its political allies have won a comfortable majority in a parliamentary election intended to seal to a return to...
Barbados has been rattled twice within a 24 hour period by earthquakes that also affected Trinidad & Tobago, according to reports generated by the Seismic Unit...
The casket bearing Nelson Mandela’s remains prior to being lowered into his grave. PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday in the green, rolling...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has signed a peace deal with the M23 rebels it had been fighting until they laid down their arms last...
Bermuda Premier Craig Cannonier. PHOTO/Royal Gazette Bermuda Premier Craig Cannonier re-shuffled his cabinet on Wednesday in a cost-cutting measure that reduces the number of government ministers...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s body lying in state. PHOTO/Marco Longari/AFP Thousands of people queued on Wednesday to say goodbye to Nelson Mandela, whose body...
A South Sudanese boy holds onto the arm of an Israeli aid worker as he boards a bus at the south Tel Aviv bus station to...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP More than 70 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has unveiled a partially new cabinet, in a move prompted by the resignation of Vice President...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma has declared a week of mourning across South Africa for Nelson Mandela...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Reuters/Mike Hutchings One of the most beloved leaders of the 20th century, Nelson Mandela, the father of modern South Africa...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela is not “doing well” but is continuing to put up...
A photo of Harrison Odjegba Okene recorded by the rescue diver’s headcam. PHOTO/DCN Diving/Associated Press Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended...
Outgoing Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdi Farah Shirdon. PHOTO/Tobin Jones Members of parliament in Somalia voted Monday to oust the country’s prime minister and his Cabinet...
The Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) is working to move away from it’s bitter past as the country consolidates its democratic gains. According to the country’s president...
A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people crashed in a remote border area, killing all on board, Namibian media reported Saturday. The plane crashed in a...
Long serving Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. PHOTO/AFP Angola on Friday denied a report by external news reports that long serving President Jose Eduardo dos...
Officials in Mali have revealed that many of Mali’s 147 parliamentary seats will be decided in a runoff next month following a first-round vote on Sunday...
The U.S. Coast Guard found a man Wednesday who survived the deadly capsizing of a boat packed with migrants in the Bahamas as a search continued...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Seven state governors have defected from Nigeria’s ruling party and merged their splinter group with the main opposition party on Tuesday,...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s biggest union is considering pulling out of the African National Congress (ANC)-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) labor federation to...
Voters in Mali trickled to the polls amid high security for parliamentary elections on Sunday, in the second set of elections since an international force intervened...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama says a nuclear deal with Iran is an “important first step” toward addressing the world’s concerns over...
(Reuters) – Chad’s Prime Minister Joseph Djimrangar Dadnadji (pictured), has resigned along with his cabinet on Thursday, a day before lawmakers from his own ruling majority...
Rescue workers sift through the debris of the collapsed building in Tongaat, South Africa. PHOTO/Mario Lungelo via Twitter (Reuters) – Rescue workers called off the search...
Paramedics in South Africa say part of a shopping mall under construction has collapsed, trapping up to 50 workers inside. The South African Press Association (SAPA)...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will not present the 2014 budget to the federal national assembly as planned on Tuesday...
(Reuters) – Guinea’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected all the complaints lodged against the result of the September 28 parliamentary election in which President Alpha Conde’s...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former president, Nelson Mandela, remains “quite ill” and unable to speak because of tubes that...
The tiny state of Anambra in southern Nigeria goes to the polls this weekend to elect a new governor in a vote seen as a key...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday announced changes to his health care law to give insurance companies the option to keep...
The Caribbean nation of Haiti, is the country most affected by climate-related catastrophes in the decade ending 2012, according to a report released late last week....
As the world focuses on the tragedy in the Philippines, Somalia too is suffering the effects of another cyclone. At least 100 people are feared dead...
A spokesman for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel movement says the group expects to sign a peace accord with the government Monday. M23’s Lawrence...
Ethiopia has began the process of repatriating its citizens living in Saudi Arabia illegally, after reports that an Ethiopian was killed by police, officials said Saturday....
(Reuters) – Madagascar’s first presidential election since a coup in 2009 will go to a run-off due in December after no candidate won an outright majority...
Uganda is holding the military commander of Congo’s defeated M23 rebel movement after he surrendered, a Ugandan officer said on Thursday, allaying fears that it could...
The M23 rebel group, blamed for the revolt in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R. Congo) over the last year and a half, has announced...
Pilots employed with the regional airline, Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT), stayed away from their jobs on Tuesday severely disrupting the schedule of the Antigua &...
The death toll as a result of a stampede an overcrowded church gathering in eastern Nigeria is now 24, according to information provided by the Red...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Getty Images A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a judge’s order requiring changes to the New York Police Department’s stop and frisk...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) declared a wage dispute on Thursday with platinum producer Lonmin, raising the prospect of sector-wide...
Uruguay’s president says he plans to remove his country’s nearly 1,000 peacekeeping troops from Haiti. Jose Mujica said Tuesday he will withdraw the contingent but is...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (AFP) – A South African court began sentencing on Monday 20 right-wing extremists convicted of high treason...
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir (l) meets with his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir (r). PHOTO/Reuters (AFP) – Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir on Monday pledged to work...
Madagascar votes. PHOTO/AFP Results trickled in from Madagascar’s presidential election on Saturday, though it was too early to identify a dominant candidate in the vote that...
Voter casts ballot in Madagascar presidential elections. PHOTO/Stephane De Sakutin/AFP Residents of the island-nation of Madagascar voted Friday in a presidential election they hope will restore...
(AFP) – Eight million voters go to the polls Friday in a presidential election that is hoped will return Madagascar to democratic rule, attract much needed...
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (Reuters) – Mali’s new president asked a national congress on Monday to draw up plans for increased regional autonomy, a year...
On October 1, 2013, the federal bureaucracy of the world’s richest economy was partially shut down. To many, this was, simply ridiculous. Cynics...
Lorraine C. Miller, pictured, has been named Interim President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Ms. Miller will be...
Botswana President Ian Khama. PHOTO/File Botswana President Ian Khama has been named a 2013 Global Visionary at this year’s annual Conde Nash Visionaries Dinner held in...
Trinidad & Tobago was jolted Wednesday by an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 less than a week after the twin-island nation was shaken by one...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/Mel Evans/AP (Reuters) – Cory Booker, the popular and charismatic mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, is heavily favored to beat conservative...
(AFP) – African nations this past weekend, demanded the International Criminal Court (ICC) defer the “crimes against humanity” trials of Kenya’s leadership, as the country’s president...
On January 21, 2017, we predict that the drag on the U.S. economy will, finally, be lifted. Just as would have happened if Mitt Romney had...
(AFP) – The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to reduce the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti which is battling a mounting controversy over a cholera...
Malawi President Joyce Banda Malawi President Joyce Banda dissolved the cabinet on Thursday after police arrested several junior officials in her government in recent weeks on...
Environmental Damage caused by oil spill. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Shell Nigeria said on Wednesday it had shut down its Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) owing to reports...
(Reuters) – Human rights lawyers representing Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic announced on Wednesday they were filing a lawsuit against the United Nations, with a...
Former UN secretary-general., Kofi Annan. PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said Monday it would be a “badge of shame” for Africa if its leaders...
Guinea’s ruling party is leading in the first parliamentary elections in over a decade, provisional partial results showed late Sunday According to data issued by the...
South African Workers at vehicle assembly plant. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa South African trade union – the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) said it...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is cancelling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill...
(Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed when an Embraer passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off just outside Lagos airport’s domestic terminal on Thursday, Nigerian authorities said....
Voter casts ballot in Guinea legislative elections. PHOTO/Reuters Guineans voted in the first parliamentary elections for more than a decade in the once troubled west African...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. PHOTO/File By Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda | Just like Kenya deftly managed a post-inferno crisis that shut down its international airport...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Critics of Haitian President Michel Martelly are demonstrating in the streets in the Caribbean nation’s capital. Several thousand protesters are marching...
(Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants have stormed a college in northeastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40 male students, some of them while they slept early...
(Reuters) – Fewer than one in five workers turned up for work at Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats) South African platinum mines around the city of Rustenburg,...
Former Liberia President Charles Taylor. PHOTO/AFP An international war crimes court upheld the conviction and 50-year sentence of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for aiding rebels...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. A British national has been arrested in Nairobi following the bloody attack on the Westgate shopping mall by the...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the nation during the Westgate Mall crisis on September 22, 2013. PHOTO/Reuters (Reuters) – Kenya’s president said on Tuesday that his...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. Kenyan security forces will soon end a Nairobi shopping mall siege, Interior Secretary Joseph Ole Lenku said Monday, with...
A policeman carries a child away from gun fire as Kenyan security forces work to contain terrorist attack on Westgate Mall, in Nairobi. Sept, 22 2013....
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants have claimed responsibility for an attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, saying on Twitter...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 20 people in what Kenya’s...
Somalia named Yussur Abrar as the country’s first female central bank governor, replacing Abdusalam Omer, who resigned after a United Nations monitoring group accused him of...
(Reuters) – African leaders will meet in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, on October 13 to take a common stance on whether to join Kenya’s planned...
U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will ask to business leaders on Wednesday to urge Congress to approve an increase in the...
Haiti moved closer on Monday to reconstituting a military that was abolished in 1995. In a small ceremony in the farming village of Petite Rivere de...
New Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita In a bid to return normalcy and peace to northern Mali, the new President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has invited representatives...
Environmental Damage caused by oil spill. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian villagers on Friday rejected an offer of compensation from Royal Dutch Shell for damage done to...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers said on Friday it had agreed to a deal for wage hikes of up to 12 percent with...
Nigerian President.,Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday reshuffled his cabinet and in the process dropped 9 ministers amid tensions within his ruling party...
(Reuters) – The newly elected government in Mali will carry out a complete inventory of existing mining contracts and stands ready to renegotiate any which are...
Tropical Storm Gabrielle. IMAGE/National Hurricane Center Two international flights were cancelled and St George’s ferry service suspended as reborn Tropical Storm Gabrielle took direct aim at...
Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto (pictured), pleaded innocent to crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday. As the parties took their...
Newly elected Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. PHOTO/File Mali’s first post-war prime minister has appointed a cabinet featuring a number of old hands and a new...
Benjamin Jealous (pictured), the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), has revealed that he plans to step down...
(Reuters) – Some South African gold miners have ended their call for higher wages and were heading back to work after just three days, bolstering confidence...
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed up power brokers in Congress for strikes on Syria but, in an era of insurgent politics haunted by Iraq, there...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s main mining union has offered to compromise on some of its demands for higher pay after initiating industrial action and work stoppage...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the media in the Cabinet Room of the White House, September 3, 2013, before a meeting with leaders of Congress to...
Tens of thousands of gold miners in South Africa are set to industrial action Tuesday after wage talks broke down, threatening to cost millions of dollars...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President and anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela was discharged from the hospital on Sunday while...
U.S. President Barack Obama is preparing for the possibility of launching unilateral American military action against Syria within days, White House aides say. Despite roadblocks in...
The South African government will not intervene in deadlocked wage talks between gold producers and unions even as some producers prepare for work stoppages of up...
Ghana President John Mahama Ghana’s Supreme Court is expected this week to reject an opposition challenge to President John Mahama’s victory in last year’s close-fought election,...
While we neither have an issue with the Santo Domingo-based government of the Dominican Republic, nor disagree with international trade, much less the regional kind, we...
U.S. President Barack Obama has the authority to launch air strikes against Syria. But he has to notify lawmakers in Congress, a process which has begun,...
Hundreds of aircraft maintenance technicians with South Africa’s national airline downed tools on Monday in the round of industrial action to hit the country, a union...
Former Finance Minister Audley Shaw (r) with the then Prime Minister and current opposition leader Andrew Holness. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica’s former finance minister Audley Shaw has...
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a “big event of grave concern” but stressed on Friday that...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during his inauguration, August. 22, 2013. PHOTO/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has been sworn in for another 5 year term...
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his iconic “I have a dream speech” August 28, 1963. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Marches, speeches and global bell-ringing are set...
(Reuters) – The leader of militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, may have died of gunshot wounds some weeks after a clash with soldiers, the...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/GettyImages Oscar Pistorius was indicted Monday on charges of murder and illegal...
Robert Mugabe (pictured), will be sworn in on Thursday, beginning a fresh five-year mandate as Zimbabwe’s president following the recently held presidential election, his spokesman said...
(Reuters) – Protests by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi turned violent across Egypt on Friday, with witnesses reporting four dead in central Cairo and...
Mali President-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. PHOTO/File Official results from Mali’s runoff election show President-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won in a landslide. Keita’s opponent Soumaila Cisse conceded...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File Cory Booker brushed off three experienced opponents in a victory in New Jersey’s special Democratic U.S. Senate primary, setting up a...
Mali President-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. PHOTO/File Former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won Mali’s presidency after his opponent conceded defeat late Monday in an election aimed...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios New York’s stop and frisk policing policy, is a violation of the US Constitution, a federal court judge ruled Monday....
Haiti plans to hold overdue parliamentary elections before the end of the year. The elections are needed to fill one-third of Haiti’s 30-member Senate and dozens...
Mali Presidential candidates Soumaila Cisse (l) and Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Poll workers in Mali are counting votes in Sunday’s high stakes presidential...
An Ethiopian military cargo plane crash landed and burst into flames Friday at Mogadishu airport, killing four crew members, officials with Somali security and African Union...
Fire fighters working to put out the fire at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. PHOTO/Noor Khamis/Reuters Officials in Kenya said they would reopen the Jomo...
An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on the Richter scale rattled Trinidad yesterday. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The Seismic Unit of the...
(Reuters) – A fire engulfed Kenya’s main airport on Wednesday, forcing the suspension of international passenger flights and choking a vital travel gateway to east Africa....
Newly re-elected Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe in a bid to carry out his campaign promises, intends to transform the economy by transferring more wealth to its...
Incumbent Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (l) and opponent and outgoing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (r). PHOTO/Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/Press Association Incumbent Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was Saturday declared...
Mali Presidential candidates Soumaila Cisse (l) and Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Former prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita came first in Mali’s presidential election...
(Reuters) – The remnants of tropical system Dorian have become more concentrated along a trough of low pressure in the central and northwestern Bahamas Thursday, and...
Voting concluded Wednesday in most of Zimbabwe’s polling stations in elections in which Robert Mugabe, faced one of the biggest challenges to his hold on power....
A voter casts her vote in the Zimbabwe presidential elections, Wednesday July 31, 2013. PHOTO/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP In an election that poses one of the biggest threats...
The first official results from Mali’s elections were expected Tuesday after a strong turnout Sunday for a vote that was the first since a military coup...
Preliminary results collated by journalists in polling stations gave a clear early lead to former premier Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (IBK) in Mali’s presidential elections, sparking celebrations...
A Malian lady casts her vote during Mali’s presidential election, July 28, 2013. PHOTO/Joe Penney/Reuters Voters in Mali turned out in large numbers to vote on...
(Reuters) – Mali holds a presidential election on Sunday after more than a year of turmoil including a coup and military intervention to free the north...
Togo has begun voting in a twice-delayed legislative elections – elections that are likely to significantly loosen the ruling party’s grip on power, given the mounting...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has suspended his entire cabinet and vice president in the largest reshuffle in the history of the two-year-old nation, the former...
Mali’s interim President Dioncounda Traore has met for the first time with members of two northern Tuareg separatist groups, ahead of the presidential and general elections...
Kenya is on the cusp of becoming a direct competitor to China as a major producer of rare earth minerals. Mineral explorer Cortec has announced that...
(Reuters) – Nigeria lifted a mobile phone blackout in the Islamist militant disturbed area of Maiduguri on Friday, saying there were signs of improving security after...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – South Africa and the world showered tributes on Nelson Mandela on Thursday as the anti-apartheid...
Reuters) – A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit an area south of the Algerian capital, on Wednesday morning, injuring 11 people and causing minor damage to buildings,...
(Bloomberg) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), resuming an investigation into the fatal shooting of an African American teenager in Florida, will travel to the...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP (AP) – Civil rights activists and human rights lawyers Monday demanded that Nigeria arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and deliver...
Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP A six-woman jury found neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman not guilty of murdering unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, in a racially-charged trial that...
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. IMAGE/Boeing (Reuters) – A Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Ethiopian Airlines caught fire at Britain’s Heathrow airport on Friday in a...