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...
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...