Officials in Malawi and Tanzania have gone on the record and vowed to resolve their border dispute diplomatically. The dispute involves the owner ship of Lake...
Progression of Tropical Storm Chantal. IMAGE/Reuters Tropical Storm Chantal skirted the southern coasts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Wednesday, losing force but still posing...
Tropical storm Chantal – projected path. IMAGE/U.S. National Hurricane Center Tropical Storm Chantal churned across the Atlantic on a course toward the Lesser Antilles, including the...
Some 5,600 mineworkers at the world’s top platinum producer Anglo American Platinum downed tools overnight at the firm’s South African operations, demanding the reinstatement of suspended...
(AFP) – Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday he was launching his election campaign despite worries that the poll is taking place before all democratic...
The African Union suspended Egypt from the continental body on Friday after the ousting of president Mohammed Mursi, in line with its strict rules against unconstitutional...
Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour speaks after being sworn in at the constitutional court in Cairo, Thursday, July 4, 2013. IMAGE/Egypt State Television Egypt’s chief justice...
Immediate past Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi Egypt’s military has ousted the country’s Islamist president, replacing him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, calling...
Guinea’s opposition and ruling parties reached an agreement to hold the country’s long-delayed legislative elections in September, the opposition said Wednesday. Aboubacar Sylla, a spokesman for...
FW de Klerk welcomes Nelson Mandela to his 70th birthday celebrations, March 18 2006. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/ Reuters Two former South African presidents bound together in the...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete stand for the national anthem at the State House in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 1, 2013....
Hissène Habré (Reuters) – Hissène Habré, Chad’s former leader, was arrested on Sunday in Senegal, where he has been living in freely in exile for 22...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP US President Barack Obama said Friday he would not press for a much-awaited meeting with his critically...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is still clinging to life, his eldest daughter Makaziwe...
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys. PHOTO/Abukar Albadri/EPA Unconfirmed reports from Somalia indicate that one of the senior officials of the radical Islamist al-Shabaab, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys...
Obama visits his grandmother in Kenya before his presidency By Yetnayet Z. Demissie and Dennis Matanda While its well within some people’s right to gripe about...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until Congress comes up...
(Reuters) – At least 37 gold miners died in Central African Republic when a pit in which they were operating collapsed after heavy rains, officials said...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela’s health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP A former South African president has said the health of Nelson Mandela is improving as the 94-year-old...
(AP) – The Salva Kiir administration in South Sudan has suspended two cabinet ministers and ordered an investigation into corruption allegations against them. President Salva Kiir...
Troops from the African Union force AMISOM said they had secured a United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu after it was attacked by Islamist...
Haiti has reported its first suspected death from the H1N1 virus. The victim was from the small community of Nan Bannann in the southern city of...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP The wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela says that love and generosity from across the...
(Reuters) – Developed world mining and energy companies operating in Africa should pay more taxes to help parts the continent climb out of poverty much faster,...
Lalao Ravalomanana (Reuters) – The wife of deposed Madagascar leader Marc Ravalomanana deflected international demands to pull out of a presidential election in August, telling reporters...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios The U.S. Justice Department has treaded carefully into the debate over the New York Police Department’s stop, question and frisk...
African Union mediators failed Wednesday to convince Mali’s interim president to sign a deal with northern Tuareg rebels that would pave the way for nationwide elections...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former President Nelson Mandela began responding better to treatment Wednesday morning for a recurring lung infection following...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela’s lengthy absence from the spotlight has forced his adoring country to envisage what their hard-won...
Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP The murder trial begins Monday for George Zimmerman, the volunteer night watchman who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, sparking...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela was receiving medical treatment for a lung infection on Sunday after...
Chinese citizens arrested earlier this week for illegal gold mining in Ghana are to be deported, a spokesman for the country’s immigration service said last night....
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...
Nigeria has formally declared the Boko Haram Islamist sect and Jama’atu Ansaru, its suspected offshoot, “terrorist” groups and issued a law to ban them, a presidential...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/GettyImages (Reuters) – A South African judge on Tuesday postponed until August...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Sunday he will abide by a court ruling to hold crucial elections before the end of July despite objections from...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Secret Service revealed Thursday, that a suspicious letter similar to the ones sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has...
Ghana President John Mahama (Reuters) – Ghana’s Supreme Court must decide in the coming months whether or not to overturn December elections that handed the presidency...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. PHOTO/Getty Images Liberia’s president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has been elected Chairperson of the African Peer Review Mechanism by African leaders have...
Mali’s government announced on Monday that much-anticipated presidential elections will be held July 28, in a communique that set the dates for the campaign period and...
(Reuters) – African leaders decided on Monday to immediately establish a military rapid reaction force to deal with regional security emergencies, in a move to reduce...
Police in Haiti say a Brazilian military plane veered onto the grass next to a runway of the capital’s airport after one engine caught fire as...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Twelve years after the “war on terror” began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from...
(AP) – African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continent-wide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from colonialism. Now...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios A federal judge must now decide whether the New York police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men...
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (pictured), signed a new constitution into law on Wednesday, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule...
Malawi President Joyce Banda Malawi’s presidential jet has been auctioned off to a Virgin Islands company for US$15 million, after the cash-strapped government disposed of it...
A younger Barack Obama with his grandmother during his first trip to Africa to visit the family of his father, Barack Obama, Sr. PHOTO/Maya Soetoro-Ng President...
The African Union has said it will not recognize Andry Rajoelina as Madagascar’s president if he wins July’s presidential election, piling more pressure on the incumbent...
(Reuters) – Miners at South Africa’s Anglo American Platinum operations will stage a work stoppage from Thursday evening over proposed job cuts, a branch official for...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a “state of emergency” in three states menaced by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group Boko Haram, saying the level of violence called for...
Around 100 people are feared trapped after a four-storey building under construction collapsed in northeastern Rwanda, the government said Tuesday. “So far, the tentative information we...
South African workers of the world’s third largest platinum producer Lonmin have engaged in industrial action, halting all of the company’s mine operations and reigniting fears...
British Prime Minister David Cameron (l) with U.S. President Barack Obama at a past meeting. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is welcoming British Prime Minister David Cameron...
At least five suicide bombers died in northern Mali on Friday in attacks aimed at Malian and Nigerien troops which failed to inflict serious casualties on...
A human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera...
St. Lucia was jolted by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 late Tuesday night, the Trinidad & Tobago-based Seismic Research Center of the University of...
(Reuters) – A Nigerian fighter jet taking part in military operations against al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants in Mali crashed in western Niger, killing its two crew,...
Helmin Wiels A prominent politician in Curacao’s coalition government was fatally shot Sunday on a public beach in broad daylight, sending shockwaves across the small Dutch...
At least 30 people were injured, three seriously, in a suspected bomb attack Sunday at a packed new Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city of...
Latest reports from the Darfur province in Sudan indicates that a goldmine has collapsed and 60 miners are thought to be trapped. A member of parliament...
Chris Kelly (l) with Chris Smith (r) of the rap duo Kriss Kross. PHOTO/Getty Images Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 has struck near St. Kitts & Nevis on Tuesday. There have been no immediate reports of death of damage...
Botswana President Ian Khama Botswana President Ian Khama has received two stitches in his face after being clawed by a cheetah, a government spokesman said Monday....
The National Union of Mineworkers, an ally of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, said it will ask for a double-digit increase in pay when negotiating...
The destruction of poulty suspected of carrying H7N9 Bird Flu virus. PHOTO/Reuters The Caribbean Public Health Agency has put regional countries on alert for the Avian...
Several thousand former South Sudanese rebels have surrendered to the government and returned home from alleged rear bases in neighboring Sudan, government and rebel officials in...
Haiti Prime Minister., Laurent Lamothe (PRNewswire) – In response to Amnesty International’s reports of human rights violations regarding alleged forced evictions of individuals living in make-shift...
Anti-apartheid activist, Archbishop Desmond Tutu – PHOTO/Martin Meissner/AP A South African foundation says retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has checked into a Cape Town hospital for treatment...
(Reuters) – A joint assault involving forces from Nigeria, Chad and Niger was assembled after intelligence that Islamist militants Boko Haram had moved into Baga, a...
A younger Barack Obama with his grandmother during his first trip to Africa to visit the family of his father, Barack Obama, Sr. PHOTO/Maya Soetoro-Ng The...
U.S. President Barack Obama with Vice President Joseph Biden and relatives of gun violence victims. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background...
Nigeria has formed a panel that will create an amnesty program for the al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram extremists to quell a bloody terrorist campaign of bombings and...
U.S. President Obama pauses as he remarks on Boston bombings, April 15, 2013. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images The U.S. Secret Service has intercepted a letter addressed to...
Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick speaks in Boston Marathan bombing aftermath. PHOTO/Elise Amendola/AP Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick has said that no unexploded bombs were found at the...
U.S. President Obama pauses as he remarks on Boston bombings. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed on Monday that the United States will...
A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu on Sunday when nine al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia’s main court complex, officials said,...
Regine Godefroy Haiti’s communications minister has resigned from her post, becoming the second Cabinet member to step down in as many days, media outlets reported Thursday....
Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie (Reuters) – Haiti’s Minister of Economy and Finances Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie resigned abruptly on Wednesday, citing a lack of cooperation from her cabinet...
New Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in as Kenya’s president. He replaces Mwai Kibaki, a very successful president, whose second term has...
Ronnie Brunswijk Former rebel leader, Ronnie Brunswijk has announced that he will be making a bid for the presidency of Suriname in the 2015 election. Brunswijk...
More than 60 percent of the 2,500 government paid medical doctors who are attached to the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association and the Medical Association of Jamaica...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu – PHOTO/Martin Meissner/AP (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid campaigner retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu has won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth US$1.7 million for...
(Reuters) – South African bullion producer Gold Fields revealed last night, that workers at its Tarkwa and Damang mines in Ghana have launched industrial action that...
Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete (l) with Malawi President Joyce Banda (r) Malawi President Joyce Banda has said that her country was giving up on mediation efforts...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – The condition of South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela has improved further, the government said...
Kenyan President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta (Reuters) – The Supreme Court of Kenya has upheld Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential election victory, Saturday and his defeated rival, Raila Odinga has...
U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon proposed a U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali with 11,200 troops working alongside a non-U.N. force that would conduct major combat and counter-terrorism...
Bahamas ministry of Transport and Aviation has reported another oil spill on Grand Bahama – the same area that an oil spill occurred this past February....
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake is reported to have struck Trinidad & Tobago on Sunday afternoon, causing some alarm, however, there have been no reported damage or...
The new president of China, Xi Jinping, lands in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Sunday at the beginning of a three-country tour of Africa. He faces...
Africa’s push for a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council has gathered pace with the meeting in Sierra Leone of a select committee of...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP Sudan’s president said he intends to step down in 2015 after more than 20 years in power. In an interview...
U.S. President Barack Obama (c), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (r) and Israeli President Shimon Peres (l) listen to the national anthem at Israel’s Ben Gurion...
Bosco Ntaganda. PHOTO/Getty Images Barely a week after 11 African Union leaders met in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa in a bid to find a solution...
Voters in Zimbabwe look set to endorse a new constitution curbing the powers presidency, early results showed on Sunday, in a step toward elections to determine...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations., Susan Rice. PHOTO/File Latest reports from Washington DC indicate that the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, is...
Malawi’s courts on Wednesday charged 12 top government officials and former cabinet ministers with treason for an alleged coup plot last year following the sudden death...
(Reuters) – Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to order the resumption of the flow of southern oil exports through pipelines in Sudan within two weeks,...
Florie Liser, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa 10:00 a.m. – March 11, 2013 By Dennis Matanda With the flair of a seasoned storyteller, Stephen Lande...
Trinidad was rocked by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 early on Saturday morning, but there were no reports of damage or injury. The Seismic...
Kenyan President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta The Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya has posted complete results showing that Uhuru Kenyatta has prevailed in the country’s presidential elections by...
The Security Council yesterday extended for another year the mandate of the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, as it continues to consider a revised United...
Uhuru Kenyatta on the campaign trail With over 50 percent of the ballots counted, Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate have established a wide lead. The...
Vote counting is currently under way in Kenya’s general election, an impressive turnout kept some polling stations open beyond the official time – past the 18:00...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 shook parts of Trinidad on Monday but there were no reports of damage or injuries. The St. Augustine-based Seismic...
Kenyans choose a new president on Monday in a closely contested election that has divided the east African nation. Kenya has rolled out new technology in...
Newly re-elected Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart One week after his ruling Democratic Labor Party (DLP) won the general elections, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has announced...
(Reuters) – West African leaders on Thursday called for a regional military operation against al-Qaeda-linked rebels in north Mali to be transformed into a U.N. peacekeeping...
Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana. PHOTO/Max Rossi/Reuters (Reuters) – Ghana’s Peter Turkson is the bookmakers’ favorite to replace Pope Benedict, putting a non-European in pole position...
A small earthquake shook the capital of Haiti – Port-au-Prince, on Monday, causing people in the capital to scramble out of buildings in fear. U.S. Geological...
Kenya’s Presidential candidates after the second and final debate. Kenya’s presidential candidates have faced off for a second and final debate ahead of elections on March...
(Reuters) – Eleven African leaders signed a peace deal yesterday aimed at ending two decades of conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Kenya Presidential front runners, Raila Odinga (l) and Uhuru Kenyatta (r). PHOTO/File As the March 4 election date nears in Kenya, the latest opinion polls have...
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, re-elected Voters in Barbados voters kept with tradition and provided the incumbent Democratic Labor Party of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart with...
Newly sworn in Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell Dr. Keith Mitchell, the leader of the New National Party has been sworn in as Prime Minister of...
Opposition Leader Owen Arthur (l) and incumbent Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. PHOTO/File Voters in Barbados, Thursday began casting their ballots in general elections that political...
Opposition Leader Owen Arthur (l) and incumbent Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. PHOTO/File The opposition Barbados Labor Party (BLP) of Owen Arthur, is likely to win...
Grenada Prime Minister-Designate Dr. Keith Mitchell The opposition New National Party of Dr. Keith Mitchell has won Grenada’s national and general elections in a landslide. Preliminary...
Voters in Grenada were voting Tuesday to elect a new government after a six week campaign in which both the ruling National Democratic Congress of incumbent...
Kenya’s Presidential Candidates The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Kenya has indicated that it will release the final list of eligible voters on Monday...
Latest polls suggest that Keith Mitchell and his opposition New National Party will win the coming general elections. The odds are stacked against the incumbent Prime...
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe (pictured) has issued an official proclamation on Friday setting March 16 as the date for the nation to vote on a new...
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games. PHOTO/Olivier Morin/AFP/GettyImages (Reuters) – South African “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.1 rattled Trinidad during the early hours of Wednesday, the Seismic Research Center of the University of the West Indies...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens as U.S. President Obama speaks during a news conference at the White House on Jan. 11, 2013. PHOTO/Whitehouse.org President Barack Obama...
General Souleymane Kelefa Diallo (Reuters) – The head of Guinea’s armed forces, was killed on Monday when the aircraft carrying him and five other top Guinean...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 and depth of 110 km rattled sections of Trinidad early Sunday morning. It is reported that the tremor was...
U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden (L) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), delivers his State of the Union address before a...
Hissène Habré A special African court set up to try former Chadian President Hissène Habré for war crimes and crimes against humanity has officially began its...
Jean-Claude Duvalier Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is scheduled to appear court on Thursday where it will be determined if he should face trial...
Jean-Claude Duvalier Advocacy groups urged Haitian authorities on Wednesday not to drop a rights abuse case against former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. Amnesty International and the Open...
Former Cayman Islands Premier., McKeeva Bush. PHOTO/File Former Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush, who was arrested on allegations of corruption in December, has been released on...
Pressure has continued to mount on the Denzil Douglas administration to debate in parliament, the opposition inspired motion of no confidence in his administration. The St....
Outgoing Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki East Africa’s largest economy, Kenya, goes to the polls on March 4 to elect a new president, elect new governors, and...
The African Union has raised over US$450 million to support the African Union military intervention in Mali (AFISMA) and towards the resolution of the potential humanitarian...
Jamaica has the highest ranking for press freedom in the Western Hemisphere, according to the 2013 World Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders. Jamaica was...
Mali is hoping to organize elections on July 31 this year. Mali’s interim President made this revelation while attending the recent African Union summit in Ethiopia....
Nigerian farmers (l-r) Alali Efanga, Friday Alfred Akpan, Chief Fidelis Oguru Oruma and Eric Dooh sit in the court in The Hague, Netherlands, 11 October 2012....
Voters in Barbados go to the polls on February 21 to elect a new government, the Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS) said Tuesday. Nomination Day is...
Incumbent Grenada Prime Minister.,Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File The main opposition New National Party (NNP) is likely to win the February 19 general elections with more seats than...
(Reuters) – A purported commander of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram declared a unilateral ceasefire on Monday, raising fresh questions about possible rifts within the secretive...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. PHOTO/File Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn was elected by African heads of state as chairman of the African Union today, replacing...
The war against al-Qaeda linked militants in northern Mali including the deployment of African troops is expected to dominate talks at the African Union summit in...
(Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has indicated that his country’s troops would stay in Mali to back military operations against al Qaeda-linked militants until the...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios A federal judge let the New York Police Department on Tuesday temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while...
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. PHOTO/File Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has indicated that he will announce the date for the next general elections in the...
By Dennis Matanda Image/Sonido – Silencio By Dennis Matanda In their infinite wisdom, the Yoruba say that one who lives on the riverbank should not use...
There are now about 1,000 African Union troops in Mali to take part in the military intervention to dislodge al-Qaeda linked militants from the north of...
President Barack Obama speaks at his ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol, Monday, January 21, 2013. PHOTO/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Declaring “our journey is not complete,” President...
U.S. President Barack Obama is sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts, not pictured, in the Blue Room of the White House during the 57th Presidential...
The African Union is next week expected to hold a conference with potential donors to raise funds to support the planned African military intervention in northern...
Nigerian troops involved in the Mali intervention are expected Thursday. Nigeria says it will send nearly 200 troops to Mali within the next few hours. Nigerian...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades,...
(Reuters) – West African troops could begin deploying in Mali within the next 48 hours, Malian army chief Ibrahim Dembele said on Wednesday, on the sidelines...
A younger Barack Obama with his grandmother during his first trip to Africa to visit the family of his father, Barack Obama, Sr. PHOTO/Maya Soetoro-Ng The...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has announced that the general election will be held on February 19. “The time is right...
(Reuters) – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has called an extraordinary summit in Ivory Coast to discuss the military campaign against al-Qaeda linked...
(Reuters) – West African states are preparing to send troops to Mali as an international campaign to eject al-Qaeda-linked elements who have seized the north of...
Haiti plans a low-key ceremony Saturday for the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the country and killed hundreds of thousands of people. President Michel...
The head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Kadre Desire Ouedraogo has thanked the Nigerian forces for their commitment to supporting a pending...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has dissolved parliament, paving the way for general elections on the Caribbean island-nation. Prime Minister Thomas...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios The New York City Police Department likely turned a blind eye to violations of the constitutional rights of thousands of...
(Reuters) – Fifteen Russian sailors detained by Nigeria’s navy on suspicion of arms smuggling have been transferred to police cells for prosecution, a naval spokesman said...
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki sets on fire an illegal ivory stockpile, July 20, 2011 at the Tsavo National Park. PHOTO/Tony Karumba /AFP/Getty Images (Reuters) – A...
Islamist extremists who seized Mali’s north have moved even closer toward areas under government control Monday, a military official and witness said, reigniting long-held fears that...
Newly inaugurated Ghana President John Dramani Mahama. PHOTO/Issouf Sanogo/AFP John Dramani Mahama became president of Ghana on Monday, sworn in as the opposition continues to dispute...
U.S. President Barack Obama with former Sen. Chuck Hagel. PHOTO/Salah Malkawi/Getty Images (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel to be...
Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir try to push forward on stalled security, oil and border agreements.
Re-elected Ghana President John Dramani Mahama. PHOTO/Issouf Sanogo/AFP (Reuters) – Ghana’s president called for political unity on Friday, reaching out to rivals who are contesting his...
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says he intends to write to the United Kingdom later this month indicating Dominica’s intent to sever...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s recovery is ‘on track’ at his home in Johannesburg,...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Charles Dharapak Obama: “Fiscal cliff” deal follows principle that deficit needs to be cut in a balanced way. President Barack Obama said...
(Reuters) – At least 61 people were crushed to death in a stampede after a New Year’s Eve fireworks display at a stadium in Ivory Coast’s...
U.S. President Obama on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired on Dec. 30 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama has warned squabbling lawmakers that they must reach...
The year 2012 has been a challenging year for the Caribbean Community. Immediate past Premier if the Cayman Islands, McKeeva Bush would have been very familiar...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner (l) during a meeting with bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela was released Wednesday from the hospital after being treated for a...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African leader Nelson Mandela will probably spend Christmas Day in a hospital because his doctors...
US President Barack Obama (l) congratulates Senator John Kerry after nominating him as Secretary of State. PHOTO/Mandel Ngan/AFP US President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Senator...
The U.N. Security Council on Thursday authorized military action to wrest northern Mali from the control of al-Qaeda-linked extremists but demanded progress first on political reconciliation,...
New Cayman Islands Premier.,Julianna O’Connor-Connolly (Reuters) – Julianna O’Connor-Connolly who was Deputy Premier has succeeded McKeeva Bush as the Premier of the Cayman Islands. Bush was...
Immediate past Cayman Islands Premier., McKeeva Bush. PHOTO/File The embattled Premier of the Cayman Islands – McKeeva Bush was removed from office in a no-confidence vote...
Incoming Premier of Bermuda Craig Cannonier. PHOTO/Royal Gazette Voters have ousted the political party that has ruled the wealthy island-nation of Bermuda for 16 years, according...
Manhattan, NY | December 19, 2012 According to the New York Times, each morning at about 5:30 a.m., Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emmanuel, receives an email from...
Police in South Africa say they have foiled a plot by white extremists to suspected of having weapons and planning attacks on undisclosed targets, a spokesman...
A navy helicopter crashed Saturday in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta, killing a state governor and five other people, in the latest air disaster to hit Africa’s...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate hospitalized with a lung infection,...
U.S. President Obama emotional as he talks about the Connecticut school shooting. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/AP A tearful President Barack Obama said Friday he grieved about the massacre...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP As the 94-year-old patriarch of South Africa’s democracy entered his seventh day of hospitalization Friday for a...
South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe. PHOTO/File AP – South Africa’s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will compete next week against President...
The interim president of Mali has named a replacement prime minister following the abrupt forced resignation of Cheikh Modibo Diarra. The political crisis has deepened concerns...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela “has made progress” in getting better after contracting a lung infection,...
(Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a US$2.2 billion initiative on Tuesday to stamp out cholera over the next decade in impoverished Haiti, where an...
Cayman Islands Premier., McKeeva Bush. PHOTO/File Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush, 57, has been arrested and is in police custody in connection with a number of...
Immediate Past Mali Prime Minister Cheikh Modibo Diarra The prime minister of Mali Cheikh Modibo Diarra has resigned. Diarra, went on TV at 4 a.m. to...
Ghana President John Dramani Mahama. PHOTO/Issouf Sanogo/AFP AP – President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday was declared the winner of Ghana’s presidential election, despite widespread technical...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to a military hospital Saturday for medical tests, though...
(Reuters) – Ghana extended voting in its presidential election into a second day, officials said on Friday, after a rash of technical problems prevented thousands of...