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...
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...