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...
Ghana President John Mahama (l) and Challenger Nana Akufo-Addo. PHOTO/File AP – Voters in Ghana lined up as early as 2 a.m. on Friday to select...
A South African military aircraft on an unknown mission to an area near former President Nelson Mandela’s village crashed in a mountain range, killing all 11...
Ivory Coast’s president says mandated African Union forces could intervene in lawless northern Mali early next year, calling such an operation “urgent” to prevent the area...
AP – The owner of a salvage company says a damaged cargo ship in the Bahamas has leaked more than 1,000 gallons (3,785 liters) of oil....
An oil spill has occurred three miles off of Grand Bahama. Officials say a cargo ship is slowly leaking oil off the northernmost island of the...
An early morning blaze forced the closure of several government offices as police investigate the possibility that the fire may have been deliberately started. A statement...
By Stephen Lande + Dennis Matanda In September 2012, just as the 3rd Country Fabric was about to expire, the non controversial African Growth and Opportunity...
Niger’s president says his country is ready to help Mali regain its northern region which is occupied by al-Qaeda linked insurgents. Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou spoke...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters)- President Barack Obama, reapplying his re-election campaign theme of protecting the middle class, heads to Pennsylvania on Friday suggesting that...
Spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama (r), presents the International Campaign for Tibet’s Light of Truth Award to South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu....
Newly re-elected Sierra Leone President., Ernest Koroma Newly re-elected Sierra Leone president, Ernest Koroma, has hinted that he will be naming his new cabinet immediatley after...
(Reuters) – A purported senior member of Islamist militant group Boko Haram has distributed a letter requesting talks with the government, a day after a double...
AP – At least 11 people were killed and about 30 injured when twin car bombs hit a Protestant church in a major military establishment in...
Nana Akufo-Addo (l) and President John Mahama. PHOTO/File With Ghana’s presidential election set for December 7, the candidates faced off in their final debate this week....
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. addresses the audience at the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. PHOTO/Richards/AFP/Getty...
Sierra Leone’s governing party said Monday it was confident that incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma would win the weekend election without the need for a second...
Anglican Church officials applaud Bishop Ellinah Wamukuoya (c) at the conclusion of her consecration as Bishop. PHOTO/File As the Church of England weighs whether it will...
Voter casts ballot in Freetown, Sierra Leone Citizens of Sierra Leone chose Saturday between keeping an incumbent president who has expanded health care and paved roads...
Sierra Leone readied Friday for a high-stakes election in which incumbent Ernest Koroma is seeking a second term in what is billed as a tight race...
(Reuters) – The last of a wave of illegal strikes that have swept South Africa’s mining sector ended on Thursday after workers accepted an offer from...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. PHOTO/Reuters/Charles Platiau Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara dissolved his Cabinet on Wednesday, officials said, in a sudden and surprising turn of...
Somalia’s new parliament endorsed on Tuesday all 10 ministers appointed by the prime minister, approving one of the smallest ever cabinets for the war-ravaged nation. Two...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 jolted Trinidad on Monday. There have been no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The earthquake which occurred at...
A West African summit on Sunday agreed on a military force of 3,300 troops with a one-year mandate to wrest control of northern Mali from Islamist...
West African nations on Friday plotted military force against “terrorist groups” in Islamist-occupied northern Mali as regional foreign and defence ministers met on a strategy to...
Re-elected U.S.President Barack Obama with Speaker John Boehner. PHOTO/AP Taking little time to celebrate, President Barack Obama is setting out to leverage his re-election into legislative...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama won re-election to a second term in the White House on Tuesday, television networks projected, beating...
Military experts from Africa and the United Nations have drawn up a preliminary plan to recapture northern Mali from al-Qaeda-linked Islamists, African officials said on Tuesday....
Malawi has suspended laws against same-sex relationships on Monday and ordered police not to arrest gays and same-sex couples pending a decision on whether to repeal...
AP – The government of Haiti is calling on other countries and international organizations to provide emergency humanitarian aid after Hurricane Sandy caused major damage to...
Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, saw a small increase in the number of people infected by cholera after last week’s destructive rains from Hurricane Sandy, an...
Jamaica has revived a reparations commission to research slavery’s social and economic impact and examine whether the predominantly black Caribbean nation should seek compensation or a...
Hurricane Sandy destroyed 70 percent of the crops in southern Haiti and caused widespread deaths of livestock, while in neighboring Jamaica it left at least US$16.5...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File As the labor unrest in the mining sector in South Africa eases, a politically battered but defiant President Jacob Zuma...
As Americans brace for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming...
A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass on Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least eight people and...
(Reuters) – Workers have reached a deal with Anglo American Platinum to reinstate 12,000 miners sacked for an illegal strike, which could end the last big...
Satellite image of Hurricane Sandy moving over The Bahamas. PHOTO/Reuters Hurricane Sandy raged through the Bahamas early Friday after leaving 29 people dead across the Caribbean,...
Striking South African gold miners have signed a pay deal to end months of labor unrest, the country’s main mining union and mine owners said on...
Projected path of Hurricane Sandy. IMAGE/U.S. National Hurricane Center Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall Wednesday near the country’s most...
A planned African-led military offensive to reclaim northern Mali from al-Qaeda-linked insurgents is unlikely to begin before next year — despite growing concern about the terrorist...
(Reuters) – Authorities in Nigeria seized a ship and arrested its 15 Russian crew members on suspicion of arms smuggling, after they found several guns and...
Hundreds of jihadist fighters, mainly from Pakistan, Sudan and Western Sahara, arrived in northern Mali over the weekend to support the Islamist groups ahead of a...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama still appears to have the upper hand in the state-by-state...
Nigeria’s military arrested a member of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram at the home of a prominent senator, an official said late Friday, adding weight...
Janice Pereira has been appointed Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Ms. Pereira, the first woman to be appointed to the post, replaces Justice...
High-level delegations from the West African bloc – the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the the United Nations met with Malian leaders Friday...
Striking miners at one of Gold Fields’ South Africa operations returned to work on Thursday, but there seems to be no end in sight to the...
Seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP A judge has set a tentative trial date next year for a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer charged with fatally shooting...
Hurricane Rafael is expected to unleash heavy winds and rain as it passes east of Bermuda late Tuesday en route to open sea, where it is...
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced Monday that it will not award its US$5 million prize that recognizes democratically elected African leaders who excel in office and...
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma., the new Chairperson of the African Union. PHOTO/File South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma took over as head of the African Union Commission Monday, becoming the...
Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. PHOTO/Reuters Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is currently undergoing treatment and examinations after being wounded when the military fired...
(Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Friday approved for another year the world body’s peacekeeping force in Haiti, but it will be cut in size...
The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a plan to back an African-led military force to help the Mali army oust Islamic militants who seized...
(Reuters) – Truck drivers in South Africa have signed a wage deal to end a three-week strike, the freight employers group said on Friday, putting an...
Judge Joaquim Barbosa Brazil’s first black Supreme Court justice has been chosen as the presiding judge for the high court. Joaquim Barbosa was elected Wednesday as...
South Africa’s gold mine owners and unions representing picketing workers said Wednesday they had reached a deal aimed at ending months of industrial unrest that has...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s transport union South African Transport & Allied Workers’ Union (SATAWU) and employers held wage talks on Tuesday trying to end a two-week-old...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Mitt Romney got a poll boost from his strong debate performance against President Barack Obama...
Britain’s High Court ruled Friday that Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau revolution against British colonial rule can proceed with compensation claims against the British government....
(Reuters) – Industrial action by South Africa’s platinum, gold, iron ore and diamond miners could spread to coal, potentially disrupting output from one of the world’s...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney come face to face for the first...
(Reuters) – Fuel suppliers in South Africa are starting to feel the pinch as industrial action by more than 20,000 truck drivers enters its second week,...
The Archbishop of York., Dr. John Sentamu. PHOTO/Antony Njuguna/Reuters Ugandan-born John Sentamu, the charismatic Archbishop of York, appears to have been snubbed in the hunt for...
The acting police chief in the capital of Kenya (Nairobi), says an explosive device set off in a Sunday school class killed one child and seriously...
A Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Lagos landed safely after declaring an emergency over a problem with its landing gear, said an emergency response official....
Kenyan troops invaded the al-Qaida affiliated al-Shabaab’s last stronghold in Somalia, coming ashore in a predawn assault Friday. Other African Union forces were traveling overland to...
The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan have reached nine agreements but did not work out the issues surrounding the contested Abyei region or the demarcation...
Disruptions to South Africa’s key mining sector increased as AngloGold Ashanti said Wednesday that strikers have halted all its operations in the country, which provide 32...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were arguing over how to address U.S. challenges in the Middle East and...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) which has been trying to broker an end to the political crisis in Mali will secretly deploy regional...
A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing two people and wounding another 45 in a region under...
Newly sworn in Ethiopia Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. PHOTO/Khaled Elfiqi/EPA Ethiopia’s parliament swore in a new prime minister on Friday. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn succeeds former...
Workers processing gold at the new Sudan Gold Refinery. PHOTO/Reuters (Reuters) – Sudan opened its first gold refinery on Wednesday as it seeks to improve the...
Betty Kaunda (pictured), the wife of the first President of independent Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, passed away last evening in Zimbabwe where she had gone to visit...
The president of the West African bloc of nations said Monday it “can no longer hesitate” to combat terrorism and criminality in northern Mali, which was...
Soldiers manning a checkpoint in northern Nigeria shot to death two ranking members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone,...
(Reuters) – Two South African mines reopened on Monday after labor strife forced them to suspend operations last week, but striking miners vowed to keep operations...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud inaugurated Somalia’s new leader was inaugurated Sunday amid tight security in the capital, Mogadishu, four days after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud survived...
Ethiopia Prime Minister-designate Hailemariam Desalegn. PHOTO/Khaled Elfiqi/EPA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s ruling coalition on Saturday approved Hailemariam Desalegn’s appointment as prime minister to replace Meles Zenawi, who...
South Africa’s government and striking miners hardened their stances Friday, with miners rejecting a Lonmin platinum mine wage offer far below their demand and President Jacob...
(Reuters) – A leader of major protest by platinum miners in South Africa called on Thursday for a national strike in the sector “to bring the...
Newly elected Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. PHOTO/File Somalia’s president survived an assassination bid Wednesday, just two days into his new job, when bomb blasts claimed...
Somalia’s new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. PHOTO/File Somalia’s Parliament elected a new president of the country’s fledgling government Monday, a move that members of the international...
Striking workers paralysed a gold mine in South Africa Monday, fueling fears that mounting discontent could spread to the entire mining sector and grip the country...
Lawmakers in Somalia are scheduled to choose the next president Monday, moving the country a step closer to its first stable government since the 1991 ouster...
The current chair of the African Union, Benin President Boni Yayi, said Friday West African nations would soon meet on strategies to intervene in Mali, where...
The education sector in Kenya is in crisis – operations in public universities were paralysed after employees went on strike to demand higher pay. The staff,...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) joins former President Bill Clinton, after nominating speech. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP President Barack Obama goes before the Democratic National Convention and...
Nigeria Navy SBS Commandos prepare for sea exercise. PHOTO/File Nigeria’s navy says it has rescued a Singapore-owned oil tanker hijacked by pirates on Tuesday night. Nigeria...
Michael Clarke Duncan. PHOTO/Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Michael Clarke Duncan, the prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row...
Teacher in Nairobi, Kenya with his students. PHOTO/File Union organizers say nearly 280,000 teachers in Kenya are staying away from work to demand long overdue pay...
Angola President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. PHOTO/Press Association President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ ruling party has won 74 percent of the national vote assuring his government,...
A voter casts his ballot at a voting station in Luanda, Angola. PHOTO/AP Angola tallied ballots Saturday from its elections, expected to keep President Jose Eduardo...
People in Angola are voting for a new president and parliament, in national elections. It has been slightly more than a decade since the oil-rich country’s...
Seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP A new judge has been assigned to oversee the case of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File The parliament of Grenada is said have been suspended. In an address to the nation Tuesday night, Prime Minister Tillman...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nobel peace prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has withdrawn from a seminar in South Africa this week in protest against...
U.S. President Obama delivers a statement on storm Isaac, August 28, 2012. PHOTO/Mandel Ngan/AFP President Barack Obama says residents of the Gulf Coast should listen to...
Haiti’s death toll from Tropical Storm Isaac has jumped to 19, while five people have died in the neighboring Dominican Republic, government officials said. Marie Alta...
Haiti government officials have indicated that the death toll has risen from Tropical Storm Isaac. Officials from the Civil Protection Office of Haiti, said Sunday that...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File Prime Minister Tillman Thomas will face another battle to keep his government in power after a former Cabinet colleague filed...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said that regional troops would definitely intervene in Islamist-occupied northern Mali if negotiations with the extremists failed to yield a solution. “Diplomacy...
The projected path of Tropical Storm Isaac. IMAGE/National Hurricane Center Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened over the Caribbean on Wednesday, threatening to slam into Haiti — still...
Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. PHOTO/World Economic Forum The death of Ethiopia’s prime minister pushed his relatively unknown successor, Hailemariam Desalegn, into the spotlight on...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012. PHOTO/Christian Hartmann/Reuters Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-time ruler,...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to reporters at the White House, Aug 20, 2012. PHOTO/Reuters President Barack Obama said Monday the U.S. would reconsider its opposition...
Members of a new parliament in Somalia are being sworn in, presidential elections are to be held in the coming weeks. The mandate for Somalia’s U.N....
A cabinet minister was among 32 politicians, generals and others killed on Sunday when a plane crashed on its way to Sudan’s troubled South Kordofan state...
Malawi President Joyce Banda will meet her Tanzania counterpart, Jakaya Kikwete, in the next two days to discuss a dispute over Lake Malawi, where oilexploration is...
At least 60 people have died in northeast Congo after landslide caused a shaft to collapse at a gold mine. The local miners were digging for...
Charles Maynard. PHOTO/Patrice A. Johnson Charles Maynard, the chairman of the main opposition party in the Bahamas and a former cabinet minister, died Tuesday while campaigning...
A Uganda air force pilot, is rescued from the wreckage of a helicopter on Mount Kenya. Rescue teams were searching on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012 for...
Mali President.,Dioncounda Traoré. PHOTO/File Mali’s interim president Dioncounda Traore has “renewed his confidence” in transition prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and invitedhim to form a government....
Security officials in Nigeria have discovered a bomb-making factory on Saturday in Kano, a northern city that has been plagued by the Boko-Haram Islamist insurgency. The...
Ghana’s Late President John Evans Atta Mills speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington,...
Jamaican super star athlete Usain Bolt secured the gold medal after winning the 200 meter final. PHOTO/Julia Vynokurova/Getty Images Usain Bolt secured his place in sports...
Official results published overnight from a second round of legislative elections in the Republic of Congo give the president’s party an absolute majority in parliament with...
Gunmen have opened fire on an evangelical church during a service in Northern Nigeria, killing at least 19 people in the latest such attack in the...
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday dismissed as “blackmail” a call on him by the suspected leader of Islamist group Boko Haram to resign and convert...
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt wins Olympic gold August 5 2012. PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Usain Bolt has defended his Olympic 100m title winning the final in 9.63 seconds....
Outgoing special envoy for Syria and former former UN secretary-general., Kofi Annan. PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images Kofi Annan said Thursday he will step down from his high-profile role...
Madagascar’s election commission says the island nation plans to hold its presidential election next year on May 8. Election commission president Beatrice Attalah said Wednesday that...
Ghana President John Dramani Mahama. PHOTO/Issouf Sanogo/AFP The governing party of Ghana vowed Wednesday to carry out the “unfinished job” of the country’s late president as...
Haiti has agreed to work with Brazil and Ecuador to set up a new army that will eventually replace the U.N. peacekeeping force that has protected...
Interim Mali President.,Dioncounda Traoré. PHOTO/File In his first address to the nation since returning home from hospital, the interim president of Mali, said that he “fully...
The Ivory Coast president says military intervention in Mali is “inevitable” within weeks, if there’s no quick change in the West African country where Islamist extremists...
Usain Bolt in London. PHOTO/Dylan Martinez/Reuters Jamaica track and field team doctor, Winston Dawes, says Usain Bolt is fit, healthy and ready for the Olympic games...
New Ghana President.,John Dramani Mahama. PHOTO/File President John Atta Mills’ election victory secured Ghana’s reputation as one of the most mature democracies in West Africa, a...
Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March...
Nigeria President.,Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File The House of Representatives in Nigeria, has declared that its decision to initiative impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan if he fails...