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...
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates (l), next to Mayor of Aurora Steve Hogan (2nd R), after arriving at Buckley...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama again steps into the role of consoler-in-chief during a visit Sunday with distraught families of those gunned down...
Nearly 15,000 pounds (6,800 kilograms) of marijuana have gone up in smoke in Jamaica. The bonfire of seized drugs follows raids on marijuana-growing and trafficking operations...
Tanzania on Saturday halted rescue operations for a ferry accident that appears to have killed 146 people. Tanzania government official Ali Juma Shamhuna said 69 passengers...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012. PHOTO/Christian Hartmann/Reuters The government of Ethiopia revealed...
Officials say the death toll in a ferry accident off the coast of Tanzania has risen to 31. A government statement on Thursday also said that...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s schoolchildren sang happy birthday to Nelson Mandela as he turned 94 on Wednesday, a day...
Mali was “preparing all options” to retake the Islamist-occupied north of the country and national consultations were being prepared to form a government of national unity,...
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma., the new Chairperson of the African Union. PHOTO/File Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who has served in the cabinet of...
More than two million voters are called to the polls in the Republic of Congo to elect a new parliament. The ruling party of President Denis...
A freight train collided with a truck carrying farm workers at a crossing in eastern South Africa Friday, killing at least 19 people and leaving bodies...
An official says authorities in Ivory Coast are starting to destroy hundreds of small arms collected since the end of the post-election violence that claimed some...
Botswana Vice President., Mompati Merafhe. PHOTO/File The Vice President of Botswana, Mompati Merafhe, has announced his intention to retire at the end of this month due...
Senegal has withdrawn a commitment to contribute troops for a regional ECOWAS intervention in Mali. Senegal President Macky Sall communicated the decision during a visit to...
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. PHOTO/File The International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced a Congolese warlord to 14 years in prison on Tuesday, a watershed moment for the 10-year-old...
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake shook the area of El Cachon in the Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey....
Serena Williams wins Wimbledon 2012. PHOTO/Glyn Kirk/AFP/GettyImages Serena Williams was crowned Wimbledon champion for the fifth time on Saturday as subdued the Polish third seed Agnieszka...
West Africa leaders meet in Burkina Faso on Saturday with civil leaders from Mali amid moves to create a government of national unity to tackle a...
Recently elected Senegal President Macky Sall. PHOTO/Pan African News Wire The party of recently elected Senegal President Macky Sall secured 119 seats in the country’s 150-seat...
Rescue workers search at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. PHOTO/Sunday Alamba/AP A grounded Nigeria airline says it has started compensating families of...
(Reuters) – Efforts are underway to move the last homeless quake survivors from camps in the city of Jacmel, Haiti, into rented accommodation over the next...
Senegal President Macky Sall. PHOTO/File Senegal’s presidential coalition looked headed for a sweeping victory in legislative elections which were marked by a low turnout, unofficial results...
Gunmen killed two policemen guarding a church, snatched their rifles and then opened fire on the congregation from inside and out on Sunday, killing 17 people...
Hardline Islamists occupying northern Mali went on the rampage in Timbuktu on Saturday, destroying ancient tombs of Muslim saints and threatening to wipe out every religious...
Multiple clashes between security forces and suspected members of a radical Islamist sect (Boko Haram) in northern Nigeria have left four policemen, four civilians and 19...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law, which requires uninsured Americans...
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...
Montserrat Premier Reuben Meade. PHOTO/File Premier Reuben Meade of Montserrat has defeated a motion of no-confidence filed against him by the leader of the opposition Donaldson...
Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda, killing scores of people but possibly hundreds, officials...
One of the people injured in a grenade attack on a bar in the coastal city of Mombasa is being held as a suspect, police said...
(Reuters) – An explosion hit a night club in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa on Sunday, killing one person, police said, a day after the U.S....
Kenya is protesting a United States embassy travel advisory that warned of an imminent terror attack on the coastal town of Mombasa, saying the advisory amounts...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city again came upon a life-or-death emergency, but the hero was someone else. Newark Mayor...
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan has requested and accepted the resignations of the Defence Minister, Haliru Bello and the National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi. Gen. Azazi...
Nigeria troops have arrested a suspect in the Christmas Day bombings that killed at least 44 people, state television reported, as Washington put three Boko Haram...
Former Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee speaks to the the media during a news conference as city manager Norton Bonaparte Jr. listens at left. PHOTO/Julie Fletcher/AP...
South Africa’s US$ 2 billion commitment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) emergency resources fund a sign of the country’s ability to assist in efforts to...
The Nigerian Red Cross says at least 25 people have died after a radical Islamist sect launched multiple attacks in the northeastern city of Damaturu. Nigerian...
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...
Suicide bombers belonging to the radical Islamist sect, Boko Haram, killed 21 people in attacks on three churches in Nigeria during Sunday services, exacerbating religious tensions...
Rodney King signs copies of his book “The Riot Within” at the African American Museum of Philadelphia in April 2012. PHOTO/William T. Wade Jr/Startraksphot Rodney King,...
The Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) is urging the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution that would authorize any military action it takes...
ICC chief prosecutor., Fatou Bensouda. PHOTO/File Fatou Bensouda of Gambia was sworn in Friday as the International Criminal Court’s new chief prosecutor, saying she was ready...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has announced a cabinet reshuffle. (More: Grenada Prime Minister Thomas to re-shuffle cabinet after surviving...
A boat packed with Haitian migrants headed for the United States sunk and 11 bodies have been recovered from the ocean, a Bahamas police spokeswoman said...
A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Sunday outside a church in central Nigeria as gunmen attacked another church in the nation’s northeast, killing at least...
Kenya’s internal security minister, who was closely involved in the fight against Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, was killed when the police helicopter he was travelling in...
Lesotho Prime Minister., Thomas Thabane. PHOTO/File Thomas Thabane was on Friday sworn in as the Prime Minister of Lesotho, after his coalition unseated former leader Pakalitha...
Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir The African Union will move a July summit from Malawi if the country keeps up its efforts to block the attendance...
Oil explorer Tullow Oil said it found oil offshore the Ivory Coast, giving it confidence that it will make additional discoveries in waters to the west...
Rescue officials in Nigeria said Wednesday they have ended their search for bodies in the site where an airliner crashed into a densely populated area, killing...
Rescue Workers clear plane wreckage in Lagos, Nigeria. PHOTO/Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye Mourners silently walked between rows of the dead from a plane crash in Nigeria that killed...
Rescue workers search at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday. PHOTO/Sunday Alamba/AP A torrential downpour and strong winds prevented emergency crews from...
Firefighters try to put out the fire in Ishaga district, an outskirt of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, on June 3. PHOTO/Xinhua/Tunji Obasa Emergency workers in Nigeria...
A passenger plane crashed into a two-story building in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos on Sunday, officials said. Casualty figures were not yet known, said Lagos...
Seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP A judge on Friday revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with shooting dead an unarmed black 17-year-old,...
Former Lesotho Prime Minister., Pakalitha Mosisili. PHOTO/Gallo Images Pakalitha Mosisili who led Lesotho for the last 14 years could soon be leading the opposition after his...
Former Liberia President.,Charles Taylor.PHOTO/File International judges sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison Wednesday, saying he was responsible for “some of the...
Lesotho Prime Minister., Pakalitha Mosisili. PHOTO/Gallo Images The party of the longtime prime minister won Lesotho’s parliamentary elections, according to complete results posted Tuesday on the...
Sudan’s army will begin pulling out of the contested region of Abyei from Tuesday, as demanded by the United Nations, the army spokesman said. “We will...
An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said. He could...
The opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) has taken an early lead in Lesotho’s fiercely fought general elections, winning the first eight constituencies that have been announced....
Incumbent Prime Minister of Lesotho, Pakalitha Mosisili. PHOTO/Xinhua Lesotho’s one million voters went to the polls Saturday in a tight general election where bitter personal rivalries...
The two main contenders to unseat Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili are both former members of his cabinet who rebelled over his refusal to step aside...
Angola’s president says national parliamentary elections will be held August 31. In a press release Wednesday, the president also announced the appointment of Edeltrudes Costa as...
The state of Hawaii has verified President Barack Obama’s birth records to Arizona’s elections chief after a nearly three-month back and forth that Arizona officials said...
Incoming Governor General of Barbados., Justice Elliott Belgrave Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has announced that Justice Elliott Belgrave will be conferred Knight of St Andrew...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it will investigate who is responsible for allowing Monday’s attack on Mali’s president to happen. ECOWAS, expressed...