West African mediators wrapped up their mission to Mali on Monday, after securing their choice for transition president by offering the leader of a March coup...
US President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the world was behind his strategy to end the war in Afghanistan, as more than 50 leaders gathered to...
The chief negotiator for the economic community of West African States (ECOWAS) says the junta in Mali has accepted that the current interim president will stay...
President Obama opens G8 summit at Camp David. PHOTO/BBC The United States and other members of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations agree that Europe’s...
Malawi President.,Joyce Banda Malawi’s new president Joyce Banda has announced she will repeal her southern African country’s ban on homosexual acts. President Joyce Banda’s announcement during...
The first wave of troops from the West African regional bloc – the economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) have landed in Guinea-Bissau to try...
Donna Summer. PHOTO/File Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as “Last Dance,” ”Love to Love You Baby” and “Bad Girl” became the soundtrack for...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File The no confidence motion tabled in Grenada’s House of Parliament by the opposition New National Party (NNP) was debated and...
West Africa’s regional bloc – the economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) threatened Monday to re-impose sanctions on Mali, saying that the junta’s actions “appear...
Uganda troops hunt for Joseph Kony. PHOTO/Rodney Muhumuza/AP A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army...
Sudan says it is ready to hold talks with South Sudan about outstanding issues between the two countries. Sundan’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the “security...
The coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau and west African mediators agreed on Friday that parliamentary speaker Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo will lead a transition government, ruling out the...
President Barack Obama speaks Tuesday in Washington. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement...
Perry Christie sworn in as Bahamas Prime Minister. PHOTO/Edward Russell III/TNG The leader of the Bahamas’ former main opposition party has been sworn in as prime...
Bahamas Prime Minister-elect., Perry Christie. PHOTO/File Outgoing prime minister and Free National Movement (FNM) leader, Hubert Ingraham has conceded defeat and announced that he will not...
Haiti police and U.N. peacekeepers have begun cracking down on bands of armed men lobbying for the country to restore its armed forces, a U.N. spokesman...
Tullow Oil says that it has found even more oil at a site in northern Kenya discovered in March. Tullow said previously that 20 meters (about...
(Reuters) – Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday he would not allow conflict with South Sudan to overshadow “strategic relations” with its people, striking...
Students at State U. of Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO/Douglas Engle Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across...
Haiti Prime Minister.,Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti lawmakers have approved President Michel Martelly’s choice for a new prime minister, ending a two-month impasse that had hampered the...
The African Union (AU) says that Sudan has endorsed the AU’s roadmap to avert an all-out war with South Sudan. The AU Commission said late Wednesday...
U.S. President Barack Obama addressing troops in Afghanistan 2012. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama answered political taunts with presidential muscle Tuesday, addressing the nation from Kabul as...
President Obama steps off Air Force One at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai. PHOTO/Doug Mills/The New York Times...
West African regional bloc – the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced Tuesday that it has imposed sanctions on Guinea-Bissau after talks in Gambia...
Gunfire echoed across Bamako on Tuesday as Mali government troops battled each other, with one side trying to oust soldiers who seized power in a coup...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File The main opposition New National Party (NNP) today said it had filed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister...
Conflict is brewing between Trinidad & Tobago and Grenada over the spoils of exploration for two of the country’s deep water blocks which were up for...
Two motorcycle-riding suicide bombers (suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect) drove into a convoy carrying a top police official in northeast Nigeria on...
One person died and 15 people were wounded when a grenade was thrown into a church in Kenya’s capital during Sunday service, an official said, an...
(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday circulated to the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution that warns Sudan and South Sudan of sanctions if they...
A suicide bomber and a man armed with explosives attacked two Nigerian newspaper offices on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding at least 26. The radical...
Former Liberia President Charles Taylor. PHOTO/AFP In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war...
A Haitian government effort Wednesday to register hundreds of veterans so they can receive pensions and back pay failed to demobilize a band of rogue soldiers...
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, right, reviews an honour guard with Chinese President Hu Jintao. PHOTO/Alexander F. Yuan/AP The president of the world’s newest nation, South...
A rogue band of armed men pushing for revival of Haiti’s military are refusing to disband and clear out of old military bases, the leaders of...
The president of South Sudan says attacks by rival Sudan amount to a declaration of war on his country. Salva Kiir made the remark Tuesday during...
Barbados Prime Minister., Freundel Stuart Barbados is holding its own and intends to successfully weather the global downturn, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart told members of the...
Nigeria’s military says five suspected members of a radical Islamist sect were killed in an explosion that struck a small town in the country’s restive northeast....
South Sudan will withdraw its troops from the disputed oil town its forces took over last week, the president announced Friday, pulling back from offensive military...
Sudan on Wednesday asked Ethiopia to intervene in its latest conflict with South Sudan, which has heightened fears of a fresh war. Sudan president Omar Al...
Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler. PHOTO/AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Tom Benitez, Pool Jessica Recksiedler, the judge presiding over the Trayvon Martin shooting case on removed herself Wednesday after...
< br/> (PRNewswire) — Thierry Mayard-Paul, Haiti’s Chief of Staff and Minister of the Interior, Territorial Collectivities and National Defense, led the Haitian delegation that shared...
Fighting spread further along the Sudan-South Sudan border when soldiers from both countries got into a firefight, killing 22 troops,a southern spokesman said Wednesday. The fighting...
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly Haiti’s President Michel Martelly was being treated for a blood clot in his lung caused by an earlier surgery, a presidential adviser...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haiti’s president Michel Martelly has returned to Miami for medical treatment on doctor’s orders because of complications related to a recent...
Nigeria Finance Minister., Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/File South Africa’s finance minister, appearing braced for disappointment when the World Bank chooses a new leader later Monday, said he’ll...
Political parties met with Guinea-Bissau’s military junta Sunday in an attempt to reach a political solution days after soldiers arrested the prime minister in the tiny...
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, (l), and Haiti’s President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/AP Looking to boost ties between Haiti and Mexico, Presidents Michel Martelly and Felipe Calderon held...
An unidentified military commander said Friday that soldiers who attacked the prime minister’s home don’t want to take power in Guinea-Bissau, claiming they intervened to halt...
Mali Interim President.,Dioncounda Traore. PHOTO/File Mali’s new interim president took office Thursday, returning the country to civilian rule three weeks after mutinous soldiers overthrew the nation’s...
Seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Wednesday after months of...
Troops from South Sudan moved into an oil-rich border town claimed by Sudan as fighting intensified between the countries over who controls the area, officials said...
Malawi President., Joyce Banda. PHOTO/File Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda says she has opened an investigation into the 2011 death of an activist who had criticized...
Guyana is leaving the door open for low cost carrier REDjet to resume its flights, saying it will not revoke the carrier’s licence. Cabinet Secretary Dr....
Gunmen suspected of being members of a radical Islamist sect have killed at least four people, including a 6-year-old girl — in recent attacks in Nigeria’s...
Malawi President., Joyce Banda. PHOTO/File Malawi’s Vice-President Joyce Banda has been sworn in as president following her predecessor’s sudden death in office. Saturday’s brief ceremony in...
former Malawi President., Bingu wa Mutharika. PHOTO/File Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika died after suffering a heart attack, political and hospital sources said on Friday, but...
Malawi President., Bingu wa Mutharika. PHOTO/File Malawi’s president was hospitalized Thursday with a heart problem, officials said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because...
Haiti President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly has gone to Miami for an operation on his right shoulder. The presidential office’s announcement Wednesday night...
Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency...
The body representing West African nations has imposed severe financial sanctions on Mali, after a 72-hour deadline elapsed and the soldiers that recently seized power failed...
Newly inaugurated Senegal President., Macky Sall. PHOTO/File Senegal’s new president Macky Sall has taken the oath of office, ushering in the country’s first new leader in...
The junior officer who overthrew Mali’s democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation’s constitution made a public U-turn Sunday, declaring amid enormous international...
REDjet grounded The government of Trinidad and Tobago has revoked the license of the Caribbean’s first discount airline (REDjet) as it struggles to survive. Transport Minister...
The junior officer who grabbed power in a coup last week said Friday he plans to hold free elections and rapidly return Mali to its established...
Haiti President Michel Martelly A few hundred people have gathered in Haiti’s capital to accuse President Michel Martelly of abusing the country’s Constitution. The supporters of...
Negotiations between Mali’s military junta and four West African presidents seeking to restore the country’s elected government will take place in Ivory Coast, after the plane...
Senegal President-elect., Macky Sall Senegal’s new president won the runoff election in a landslide, garnering nearly twice as many votes as the incumbent of 12 years,...
Incoming president Macky Sall (l) and outgoing president Abdoulaye Wade (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade admitted defeat in Sunday’s election, state television reported, ending his...
Joseph Kony. PHOTO/AFP The African Union (AU) said Friday it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new...
Opposition candidate Macky Sall (l) and incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade Abdoulaye Wade received an unlikely phone call from the president conceding defeat after the 2000 election....
(PRNewswire) – Haiti’s Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul and United Nation’s Development Program (UNDP) administrator, Helen Clark hosted a landmark validation ceremony in Cap-Haitien today,...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Eric Feferberg/Getty Images Nigeria’s finance minister Friday joined the race for the top World Bank job, backed by Africa’s leading economies in a push...
Soldiers stormed the presidential palace and announced Thursday that they had seized control of the country, ousting the president of Mali just one month before he...
A spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram has ruled out further talks with Nigeria’s government after preliminary, indirect contacts aimed at ending scores of deadly attacks....
A presidential election that was supposed to stabilize Guinea-Bissau was marred by a military assassination just hours after polls closed Sunday. Joao Biague, the director general...
Voters in Guinea-Bissau on Sunday chose between nine presidential candidates in the small, coup-prone nation, and citizens said they hoped the winner would finally bring stability...
Kenya on Saturday said the first general elections since the last poll five years ago, would be held on March 4, 2013, ending weeks of heated...
The Eritrean government said Friday that the attack on its military outposts by neighboring Ethiopia was meant to divert attention from a border dispute between the...
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s government has in the last week held its first indirect peace talks with Islamist sect Boko Haram, meeting mediators to discuss a possible...
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO/Findlay Kember/AFP Two Ugandan opposition lawmakers started a petition to impeach Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, accusing him of abuse of office, the...
U.S. President Barack Obama listens as British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference. PHOTO/Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images The leaders of the United States...
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. PHOTO/File The International Criminal Court (ICC) has found former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty of forcibly recruiting and using child soldiers...
(Reuters) – Two UN peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy after being convicted in a...
Julia Sebutinde of International Criminal Court. PHOTO/Maria Wamala./NewVision (Xinhua) — Julia Sebutinde from Uganda officially started her term as a judge at the International Court of...
The Justice Department’s civil rights division on Monday objected to a new photo ID requirement for voters in Texas because many Hispanic voters lack state-issued identification....
A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church Sunday in the middle of Mass, killing at least 10 people in the latest violence targeting a church...
Explosions at one of the Kenyan capital’s main bus terminals killed at least six people and left two dozen others wounded Saturday, officials and witnesses said....
(Jamaica Observer) – A 4.8 Magnitude earthquake occurred at 03:34 EST this morning, 102 km NNE of Port Maria, Saint Mary, and 140 kilometers (87 miles)...
(Reuters) – Nigerian authorities have detained five Islamist militants suspected of involvement in kidnapping two Westerners killed during a failed British-Nigerian rescue operation, security officials said...
A moderate earthquake has rattled southern Haiti, causing some people to run out of buildings in fear. There were no immediate reports of damage. The United...
South Africa apologized Thursday for a mass deportation of Nigerians, trying to contain a diplomatic spat that has again focused attention on its sometimes strained relations...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that a U.N. peacekeeper was responsible for bringing the cholera strain to Haiti but may not have known that...
A series of airport deportations by South African and Nigerian authorities has sparked a growing diplomatic row between the two African nations. Last week, South Africa...
Prince Harry arrives in Jamaica. Prince Harry arrived in Jamaica’s capital Monday for a four-day visit amid a push by the country’s new prime minister to...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l) at the White House. PHOTO/AFP The United States and Israel agree that diplomacy is...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File World stock markets fell Monday as tough talk by President Barack Obama over Iran’s nuclear program and uncertainty over Greece’s ability...
A series of explosions at an ammunition depot killed 123 people and wounded hundreds more in in Brazzaville, the capital of Africa’s Republic of Congo, Congolese...
President Obama welcomes Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office Tuesday, May 5, 2009. At right is Vice President Joe Biden. Official White House Photo...
(Reuters) – Senegalese presidential challenger Macky Sall won new support on Friday as key figures in the country’s street protests urged their followers to vote for...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama says he means it when he insists it’s unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. “I don’t...
Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File A senior lawmaker says that Haiti’s government has named a new pick for prime minister. Senate President Simon Dieuseul Desras said Thursday that...
Thousands of supporters of two-time President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rallied in Haiti’s capital Wednesday on the eighth anniversary of the former leader’s ouster. The demonstrators accused current...
Incumbent president of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade appeared at a news conference Monday, looking less gung-ho than usual, acknowledging he might not have won the required majority...
(Reuters) – Senegal’s presidential election will need to go to a second-round run-off, the campaign spokesman for President Abdoulaye Wade said on Tuesday after partial results...
Senegal’s leading opposition candidate says no candidate won the 50 percent necessary to win a presidential poll outright, making a runoff “inevitable.” Macky Sall said in...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Former South African President Nelson Mandela underwent minor surgery to determine the cause of a stomach complaint...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela (pictured), has been hospitalized with a stomach ailment, according to a government statement issued Saturday about the 93-year-old anti-apartheid icon....
Immediate Haiti Prime Minister., Garry Conille. PHOTO/File Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille abruptly resigned Friday after less than five months on the job in a political...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File After watching the Republican candidates lock the kryptonite that is the immigration issue around their necks during the Arizona debate, the...
Bilal Philips. PHOTO/Arne Dedert/AFP/Getty Images A controversial Canadian Muslim cleric was deported from Kenya soon after he landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Thursday...
A design concept for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup President Obama and former first lady Laura Bush joined Wednesday...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent and wants an even...
The National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) welcomes the announcement by African Petroleum that their Narina-1 exploratory well drilled in Block LB-09 off the coast of...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing...
A bomb planted by an abandoned car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service Sunday near Nigeria’s capital, wounding five people amid...
Haiti President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly and his accompanying motorcade were attacked as the leader strolled in downtown Port-au-Prince, the National Palace said...
Haiti’s national police force is the best body for providing security in this poor nation and the government should concentrate on building up the force, a...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama raised US$29.1 million for his campaign and for the Democratic Party in January, a strong fundraising month that...
The man who smuggled a bomb in his underwear aboard a commercial airliner on Christmas Day in 2009 has been sentenced to life in prison, months...
South Africa’s Koeberg Nuclear Power Station. PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images Kenya has been advised to shelve its intended development of nuclear power to meet its growing energy needs,...
Haiti President Michel Martelly (l) and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. PHOTO/File Haiti’s earthquake reconstruction efforts and its mandate are under review by the United...
Two bombs exploded in Nigeria’s restive north on Tuesday, killing one policeman in the city of Kaduna, hit hard by a wave of attacks claimed by...
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is on the verge of another financial downgrade. And Deputy Central Bank of Barbados Governor Harold Codrington says to avoid it the island...
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila‘s chief adviser has been killed in a plane crash, along with a co-pilot, near the eastern town of...
Whitney Houston. PHOTO/File Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and...
The alleged mastermind of a radical Islamist sect’s Christmas Day church bombing fled across Nigeria after escaping police custody and hid for about a month before...
Jean-Claude Duvalier Before President Michel Martelly took office in May 2011, Haiti’s top prosecutor had recommended that former strongman Jean-Claude Duvalier face trial for the abuses...
U.S. President Barack Obama/PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will announce a plan to accommodate religious employers outraged by a rule that would require them to cover birth...
Jamaica has the Caribbean’s highest murder rate, although the 1,124 murders reported in 2011 were a seven-year low for the country, according to the Caribbean Human...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind...
The Ugandan parliamentarian who first introduced an anti-gay bill that carried the death penalty for some homosexual acts reintroduced the bill on Tuesday, raising concerns among...
Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking while reducing violent crime. Police,...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama’s campaign is asking top fundraisers to support a Democratic-leaning outside group that is backing the president’s re-election bid, reversing...
Sarah Onyango Obama. PHOTO/Thomas Mukoya/Reuters U.S. President Barack Obama’s grandmother sustained bruises when the car she was travelling in rolled along a highway in western Kenya...
Bermuda Premier., Paula Cox CMC – Premier Paula Cox has offered to take a pay cut in exchange for a new pay deal for civil servants,...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File A few months ago, President Barack Obama looked like he could claim 2012 bragging rights as a deft foreign policy leader....
Zambian former First Lady Thandiwe Banda. PHOTO/File Zambia’s former First Lady Thandiwe Banda was Friday questioned by Police in connection with luxurious villas in Lusaka and...
Human rights groups have condemned a decision not to try Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti’s former ruler, on crimes against humanity. A Haitian judge decided this week that...
Haiti President Martelly (l) and actor Sean Penn. Actor Sean Penn has been named ambassador at large for Haiti in recognition of his humanitarian work since...
The purported spokesman for a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings in recent weeks in Nigeria has been arrested, an official with the country’s...
(Reuters) – Suspected militants from the Boko Haram Islamist sect have killed six people in shootings in Nigeria’s remote northeastern Borno state in the past two...
African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping. PHOTO/File Following a deadlock during Monday’s African Union (AU) elections, with a tie between former wife to South African president...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Aiming tax increases at millionaires and companies that ship jobs abroad may help frame the fairness theme of President Barack Obama’s...
Herman Cain. PHOTO/File Former presidential hopeful Herman Cain threw his support behind Newt Gingrich Saturday night, providing the former House speaker with a late boost just...
A view of the new African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. PHOTO/AFP African leaders have inaugurated a new US$200 million headquarters that was funded by China...
Former Haitian Leader, Jean-Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/Emily Troutman/AOL News Haitian President Michel Martelly on Friday backed off a suggestion from an interview a day earlier that he...
Envoys of Nigeria’s president are in negotiations with elements of the Islamist insurgency behind an onslaught of attacks that has destroyed government buildings and killed hundreds...
Haiti’s president suggested Thursday that he might pardon former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, saying reconciliation for his nation is more important than making the man known as...
Nigeria has arrested 200 people, mostly Chadian “mercenaries,” after last week’s attacks in the north, a police source said Thursday, as pressure mounts on the security...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has fired the national chief of police and his six deputies, the presidency said on...
(Reuters) – South Sudan has signed an agreement with Kenya to build a pipeline to connect its oil fields with the Kenyan port of Lamu, both...
Haiti’s government has kicked off a program that it hopes will provide meals to 2.2 million school children across the country. The effort is called “Aba...
The Simpson-Miller administration will on Wednesday begin rolling out the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) in seven parishes. The Prime Minister announced Sunday that 700 people...
January 20 was the third inauguration anniversary of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the US. President Obama was inaugurated on the January 20,...
Grenada Prime Minister., Tillman Thomas Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said he is “deeply concerned” that an unauthorised promise made by immediate past Environment Minister Joseph Gilbert...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s appointments to two key agencies during the Senate’s year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return to work...
A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said Saturday, representing the extremist...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Vilified on the campaign trail by Republicans, President Barack Obama will stand before the nation Tuesday night with a State of...
Nigeria’s easygoing president Goodluck Jonathan (pictured), made a rare display of emotion when he addressed a private meeting on an arcane-sounding policy that would become one...
President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are back where they were before Christmas, locked in an election-season tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from...
US president Barack Obama meets King Abdullah of Jordan in the Oval Office. PHOTO/Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Barack Obama on Tuesday decried continued and “unacceptable” levels of...
(Reuters) – Niger will push ahead with a plan to develop civilian nuclear energy in partnership with other West African peers despite recent accidents including Fukushima,...
Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says a Government of Jamaica (GoJ) Health Card, to help improve the delivery of healthcare services to Jamaicans, is...
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has announced an immediate drop in the cost of fuel, following a week of strikes after prices doubled. Jonathan said the price...
Haitians gathered in makeshift churches and even a United Nations supply base Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake, holding ceremonies that...
Martin Luther King Jr. PHOTO/File Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and civil rights activist, is a celebrated figure in American history. A master of oratory,...
South Africa President., Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Reuters South African President Jacob Zuma told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it “completely ignored” the African Union (AU)...
President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was in crisis talks with union leaders Thursday night in an effort to end a violent nationwide...
Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa. Courtesy of World Sites Atlas (sitesatlas.com) (Bloomberg) –Transnet SOC Ltd., the South African state-owned port and rail-freight operator, and Swaziland Rail...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will focus on American jobs Wednesday, while trying to keep his own. He and Vice President Joe Biden...
The two Swedish journalists convicted as terrorists in Ethiopia have opted to seek a pardon rather than appeal the verdict and their 11-year sentences, a Swedish...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitians still have much to do to recover from the 2010 earthquake, President Michel Martelly said Monday, and he conceded to...
Ghana President., John Atta Mills (Reuters) – Ghanian President John Atta Mills on Monday said he was confident of winning a second four-year term this year...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller (Jamaica Gleaner) – U.S. President Barack Obama today congratulated Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller on her recent election victory and to...
(Reuters) – Hundreds of Nigerians took to the streets on Monday, launching a nationwide strike to protest against the axing of a popular fuel subsidy in...
Police stop and search young men in Britain. PHOTO/Jason Alden/Rex Features Police officers who targeted suspects on grounds of their skin color alone should be charged....
U.S. President., Barack Obama The promising drop in unemployment on Friday looks like a job-security bonus for President Barack Obama as well, undercutting Republicans’ assertions that...
Alumni and students from Maryland’s four historically black universities took their long-held view that the state perpetuates racial segregation to court Tuesday, arguing that their institutions...
A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria’s northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians vowed...
U.S. President., Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is highlighting companies that have returned jobs to the U.S. and he says that’s one more way of...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Nineteen (19) members of parliament have been sworn into the Portia Simpson-Miller led cabinet at King’s House today. Ms. Simpson-Miller...
ICC Chief Prosecutor.,Fatou Bensouda. PHOTO/File The newly-elected chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bom Bensouda, has been named ‘Person of the Year’ by...
Gunmen attacked a church in northeast Nigeria during a prayer service Thursday night, killing at least eight people and wounding others in an assault that occurred...
Jamaica’s newly sworn in prime minister, Portia Simpson-Miller has pledged to ditch the Queen as her country’s official Head of State. Portia Simpson-Miller said she would...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller Portia Simpson Miller, has been sworn in for the second time as Jamaica’s prime minister after leading her opposition party to...
Jamaica Prime Minister-designate., Portia Simpson-Miller Portia Simpson-Miller takes the Oath of Office as prime minister of Jamaica in a ceremony at King’s House — the governor...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly A member of a senate commission set up to investigate the nationalities of members of the government found that President Michel Martelly...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/REUTERS South African President Jacob Zuma met Tuesday with an envoy from Libya’s National Transitional Council seeking help from Pretoria in...
Protesters unhappy over spiraling gas prices set fires on an expressway Tuesday and at least one person was killed in the unrest after Nigeria’s government did...
Youssou N’dour. PHOTO/File World music icon Youssou N’dour says he plans to run in Senegal’s presidential election next month, challenging an 85-year-old incumbent whose plans to...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly said his government will continue to work on free education for all children and decent housing for...
By Abdirahman Takhal It has been argued that globalization in itself does not produce poverty and inequality. The main obstacles that entwined with globalization are the...
A press liaison for Haitian President Michel Martelly says a presidential commission is urging the leader to restore the nation’s disbanded army. Vladimir Laguerre of the...
US President Barack Obama AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain Bullish yet wary, President Barack Obama is highlighting recent economic bright spots while taking care not to overstate...
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(Reuters) – President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of Nigeria plagued by a violent Islamist insurgency, and ordered shut the...
Jamaica Prime Minister-designate., Portia Simpson-Miller Fresh from a landslide victory, Jamaica’s leading opposition party has its work cut out to revamp a moribund economy that fueled...
A blast has rocked an area near a mosque in the restive north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, with witnesses reporting four deaths. In a BBC interview,...