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...
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...