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,...
Police officers leave for peace keeping mission. PHOTO/The New Times A contingent of 160 police officers under the Formed Protection Unit (FPU) left Rwanda, earlier this...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister-designate., Portia Simpson-Miller (Reuters) – Jamaica’s main opposition party rode a wave of discontent with a bad economy to a big win at the...
Portia Simpson-Miller Latest reports suggest that the Portia Simpson-Miller and her People’s National Party (PNP) will win the election. The PNP now has 36 declared constituencies...
Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Jamaica’s ruling party appeared headed for defeat in national elections on Thursday, as the Caribbean country’s leading opposition party capitalized on...
Voting ended in Jamaica on Thursday as Prime Minister Andrew Holness sought a popular mandate to tackle the Caribbean country’s deepening economic woes in a closely...
African Union forces in Somalia have successfully pushed the Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab out of the capital Mogadishu, a commander told CNN Thursday. The African Union...
Following on a US Senate Resolution against Antigua and Barbuda introduced on December 8, 10 United States congressmen introduced a Congressional Resolution on December 23 expressing...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness (L) and Portia Simpson-Miller, the leader of the Opposition People’s National Party. PHOTO/HAMZAOUI/AFP/Getty Images A look at the prime minister candidates for...
Sir Clifford Darling speaks at a previous engagement.Photo/Tim Aylen Sir Clifford Darling, the fourth Bahamian-born Governor-General died at the Princess Margaret Hospital early yesterday morning at...
Attackers threw homemade explosives inside an Islamic school in a predominantly Christian city where some 50 children had gathered for an Arabic class, wounding six pupils...
African American voters. PHOTO/Lynne Sladky/AP The US Department of Justice took an important step in combating the epidemic of Republican vote suppression efforts on Friday. The...
Carl Clark. PHOTO/Adithya Sambamurthy/The Bay Citizen A black Navy veteran credited with saving the lives of some of his shipmates during a World War II battle...
US President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia make their way into the chapel for Christmas service at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN Source:...
A look at recent major attacks in Nigeria attributed to the radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram: December 25: The sect claims responsibility for...
Fighting between a radical Muslim sect and paramilitary forces in Nigeria has killed at least 61 people over several days of violence in the nation’s northeast...
(Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian oil spill, the largest in the African nation since 1998, highlights the different world responses to oil spills. Nigerian authorities...
African American women soldiers salute while the national anthem is played at the U.S. Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan./AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus Black women are enlisting in...
Somali officials said Friday they are pleading with U.S. authorities to persuade banks to reconsider a decision to block money transfers from Minnesota’s Somali community to...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Christmas is only a couple of days away, and this week the Obama administration delivered a last-minute Christmas present to all...
A court in Ethiopia convicted two Swedish journalists Wednesday of supporting terrorism after the pair illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group. The...
U.S.President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama is announcing an additional US$113 million in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa, where millions of people in Ethiopia,...
Bank of America agreed to pay US$335 million to resolve allegations that its Countrywide unit engaged in a widespread pattern of discrimination against qualified African-American and...
African-American mayors from across the United States left their tight-knit communities, some with as few as 855 citizens, and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean for a...
87 pieces of Ivory seized by Kenyan officials. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Kenya seized 727 pieces of ivory in a container destined for Asia, a customs official...
Haiti is seeing a drop in the number of cholera cases as the country settles into its dry season. Dr. Wendy Lai of Doctors Without Borders...
Environmental Damage caused by past oil spill in Nigeria. PHOTO/File An oil leak has caused a production halt at a Shell facility off Nigeria capable of...
Nigeria on Monday launched a communications satellite into space to replace one that failed in 2008, the country’s satellite agency said. The satellite was launched from...
A Somali government minister says 200 troops from Djibouti have arrived in Somalia’s capital to join the African Union (AU) force that helps protect the government...
According to a new and innovative approach to estimating the future growth potential of countries, designed by professors at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness It’s still too close to call, but it appears that the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and Andrew Holness have more of...
U.S.President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama, rebuffed by Congress on a yearlong extension of a Social Security payroll tax cut, said Saturday that it would be...
Vegan rap mogul Russell Simmons (pictured), has been named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) Person of the Year. Simmons replaces former president Bill...
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s supreme court confirms President Joseph Kabila’s election victory. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
U.S. President Barack Obama AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain President Barack Obama is standing by his award of the Medal of Honor to a Marine in the...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness The Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and Prime Minister Andrew Holness have surged into the lead, gaining six percentage points in the...
Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi’s party called on Wednesday for mass protests to “protect” the victory he claims to have won in disputed...
U.S. Attorney General., Eric Holder. PHOTO/File Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday entered the turbulent political waters of voting rights, signaling that the Justice...
Oprah Winfrey speaks to the press in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011. PHOTO/AP / Dieu Nalio Chery Oprah Winfrey’s trip to Haiti included dinner with...
(Reuters) – South Sudan makes its debut for western oil companies, aid organizations and agribusiness this week at a U.S.-backed conference aimed at setting Africa’s newest...
“We’ll give you a gift card for a gun,” is the message African-American ministers in San Diego are giving this holiday season. On December 19, the...
Pushing too hard at international climate change talks might have killed the only treaty regulating carbon emissions, host South Africa said after concluding tense negotiations on...
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan started a five-day trip to Haiti on Sunday, arriving just ahead of fellow Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey as they make separate...
Eager to put the long and divisive Iraq war to rest, President Barack Obama declared Monday “those days are over” with the last American troops heading...
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain appeared on Fox News Thursday and hinted that he would be busy with both personal and political business over the...
There have been appeals for calm in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the victory of President Joseph Kabila in disputed elections. Main opposition candidate Etienne...
United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Somalia’s seaside capital on Friday, the first visit in years by the U.N.’s top leader to a city...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness (Jamaica Observer) – The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) has written to Prime Minister Andrew Holness, regarding comments he made about...
Kenyan Soldiers in Somalia. FILE Photo Kenya’s Parliament on Wednesday endorsed the government’s decision to allow the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) to join the African Union...
President Barack Obama raised the threat of a veto Wednesday if Republicans try attaching controversial oil pipeline or other language to a bill renewing payroll tax...
Partial results issued by Congo’s electoral commission overnight make it all but certain that President Joseph Kabila will be declared the winner, setting the stage for...
Regional airline – the Leeward Islands Air Transport‘s (LIAT) pilots all called in sick yesterday, disrupting the carrier’s flights across the Caribbean. “As a result of...
The spokesman for The Democratic Republic of Congo’s election commission said that the body is working to release results of last week’s election before midnight Tuesday...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly Nobel laureate Oscar Arias has advised Haitian President Michel Martelly that it would be an “error” to restore the disbanded army, according...
The United Nations Security Council on Monday slapped additional sanctions on Eritrea for allegedly providing support to armed groups (including the al-Shabaab group) seeking to destabilize...
A new National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) report on the suppression of the black vote refers to recent right-wing political tactics as...
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that Jamaicans will elect a new government on December 29. Nominations of candidates will take place on December 12....
Zambia has dismissed an international rights group’s call for the arrest on torture charges of former President George W. Bush, who has been touring Africa to...
The Cain Train has come to a stop. Herman Cain suspended his faltering bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Saturday, throwing his staunchly conservative supporters...
Botswana has retained its position as the least corrupt nation in Africa, according to the 2011 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released in Berlin, Germany, by the...
CMC – Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on Thursday ranked Barbados as the least corrupt country in the region. A report released by the...
North Sudan’s defense minister faces International Criminal Court (ICC) charges for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the country’s war-torn region of Darfur, the court...
Luis Moreno-Ocampo (l) Fatou Bensouda (r) International Criminal Court (ICC) countries agreed to nominate Fatou Bensouda of Gambia, as chief prosecutor for the main war crimes...
He’s plotting an aggressive campaign schedule across several states, but Herman Cain (pictured), has begun to outline a possible exit strategy from the race for the...
The chairman of Jamaica’s ruling party has resigned from the Cabinet over allegations that his ministry has mismanaged a US$400 million road program financed by China....
Angola’s parliament Tuesday approved a law forcing oil companies to use local banks for all their transactions, the country’s official news agency Angola Press said. Angola...
A Jamaican anti-corruption agency opened a probe Tuesday into a troubled government office that is already undergoing an independent review of its alleged mismanagement of a...
Herman Cain Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain’s Iowa campaign chairman said Tuesday the candidate was reassessing his bid for his party’s nomination a day after an...
Dr. Kenny Anthony., incoming Prime Minister of St. Lucia The St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) came storming back into government in yesterday’s general election, five years...
Nigeria’s Senate voted Tuesday to criminalize gay marriage, instituting prison terms of more than a decade for violations in a nation where gays and lesbians already...
U.S. President.,Barack Obama President Barack Obama said Monday the United States stands ready to do its part to help Europe with its deepening debt crisis, even...
Sudan President., Omar al-Bashir PHOTO/REUTERS A court in Nairobi has issued a warrant requiring that President Kibaki’s government arrest and hand over Sudan leader Omar al...
U.S. President., Barack Obama President Barack Obama is hosting European Union (E.U.) leaders for a summit Monday that is likely to focus on the European debt...
Uganda, Tanzania raise the red flag against Khartoum’s practice of Sharia law, treatment of women. Khartoum’s application to join the East African Community (EAC) was on...
Witnesses and authorities say at least four people died in an apparent attack on a northeast Nigeria city that saw churches and businesses burned to the...
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (pictured), passionately believed his homeland in eastern Nigeria deserved to be its own country, a new nation free of the borders imposed by...
After a campaign marred by violence between government and opposition supporters, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s chief rivals in national elections were expected to hold final...
(Reuters) – East African heads of state admitted South Sudan as a member the regional bloc Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Friday, some four months...
Haitian migrants found in overcrowded boats near The Bahamas have been returned home following two separation operations by the US Coast Guard. The Coast Guard Cutter...
Ethiopia said Friday it may contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia fighting al-Qaida-affiliated insurgents. East African leaders meeting in the Ethiopian capital of...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness In the battle-scarred slum of Tivoli Gardens, Latoya Brown lavishes thanks on two powerful men who have taken care of her:...
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (Shell) says a fire broke out on one of its pipelines running through Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta that already had been shut...
Almost two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, less than half of the US$4.6 billion in pledged aid has been disbursed and political squabbling is threatening...
The old pessimistic paradigm of Africa’s development is outdated, but some valid elements cannot be dismissed if economic growth is to be pursued on the continent,...
Councilman Herb Wesson Jr. (pictured), has been named as the new president of the Los Angeles City Council as the current president announced that he would...
President Barack Obama is nominating Marilyn Tavenner to succeed Donald M. Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Tavenner, who is the...
Imagine the savannas of South Africa’s flagship Kruger National Park so choked with brush, viewing what game is left is nearly impossible. The Cape of Good...
Paul Martin being led away after his court appearance in Trelawny Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Observer Paul Martin, the Canadian school teacher accused of slashing his wife’s throat...
Powerful politicians helped form a radical Muslim sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year in Nigeria, authorities allege, but now may have lost control of...
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured), has urged members of the Jamaican diaspora to invest in more tangible and long term ways in their homeland rather...
Resurrecting tourism in a country best known for poverty, political instability and a devastating earthquake might seem an overly optimistic ambition. But bringing back Haiti’s once-thriving...
(Barbados Nation) – Barbados was given a new warning yesterday to get its economic house in order or be faced with a downgrade by Standard & Poor’s....
Haitian lawmakers have a new building where they can pass laws and study the budget. The previous building was severely damaged (pictured), in the 2010 earthquake....
Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham opened the first Caribbean HIV Conference this weekend to discuss the multi-faceted issues facing the region’s battle to combat the disease....
President Barack Obama’s close attention to the Asia-Pacific region signaled both a turn toward a part of the world experiencing solid growth and one away from...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured), has assumed temporary control of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) in the wake of a highly critical special...
Moammar Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam (pictured), the only wanted member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large, was captured as he traveled with aides...
Toronto District School Board trustees on Wednesday approved the city’s second Africentric school, this time for high school students. Cheers erupted in the packed public gallery...
Haiti’s president said Friday that his government is putting off a controversial plan to restore the country’s disbanded military until a commission can be formed to...
As hundreds of Kenyan soldiers hunt al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, university students are growing angry that their government can afford a military operation but not raises...
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured), said his government’s strategy is to emphasize public- private ventures to drive the US$13 billion economy’s expansion and “not to...
A man accused of firing two shots at the White House last week has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama or his staff....
Nigerian airport officials have fined British Airways (BA) US$135 million and Virgin Atlantic (VAA) US$100 million amid a dispute over ticket prices, the country’s civil aviation...
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured), has revealed that said part of the transformation of the economy has to be done through transforming the education system....
President Barack Obama arrives in Australia. PHOTO/(ABC) President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday unveiled plans to deepen the U.S. military presence...
The government of Ghana intends to pull country out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a final bid to end moves by the agency to...
The first woman known to have filed a sexual harassment claim against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain (pictured), while he ran a trade group shows no...
Haiti’s president says a plane carrying 19 officials of his government has made an emergency landing in Cuba. President Michel Martelly says the plane landed safely...
President Barack Obama turns from economic to security concerns in the Asia-Pacific region as he travels to Australia, finally making a long-delayed visit to the longtime...
African agriculture is held back by Western scientific illiterates whose well-paid jobs involve frightening people about biotechnology. African agriculture must play a major role in any...
Former journalist and newly appointed Haitian Culture Minister Choiseul Henriquez has died while in Canada. He was 51. The office of President Michel Martelly said in...
Despite prodding from President Barack Obama, members of Congress’ supercommittee concede no deal is in sight to meet their goal of US$1.2 trillion or more in...
Kenya’s prime minister is seeking Israel’s support in stopping reprisal terror attacks by an al-Qaida-linked militant group Kenyan troops are pursuing in Somalia. A government statement...
Jamaica’s former prime minister Bruce Golding (pictured), will not seek another term in Parliament representing the patchwork of impoverished neighborhoods in West Kingston. Officials in the...
An adviser in Haiti’s government says a helicopter carrying Prime Minister Garry Conille and two other Cabinet members has made an emergency landing in the hills...
Brian Wynter: Governor of the Bank of Jamaica. PHOTO/The Gleaner The ongoing speculation about the date of the next general election could add to the uncertainties...
In the Republican race for the presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich’s support continues to slowly grow, and he is now tied with Mitt Romney for second place,...
The United Kingdom will not force African Governments to enact pro-gay laws, says Minister for Africa Henry Bellingham. Answering questions from journalists in Lusaka on his...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is joining with minority and labor groups for a series of protests around the country meant...
Sidney Nsubuga Enoch (L) the man suspected to have murdered Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato. PHOTO/Daily Monitor/Johnson Mayamba A Ugandan court has sentenced a man...
Africa’s first and only female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured), handily won re-election with 90.2 per cent of the vote, but her victory has been rendered hollow...
In a shift in White House tactics on the cusp of an election year, President Barack Obama isn’t shying away these days from saying that many...
Amnesty International has called on Shell to pay US$1 billion to start cleaning up two oil spills in Nigeria’s Niger Delta which it says caused huge...
The latest RJR/TVJ Boxill poll has revealed that the ruling Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) are almost tied in a...
In a strong slap at a young but powerful politician, South Africa’s governing party fired its controversial youth leader Thursday and suspended him from the African...
Herman Cain (pictured), prepared to meet with voters for the first time since sex harassment claims engulfed his upstart presidential bid, embarking on a tour of...
Police say turmoil has hit a town in north central Nigeria again just days after riots broke out in the area, which is beset by religious...
Less than a year ago, Esi Edugyan (pictured), was unsure if Half-Blood Blues would ever see the light of day. On Tuesday her sophomore novel was...
The Habari Network is pleased to bring you a three part series on race and race relations. This will be written from an activist perspective; but...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness The number of years an individual serves as a Cabinet minister could be capped if Prime Minister Andrew Holness has his...
A man receives a monthly supply of food aid donated to residents of a squatter camp for poor white South Africans. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) When stories are...
A conservative-leaning panel of US appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law as constitutional, helping set up a Supreme Court fight. A...
(Trinidad Guardian) – The Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has lifted the curfew on land and sea with immediate effect,...