Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness (pictured) has backed calls to ammend the constitution to allow Jamaicans who hold dual citizenships to compete for office. Holness indicated...
Africa’s first elected female president headed toward easy re-election Tuesday with her sole opponent boycotting Liberia’s runoff, and ignoring entreaties from the United States and the...
A newly released NBC News/Wall Street Journal/theGrio.com poll finds that 49 percent of African-Americans feel the country is headed in the right direction, versus 38 percent...
The mile-long stretch of bars and restaurants known as St. James has long been a magnet for all-night revelry, a blur of dancing bodies and blaring...
Nigeria faces a shapeless, shifting threat from a radical Muslim sect that has killed more than 100 people in recent days. While the country boasts one...
US President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Monday to ditch blocking tactics and take bold action to boost hiring, using the emotive plight of unemployed war...
St. Lucia Prime Minister Stephenson King St. Lucia Prime Minister Stephenson King has announced a general election date of November 28 – the same day of...
Liberia President., Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. AP Photo/FRANCOIS MORI Liberia’s president urged voters to go to the polls this week and to ignore a boycott by the opposition....
(Jamaica Gleaner) Four years after the dual-citizenship drama threatened to collapse the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) government, former Director of Elections Danville Walker says he wants...
Eritrea has rejected Kenyan allegations that it may be arming al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, as a diplomatic row between the two countries intensifies. Moses Wetangula, Kenya’s...
The imam’s insistent, lecturing voice comes right to the point over the scratchy audio recording: holy war is the only way to bring change for Muslims...
Hiring slowed in October as employers faced more uncertainty over future economic growth. The Labor Department says the economy added 80,000 jobs last month, the fewest...
Kenya’s foreign minister summoned Eritrea’s ambassador on Friday and “raised concern” over the possibility that planes from Eritrea are supplying weapons to Somali militants whom Kenyan...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Andrew Holness. Photo: Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness has hinted of the possibility of an early general election saying that the...
Haitian President Michel Martelly (pictured), returned to Haiti on Thursday after doctors in Miami performed surgery on his left shoulder. The 50-year-old leader said the operation...
Once marred by conflict, Mozambique is slowly emerging as a popular tourist destination as people are drawn in by the tropical weather, beautiful beaches and rich...
Private security sources tell The Associated Press that pirates have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta and kidnapped the foreign...
(Barbados Nation) – Barbados will not be dictated to by Britain or any other when it comes to homosexuality laws, says Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite. He...
President Barack Obama topped Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people in 2011, as the U.S. leader’s clout rose after the deaths of al Qaeda...
Herman Cain A new poll puts Herman Cain (pictured above), ahead of Mitt Romney by seven percentage points in the GOP presidential race, reflecting a margin...
In August 2011, when Muammar Gaddafi’s fate as leader of Libya was all but assured, Reuters ran an article with illuminating analysis about potential and pitfalls...
Haiti’s struggle to rebuild homes for hundreds of thousands of quake victims may be giving the impoverished nation something it has never had: loans to help...
Liberia’s main opposition party says it will take part in next week’s presidential runoff vote after threatening a boycott. The party, whose ticket includes soccer star...
The sexual harassment allegations engulfing the candidacy of Republican Herman Cain dominated American politics Tuesday as prominent conservative voices rallied to his side, saying he was...
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested Monday, the latest in a series of police clampdowns blocking his protest against rising food prices, police said. “He...
Nigeria’s military says it has seized a vessel carrying stolen diesel along a river that flows through the nation’s oil-rich southern delta. Military spokesman Timothy Antigha...
The Jamaica Manufacturer’s Association (JMA) and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) are in the process of setting up discussions regarding the viability of the PNP’s...
Herman Cain appears on “Face the Nation” October 30, 2011 in Washington. REUTERS/Chris Usher-CBS NEWS/Handout Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain kept his Washington campaign schedule Monday...
U.S. regulators have fined Caribbean Airlines for allegedly wrongly limiting compensation that passengers received after their baggage was delayed, lost or damaged. The U.S. Transportation Department...
(Reuters) – A federal court in the state of Oklahoma has dismissed a lawsuit against Rwandan President Paul Kagame (pictured), brought by the widows of two...
Republican primary voters have selected Herman Cain (pictured), as their likely nominee, surging him ahead of Mitt Romney by 4 points. Cain takes 24% to Romney’s...
African American Farmer A federal judge has given final approval to a US$1.2 billion government settlement with black farmers who claim they were unfairly denied loans...
Jamaica’s People’s National Party (PNP), summoned its National Campaign Committee to an emergency meeting at the PNP headquarters, Thursday. It is highly likely that the new...
(Reuters) – Haiti is wooing Asian manufacturers, and its own diaspora, to inject investments and funds into the economy and create jobs to drive a recovery...
By the time U.S. military forces left Somalia in 1994 after entering the lawless nation more than a year earlier to stop a famine, 44 Army...
Lindiwe Mazibuko Picture: Gallo Images/Foto24/Nasief Manie South Africa’s main opposition party has for the first time elected a black woman to lead it in parliament. Thursday’s...
With Hispanic voters upset at Republican presidential candidates over immigration, President Barack Obama played to a Latino audience on a trip to the West this week...
The Haitian military was disbanded over human rights abuses in 1995 by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide after years of political turmoil, making Haiti one of a handful...
Zimbabwe’s foreign minister is calling for reform of the United Nations Security Council following the “extrajudicial” killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. NATO’s role in Libya...
Jamaica’s new prime minister appointed his government on Tuesday, leaving nearly all ministries unchanged while making relatively minor shifts that he said would accelerate administrative and...
The United Nations (U.N.) says the number of famine refugees flowing into Kenya slowed to a trickle after Kenyan troops moved into Somalia. The U.N. said...
According to a new Quinnipiac University poll released early Wednesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, now trails former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain (pictured), for the...
President Barack Obama will announce a plan to allow people holding two kinds of student loans to reduce their interest rates by consolidating their debts into...
Somalia’s president on Monday criticized Kenya’s military offensive into his nation to root out Islamist rebels, raising questions about how bilateral the military action is. Kenya...
Jamaica’s new prime minister has left two prominent ministries unchanged and says he will announce the rest of his Cabinet later in the week. Andrew Holness...
Barack Obama, faced with 14 million unemployed workers and a jobless rate that won’t budge, is tackling the U.S. economic crisis by focusing on where it...
Trinidad and Tobago will launch the country’s first Drug Treatment Court in 2012, to include technical assistance, training and cooperation from the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control...
Witnesses: Second explosion has gone off in Kenya’s capital (Nairobi); AP reporter sees at least 1 dead. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
The mandate is ending for a Haiti reconstruction panel that was set up to coordinate donor aid after last year’s earthquake. The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission’s...
Upto fourteen people were rushed to hospital after what police say is a grenade was lobbed into a bar in Nairobi around 1am on Monday. Kenyan...
South Africa’s president says he has suspended the national police chief and fired two Cabinet ministers implicated in graft. In an announcement Monday aired live on...
What is one to make of Herman Cain? What does he represent? Or even more importantly, who does he speak for? Should we move beyond his...
Foreign military forces have joined the offensive against the
Andrew Holness (pictured), has been sworn in as Jamaica’s ninth prime minister. The 39-year-old Holness has taken the oath of allegiance to his country before about...
The spotlight will today be focused on the lawns of King's House, the governor general's official residence and the scenic setting where Andrew Holness is set...
Environmental damage in Nigeria A village in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta has sued Royal Dutch Shell PLC in a U.S. federal court for US$1 billion over...
The outgoing Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding (pictured), will address the nation tonight at 8.00pm local time on both radio and television stations. It is...
The Jamaican Prime Minister designate Andrew Holness (pictured), has pledged to reduce on the red-tape impeding the development and growth of business, while simultaneously addressing the...
President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all...
Members of a Haitian amputee soccer team were in Washington this week to conduct clinics for wounded American troops from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center....
Dr. Adan Hassan Hillow, center-left, and Dr. Ali Omar Salim, center-right, appear in courtroom. (Photo: The Standard) Kenyan police have arrested a Muslim cleric on a...
Black Pupils in class Black schoolboys are underachieving in exams due to a cultural misconception that academic success is a sign of homosexuality, teaching leaders claim....
Herman Cain is now under assault by a key group that boosted his fortunes: the conservative media. Yesterday, Cain’s muddled comments on abortion surfaced. Later in...
The death of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi expands the growing string of security victories on President Barack Obama’s watch and reinforces his own style of dealing...
IT IS still not clear if Jamaica will be represented at the next Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Perth, Western Australia. The meeting will be...
The full impact of Kenya’s war on Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab started to emerge on Wednesday after the Kenyan treasury warned of possible spending cuts in...
President Barack Obama teamed up with his popular and personable wife Wednesday on the final leg of a three-day bus trip, seeking to use her broad...
One more staff member has died nearly two months after a car bombing hit the U.N.’s headquarters in Nigeria, bringing the death toll to 24, a...
Garry Conille (pictured), has been sworn in as Haiti’s new Prime Minister along with 16 cabinet ministers. The new government takes office five months after Michel...
Cooling Towers, Soweto, South Africa South Africa has signed a work plan with the International Energy Agency (IEA) that will see the country step closer to...
At the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, former restaurant executive and GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain further explained his position on the...
Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding (pictured), is expected to formally tender his resignation to the Governor General on Sunday and a new prime minister sworn in....
(Barbados Nation) A two-year wage freeze in the Public Service and immediate cuts in Government spending form part of a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) prescription...
The president of oil-rich Angola on Tuesday denied his country was a dictatorship but admitted there was a need for more social dialogue after a series...
-(Gleaner) The increasing possibility of more arable lands in the Caribbean falling out of production because of salination (lacking in organic content on account of rising...
Members of Kenya’s army march dais during a recent ceremony in Nairobi. A push by Kenyan ground forces toward a strategic Somali town has been slowed...
Since the inception of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City on Sept. 17, the effort has spread across the globe. However, while people...
Police in Uganda fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against high food prices and corruption in the capital. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba says police stopped Monday’s...
President Barack Obama sought to tap public discontent with big money elites Monday as he kicked off a campaign-style bus tour to blame Republican obstructionism for...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that U.S. military “personnel” being sent to Uganda to help fight the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) will...
President Obama urged the nation Sunday to celebrate the dedication of the memorial to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by continuing to press...
Kenyan military forces moved into southern Somalia on Sunday, an official and residents said, a day after top Kenyan defense officials said the country has the...
The International Criminal Court‘s (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said up to six people will be probed for involvement in post-election atrocities in Ivory Coast (Côte...
Thousands of Americans led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civic leaders rallied for easier access to jobs on Saturday as they gathered against the...
North Sudan will go ahead with plans to adopt an entirely Islamic constitution and strengthen Islamic law, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Wednesday, three months...
Opposition parties in Liberia on Saturday said they were pulling out of the elections, claiming fraud, as vote-counting put incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the...
US President Barack Obama. Photo/ FILE President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously...
Education minister, Andrew Holness is on track to becoming the next Prime Minister of Jamaica, should he remain unopposed on October 19. Prime Minister Bruce Golding...
Zambia’s new president declared himself “allergic to corruption” and said Friday he will investigate alleged abuse of development funds by members of parliament. President Michael Sata...
Barack Obama once contemplated what it would be like to take his two daughters to the National Mall to see a monument to Martin Luther King...
(Reuters) – President Robert Mugabe’s failing health has likely forced his Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party to press for early elections in...
Fueled by Tea Party supporters, conservatives and high-interest GOP primary voters, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain (pictured), now leads the race for the Republican presidential...
Three top government officials in Uganda who stepped down from their jobs while facing corruption charges have told a court they are not guilty. Foreign Affairs...
It has been confirmed that Prime Minister Bruce Golding will be leaving office before the originally announced November date. Andrew Holness (pictured), will be sworn in...
Revolutionary forces captured fighters close to Mutassim Gaddafi, one of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi’s sons in his father’s home town, but there was no confirmation that...
Authorities say members of a radical Muslim sect attacked a bank in northeast Nigeria, killing one police officer and stealing an undisclosed sum of money. Borno...
Liberians vote in presidential election Africa’s only female president who was just awarded the Nobel Peace prize for helping stabilize this war-torn nation led in unofficial...
The Wigton Windfarm Ltd. (Wigton) will transform its resource center into a high-tech training facility for renewable energy, with the aim of developing local capacity and...
A diverse group of young emerging leaders from all across Africa and the diaspora has come together to promote a unified vision for the continent and...
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he’s prepared to break his jobs bill into pieces and try to move it that way, hours before the measure faced...
Map of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Few in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Katanga copper belt are happy with local provincial governor...
The UN security council will decide imminently whether or not to renew the mandate of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), established in 2004,...
Liberian voters camped out overnight and then braved rains Tuesday in the capital to vote in the West African nation’s presidential election, expected to serve as...
She may have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but even that may not be enough to persuade voters in this nation with 80 percent unemployment...
Voting in Cameroon – Courtesy Getty Images Opposition candidates on Monday alleged widespread fraud and intimidation at polling stations, a day after voters cast ballots in...
The Jamaica Labor Party‘s (JLP) powerful Area Council has endorsed Andrew Holness (pictured), for the postion of party leader and prime minister of Jamaica. Holness accepted...
This week could see a turning point for President Obama’s US$447 billion jobs bill, which gets its first big political test in the coming days —...
Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital on Monday after pro-government forces attacked militant positions following what the African Union force said were the deaths of...
Political analysts in Jamaica, are suggesting that there could be an early general election, – possibly before the 2012 London Olympics and next year’s observation of...
Voting in Cameroon’s presidential elections got off to a slow start on Sunday, with polling stations opening late or none at all. Seven of Cameroon’s 20...
Ms. Maathai was cremated in a casket made of bamboo, water hyacinth and papyrus so that no trees would be cut down – Photo: BBC Kenyans...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama launched an onslaught against banks and Republicans on Thursday for working to block financial reform, using a populist tone...
Zambia’s new president, Michael Sata (pictured), said on Saturday he would not travel to Malawi for a regional summit because his counterpart had failed to apologise...
Andrew Holness (pictured), will be brought into discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team. Holness, now has the backing of a majority of government members...
Nigeria’s lower house of parliament has approved a deal in which offenders convicted in Britain will serve out their jail terms in their home country. About...
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their...
Barbados and other Caribbean nations have endured the loss of their highly skilled and educated labor to the United States, Canada and other developed nations in...
President Barack Obama says that many of the activities by the financial sector that precipitated the financial crisis in 2008 were not necessarily illegal and thus...
The Jamaica government has moved to dispel reports that outgoing Prime Minister Bruce Golding (pictured), could move up his timetable to quit as leader of the...
Senate Democrats are rewriting portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill to include a new 5 percent tax on income above US$1 million, a proposal that...
Dr. Garry Conille (pictured), the new Haitian Prime Minister, has been working behind the scenes to rebuild a broken, quake-ravaged nation. Now, as the man in...
A pilot project to fight gang violence and other activities is to be rolled out in Belize, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago....
If voters were asked to elect the new leader of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP), the 39 year-old Andrew Holness (pictured), would win in a landslide....
A spokesman for Senegal’s president says he will seek a third term despite unrest and calls for his resignation. Spokesman Serigne Mbacke Ndiaye said Tuesday that...
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly (pictured), says the government is boosting student enrollment this year by putting more than 700,000 youths into classrooms. The leader says that...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu – Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu says the country’s governing ANC party is worse than the apartheid regime for delaying...
Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of funding armed gangs in Nigeria, this is said to have fuelled human rights abuses in the country. The oil...
The Supreme Court has turned away another challenge to President Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president. The high court on Monday refused without comment to hear...
Authorities in Kenya say they have arrested a security guard in connection with the kidnapping of a disabled Frenchwoman by militants from Somalia. The Frenchwoman was...
Nigeria has marked 51 years of independence in a low-key ceremony, prompted by security fears that followed a series of deadly blasts across Africa’s most populous...
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar was discharged from the private St. Clair Medical Center on Friday, two days after she was admitted to the institution complaining...
Police say they detained and freed separatists in Nigeria’s southeast who carried symbols of the failed Republic of Biafra. Ebonyi state police spokesman John Elu said...
A past photo of George Wright The lawyer for a captured American fugitive said his client wanted to serve the rest of his jail time in...
The Information Minister said transition is among issues to be outlined.
In the early part of the twentieth century, a large number of African Americans migrated to the northern states to escape racism and prejudice in the...
Jamaica’s Finance Minister Audley Shaw said Greece should follow the example of the Caribbean nation and restructure the national debt as a first step toward solving...
Ivory Coast has launched a South African-style truth and reconciliation commission in a bid to heal the wounds of a post-election conflict that left at least...
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar was rushed to hospital today after complaining of feeling unwell. A brief statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister...
Haiti’s president (pictured), is moving forward with a controversial campaign pledge to restore the country’s disbanded military with an initial force of 3,500 soldiers, according to...
Zimbabwe will soon probe foreign-owned firms to establish their level of compliance with a law requiring them to sell at least a 51 percent shareholding in...
Opposition supporters attempting to join a march were violently dispersed on Tuesday, and at least four people were killed when paramilitary police seized control of traffic...
Dr. Helena Ndume, the head of the eye department at Namibia’s largest hospital, Windhoek Central, has dedicated her life to help to restore sight in a...
A South African arms company has unveiled what it calls the first all-African military plane. Johannesburg-based Paramount Group boss Ivor Ichikowitz, showing reporters the AHRLAC on...
St. Lucia’s housing minister on Monday resigned from his Cabinet post shortly after disclosing that the U.S. State Department had revoked his diplomatic and visitor visas....
In the crowded slums of Lagos, Nigeria, untreated sewage mingles with the chaotic network of pipes that deliver water to the city. Those who can’t afford...
Prof. Wangari Maathai (pictured), the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded...
The Law Association and Transparency Institute say police officers need to be held to a higher level of accountability.
Nigerian officials have seized a sizable amount of explosives hidden inside a shipping container from China at one of the West African nation’s major ports, an...
Antigua and Barbuda has demanded reparations for injustices suffered by African slaves and their descendants. Mr Baldwin Spencer (pictured), the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of...
President Obama has encountered stiff resistance from Republicans who make no secret of their desire to bounce him out of the White House next year, but...
While the West is accusing China of the “re-colonization of Africa”, it is also worth checking out what Western nations and their instituitions are doing on...
President Barack Obama is giving states the flexibility to opt out of provisions of the No Child Left Behind law, a move he says is designed...
The Governor cites internal security risks as the reason for his decision.
The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia says challenger Michael Sata (pictured), has defeated the incumbent in presidential elections. Irene Mambilima announced early Friday that...
Senegal’s ruling party said Thursday that it is canceling all political demonstrations, an announcement that comes a day before the nation’s opposition planned to hold a...
Several dozen protesters have barged into a press conference in Haiti where Amnesty International released a report on the case against former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier (pictured)....
Employing in-your-face politics, President Barack Obama sold his jobs plan Thursday from the turf of the top Republicans on Capitol Hill, combatively calling them out by...
Strapped to a gurney in Georgia’s death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark...
US Supreme Court refuses to block execution of Troy Davis. The court’s decision to deny the stay came after 10 p.m., more than three hours after...
Troy Davis (pictured), the condemned inmate who convinced hundreds of thousands of people but not the justice system of his innocence, filed an eleventh-hour plea Wednesday...
The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia has released early results of the presidential vote that show a challenger in the lead. Irene Mambilima told...
Tennis superstar Serena Williams has been appointed UNICEF‘S newest international Goodwill Ambassador. UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake announced Williams’ appointment on Tuesday, saying she is also...
Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya Kenya’s prime minister was evacuated from his office after a grenade was discovered in another part of the building,...
Troy Davis (pictured), insists he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989 is set to be executed on Wednesday. Georgia’s pardons board has...
Ugandan police say they have arrested a man who wrote a book criticizing the longtime president and the ruling party. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said Tuesday...
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett (right) welcomes China Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu (left) to Jamaica on his arrival – Photo by Barrington Flemming China’s vice premier and...
Uruguayan peacekeepers A military judge ordered five Uruguayan sailors accused of sexually abusing a young Haitian man jailed until a tribunal decides whether to dishonorably discharge...
Nigerian authorities are still hunting for the alleged mastermind of last month’s deadly U.N. headquarters bombing. They said Sunday that a 25 million naira ($160,000) reward...
President Barack Obama is keeping up his appeal for public support of his US$447 billion proposal to boost jobs and consumer spending by urging Americans to...
A relative of the slain leader of a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria was shot dead Saturday, only two days after taking part in peace talks...
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will open a branch campus in Rwanda next year, making it the first American university to do so in central Africa. The...
Several novice African American farmers are harvesting their first crops, including okra, black eyed peas and cucumbers, on a demonstration farm in Fresno, California. The 15-acre...
A former Nigerian president has urged relatives of a slain radical Muslim sect leader to halt the group’s increasingly bloody attacks against the government, meeting attendees...
The Labour Minister is working hard to get the legislation enacted soon.
A court in Togo has sentenced one of the president’s relatives to 20 years for his role in a 2009 coup plot in the West African...
President Barack Obama is backing away from some deficit reduction proposals he considered during failed summer negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner even as he prepares...
The number of African-Americans living under the poverty line, which is $11,139 for an individual in 2010, rose to 10.7 million, up 1.6 percent. In all,...
LUANDA, Angola — State media say an Angolan air force plane crashed as it took off from a central base, killing 30 people including three generals....
CLUTCH - Breaking weeks of silence, Jackson addressed the rumors speaking to the press after a meeting in the Senate Hart Building...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Experts say the government was repeatedly warned about the dangers of people living on top of a petroleum pipeline after an explosion claimed...
The conference is expected to attract 300 Caribbean and international renewable energy stakeholders.
KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan judge has convicted two suspects over bombings last year that killed 76 people in the East African nation. Judge Owiny Dollo...
Eleven new areas and the maritime boundary are now included.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Eight suspected members of a radical Muslim sect were charged Tuesday with taking part in bombings and attacks around Nigeria’s capital that killed...
The two-day China Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum opened here on today with China announcing that it would pump millions of dollars in assistance to...
African leaders gave immediate former French president Jacques Chirac (pictured) and his prime minister Dominique de Villepin briefcases full of cash, notably to finance election campaigns,...
WASHINGTON (AP) - At the same time, the Democratic National Committee is backing up the effort with a new ad campaign in politically key states from...
Sept. 14, marks four months in office for Haitian President Michel Martelly (pictured). It is now more than 120 days since he was elected, and yet...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The black man who leads the youth wing of South Africa's governing party has no right to sing a song some whites find...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Executive Architect Ed Jackson Jr. told The Associated Press on Sunday that the memorial will now be dedicated Oct. 16. A formal announcement...
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - 'God is our refuge and strength,' Obama intoned, 'a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear.'...
The death toll stands at 158 in Saturday's ferry accident off the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, government officials said.
Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago have extended a state of emergency by three months, citing continued security concerns since the measure was first imposed last month...
The United States is sending the first team of diplomats into the Libyan capital since its embassy was shuttered earlier this year, a U.S. State Department...
Activist retired Bishop Desmond Tutu (pictured), said South Africa’s government will “shoot themselves in the foot” if they deny a visa to the Dalai Lama to...
President Barack Obama is doubling down on a payroll tax cut for workers and small businesses, hoping it will do more to revive the job market...
Over the past decade, Africa has grown fast and continuously — its economy expanded at an annual rate of more than 5 percent. That is almost...
Economists say the most important part of the jobs plan President Barack Obama will unveil Thursday night is the renewal of two measures already in place,...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed Bernice Donald as a judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
MBABANE, Swaziland — Security forces and protesters clashed in two towns Wednesday during a week of planned protests demanding an end to Swaziland’s absolute monarchy. About...