ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian officials say they will not heed the U.N.’s recommendation to halt construction on a dam that the world body says endangers...
Andrew Andasi (L) met WFP representative Ismail Omer to ask for advice – Courtesy: BBC An 11-year-old Ghanaian schoolboy has so far raised more than $500...
It has now been four months since the conclusion of the two-round presidential and legislative national election in Haiti. The presidential winner, Michel Martelly (pictured), has...
OPINION - The 800 lb elephant in the room, however, is the issue of her race and status and how that may impact the prosecution's decision...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Authorities say two suspected members of a radical Muslim sect in northeastern Nigeria shot and killed a senior prison official and a school...
OPINION - London -- and England -- is now dealing with black kids, white kids and indeed most likely children from other ethnicities who all have...
LUSAKA, Zambia — A Zambian judge has dismissed a petition from the main opposition party trying to block President Rupiah Banda from running for re-election next...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - He insisted sanctions by Western nations have stalled training and modernization programs in the military...
Black lawmakers are embarking on a month-long campaign Monday to address the staggering unemployment rate among African Americans, an issue that has become a growing source...
A mother and her childen wait for assistance at a makeshift medical camp in the Hawlwadag district of Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: EPA The season of “giving”...
ATLANTA (AP) - Hundreds turned out Saturday for the Atlanta funeral of the Rev. Creecy, a third-generation Baptist preacher...
The man chosen to replace Sir Edwin Carrington as CARICOM Secretary General will begin his work next week.
The country has to reduce expenditure in order to meet targets under its IMF loan arrangement.
The tremor was a moderate one that was felt in at least two other Caribbean islands.
Tragedy: Mark Duggan and Simone Wilson at the grave of their daughter in Enfield cemetery Massive riots gripped London late Saturday, leading to the injury of...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about military veterans entering the workforce at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, August 5, 2011.Credit: Reuters/Larry Downing With every gloomy...
The debt crises in Europe and the United States could tempt African countries to throw fiscal caution to the wind, threatening hard-won economic gains just as...
WASHINGTON (AP) - An American official says the helicopter appears to have been shot down Saturday in eastern Afghanistan in the deadliest single combat incident of...
Street literature, officially recognized as urban fiction, has evolved into a permanent part of American literature. With the success of street literature, many African-American authors have...
Media around the world have been reporting on a recent African Development Bank study claiming that Africa has a new middle class of 313 million, a...
JOHANNESBURG — South African officials say they will build a dedicated museum honoring Nelson Mandela’s struggle against apartheid, on the site where he was arrested 49...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring picked up slightly in the U.S. in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst...
JOHANNESBURG — A new report predicts a sub-Saharan banking boom, with bankers reaching out to the majority of Africans who do not have accounts and increasing...
LUSAKA, Zambia — Zambia’s main opposition party says President Rupiah Banda is ineligible for re-election because both his parents were allegedly born outside the country. The...
The Jamaican official says he wants to investigate whether it was a legitimate move by the government to scrap the industry altogether.
Heavy rains continue as the storm continues to take aim at Hispaniola.
Following the latest murders in Barbados – the killing of 79-year-old retired engineer Arthur Chaderton and his 42-year-old son-in-law, Metamara Stock, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite (pictured),...
China and India, Asia’s two emerging powerhouses, have made no secret of their desire to engage with resource-rich Africa as they seek new economic partnerships to...
The African Union said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday it has postponed by two weeks a donor conference to raise money for Somalis and other Horn...
Niger security forces arrested ten soldiers for trying to overthrow the government last month, President Mahamadou Issoufou (pictured), said late on Tuesday, in his first public...
Libyan government forces fired a missile at an Italian warship in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday in a rare attack on the NATO fleet offshore, a...
Three more regions of Somalia have now been struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations announced Wednesday.
It’s been acknowledged that the existing partnership isn’t the best way to coordinate UN activities in the region.
DESPITE SOME adverse findings, the commissions set up by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) to investigate and clear candidates for...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that heads off an unprecedented U.S. financial default and begins the process of curbing the country's spiraling...
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The United Nations says the southern African country of Zimbabwe needs more than $480 million this year in food, health and humanitarian aid....
JOHANNESBURG — Union officials say South African gold miners will return to work this evening after ending a five-day strike. Spokesman Lesiba Seshoka says the mining...
MINISTER OF Youth, Sports and Culture Olivia Grange, has urged Jamaicans to use the period of Independence to renew their commitment to the country.Grange was speaking...
Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister says the accident could have repercussions for tourism-dependent economies in the region.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone’s main opposition party has named retired Brig. Gen. Julius Maada Bio as its candidate for presidential elections next year. The...
President Goodluck Jonathan tasks committee to carry out negotiations with Islamist group and report back by mid-August.
Less than 48 hours after Caribbean Airlines celebrated the newest Boeing 737-800 to its fleet, their happiness turned to tragedy with the crash of one of...
Several people, including the pilot, have been injured but there are no fatalities.
Deal agreed with automakers requires cars and light trucks to average 54.5mpg by 2025 in bid to wean the country off oil imports. Barack Obama’s announcement...
As we approach D-day, no agreement is in sight to extend America’s credit line. A default in servicing US debt has moved from the unthinkable to...
JOHANNESBURG — A Malawian human rights activist said Friday he is in hiding after being threatened before last week’s violent protests in this southern African country....
WASHINGTON (AP) - He spoke at the White House as a bill by Republican House Speaker John Boehner to lift the debt ceiling and slash spending...
KANO, Nigeria — Officials in northern Nigeria say parents who do not allow their children to be vaccinated against polio now risk jail time for defying...
The agreements the OAS has signed with one Caribbean country will focus on public security for the wider region.
THE BAHAMAS has banned the export of scrap metal for at least three months as copper theft cases continue to increase.The government said in a statement...
The hotel maid who accused ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her made an emotional public appeal on Thursday for people to believe her story...
Irwin LaRocque knows the next three years will not be easy for him and the Caribbean regional integration movement.
OPINION - Stalled immigration reform -- like several other high-profile Obama campaign promises has become a proxy for frustrated political ambitions...
LUSAKA, Zambia — Zambia’s president says the southern African country will hold national elections in September and that he will run for his first full five-year...
News reporting is fixated on the D.C. beltway scheming, beaming pictures of government officials zipping in and out of meetings with occasional public comment. Meanwhile, the...
President Michel Martelly's housing and education plans get backing from the regional grouping.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The NAACP's president is urging South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley to remove the Confederate flag that flies near her Statehouse office...
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has taken over a second bank in Antigua and Barbuda to prevent it from collapse, after it failed to meet...
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president is proposing limiting the president and governors to one term. A spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan says the term would be...
18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly is suing her McGehee, Arkansas public high school for barring her from being valedictorian because of her race...
MEMBERS OF the public are being urged to advise the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) of any instance in which persons are detained by the police...
Across the Middle East and North Africa, superficial political calm has been shattered by convulsions of rage. Idealistic young protesters have toppled some of the most...
theGRIO REPORT - However, many civil rights advocates still want the Justice Department to proceed, citing the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007...
The regional grouping says it's horrified by last Friday's twin terror attacks in Norway.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A bomb exploded in a busy neighborhood in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing at least eight people, a witness said Sunday. Badigma Bukar, 45,...
OPINION - The White House is betting most American will tire of the bomb throwers (and that Wall Street will think twice about playing ball with...
BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann:"CRIME IS under control in Brown's Town these days.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Friday's move was expected under the repeal law Congress passed in December. Before "don't ask, don't tell," the military did not allow gays...
DAKAR, Senegal — Chad’s government on Friday called on Senegal to extradite Chad’s ex-president to Belgium to face trial, a move that clears another hurdle in...
The 15-member regional grouping demands a halt to the passage of hazardous waste through the Caribbean Sea as another shipment is set to be transported.
Ambassador Irwin LaRocque is named the region’s top civil servant, replacing Sir Edwin Carrington who left the post at the end of last year.
Brazil’s Embraer sees Africa as a major growth market and targets doubling the number of its jets operating on the continent, a top executive at the...
MIAMI - Kendrick Meek has been nominated by President Barack Obama as a public delegate to the United Nations General Assembly...
Barack Obama may be the Kevlar President -- bad news can bruise him, but none can pierce his armor to cause any severe damage to his...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Tens of thousands of Somalis are feared dead in the world's worst famine in a generation...
Although making it clear she won’t be negotiating with the unions who want more money for public workers, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar agrees to meet...
MANYANI, Kenya — Kenyan authorities have burned five tons of contraband elephant ivory in hopes of raising awareness about rising levels of poaching. President Mwai Kibaki...
President Obama meets this afternoon with business and non-profit groups dedicated to improving the nation's school systems...
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - At least one member of his security detail was killed, several more were wounded and portions of his house were destroyed, said...
With Cameroon set to start exporting billion-dollar uranium deposits from next year, environmental concerns over the mining area are already rearing their head. Exploration by Canadian-registered...
David Cameron: Free trade in Africa shows a way out of poverty Fifty years ago, per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea was twice...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is vowing to fight any efforts to block the work of a new consumer protection bureau head...
Happy Birthday Madiba!
Zimbabwe's electoral commission is not able to conduct the country's elections this year unless it gets cash injection from the government; a state-owned weekly newspaper reported...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and lawmakers pushed separate plans to avert an unprecedented default on America's national debt, with no signs of an immediate breakthrough...
NEWS ONE - Many programs are being created and funded to push young black males along a path to success before the ills of society corrupt...
NEWS ONE - The University of Connecticut denied the acceptance of 13-year-old girl. Although, she has an IQ test score of 149, it was declared she...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Administration officials and private economists say that if the U.S. fails to raise its borrowing limit by Aug. 2 and begins to stop...
MONROVIA, Liberia — Football star George Weah returned to Liberia to a hero’s welcome after receiving a degree in business administration from DeVry University in Miami....
Prime Minister Bruce Golding is urging Jamaicans to be patient even as they push for repairs to the infrastructure in their communities."I understand the anguish that...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president has appointed most of the members of the new Cabinet. President Goodluck Jonathan told the newly appointed ministers at the presidential...
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations has a new member — South Sudan. The African nation, which gained independence Saturday, became the U.N.’s 193rd member by...
A majority of American would blame Republicans if the nation fails to raise it's debt ceiling. In addition, voters give a thumbs down to President Obama's...
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen said young men must be taught character traits such as responsibility, perseverance, discipline, honesty, courage, fairness, respect, integrity, citizenship and patriotism....
The giggles started when the seventh journalist in a row said that his question was for Egypt’s water and irrigation minister, Mohamed Nasreddin Allam. The non-Egyptian...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Kenya on Tuesday to step up its fight against graft to help lure investment from her country, which is seeking to...
Illegal immigrants in Grenada get an extra month to regularize their status.
The Auditor General reports poor management and political interference in the government’s procurement practices.
Africa optimism rising Africa offers among the world’s best investment prospects as emerging markets grow ever more important, although its economies risk being destabilized by the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A public university says it is closing indefinitely after receiving bomb threats from a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria’s restive northeast. University of...
Two months after Alassane Ouattara was at last sworn in as president, following a bitterly disputed election last November, the government is restoring order and Abidjan...
Fledgling nation forms cabinet and details plan for release of new money, two days after independence from North Sudan.
The two will sign an enhanced Bilateral Cooperation Agreement which covers a wide range of areas.
The Opposition leader warns that any such programme would do irreparable harm to the country and its citizens.
DOUALA, Cameroon — A government official says Cameroon’s parliament has adopted a new law allowing citizens living overseas to vote in the country’s upcoming presidential election....
The Mid July Editorial What is the essence of being a black immigrant in a strange land? Should we think of and relate to Harry Belafonte...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a new peacekeeping force for South Sudan on Friday...
KINSHASA, Congo — Official from regional airline says Congo passenger plane has crashed; death toll unknown. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material...
The Congressional Black Caucus publicly accused the Obama administration of failing to adequately address a veritable epidemic of African American unemployment...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday announced that the country's new attorney general, Ransford Braham, will take up office on August 8. Braham, who has long been...
JUBA, Sudan — The people of South Sudan finally get their own country on Saturday, an emotional independence celebration few thought possible during a half century...
JOHANNESBURG — A prominent Swaziland democracy activist says the tiny nation’s economic crisis could spur democratic change, and lobbied Thursday for neighboring South Africa to deny...
The Premier says there's a bright and encouraging likelihood of growth within the Islands' economy for this year and beyond.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is leading a U.S. delegation to Juba for Saturday's ceremonies marking the independence of South Sudan, the White...
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - Darryl James Swanson has appeared in federal court to face charges that he threatened to kill President Barack Obama and the president's...
JUBA, Sudan — Lual D’Awol cultivated a passion for rap and basketball while living in Baltimore. Today he is in Southern Sudan, which becomes the world’s...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) - The Birmingham City Council has pardoned six women who were arrested in 1963 for protesting segregation-era laws...
He used to be dismissed as an ignorant buffoon, whose populist ranting and colourful racist tirades usefully filled newspaper column inches on a dull day. But...
Regional leaders say they've shortlisted five candidates and will name a replacement for Sir Edwin Carrington soon.
THE PERSON who will fill the post of attorney general has been selected and will be named this week, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said."I have...
CAIRO — An Egyptian foreign ministry official says Egypt will recognize South Sudan after secession later this week. Mohammed Mursi told the Al-Ahram daily on Tuesday...
theGRIO REPORT - The Aubrey Stewart Project aims to tell the story of a the "Wereth Eleven", a troop of black soldiers in World War II...
NEWS ONE - A savant from the Bronx was recently accepted to the University of Connecticut at the young age of thirteen...
OPINION - By publicizing and advertising what had happened to them, these African-American celebrities have provided a public service...
In Uganda, where grasshoppers are regarded as a delicious seasonal snack, the appetite for the crispy critters has created a booming informal trade that has turned...
MONTHS OF arduous negotiations and at times hard-line positions taken by both the Government and unions representing public-sector workers have finally ended with the Police Federation...
Good news for Nigeria. A wake-up call for South Africa. A new Morgan Stanley report, predicts that Nigeria’s economy will overtake South Africa’s as Africa’s largest...
Finance Minister Audley Shaw says Jamaica is planning to return the bailout funds it got from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as he moves to re-engineer...
Maj. Gen. Ronald Bailey has assumed command of the Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Division, the first African American to command the oldest, largest and most decorated...
Ethiopian troops killed 15 rebels in the country’s restive east and arrested two Swedish journalists who were with them, an Ethiopian official said Monday. Johan Persson...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — East African leaders say the African Union and United Nations should impose sanctions on Eritrea’s mining sector. The leaders who met in...
Baldwin Spencer calls for more places for OECS students at the Caribbean’s university.
African nations will not execute an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, an African Union summit decided Friday. The summit...
OPINION - As with every war, including the ones currently being waged, African-Americans have served this nation nobly...
A lot of politicians do a whole lot of talking, but who should be held accountable on the Black unemployment crisis?
NEW YORK (AP) - "I thought he was a d**k yesterday," Halperin said Thursday during a discussion about Obama's news conference on Wednesday.
According to Sir Ronald Sanders Zimbabwe has the highest ratio of debt to GDP in the world, its talented people have fled the country and so...
NEW YORK (AP) - The inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and culture have been steadily draining of black children...
Caribbean journalists meeting here last weekend celebrated the news that not a single colleague was killed during the first six months of this year.
Brazile writes that her sister in Florida was a victim of voter suppression during the 2000 election...
SANTA MONICA, Calif (AP) - Police are investigating. Sgt. Richard Lewis says the students could face assault and hate-crime charges...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian official says nine people were arrested last week on suspicions of organizing a terrorist network and planning attacks. Government spokesman...
But the Caribbean is not under threat.
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — Organizers printed Moammar Gadhafi’s portrait and mounted it on one of the flags decorating the road to the African Union summit venue...
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General is the biggest casualty.
DAKAR, Senegal — Activists in the West African nation of Senegal are vowing to keep up their protests unless the president’s son resigns from his government...
LONG a symbol of stagnation, the African continent is experiencing a reawakening. Poverty and hunger are still widespread problems, but Africa’s growing middle class is creating...
UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council has extended the mandate of the 19,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo for a year, saying any force reduction should...
The staffers are Matt Murphy, Cain's New Hampshire campaign director, and Jim Zeiler, the campaign's regional director left due to 'strategic differences'...
MBABANE, Swaziland — Cash-strapped Swaziland’s state hospitals have only two months’ supplies of AIDS drugs, the country’s health minister has told parliament in an assessment that...
Safaricom subscribers can now search for and reconnect with their loved ones using their mobile phone via an application provided by Ericsson and Refugees United. The...
In a bid to ease the activities of the judicial sector in the country, courts will, from next month, be digitally interlinked. In an interview with...
ATLANTA (AP) - About 100 presidents of historically black colleges are meeting to discuss their role in the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s prime minister has paid more than $37,000 in back taxes to abide by a new constitution that requires lawmakers to pay taxes...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Many Americans changed their perceptions of discrimination and racism after Barack Obama became the nation's first black president...
THE PRESENT Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration is still seen by Jamaicans as the more corrupt of the two major political parties, but the number of...
DETROIT (AP) - The Michigan parole board voted Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from prison after more than a year behind bars...
Africa is starting to change for the better and Kenya is becoming the leader in this long overdue movement offering African-American entrepreneurs an opportunity not only...
The National Security Council says the plan seeks to reduce the risk of young people turning to a life of crime and the high rates of...
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) - Winfrey is to receive an honorary doctorate from a South African University know for tense racial relations as a sign of...
ARUSHA, Tanzania — The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes...
Cathy Nash, CEO of Citizen Bank The lawsuit against Citizens Republic Bancorp and its subsidiary Citizens Bank of Flint, Michigan, stemmed from allegations that the banks...
The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution that would establish an interim peacekeeping force for the disputed border region of Abyei, U.S. Ambassador...
FirstCaribbean International Bank has announced that it will be branded under the CIBC banner by adopting the co-branding ‘CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank.’ FirstCaribbean’s parent company, CIBC,...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be the largest ever, amounting to half of a 60 million-barrel international infusion of...
From BBC: Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade has dropped some of his planned constitutional changes, officials say. He no longer wants to reduce the proportion of votes...
MOST JAMAICANS seem to approve of the manner in which attorneys-at-law K.D. Knight and Patrick Atkinson treated Prime Minister Bruce Golding while he was on the...
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi accuses Nato of murder, two days after members of the family of a close aide were killed in an air strike.
African migrants send home billions Mashonaland, Zimbabwe (CNN) — They might have left their countries to earn themselves a living abroad but for millions of Africans...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- There is nothing the state of North Carolina can do, Elaine Riddick says, to make up for forcing her to be sterilized...
What is the fastest way to get to the top of a hill? Some people will fall asleep and dream of creative ways to do this...
WASHINGTON (AP) - But with 100,000 U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan, that drawdown may not be substantial enough to satisfy some lawmakers on Capitol Hill and...
Clinton arrives today - United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will today reaffirm her nation's commitment to the region when she visits Montego Bay, St...
theGRIO REPORT - Deshon Marman's attorney alleges racial discrimination after a photo shows a scantily clad man boarding a plane, just a week before the college...
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s president threatened Wednesday to block pipelines in the south if the government there doesn’t pay to transit oil or share it with...
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan opposition groups are accusing the longtime president of lying about his age to avoid constitutional age limits. Free Uganda Now leader Brenda...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president has said he favors a significant withdrawal, his advisers have not quantified that statement...
First lady Michelle Obama arrived in South Africa on Monday for the start of a weeklong trip that officials have said will focus on youth leadership...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya for the first time on Monday saw two judges sworn in to the country’s Supreme Court, a new judicial body created as...