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...