Billionaire investor Robert F. Smith’s private equity firm has doubled its money after striking a deal this week to sell a software maker. Vista Equity Partners...
Bloomberg | Long-delayed negotiations between Tanzania and oil majors for a US$42 billion onshore liquefied natural gas plant were concluded in May, paving the way for...
Haiti’s former prime minister, Joseph Jouthe says he has been questioned by an investigating judge into the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Moïse, who...
AP | Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has won a second term in office, receiving 56.17 percent of ballots cast and narrowly clearing the threshold...
By Håvar Bauck The Exchange Africa | The Trans-African Highway network, a bold blueprint conceived to foster economic integration on the African continent, has been a...
The government of Barbados has confirmed that former prime minister, Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown early on Monday. It did...
AP | Congressional leaders unveiled a new stamp Wednesday in a Capitol ceremony commemorating former Representative John Lewis, a civil rights icon who served more than...
By Gregory Simpkins Now into its second year, the war ignited by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drones on. After billions of dollars in weapons and financial...
Bloomberg | Kenya plans to repurchase at least half of its US$2 billion eurobond that’s maturing in June 2024 before the end of this year, President...
The government of St Vincent & the Grenadines on Thursday ordered a full shutdown of the country, with the exception of essential services as Tropical Storm...
Press Release | Johnson C. Smith University’s Board of Trustees announced yesterday the selection of Dr. Valerie Kinloch as the university’s 15th president, effective August 1,...
The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is reviewing its trade instruments to make them fit for purpose to facilitate increased trade, agricultural expansion, and industrial development beyond...
Reaching new heights depends on taking risks. For Antoine Grant, his path demonstrates that he was always destined for a successful entrepreneurial path. However, it required...
Bloomberg | Ghana’s economy grew faster than anticipated in the first quarter, driven by the services and agricultural sectors. Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 4.2 percent...
AP | Dr. Dre will need to make room in his trophy case for another prestigious award. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers said...
AP | With mounting frustration due to an ailing economy, rising unemployment and looming deadly protests, Sierra Leoneans are heading to the polls on Saturday, June...
Barbados Today | Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called for closer ties between the African Union (AU) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in order to...
A long-awaited museum of Black American history built on the site of a former South Carolina slave port is finally opening its doors to the public...
Reuters | Guyana will postpone by about one month its first offshore oil blocks auction as the country finalizes new terms of the country’s oil and...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been a lot said and written about industrialization in Africa, including assigning blame as to why the continent lagged behind other...
Press Release | Spelman College announced earlier this week the appointment of Pamela E. Scott-Johnson, Ph.D., C’82, as the College’s new provost and vice president for...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has reiterated its commitment to assisting the government and people of Haiti, as the country tackles several issues. In the aftermath of...
Bloomberg | Of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be optimistic about, the most promising is Kenya. Economic and political forces are converging to put...
AFP | Eritrea has rejoined the East African bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), nearly 16 years after the politically isolated state pulled out of...
In a major development for the entertainment industry, BET has become Black-owned once again after 21 years, while VH1, for the first time, now also boasts...
Bloomberg | Nigeria’s new president, Bola Tinubu, has delighted investors with decisions he’s taken in just two weeks in office. The question now is whether he...
JIS | Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has given the his country’s and wider region commitment to finding satisfactory and sustainable solutions for the people of...
Kenya Airways and Emirates have announced an interline partnership that will allow customers of both airlines access to new destinations on the two airlines’ networks within...
AP | At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar...
Bloomberg | Nigeria passed legislation that’s expected to set off the biggest shakeup of the West African nation’s chronically inadequate power industry in almost 2 decades....
By Gregory Simpkins Members of the African Diaspora in North America are justifiably concerned about racism in our backyard, so to speak. The existence of “Karens”...
The Canadian Press | Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis has become the youngest person in Canadian history to graduate from university. The 12-year-old accepted her University of Ottawa...
Airspace Africa | Ethiopian Airlines Group has successfully rebounded to pre-pandemic operational levels and is now focused on further expanding its fleet and network, according to...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have asked the United States to lift its sanctions against Venezuela so as to allow regional countries to benefit from the PetroCaribe...
AFP | The UN’s health agency on Thursday declared an end to a nearly 4-month epidemic of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, saying the disease, a...
Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s selection of Major General Janeen Birckhead as his top military advisor makes her the only Black woman in the United States currently...
JIS | Jamaica will be hosting Haitian stakeholder consultations in Kingston from June 11 to 13. Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, making the disclosure in Parliament...
Bloomberg | South Africa extended for a second time special permits allowing Zimbabwean nationals to live and work in the country until the end of the...
CARICOM Today | Statement by Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, following Guyana’s election to a Non-Permanent Seat on the United Nations...
AP | Scholar and progressive activist Cornel West announced Monday he is running for president next year as a third-party candidate, saying he wants to empower...
The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping on Monday, June 5 said it is committed to addressing the issue of plastic pollution and promoting sustainable consumption and...
Reuters | A Kenyan parliamentary committee has approved of President William Ruto’s pick for the next central bank governor and recommended that the National Assembly supports...
A magnitude of 5.5 earthquake rocked parts of Haiti early on Tuesday morning causing panic as well as damage to some buildings near Abricot in the...
By Chinedu Okafor African trade experts have highlighted a number of obstacles preventing the intra-African market from maximizing its potential, including cumbersome border inspections, harassment, solicitation...
AFP | US sprinter Jim Hines, the first man to break the 10-second barrier for 100m, has died at the age of 76, World Athletics said...
Guyana is seeking election as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the 2024-2025 term with Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Hugh...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, I wrote about the current drive to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. A reserve currency is defined as...
Black Americans make up just six percent of the life sciences workforce, according to the PEW Research Center. Forty-eight percent of those professionals are women. A...
Bloomberg | Angola reduced its gasoline subsidy, almost doubling pump prices in a nation that has some of the world’s cheapest fuel. The decision comes the...
AP | Trinidad & Tobago’s Ambassador Dennis Francis was elected Thursday as the next president of the U.N. General Assembly, the 193-member world body that has...
AP | Natalie Coles will never forget receiving an unexpected phone call in 2020. On the line was Virginia-based Dominion Energy, offering to give money to...
Bloomberg | Kenya’s president urged African countries to process payments through a platform developed to handle local currencies across the continent, as emerging nations struggle to...
By Stephen Onyeiwu As anticipated, Nigeria’s new president Bola Ahmed Tinubu has jettisoned the fuel subsidy, which is estimated to cost the Nigerian treasury about US$10...
Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has urged former employees of the cash-strapped regional airline LIAT (1974) to accept his administration’s compassionate offer while accusing...
Business Daily | Kenyan President William Ruto has announced plans to remove visa requirements for African nationals travelling to Kenya for business as a first major...
A Ghanaian peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei, South Sudan, (UNISFA) has received the 2022 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have appointed three former prime ministers as members of an Eminent Persons Group (EPG) as the regional integration grouping seeks to extend...
Reuters | Bola Tinubu was sworn in as Nigeria’s president on Monday, facing mounting calls to improve economic and security conditions which many complain worsened under...
Reuters | Botswana will not back down on demands for a bigger share of rough diamonds from its joint venture with De Beers, President Mokgweetsi Masisi...
A group of legislators led by Representative Cori Bush, has introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives in support of reparations. The resolution, which...
Reuters | Africa’s economic growth is set to edge upwards in 2023 and 2024 amid tighter global monetary policy and the fallout from Russia’s invasion of...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) says at least 9 Caribbean countries have signed the Port of Spain Commitment on Digital Integration, signalling a...
Reuters | Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all...
By Imali Ngusale The odyssey of broadening Kenyan tax net has led to the proposal of contentious Finance Bill that has elicit uproar and anger in...
Reuters | Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, formally kicked off his 2024 presidential campaign on Monday, betting his upbeat message will...
Suriname’s former Prime Minister, Wim Udenhout, died at the Paramaribo Academic Hospital on Monday night, his family has confirmed. He was 85. Udenhout served as prime...
JIS | Jamaican returning residents who are interested in starting a business are being encouraged to utilize the recently launched Jamaica Business Gateway for assistance. Jamaica’s...
By Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi Nigeria’s new Dangote petroleum refinery is Africa’s biggest – it will produce 650,000 barrels a day, giving it the potential to address...
By Gregory Simpkins Summer in America is prime vacation season. The United States has numerous attractive travel destinations – from Hawaii to Puerto Rico from Los...
AP | Cherelle Parker, a Democrat with a long political history in Pennsylvania, won Philadelphia’s mayoral primary on Tuesday, likely setting her up as the city’s...
Overshadowed by the ongoing political and socio-economic situation in Haiti, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers underwent a two-day meeting in Jamaica. Antigua & Barbuda Foreign Affairs...
By Chimgozirim Nwokoma Africa is expected to be the fastest-growing region for fintech between 2021 and 2030, even as revenues are projected to reach US$60 billion....
The Central bank of the Bahamas (CBB) Monday said the robust recovery of the Bahamian economy was sustained in 2022, underpinned by the further rebound in...
US President Joe Biden has named Air Force Chief of Staff General Charles Quinton Brown Jr., a Black Air Force fighter pilot, as the next chairman...
By Gregory Simpkins All too often, the international media and even those considered to be Africa experts focus on the crises that are evident in African...
Reuters | Ghana’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to retain former president, John Mahama, as its leader for the...
By Kristine Liao It’s become unbearably clear that climate change is here and it’s happening right now. Just a quick scroll through your news feed and...
AFP | Ethiopia’s central bank said on Thursday it had issued a mobile money licence to Kenyan telecoms giant Safaricom, the first granted to a foreign...
Reuters | Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will commission the multi-billion dollar Dangote oil refinery in two weeks, a presidency spokesperson said, setting up the plant for...
The president of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Adrian Saunders, Tuesday welcomed St. Lucia as a full member of the regional court...
By Yinka Adegoke Botswana’s acquisition of a 24 percent stake in a Belgian diamond company is one of the most ambitious attempts by an African country...
NBC Sports | Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi took the top honors at the annual Laureus World Sports Awards. Fraser-Pryce earned...
Bloomberg | Fidelity Bank Plc, Nigeria’s best-performing bank share this year, plans to expand in at least five African countries after finalizing the acquisition of the...
By Gregory Simpkins The current conflict in Sudan is the result of unintended consequences of a previous ruler’s protection scheme, a struggle for power and control...
Bloomberg | Ghanaian Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia plans to seek the nomination of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to be its presidential candidate in next...
The Canadian Press | Another celebrity appears set to join in the bidding war for the NHL’s Ottawa Senators. Rap legend Snoop Dogg said on his...
The government of Antigua & Barbuda has agreed to the terms of a joint initiative with Nigerian private carrier, Air Peace, to boost investments in LIAT...
AP | Howard University is turning to an experienced scholar of the African diaspora to serve as its new university president. Ben Vinson III, currently the...
By Anisa Muridi Africa is now projected to become the fastest-growing region globally, outpacing Asia, according to a new report by Mo Ibrahim Foundation. It is...
AP | Tori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died. She was 32. Bowie’s death was...
Bloomberg | Two of Nigeria’s richest men are battling for control of one of the country’s biggest conglomerates, with each raising their stakes dramatically. Tony Elumelu,...
The chairman of the Eric Williams Memorial Committee, Reginald Vidale, has called for the founding fathers of the regional integration movement, Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to be...
By Gregory Simpkins God has blessed Africa with abundant human and natural resources. Human resources often leave their home countries for more promising opportunities elsewhere, but...
Reuters | Nigeria’s outgoing government has recommended that the new administration of president-elect Bola Tinubu give public sector workers pay rises after removing a fuel subsidy...
Barbados Central Bank Governor, Kevin Greenidge, says the country’s economy has recovered following the slump caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Greenidge told members of the media,...
Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo has nominated a Supreme Court judge, Gertrude Torkornoo, as the country’s Chief Justice. Her nomination is subject to approval by Parliament. When...
AP | US President Joe Biden said Monday that his top domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, will leave her post next month. As director of the...
CoinDesk | The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), plans to introduce a gold-backed digital currency as legal tender to help stabilize the local currency, the Zim...
ENA | The African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat extended the African Union’s honor to Ethiopia for its conviction to the principle of finding...
Reuters | Harry Belafonte, a singer, songwriter, and groundbreaking actor who started his entertainment career belting “Day O” in his 1950s hit song “Banana Boat” before...
AP | Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson formally entered next year’s gubernatorial race at a rally Saturday, with the sharp-spoken social conservative saying North Carolina neads...
AP | The number of tourists flocking to Jamaica’s sun-drenched beaches soared nearly 100 percent in the first 3 months of the year, causing long queues...
By Gregory Simpkins In December 2010, an incident in Tunisia sparked a youth-led revolt that had an impact far beyond the country’s borders. The so-called Arab...
African Business | The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have signed a framework agreement with the Democratic Republic...
The Pythagorean Theorem—discovered by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th century BCE—is a cornerstone of mathematics. Simply stated as a2 + b2 = c2, the...
Top representatives from Kenya Airways (KQ) and Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) have met to discuss the prospect of a cargo transportation collaboration. This news comes...
Serena Williams retired from tennis, but she hasn’t let up on putting fuel to the fire of her ventures. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the businesswoman...
AP | Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have agreed on plans to introduce bans in their countries on assault-style weapons mostly manufactured in the US to curb...
AP | The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma was postponed again Monday as he seeks to have the lead prosecutor removed from...
By Gregory Simpkins Shifts in alliances are quickening as U.S. allies are moving toward the nations seeking to undo what they say is American hegemony over...
Bloomberg | Jamaica has created a Constitutional Reform Committee with the task of changing the island-nation from a constitutional monarchy, which sees the English royal as...
Having emerged in recent years as a leading voice in the developing world’s push for climate finance, Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, renewed her...
AFP | Kenya’s first operational satellite was launched into orbit on Saturday by a SpaceX rocket that took off from California, USA, according to images from...
By Jessica Blake Reuters | Africa is rich with women entrepreneurs. In fact, the continent has the highest proportion of women entrepreneurs in the world, with...
Guyana is expected to record the highest growth among Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries this year, while Haiti will record under one percent growth in 2023, according...
Bird Story Agency | Tanzania and Burundi have floated a tender for designing and constructing an electrified railway that will initially connect the two countries and...
Former Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has been admitted to hospital for “non-emergency care”, the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) confirmed on Friday. In a...
By Chinedu Okafor Tanzania garnered US$1.2 billion in investment through projects filed with the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) from January to March, compared to US$787.4 million...
Press Release | African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced that its Board of Directors has approved the opening of the Bank’s Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Office to...
The president of Oklahoma’s only historically Black university will end his tenure leading the school after 11 years. Langston University’s president Kent J. Smith recently wrote...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been increasing talk about a New World Order created by the alliance primarily of China and Russia, along with other nations...
AFP | Kenya will launch its first operational satellite next week in a landmark achievement for the country’s space programme, the government has revealed. Taifa-1, or...
AP | Stacey Abrams will join the faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C., the next step in her reemergence after the Democrat lost her second...
By Gloria Methri Moni has launched a new range of business loans that enables market traders, spare part dealers, textile traders, and other small business owners...
AP | Brandon Johnson, a union organizer, and former teacher was elected as Chicago’s next mayor Tuesday in a major victory for the Democratic Party’s progressive...
Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has called for closer relationships between Africa and the Caribbean saying it would provide “a wonderful opportunity for a reverse Diaspora...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has revealed that the African aviation industry has recovered 93 percent from the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, it is right to...
AP | The government of Trinidad & Tobago has won a multimillion-dollar verdict in a sprawling corruption lawsuit that began nearly 20 years ago and involves...
By Gregory Simpkins If you live in a developed world country, you have the luxury of getting up each morning and having clean, abundant water to...
Reuters | Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Sunday he was suspending anti-government protests and was ready for talks after an appeal from President William...
You won’t be able to walk on by Bowie State University’s theater without seeing Dionne Warwick’s name. The historically Black university in Maryland has named the...
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) revealed earlier this week, that the Bank of St Vincent & the Grenadines (BOSVG) has taken over the operations of...
U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee announced on Monday that she is running for Mayor of Houston. The announcement is the latest in a long line of...
Reuters | Nigeria’s outgoing government has recommended that the new administration of president-elect Bola Tinubu give public sector workers pay rises after removing a fuel subsidy...
Trinidad & Tobago will host the 50th-anniversary celebrations of the Caribbean Community that coincide with the annual summit to be held in July this year. Informed...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Finance Minister Colm Imbert, Monday, revealed that the Rowley administration has no intention of going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance...
AFP | In a perceived challenge to De Beers’s dominance of Botswana’s diamond industry, the southern African nation’s government announced Monday it will buy a 24...
Reuters | Kenya’s government is close to approving a restructuring plan for Kenya Airways to replace one introduced by the previous administration and backed by the...
Jamaica’s central bank- the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) – has revealed that a significant number of small-business operators have registered with its digital currency, ‘JAM-DEX‘, while...
By Gregory Simpkins Early in March this year as in every year, the world celebrated International Women’s Day, when women are recognized for their achievements without...
By Victor Oluwole Earlier this week, March 22nd, Tony Elumelu celebrated his 60th birthday, and his life and career achievements are worth commemorating. Born in Nigeria...
Beloved Chicago philanthropist Edward Gardner, the co-founder of Soft Sheen Products hair care company, died Monday at age 98, CBS News reports. Gardner and his wife...
Xavier A. Cole, Ed.D., with his commitment to the tenets of Jesuit education, his dedication to empowering his campus community, and his love of jazz is...
Over the next two years, Jamaica is likely to attain debt levels lower than at any time in the last 50 years, according to the island-nation’s...
Reuters | Chad has nationalized all the assets and rights including hydrocarbon permits and exploration and production authorizations that belonged to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil,...
Kenyan wireless carrier opened a US$2 million operations center in the country’s capital, Nairobi to enhance its M-Pesa mobile money platform and prepare for launches into...
The Holness administration is making its largest-ever capital investment in agriculture with more than J$12 billion (US$96 million) to be spent across the fiscal years 2022/23...
AP | The effort to recall Democratic New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has failed, following an official count of petition signatures released by the Louisiana governor’s...
AFP | Ethiopia’s parliament on Wednesday removed the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) from an official list of terrorist groups, a key step in the...
Christine Kangaloo – the 62-year-old former president of the Senate – was sworn into office Monday as the 7th President of Trinidad & Tobago, promising to...
AP | Sudan’s military leaders and pro-democracy forces vowed to begin establishing a new civilian-led transitional government on April 11, a spokesperson representing both parties said...
May the best man win. Diddy, Tyler Perry, and Byron Allen are vying to acquire Black Entertainment Television, which includes BET, VH1, BET Studios, and the...
St. Kitts & Nevis-based Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has been awarded the prize for Best Communications Initiative for the production of its weekly public education...
By Chinedu Okafor Tanzania’s pro-business stance, perpetrated by the president of the country, Samia Suluhu Hassan, is sending a positive message to investors, who are increasingly...
Freedom House, in its Freedom in the World 2023 report, states that democracy and governance declined around the world for the 17th consecutive year but that...
By Gregory Simpkins The aftermath of the Nigerian elections has become quite contentious, although fortunately not widely violent. There are numerous accusations of malfeasance by the...
AP | Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) play an outsize role in producing teachers of color in the U.S., where only 7 percent of teachers...
AP | Authorities in Haiti have identified new suspects in the July 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse, including a pastor and a well-known gang leader....
Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Nigel Clarke, announced on Tuesday that the national minimum wage will be increased in April. Clarke did not...
By Chinedu Okafor The Ugandan government said on Thursday that it plans to generate at least 1000 megawatts (MW) from nuclear power by 2031 as part...
Reuters | Nigeria’s electoral commission has postponed by a week Saturday’s elections to choose new governors, saying it needed more time to reconfigure electronic machines that...
Polaris and Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group’s HBCU GO are coming together to create exclusive content on the digital platform, as well as on other AMG...
Caribbean countries continue to be rattled by earthquakes over the past 48 hours with the Trinidad & Tobago-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of...
Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange was invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Star of Honour of Ethiopia. The investiture was...
By Stacy M. Brown Viola Fletcher, a 108-year-old survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has become a Ghanaian citizen alongside her 101-year-old brother, Hughes Van...
Bloomberg | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a new deputy and electricity czar and replaced several ministers, injecting new blood into a cabinet that’s failed...
From pioneering physicist George Alcorn to trailblazing engineer Camille Wardrop Alleyne, Howard University has a legacy of nurturing generations of STEM innovators. The Washington, D.C.-based historically...
By Gregory Simpkins It was predicted that Nigeria’s 2023 elections would demonstrate significant progress in political plurality in the country. It has not thus far. It...
Three days of national mourning have been declared in Haiti following the recent death of former Prime Minister Gérard Latortue. In a statement, the prime minister’s...
By Chinedu Okafor According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), by 2025, e-commerce in Africa is expected to increase by According to the...
Guyana’s government will soon introduce amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act in the National Assembly to combat financial crime and...
Black and African American communities and entrepreneurs continue to increase in financial strength: At US$910 billion in 2019 to a projected US$1.7 trillion in 2030, Black...
Bloomberg | South African Deputy President David Mabuza tendered his resignation to parliament ahead of Cyril Ramaphosa’s anticipated cabinet reshuffle. Mabuza sent a letter to parliament...
Two medical researchers from the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus in Barbados are sounding the alarm on the rising incidence of cancers...
AP | Nigerians awoke to a new president Wednesday, with ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu declared the winner of the country’s election. As he thanked his...
AP | Gérard Latortue, a former interim prime minister of Haiti who helped rebuild and unite the country after a violent coup in the mid-2000s, has...
Bloomberg | Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, agreed with a Chinese firm to construct a 6 million-ton cement plant to expand output and exports in his...
By Karen Bennett Where you bank can promote racial equity and inclusion. Supporting Black-owned banks can help economically empower Black communities, who historically have faced discriminatory...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness left the island nation Monday morning to lead a special CARICOM mission to Haiti. According to a media release from the...
By Gregory Simpkins When the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was founded in 1961, the intent was to advance the interests of developing countries and avoid Cold War...
A group of Harvard Business School students plans to bestow its inaugural “Legendary Honor” award on Byron Allen, the chairman of Allen Media Group, on Friday...
AP | The late Burkina Faso revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara was reburied Thursday, 8 years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. Sankara’s...
AFP | Nigerians voted on Saturday for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari in a tightly fought race, with three frontrunners for the first time in...
Globe Newswire | Following the establishment of the Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities in May 2021, President Wayne A. I. Frederick and the...
Africanews | Four top Nigerian presidential candidates signed a “peace” deal on Wednesday ahead of presidential elections on Saturday. The only candidate absent from the ceremony...
Wemimo Abbey’s journey to co-founding billion-dollar fintech company Esusu, the leading platform for renter financial health that supports low-to-moderate-income households in the U.S., begins in Lagos,...
Africa Press | Angola is set to invest US$89 million to build Angola’s National Cloud infrastructure, train technicians and specialists, and store and unify government services....
Renovations are underway for a new medical school building at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Willowbrook, California. The University administration says it’s...
The government of Guyana has urged neighboring Venezuela to fully comply with the Geneva Agreement that was implemented 57 years ago in 1966, to resolve the...
By Gregory Simpkins Two decades ago, The Economist magazine labeled Africa as hopeless. “At the start of the 19th century, Freetown (Sierra Leone) was remote and...
Tanzania has floated East Africa’s largest-ever domestically manufactured freshwater passenger and cargo ship, the MV Mwanza Hapa Kazi Tu, on Lake Victoria. The ship, launched at...
AP | Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan is celebrating his 60th birthday on Friday by making a US$10 million donation to Make-A-Wish. It is the largest...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders began their 44th regular summit in The Bahamas on Wednesday night overshadowed by the continued deterioration of the situation in the member...
Anadolu | The African Union Commission (AUC) has announced that it will send a team of 90 observers to Nigeria for the upcoming elections slated on...
Trinidad & Tobago Tuesday said it is prepared to assist Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries further develop their oil and gas industries and has taken a deliberate...
NAN | The Jamaican High Commissioner to Nigeria, Esmond Reid, has indicated that his country was planning to source for vehicles from Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing (IVM)...
By Gregory Simpkins Over the centuries, the natural blessings of Africa seem to have been more apparent to outsiders than even the rulers of African countries....
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have been able to achieve 57 percent of the target to reduce the US$5 billion regional food import bill by 25 percent...
Reuters | Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed an executive order setting up a council to facilitate the transition to a new president who will...
A South Florida law school has undergone a historic name change, and a couple of famous faces were on hand to commemorate the occasion. Attendees at...