Oman is planning to increase its non-oil exports to African markets in a bid to decrease its over dependency on crude generated revenue, Times of Oman quotes...
With less than two weeks to South Africa’s elections, political parties are stepping up their campaigns to win the hearts and minds of close to 26...
Angola remains a key economic performer in the continent despite a change in its global rating. “We first put Angola on a positive outlook way back...
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. PHOTO/Reuters Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has revealed that he will not “anoint a successor” as the lobbying for his post continues to...
South Sudan has urged Sudan to prevent armed groups, including rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar, from using its territory to launch attacks against...
According to Dr. Kaifala Marah, Sierra Leone’s Finance and Development Minister, the current G7+ countries will be gathering together to help one another in Sierra Leone....
Imran Yawar, Pakistan’s ambassador-designate to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and permanent observer to African Union (AU), called on President Mamnoon Hussain at the Aiwan-e-Sadr...
Malawi, a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that borders Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique, is one of the poorest in Africa. Colonized by the British in the...
Zimbabwe’s latest economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socioeconomic Transformation (ZimAsset), received a critical boost after the World Bank endorsed it. ZimAsset, sponsored by President...
A new law in Ghana requires oil and gas companies to make greater use of local products and services. The broad objective of the new...
Ivory Coast’s prime minister says his country is on track to reach double digit economic growth this year and become an emerging market by 2020. In...
The African Union Commission (AUC) has helped launch an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Swaziland. In a press statement, the AUC says it has partnered with...
You know you are in trouble when pastors are seeking divine intervention for your currency. On the Sunday that followed the Bank of Ghana’s attempt to...
Tanzania will ease controls on foreign ownership of its stocks and bonds by next year as the country seeks to attract investment to finance infrastructure projects...
Two Nigerian economists and an Ivorian have emerged winners of the Mo Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships, which will place them in executive offices of pan-African economic institutions...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says if Liberia is to achieve Universal Health Coverage, it must begin to build a sustainable health financing system through domestic financing...
Nigeria says it is prepared to host the World Economic Forum on Africa in May, despite growing insecurity, as the threat posed by extreme Islamist group,...
Labour Minister Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo is expected to meet with officials of the Barbados Agricultural Management Corporation (BAMC) and the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) on Monday...
Mali’s new Prime Minister Moussa Mara formed a government Friday, with the outgoing foreign minister becoming reconciliation minister as the deeply-divided nation recovers from months of...
Finding a lasting solution to the power epidemic in Nigeria remains elusive, despite discussions being held, conferences organized and policies implemented to provide stable energy. Billions...
Turkey and Senegal have signed an agreement to create a business council between the two countries. According to a report by World Bulletin, the two countries...
The Trinidad and Tobago government says five days of funeral services will be held to honor the life of former president Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson who...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is cautiously optimistic that Guinea Bissau’s elections scheduled for Sunday will be transparent, free and fair, says Sonny...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama this week celebrates the civil rights advances of 50 years ago which laid the groundwork...
The Nigerian Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has received the prestigious David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award. Okonjo-Iweala, also coordinating minister for the economy, was honored for her...
St Lucia is giving consideration to an economic citizenship program. St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony said the introduction of a citizenship by investment program would...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks before signing an executive order banning federal contractors from retaliating against employees during an event in the East Room of...
(BlackPRWire) – Miami Gardens City Manager, Cameron Benson, announced the appointment of the City’s new Chief of Police today. Stephen E. Johnson (pictured), a seasoned public...
Australia’s Base Titanium is in tense royalty talks with the Kenyan government for its first shipment of ilmenite. Joe Schwarz, the general manager for Base Titanium...
South African economists have welcomed the announcement that Nigeria is now the biggest economy in Africa saying it is good news for the continent. This follows...
Peace talks between South Sudan’s warring parties have been adjourned again to allow both sides to consult with their respective leaders, the Intergovernmental Authority for Development...
A new study by the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and the Inter-American Dialogue has shed light on the financial behavior of Latin...
Nigeria overtook South Africa as Africa’s largest economy after a rebasing calculation almost doubled its GDP to more than $500 billion. Gross domestic product (GDP) for...
Prime Minister José Maria Neves concluded a two-day work visit to Côte d’Ivoire this Tuesday, having participated in the 44th ordinary session of the Economic Community...
According to Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda, Zambia’s economy is in dire need of diversification. And instead of mining — which doesn’t always show immediate real returns —...
Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will release the country’s rebased GDP calculations proposed for September 2013, on Sunday. The West African country, which is currently...
A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services from arresting or harrassing the suspended Governor of the...
The International Monetary Fund’s first review of Sierra Leone’s economic program concluded that the country is making good progress. This follows after the IMF approved a...
Malians are optimistic about the direction of their country after last year’s election of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, according to an Afrobarometer survey released this week....
Barbados has launched a Virtual HIV Research Unit (VHRU) as it seeks to better understand and address issues related to HIV/AIDS. Comprising 5,000 scientific publications and...
Haiti Prime Minister., Laurent Lamothe Haiti’s prime minister used Twitter on Wednesday to announce he was replacing about half of the 22-member Cabinet, marking the third...
Voter casts ballot in Mali presidential election, November 24, 2013. PHOTO/Habibou Kouyate/AFP African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has approved an observer mission to South...
Washington will host the US-Africa summit in August, but it is already late to the game of African summitry. Japan hosted its first Africa summit in...
A jubilant Murial Bowser addresses her supporters following her victory over incumbent Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. PHOTO/Cliff Owen/AP Muriel Bowser won the District of Columbia’s...
The economy of the six-nation Central African CEMAC bloc is set to expand by 6.7 percent in 2014 because of a rise in domestic consumption and...
The legal battle between the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mallam Sanusi Lamido, and the Federal Government has taken a new twist...
Beating expectations, U.S. President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was on track to sign up more than 7 million Americans for health insurance on deadline day...
Ghana President John Mahama has been elected Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). President Mahama, who takes over from Ivorian President Allasane...
Nigeria has a strong, buoyant economy receiving billions of dollars of foreign and domestic direct investment in power, petrochemicals, agriculture and consumer goods, but it needs...
Opposition leader Arnhim Eustace (l) and St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves (r). PHOTO/File St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said African leaders should prioritize the structural transformation of African economy if they must achieve regional industrialization initiative. Jonathan said this...
In a checkout line at Kigali’s Nakumatt shopping center, employees pack groceries in paper bags. After non-biodegradable polythene bags were banned in 2008, owners found that...
United Nations has agreed to support Kenya with Sh102 billion ($1.2 billion) for the development of specific areas of its economy over a period of four...
Zambia’s kwacha hit a new record low against the dollar on Friday. This is as exporters held off on selling the greenback on speculation the...
A water expert from the AUC University in Cairo has confirmed that Ethiopia’s hydroelectric dam will not hurt Egypt’s share of the Nile waters. According to...
Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will address an international forum in reparations in...
Infighting in the ruling party continues, with ethnicity playing a key role. President Michael Sata’s heavy hand in succession wrangles within the Patriotic Front (PF) appears...
South Africa is Africa’s only nuclear power, and the first nation to have voluntarily relinquished its nuclear weapons. The government then committed to being fully transparent...
Côte d’Ivoire awarded 294 billion CFA francs ($617.87 million) worth of public procurement, nearly 43 percent last year’s total by value, via no-bid contracts according to...
(PRNewswire) – Port-AU-Prince, Haiti – Haitian protagonists from different political sides have clinched a historical agreement to end a political impasse which had posed a threat...
What is Zambia’s president Michael Sata so suspicious about? How did Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame solve his seating problem? What is the hush-hush talk about Dlamini-Zuma’s...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy will grow more than 6 percent this year, the African Development Bank said on Tuesday, but its president urged governments to build resilience to...
South Africa may be experiencing an economic bubble similar to those that caused the downfall of Western economies in 2008. This is according to Jesse Colombo,...
According to a report by the Directorate General of the Treasury (DGTC) on the 2013-2018 bond issued by Cameroon in December 2013, and for which 80...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said the Federal Government had set aside $1 billion to implement a comprehensive program aimed at checking the menace of crude...
John Mangudya, chief executive of the country’s biggest private bank CBZ Holdings succeeds Gideon Gono whose term ended in November last year. He will begin work...
Malawi’s Electoral Commission (MEC) plans to release a preliminary voters list on Monday to allow prospective voters to verify their information before the May 20 general...
After the World Bank, it was now the African Development Bank’s turn to sit down at the table with the government to analyze the bank’s strategy...
South Africa, which currently relies on coal for more than 85 percent of its electricity, wants to wean itself off fossil fuels by using more nuclear...
Britain says it will help the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) deal with global issues that affect their economies. Newly accredited British Ambassador to CARICOM, Victoria Dean, Wednesday...
Dominica raised EC$20 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) on the Regional Government Securities Market (RGSM) on Monday with with Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit saying...
The cash-strapped Barbados government Friday said it would discontinue a fuel subsidy to the public service vehicles (PSV) and the Transport Board that has been in...
South Sudan government troops say they have recaptured Malakal town located near oil fields, in the oil rich Upper Nile state. South Sudan army spokesperson, Colonel...
South Africa’s Public Protector has released a report revealing improper use of public money on the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s private home, saying the president...
The Barbados government says it intends to sell off some assets as it moves to reduce the fiscal deficit by March next year. Finance Minister Chris...
A Caribbean Reparatory Justice Program (CRJP) has been accepted by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government as a basis for discussions on reparations from slavery...
South Africa’s electoral body, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says all is set for the country’s fifth democratic elections, set for 7 May. IEC chief electoral...
A military aide holds up the Medal of Honor as the citation is read before U.S. President Barack Obama awarded US Marine Corps SGT Dakota Meyer...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (pictured), on Saturday called on the Republican Party to become more inclusive on issues like immigration. “We have a...
Côte d’Ivoire will help Cape Verde improve its integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the former country’s Minister of Foreign Relations has...
In 2013, Rwanda had the highest proportion of female members of parliament in the world with 64 percent of the seats taken by women in its...
Côte d’Ivoire has launched massive upgrades to its ports to support the growth of the natural resource sector and to attract more of the regional transit...
In an exclusive interview with NPR, Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala delivered the promising news that the country has overcome hurdles and stabilized the economy. For...
African Union forces said they have reclaimed more territory from the al-Qaida-linked militant group, al-Shabab, in renewed military operations across Somalia. However, restoring the government’s political...
Caribbean countries are being urged to take advantage of a multi-million facility to finance regional public goods (RPGs) that are produced collectively by a group of...
The Barbados government said that it is laying the platform for positive economic growth in the future by making the necessary adjustments and seeks to rebuild...
Former Haitian leader, Jean-Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File The lead defense attorney for Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier has said judges will be responsible for a “civil war”...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for many nonviolent drug traffickers, saying the change...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has promised to revive stagnant economic relations with Ethiopia during a visit aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two East African economies....
East African leaders will meet in Ethiopia on Thursday to discuss the mandate and size of a stabilization and protection force to be deployed in...
Residents of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania will now be able to travel with their respective national currencies in other East African Community (EAC) countries...
South Africa’s education minister says the nation of 11 official languages will introduce Mandarin into its school curriculum. The move is part of a greater effort...
President Uhuru Kenyatta plans to slash public servants’ wages in an effort to allocate more funding to the country’s development. Kenya’s president has ordered a 20...
The rate of adults in the United States who lack health insurance keeps going down, according to major survey tracking the rollout of President Barack Obama’s...
The African Development Bank will give Kenya $930 million to help boost the country’s employment and economic plan. According to Gabriel Negatu, regional director for AfDB’s...
Obasanjo’s was chosen at an African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council summit in Banjul, Gambia on December 30 last year, where the AU chairperson was...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (l) with his deputy William Ruto. PHOTO/Billy Mutai Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto are set to take a...
Since Nigeria’s new mega-opposition party formed last year, it has been clear that they do not support the ruling People’s Democratic Party. The PDP has run...
As the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, the country’s struggle, led by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and supported by the working masses, inspired countries across...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers an address during the launch of the “My Brother’s Keeper initiative”., February 27, 2014. PHOTO/White House A network of community lenders...
Since US President Barack Obama announced “Power Africa” last summer, things seemed to have moved painfully slowly. But that doesn’t mean they’re not moving. “A lot...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has flouted his government’s own ban on posh retreats in luxury hotels after he hauled all his Cabinet secretaries and their principal secretaries...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2010 health law (Obamacare) was responsible for about three-quarters of a...
Facing what many consider his greatest foreign policy crisis, President Obama declared Monday that Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula will be a “costly proposition”...
Conflict in northeast Nigeria appears to be escalating with nearly 100 people killed and three abducted in separate attacks over the weekend. Two vehicles exploded Saturday...
Thousands of Ivorians flooded the streets on Sunday to welcome back President Alassane Ouattara after a month of medical treatment in France. Ouattara, who came...
by Ikechukwu Kelikume for The Conversation The Nigerian business community and international investors into Africa’s most populous country are still reeling from the shock of the...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in good condition after being taken to a Washington, D.C., hospital on Thursday for feeling faint and short of breath...
Antigua & Barbuda has asked the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to send a mission to observe the general election likely to be held next month. The Baldwin...
A senior official at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) stated that the organization is encouraged by an agreement between heads of state...
Zambia’s gross domestic product is now estimated to be over 25 percent bigger after a rebasing its economy and updating the base year from 1994 to...
Ghana’s economy grew 5.5 percent in 2013, less than the 8 percent targeted by the government, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. The 2013 fiscal...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press Pressing for a final rush of health care enrollees, U.S. President President Barack Obama said...
Ghana will look toward boosting its local industries to strengthen its economy, President John Dramani Mahama said in his annual state of the nation address in...
Security experts and government officials from more than a dozen Middle East and Horn of Africa countries are meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to...
The Commonwealth is seeking to establish a trade facility that would benefit Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma, has said. Sharma, who held...
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. PHOTO/File Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts is not ruling out a bid to run for the presidency of the United States...
The ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is observing its first year in office by telling supporters that despite the ongoing economic crisis in Barbados, it was...
The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has announced the appointment of St. Lucian, Didacus Jules (pictured) as the organization’s new Director General. Jules, the Registrar...
Lisa Fritsch (pictured), is the first African American woman to run for Texas governor. Fritsch is a University of Texas graduate, writer and commentator. Fritsch says...
Former Haitian leader, Jean-Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has welcomed a decision by the appeal court in Haiti to open new investigations into...
Former Haitian leader, Jean-Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File A appellate court in Haiti, has called for further investigation into human rights abuses allegedly committed during the 15-year rule...
Finance Minister Harold Lovell proclaimed that Antigua and Barbuda has been removed from the “Grey List” of the Paris based Financial Action Task Force (FATF). He...
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who turns 90 on Friday, says he is not retiring soon and will deal decisively with party leaders who are vying to...
The Barbados government says it wants a speedy conclusion for an air services agreement with China as it hopes to lure visitors and investors from the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (c) and Attorney General Eric Holder (l) meet with African American civil rights leaders at the White House., February 18, 2014. PHOTO/Pablo...
Latest reports have suggested that the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), has no plans to resign this year. In a lengthy interview he gave the...
The US-based international credit rating agency, Moody’s Investors Service, has changed the outlook on Suriname’s Ba3 government bond rating from positive to stable. The Wall Street-based...
According to the IMF, Jamaica has met all its quantitative targets paving the way for a draw down of US$71 million. The announcement was made on...
Central African Republic (CAR) has declared war on anti-balaka, the rogue Christian militia bent on killing Muslims. This declaration comes after United Nations peacekeepers uncovered a...
A meeting aimed at analyzing the debt situation in Caribbean countries and the policies for debt relief will be held in Trinidad on February 24. Representatives...
The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it is still concern that Caribbean economies are still lagging behind other small island developing states underscoring the need...
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday reiterated government’s plan to rescue the depreciating cedi and add value to the country’s commodities that are currently exported in...
The European Union advised that it is willing to provide BDS$100 million (One BDS dollar = US$0.50 cents) to Barbados in grant funding. In a statement...
Grenada’s Economic Affairs Minister, Oliver Joseph, advised that the Grenada government will sign the Letter of Intent to implement the International Monetary Fund (IMF) backed home...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The White House says President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Wednesday increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors. Obama...
While oil could potentially accelerate the country’s development, Liberians also remember that mismanagement of its forestry, gold and diamonds resources was a factor that led to...
The spokesperson of South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) stated that the electoral body will deploy new technologies as part of its preparations to administer a...
Kenya’s parliament has launched a biometric fingerprint system to register MPs’ attendance. Parliamentary speaker Justin Muturi denied that it was introduced to “curb fraud” and speed...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), will step down this year, he said in an interview with the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin in the magazine’s February...
Uganda’s ruling NRM has nominated President Yoweri Museveni to stand for re-election in two years-time. Museveni has been in power since 1986 and if he wins...
Egypt’s interim government unveiled its second stimulus package on Monday, which will inject 33.9 billion Egyptian pounds into the economy, with most of that money coming...
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has defended the economic policies of his administration saying that he was certain that the current policies being pursued today, would yield...
Peace talks, aimed at ending nearly two months of fighting in South Sudan, are under threat after rebels refused to take part in the next round...
Africa now has three female heads of state, after Catherine Samba-Panza of the Central African Republic took office in January. Though women leaders are still a...
A special interview by The Africa Report: Sixteen months into her mandate, Dlamini-Zuma, Head of the African Union, is encouraged by consultations on the future and...
Nigeria’s central bank announced new rules on Friday requiring currency dealers to put naira in their accounts at the bank two days before bidding in its...
Incumbent South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and leader of opposition Democratic Alliance Party Helen Zille (r). PHOTO/Daily Maverick South Africa will hold general elections on...
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party has rejected calls for dialogue by the main opposition to resolve the country’s worsening economic problems saying its rivals were...
The Dominican Republic will present new legislation to Parliament on February 27 to address the Constitutional court ruling that denies citizenship to children of Haitian migrants...
Ghana’s central bank is likely to raise its policy rate by at least 100 basis points on Thursday to 17 percent in a drive to tame...
Kola Karim, the managing director of Shoreline Energy international, says the vast majority of onshore oil rigs in the Delta will be operated by Nigerian-owned companies...
The United States has been putting pressure on South Sudan President Salva Kiir to release political prisoners loyal to former vice president, Riek Machar, in a...
US President Barack Obama has hinted that he may accept a deal offering undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants legal status rather than full citizenship. In a...
A spokesman for Nigeria’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has appealed to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a party stalwart, to return to the ruling party after...
It was a political marriage that many called a game changer for South Africa. But a week later, the announcement that opposition Agang SA leader, Mamphela...
A Muslim religious leader, who openly criticized Boko Haram, and a Christian preacher have been killed in northern Nigeria in separate attacks whom many blame on...
The African Union (AU) has urged its members to “speak with one voice” against criminal proceedings at the International Criminal Court against sitting presidents. The 54-nation...
The Grenada government Friday said it would make adjustments to the Electronics Crime Bill after it was criticized by the island’s media organization and the Vienna-based...
Uganda stated that it will not fully withdraw its forces from South Sudan, despite concerns their continued presence is complicating efforts to bring peace to the...
A senior Barbados government minister says he is uneasy about the direction of the island’s economy and promises to make his position public. Agriculture Minister and...
Negotiations on a trade agreement between Canada and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have limped along for over five years. Unless political will and energy is now...
Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has commended United States President Barack Obama for addressing comprehensive immigration reform in his State of the Union Address Tuesday...
The government of South Sudan has released seven of the 11 political detainees whose arrest became a sticking point at peace talks with rebels. The seven...
In his annual State of the Union Address to Congress, President Barack Obama promised to use executive powers in order to help the middle class and...
South Africa’s main opposition party is to field anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele as its presidential candidate in this year’s election, giving the Democratic Alliance (DA) a...
A judge with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) says his recent comments about the need to re-examine the trust fund that had been established...
The formation of a new transitional government is being welcomed as “a legitimate partner” for the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA),...
Six years after construction work began, St. Vincent and the Grenadines is getting ready to cut the ribbons to declare open its first ever international airport....
Andre Nzapayeke says ending violence between Christians and Muslims is key to restoring security in African nation.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), is backing a bill to give federal judges more discretion over sentencing for some drug crimes. Holder says the bipartisan...
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has revealed that Britain agrees and has no objection to Dominica recognizing the Caribbean Court of Justice as its final appellate...
The nation’s uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as the major coverage expansion under U.S. President Barack Obama’s health care law got underway, according to a...
From left to right, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Joyce Banda of Malawi, U.S. President Barack Obama, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, and...
U.S. President Barack Obama addressing the nation about NSA surveillance techniques, January 17, 2014. PHOTO/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama banned U.S. eavesdropping...
(Reuters) – A close ally of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, Bamanga Tukur (pictured), has resigned as chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Jonathan told...
Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamonthe has pledged that his government will provide the necessary means to the electoral council to facilitate the holding of legislative and...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the audience at North Carolina State University., January 15, 2014. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/AP Making good on a promise from last year’s State...
Rival militiamen yesterday struck a truce and hugged each other in neighborhoods of the Central African Republic’s (CAR) capital on the eve of consultations aimed at...
Unemployment rates fell for every major group of Americans last year, the unemployment rate in the United States also dropped to 6.7 percent, the lowest since...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to rein in spying on foreign leaders and is considering restricting National Security Agency (NSA)...
(PRNewswire) – During a historic and frank dialogue at the border town of Ouanaminthe, Dominican authorities pledged to enact measures to safeguard the basic rights of...
(Reuters) – The Obama administration-backed bill to extend jobless benefits for 1.3 million Americans narrowly cleared a Republican procedural roadblock in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday,...
In a sign of bi-partisan co-operation, the Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, John Boehner, has signaled his intention to embrace a series of...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama gets back to work this week eager to test whether a modest budget deal passed in the...
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe will lead a 5-member commission for high-level talks with the Dominican Republic that begin Tuesday. According to the government, the commission...
Toni Nathaniel Harp (r), was sworn in as New Haven’s first female mayor as her daughter Djana (l), holds onto the bible while her son Matthew...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haiti’s President Michel Martelly urged his fellow citizens to come together to rebuild the poverty-stricken country devastated by an earthquake nearly...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that more than 6 million Americans have obtained health...
(Reuters) – The White House is coming under pressure from some of its closest allies on healthcare reform to name a chief executive to run its...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File (PRNewsire) – The government of Haiti has generally received negative ratings in national and international media yet the majority of Haitians...
Haiti and the Dominican Republic will meet next month in an effort to resolve questions over a widely debated court decision that could render thousands of...
Mia Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, addresses the Republican National Convention, August 28 2012. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah...
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Vice Admiral Michelle Howard (pictured), for a fourth star Friday, becoming the first woman in Navy history to attain the rank....
Rep. Jeramey Anderson. PHOTO/Mississippi House of Representatives Jeramey Anderson was sworn in to the Mississippi House of Representatives on December 6, a date which happened to...
There has been a coup attempt in South Sudan. Government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin told reporters that police had arrested 5 political leaders with suspected links...
Somalia’s president has nominated a political newcomer as prime minister Thursday, days after his predecessor was ousted following a vote of no confidence. President Hassan Sheikh...
Pro-Obamacare demostrators lobbying outside the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press More than two months after Obamacare’s debut, the number of Americans using the system is...
U.S. Rep. Mel Watt. PHOTO/Reuters Democrats have taken advantage of their weakening of filibusters and muscled through the Senate President Barack Obama’s pick to lead a...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File The Martelly administration in Haiti took an important step on Tuesday to organize legislative and local elections that are 2 years...