By Fidel Amakye Owusu Eritrea: Honestly, I wasn’t even asking for the spotlight. Chad: Hey, I just held an election not too long ago. And wait...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu While the different geopolitical zones across Africa have dynamics worth the attention of observers in 2025, the Horn of Africa and North...
By Godfred Zina Libya remains a key transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, despite its ongoing internal instability....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, was clear about what the newly independent state needed – a...
As negotiators at the Glasgow climate talks try to agree on greenhouse gas cuts, African leaders say poorer countries can’t be expected to remake their systems...
Libya’s Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni and his cabinet resigned on Thursday to pave the way to forming a new government after parliamentary elections in June, an...
Libya’s new parliament agreed on Tuesday that the next president would be elected by a popular vote as lawmakers sought to overcome a confrontation between two...
Libya will announce results of last month’s parliamentary elections on July 20, pushing back the results another week. The North African oil producer elected on June...
(Reuters) – Libya’s parliament voted Prime Minister Ali Zeidan out of office on Tuesday after secessionist rebels humiliated the government by loading crude on a tanker...
Saadi Gaddafi. PHOTO/File Niger on Thursday extradited to Libya one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, Saadi, who fled as his father’s regime crumbled in 2011 and who...
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Susan Rice Republican opposition to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as the next secretary of state began to crack Sunday as Sen....
President Barack Obama was expected to make his first public comments Wednesday on the growing scandal around two of the country’s most well-known generals, while lawmakers...
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Susan Rice The Obama administration is rejecting a demand from a senior Republican lawmaker for the U.S. ambassador to the United...
President Barack Obama with troops in Afghanistan. PHOTO/United States Military, via Associated Press (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and...
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney’s foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a...
Soldiers stormed the presidential palace and announced Thursday that they had seized control of the country, ousting the president of Mali just one month before he...
South Africa President., Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Reuters South African President Jacob Zuma told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it “completely ignored” the African Union (AU)...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/REUTERS South African President Jacob Zuma met Tuesday with an envoy from Libya’s National Transitional Council seeking help from Pretoria in...
Moammar Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam (pictured), the only wanted member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large, was captured as he traveled with aides...
Revolutionary forces captured fighters close to Mutassim Gaddafi, one of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi’s sons in his father’s home town, but there was no confirmation that...
The United States is sending the first team of diplomats into the Libyan capital since its embassy was shuttered earlier this year, a U.S. State Department...
About 250 vehicles enter country, as Libyan fighters hold talks with tribal leaders to peacefully enter Bani Walid.
China is obstructing the release of Libya’s frozen assets, the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) Mustafa Abdel Jalil said in a news conference on...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Virtually all of the detainees say they are innocent migrant workers, and in most cases there is no evidence that they are...
Khamis Gadhafi, a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in a battle Sunday night with opposition forces, a senior rebel commander told CNN on...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The U.N. has urged African leaders to "encourage new leadership" in Libya...
Ellis Park Stadium – Johannesburg South Africa is to take over from Libya as hosts of the 2013 African Nations Cup finals in a swap agreement...
In the name of business a blind eye was often turned to his predatory behavior. For all practical purposes, the rule of Muammar Gaddafi has ended....
For the last few months, some African states have dominated international news: Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya. Tunisia which has been governed with...
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...
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...
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...
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.
DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal’s ruling party plans to change the constitution to lower the percentage of votes a candidate needs to win an election and to...
