(The Washington Post) — Several mornings a week for the past five years, Smith Laflur has left his one-room cinder-block shack, walked past the stray goats and the...
(The Washington Post) — The Palestinian Foreign Ministry presented documents on Thursday to the International Criminal Court in The Hague asserting that Israel should be investigated...
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will host Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House on July 20 to discuss fighting the Boko Haram militant group, among...
(Salon) – In the days since Dylann Roof murdered nine people, all African-American, in a church in South Carolina, the national conversation has largely concentrated on...
(BBC) – Boko Haram militants have killed at least 40 people in north-eastern Nigeria, according to witnesses. The attacks on Monday and Tuesday took place in...
(BBC) – The continuing Ebola epidemic in Guinea has set back the country’s fight against malaria, say experts. They estimate 74,000 cases of malaria went...
The Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Around the world, countries have long struggled with questions about flags similar to those faced by South Carolina, which is...
(BBC) – The US and other countries have agreed to help Nigeria recover money stolen from the government, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. The new president...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency is warning that unless the world focuses on the most disadvantaged youngsters in...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency is warning that unless the world focuses on the most disadvantaged youngsters in...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Two girls blew themselves up on Monday near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria’s biggest city, killing about...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Two girls blew themselves up on Monday near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria’s biggest city, killing about...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Back in April, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete’s administration announced that, henceforth, Kiswahili will be the primary...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Back in April, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete’s administration announced that, henceforth, Kiswahili will be the primary...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Travel Writer The hilly town of Ocho Rios sits on the north coast of Jamaica, at the base of the St. Ann...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Travel Writer The hilly town of Ocho Rios sits on the north coast of Jamaica, at the base of the St. Ann...
Haruna Umar, ASSOCIATED PRESS BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Two girls blew themselves up on Monday near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria’s biggest city, killing...
(The Daily Nation) — US President Barack Obama will in late July become the first sitting American leader to visit Ethiopia and the headquarters...
Roque Planas, Julia Craven, THE HUFFINGTON POST SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (The Huffington Post) — At 74, Yampié Calleins’ yellowing, muscular hands now tremble...
SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The knock on the door came just before midnight, a group of plainclothes police demanding that 29-year-old Fatma...
KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers defeated the government’s Beijing-backed election plan Thursday, vindicating pro-democracy activists who flooded the streets last...
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it’s expanding Internet access by adding Wi-Fi capacity to dozens of state-run Internet centers and more than...
(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
(BBC) – Chad’s military says it has carried out airstrikes in neighbouring Nigeria on suspected positions of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The strikes were in...
By Sadijah Wallace Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – It was the find that Lonnie Bunch III and the new National...