(BBC) – Burundi’s opposition has rejected a proposal by the electoral commission to hold presidential polls on 15 July. The opposition said its demand for free...
President Barack Obama Hails Their Outstanding Contribution by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Caribbean Heritage Month began with a...
President Barack Obama Hails Their Outstanding Contribution by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Caribbean Heritage Month began with a...
CIARAN GILES, Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The father of an Ivory Coast boy caught being smuggled into Spain in a suitcase last month has been...
CIARAN GILES, Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The father of an Ivory Coast boy caught being smuggled into Spain in a suitcase last month has been...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean troops may not use force to oust thousands of street vendors, the high court ruled on Monday,...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean troops may not use force to oust thousands of street vendors, the high court ruled on Monday,...
Karl Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM (AP) — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to “decarbonize” the global economy they’re talking...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AllAfrica.com) — Delegates from African countries are gathering at the International Relations and Cooperation Department offices in Pretoria as the African Union...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AllAfrica.com) — Delegates from African countries are gathering at the International Relations and Cooperation Department offices in Pretoria as the African Union...
By KaiElz Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Imagine that the story about Bruce Jenner’s sex change or gender transformation as Caitlyn Jenner: got...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic said Thursday it has launched an investigation into an allegation...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the main market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Yola, killing 29...
(BBC) – Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai were acquitted, it has emerged. In April, officials...
(BBC) – Ghanaians are being questioned about the cause of a petrol station fire in the capital, Accra, in which some 150 people died on Wednesday...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — In one moment, Jack Warner is on TV telling his countrymen he fears for his life. An...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — In one moment, Jack Warner is on TV telling his countrymen he fears for his life. An...
DAKAR, Senegal (New York Times) — Roughly 100 people have died after an explosion sent flames coursing through a gas station in the center of Accra,...
HONG KONG (New York Times) — For years, Hui King-to has taken part in the solemn candlelight vigil in Victoria Park here commemorating those who...
(BBC) – Police in Italy have arrested 44 people over the rigging of public contracts to run migrant reception centers. Local politicians were among those detained...
(ProPublica) – The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian military abuses have caused the deaths of some 8,000 civilians in the fight against Boko Haram extremists,...
(Bloomberg Business) – The U.S. travel industry has spent more than a half-century gazing over a narrow stretch of sea at Cuba, the once and future...
CAIRO (The Washington Post) — When King Salman became Saudi Arabia’s ruler this year, few people expected much change. He was 79 and reputedly in ill health....
(BBC) – South Africa has introduced new rules, requiring any child crossing its borders to be in possession of – or to have earlier submitted during a...