NIAMEY (Reuters) – Thousands of civilians fled their homes in the southeastern Niger town of Diffa this week, officials said on Thursday, following waves of cross-border...
ERALDO PERES, Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The most fortunate of them have tents. The rest use black-and-blue plastic tarps draped over bamboo trunks to...
ERALDO PERES, Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The most fortunate of them have tents. The rest use black-and-blue plastic tarps draped over bamboo trunks to...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sudanese army troops raped at least 221 women and girls in a Darfur village in a series of...
JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Judging by Israel’s election race, the decades-long conflict with the Palestinians is not an important issue. Prime Minister Benjamin...
by Carolyn Guniss Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times The buzzwords at “A Village Dialogue: An Invitation from the Afro-Cuban Community” discussion are working...
HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Militia fighters have released a government minister seized more than two weeks ago in Central African...
CHIKA ODUAH, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead...
TARIME, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a remote, deeply traditional corner of northern Tanzania, growing numbers of girls are running away from home to...
TARIME, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a remote, deeply traditional corner of northern Tanzania, growing numbers of girls are running away from home to...
(BBC) – Nigeria has postponed its 14 February presidential election by six weeks because of security fears. Election commission chief Attahiru Jega said the delay until...
(BBC) – Nigeria has postponed its 14 February presidential election by six weeks because of security fears. Election commission chief Attahiru Jega said the delay until...
by Omowale Clay Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Jan. 30, the 54 nations of the African Union Assembly of Heads...
by Omowale Clay Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Jan. 30, the 54 nations of the African Union Assembly of Heads...
(Salon) – President Barack Obama inspired a great deal of debate when, in December, he asserted that it was time for the United States to...
(Salon) – President Barack Obama inspired a great deal of debate when, in December, he asserted that it was time for the United States to...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News As Caribbean governments prepare to review region-wide legislation allowing for medical marijuana use...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News As Caribbean governments prepare to review region-wide legislation allowing for medical marijuana use...
Chris Kay, Bloomberg News via CHICAGO TRIBUNE ABUJA, Nigeria (Chicago Tribune) — Nigeria’s military has six weeks to do what it failed to accomplish in...
Chris Kay, Bloomberg News via CHICAGO TRIBUNE ABUJA, Nigeria (Chicago Tribune) — Nigeria’s military has six weeks to do what it failed to accomplish in...
Ulf Laessing, REUTERS BEN JAWAD, Libya (Reuters)—Hidden behind a pile of sand, a tank points its gun towards Libya’s biggest oil port on the other...
Dalatou Mamane, ASSOCIATED PRESS NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A total of 109 Boko Haram fighters were killed by soldiers responding to attacks on two towns in...
(Reuters) – The number of people sick with Ebola fever has doubled in Guinea in the past week following the discovery of cases previously unknown...
(CNN) – ISIS has stepped up the use of children in its bloody campaign of terror, the United Nations says — subjecting them horrors that include...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s government has built close to 4 million houses for low-income families since the end of apartheid in 1994. Lizzie Mboweni is...