MAIGUDURI, Nigeria (BBC.com)—Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram fighters have attacked the strategically important north-eastern city of Maiduguri, with dozens reported dead. Earlier on Sunday they captured the...
Kat Chow, NPR (NPR.com)—In Nigeria, Barbie has some fierce — some brown — competition: Taofick Okoya, a 43-year-old entrepreneur, has created Queens of Africa dolls...
KADUNA, Nigeria (New York Times) — Boisterous crowds packed the streets for the retired general, while young men climbed lampposts, walls and billboards to glimpse his...
(BBC) – In all the glowing coverage of France’s 11 January march for Charlie, there was one omission which was understandable but revealing. No-one said it...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The United States and Cuba closed two days of historic talks in Havana with some...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The United States and Cuba closed two days of historic talks in Havana with some...
Johannesburg (All Africa) — Sixty-eight people have been arrested in Soweto this week for looting and violence, Gauteng’s police commissioner said on Thursday. “Police have...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press MAZOWE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In 2000, Timon Shava was a hero of Zimbabwe’s land reform program when he joined hundreds of other...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The United States and Cuba are trying to eliminate obstacles to normalized ties as the...
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (UPI) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and several Communist Party officials received a 62 percent pay increase to their salary. President Xi will be making...
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (UPI) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and several Communist Party officials received a 62 percent pay increase to their salary. President Xi will be making...
(Reuters) – Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria’s medieval Muslim empires, but for...
(BBC) – A man purporting to be the leader of the Boko Haram Islamist group has said in a video that his fighters carried out a...
(BBC) – At least four people have been killed in protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo calling for President Joseph Kabila to step down next...
MIKE CORDER, Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A commander from a fearsome Ugandan rebel group known for abducting and torturing children was taken into...
MOKI EDWIN KINDZEKA, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — More than 10,000 panic-stricken Cameroonians are fleeing border regions with Nigeria’s Borno state for safer locations following...
by Saeed Shabazz Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been quoted as saying that the rebel...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News The 53-nation Commonwealth grouping of former British colonies this week threatened to...
BY KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writers PAUL WISEMAN, AP Business Writers HONG KONG (AP) — The global economy, slowed by stagnation in Europe and Japan, is...
BY KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writers PAUL WISEMAN, AP Business Writers HONG KONG (AP) — The global economy, slowed by stagnation in Europe and Japan, is...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police Monday tear-gassed schoolchildren demonstrating against the removal of their school’s playground, which has been allegedly grabbed...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police Monday tear-gassed schoolchildren demonstrating against the removal of their school’s playground, which has been allegedly grabbed...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American officials head to Havana this week with fairly modest goals of cooperation with the Cuban government, seeking an...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American officials head to Havana this week with fairly modest goals of cooperation with the Cuban government, seeking an...
Noel Sichalwe, ASSOCIATED PRESS LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia will hold a presidential election on Tuesday to replace Michael Sata, who died in October after...
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