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...
Noel Sichalwe, ASSOCIATED PRESS LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia will hold a presidential election on Tuesday to replace Michael Sata, who died in October after...
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...
Danica Kirka, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — The richest 1 percent of the population will own more than half the world’s wealth by 2016, Oxfam...
Aaron Ross, REUTERS KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Security forces fired live rounds and tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in Democratic Republic of...
NAIMEY, Niger (Reuters)—Stone-throwing demonstrators set fire to two churches in Niger’s capital Niamey on Saturday, in the latest protest in France’s former African colonies at...
Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA, Ghana (Reuters)—West African leaders will seek authority next week from the African Union to create a multi-national force...
SCOTT MAYEROWITZ, AP Airlines Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are one step closer to being able to vacation in Cuba, but don’t pack your bathing...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As Islamic militants from Boko Haram step up attacks in Nigeria that have led to the slaughter of more...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As Islamic militants from Boko Haram step up attacks in Nigeria that have led to the slaughter of more...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has a new prime minister as it enters a phase of political uncertainty, with its parliament dissolved,...