Victoria Cavaliere, REUTERS LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the government to swiftly release immigrant children held at detention centers,...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The son of Senegal’s former President Abdoulaye Wade lost a bid to be freed from his six-year prison sentence when the Supreme...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A grandson of Nelson Mandela accused of raping a 15-year-old girl will remain in police custody, while his defense...
JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Media organizations in Sudan imposed a 24-hour news blackout on Friday to demand a full investigation into...
MARAM MAZEN, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptologist who believes Queen Nefertiti’s crypt may be hidden behind King Tutankhamun’s 3,300-year-old tomb in the famed Valley...
(BBC) – South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to spend the next two weeks in hospital, according to a family statement. The Desmond and Leah Tutu...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela tried to derail a complaint from a teenager accusing Nelson Mandela’s grandson of rape, a spokesman for...
ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Walking into Mexico at the nation’s busiest border crossing with the United States is no longer an uninterrupted...
MAGGY DONALDSON, Associated Press ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — Britain and France on Thursday announced tougher security tools to guard the Channel Tunnel,...
(BBC) – As President Obama finished his speech to the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa last month and stepped off the stage, a tempest whipped up outside....
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press MASSESSEHBEH, Sierra Leone (AP) — It had been five months since the last Ebola case in Musa Kamara’s village when he returned...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has charged a man on whose land the well-known Cecil the lion was shot by American dentist...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man identified as one of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons has been arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl, South...
(BBC) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has failed to sign a peace deal in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, aimed at ending the civil war in...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – This month, teenagers across the nation prepare to make the transition from high school to college and...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The 12-year-old girl said she had been raped by a foreign soldier, one of many who had come...
NEW YORK (Caribbean360.com) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated Cuba and the United States on further normalizing of relations, following the opening of the...
Anne-Marie Garcia and Michael Weissenstein, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — The blazing Caribbean sun rose Saturday on a U.S. flag flying over Havana for the...
(NBC News) – Fidel Castro doesn’t exactly sound ready to embrace the new spirit of openness with the United States. To mark his 89th birthday, the former...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A company famous for its pens marked a public holiday honoring women in South Africa with a Facebook post...
(BBC) – A revered monarch in south-west Nigeria, the Ooni of Ife, has been buried after thousands attended his funeral, a mourner has told the BBC....
(The Washington Post) – On July 31, the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published a review of several books on race and racism in the United States. The series, written...
(BBC) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed the government following a rift with Prime Minister Domingos Pereira. The two men are said to have...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram has a new commander willing to negotiate with Nigeria’s new government, Chad’s President Idriss Deby announced...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief has fired the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the...
