RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s top court on Thursday banned the practice of refunding bride price — normally livestock given by the...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HWANGE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Two professional hunters appeared in a Zimbabwean court Wednesday, each accused in separate cases of helping Americans kill...
EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 9 people and kidnapped dozens, including children and teenagers,...
JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The South Sudanese government has stopped operations of two newspapers, editors at the publications said Wednesday, in...
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The arrest of a well-known Jewish extremist marks Israel’s first concrete step in its new “zero tolerance” approach toward...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) – South African retired archbishop Desmond Tutu left a Cape Town hospital on Tuesday after being treated for an infection there since last month,...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In 1909-10, Theodore Roosevelt headed a Smithsonian hunting and trapping expedition in Africa that included colleagues who prepared the...
AOMAR OUALI, Associated Press PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is in the grips of political intrigue, as the president nears death and...
GERARD NZOHABONA, Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — A leading rights activist in Burundi was shot and wounded late Monday by unknown assailants in the capital,...
Julia Payne and Felix Onuah, REUTERS ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) — Nigeria’s army said late on Sunday that it rescued 178 people held by Islamist militant...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe will seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of...
MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press DUMA, West Bank (AP) — Suspected Jewish assailants set fire to a West Bank home on Friday and...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers rescued 71 people, almost all girls and women, in firefights that killed...
JILL COLVIN, Associated Press ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In one of his first forays into policy as a presidential candidate, Republican...
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — While the death of a protected lion in Zimbabwe has caused outrage in the United States — much...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s president is ruling out the possibility of holding elections that are due next year, citing security challenges...
CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Extortion at security checkpoints is costing Ivory Coast millions each year despite government steps to eradicate the practice,...
(The Jerusalem Post) – The new force-feeding bill is tantamount to a license to kill Palestinian prisoners, Issa Qaraqi, head of the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners Commission...
(Africland Post) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is also the African Union (AU) chair, says Africa must establish its own International Criminal Court (ICC) which would...
ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press LORI HINNANT, Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — France deployed more than 100 riot police to Calais on Wednesday to bolster security...
(BBC) – South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu has returned to hospital just a week after being discharged. He has what has only been described as a...
JACOBO GARCIA, Associated Pres BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — For weeks, billboards on buses and television spots have been announcing what promises to be Colombia’s next big...
(Salon) – During the first Intifada in Israel-Palestine, one of the most controversial aspects of the Israeli reaction to the uprising in 1987 was Yitzhak Rabin’s...
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press (AP) – Some African activists have greeted President Barack Obama’s remarks that Ethiopia has a democratically elected government with scorn and...
Obama’s Visit to Kenya — Father’s Homeland Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper President Obama took Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to task over the...
