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...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (CBS Sports) — Three Ethiopian journalists were released from prison three weeks ago, ahead of President Obama’s visit to the African nation. They...
ESAM MOHAMED, Associated Press BRIAN ROHAN, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s son and onetime heir apparent was convicted and sentenced to death on...
Ashley Southall, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — As I stood barefoot at the entrance to the Chottanikkara Bhagavathy Temple, a labyrinthine Hindu...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — President Barack Obama mixed blunt messages to Kenya’s leaders on gay rights, corruption and counterterrorism Saturday with...
HONG KONG/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In a 2013 script for the movie “Pixels,” intergalactic aliens blast a hole in one of China’s national treasures – the...
(BBC) – Nigeria has made a vital step towards being declared polio free, after marking a year without a recorded case. It can now be taken...
(Politico) – Beneath the ecstatic welcome President Barack Obama will receive when he arrives in his father’s homeland of Kenya on Friday is a lingering sense...
(BBC) – The US has “aided and abetted” the Boko Haram Islamist militant group by refusing to provide weapons to Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari says. A...
