Daniel Flynn, REUTERS THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (Reuters) — After being repatriated to Senegal on a Spanish military plane having risked his life on a perilous sea crossing...
(BBC) – Suspected al-Shabab militants have abducted and killed a traditional chief in northern Kenya, a local elder says. Chief Muktar Otieno was seized early on...
(Wall Street Journal) – In China, friends and family of the deceased may have to do without a special form of funereal entertainment: strippers. According to...
(BBC) – Portugal is often praised for its success in integrating immigrants but in the suburbs of Lisbon police are being accused of racism and brutality....
(Smithsonian) – My father, a bookish black man old enough to be my grandfather, grew up in Texas while it was still a segregated state....
MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press LEE KEATH, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chaos has turned it into a lucrative magnet attracting migrants desperate to make the...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Of all the leaders in the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc, Kamla Persad-Bissessar...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Only a few kilometers (miles) separate Alexandra, a gritty Johannesburg township where South Africans attacked immigrants last week, from...
(BBC) – Nigerian ground troops have joined an offensive on the last known hideout of the Boko Haram Islamist militants, a military spokesman has told the...
(BBC) – South African soldiers and police have conducted a series of raids in an effort to curb attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — More than 100,000 Ethiopians on Wednesday protested the killing of Ethiopian Christians in Libya and their own...
FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy pressed the EU on Wednesday to devise robust steps to stop the deadly tide of migrants crossing the...
MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In its first report on trafficking around the world, the U.S. criticized Thailand as a hub for...
Organization Helps Those Who Escaped from Boko Haram Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer With a slow but steady gait, a petite young woman...
by Askia Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) – President Barack Obama added another notch to his diplomatic achievements-belt April 11,...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried about their safety, hundreds of African immigrants headed out of South Africa in buses on Monday following deadly...
ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press Two recent shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea believed to have taken the lives of as many as 1,300 asylum seekers and migrants...
Elias Meseret, ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Many in Ethiopia are reeling from the news that several Ethiopians were killed in Libya by...
Jimmy Golen, ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON (AP) — Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won his second Boston Marathon on Monday, two years after he donated the medal...
Ed Cropley, REUTERS PRETORIA, South Africa (Reuters) — South Africa sought diplomatic support from countries across the continent on Friday to defeat the “demon” of...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — When Abdelaziz Bouteflika ran for a fourth term as Algeria’s president a year ago, the opposition cautioned that he would be...
(BBC) – Foreign-owned shops in South Africa have been attacked and looted in east Johannesburg, the latest in a series of xenophobic attacks. A standoff is...
(Politico) – For decades, the world has known that the massive Israeli facility near Dimona, in the Negev Desert, was the key to its secret...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — President Jacob Zuma on Thursday urged South Africans to stop attacking immigrants from Africa and South Asia, but hundreds...
MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — During a quarter-century in power, President Omar al-Bashir has succeeded in keeping an iron grip on Sudan despite...
