Karen DeYoung and Nick Miroff, THE WASHINGTON POST PANAMA CITY (The Washington Post) — President Obama and President Raúl Castro symbolically ended more than a...
Kevin Sieff, THE WASHINGTON POST NAIROBI (The Washington Post) — After years in a Boko Haram camp, the children had forgotten their native language. They...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians are voting for state governors and assemblies in elections Saturday in which the opposition hopes to make gains following its...
Matt Spetalnick and David Graham, REUTERS PANAMA CITY (Reuters) — President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands on Friday at a...
GARISSA, Kenya (Wall Street Journal) – One year ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta declared on television that the era of insecurity was over for Kenyans. He vowed that...
(BBC) – Kenyans have taken to the streets and to social media to express their grief at the death of 148 people in the al-Shabab attack...
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 21 people have died and 17 others are missing in a suspected boat capsizing off Haiti’s...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News The six-week-old government in the Eastern Caribbean twin island federation of St. Kitts...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — President Barack Obama will act soon on a recommendation about whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. list...
(BBC) – The University of Cape Town (UCT) has voted to remove a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes that had become the focus of student...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans confronted by armed Islamic extremists should fight back and avoid being killed “like cockroaches,” a senior police...
(UN.org) – Officials welcomed the unveiling at the world body’s New York headquarters of a permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade...
(Reuters) – Kenya needs more help from its U.S. and European allies with intelligence and security measures to help prevent further massacres by Somali militants, Foreign...
(Telegraph) – France on Tuesday declassified documents in the presidential archives relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which Kigali accuses Paris of having an indirect role. A...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — On his first state visit to South Africa since 1994, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday pleaded...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network March 30 (GIN) – Showing a “commendable determination to register their vote and choose their leaders,” Nigerians...
(U.S. News) – The U.S. received the highest number of international students in its history in 2013-2014, welcoming 886,052 undergraduate and graduate international students into its colleges and universities. Just as...
(Gulf News) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to normalise relations with Cuba are producing a wave of enthusiasm from US firms eager to do business...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — He was a soccer player with a fighting spirit, a talented keyboard player with “golden fingers”...
Michael Weissenstein and Bradley Klapper, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — American hopes of opening an embassy in Havana before presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro...
Mugdha Variyar, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES GARISSA, Kenya (International Business Times)—After the Al-Shabaab attack on Kenya’s Garissa University left 148 students dead last Thursday, Twitterati have taken it upon...
GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president has vowed to take harsh measures against Islamic militants after they attacked a school near the Somali border,...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press TOM ODULA, Associated Press GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 148 people at a college in northeast Kenya as...
PARIS (VOA News) – France will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and...
(BBC) – The bodies of many of those killed by Islamist militants at a Kenyan university are being moved to the capital Nairobi for identification. At...
