Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network (GIN) – In a mounting chorus of voices, Nigerians from north to south, from the diaspora and...
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 16 people were killed early Tuesday in the Haitian capital after a man on top of...
AL-OUR, Egypt (Reuters) – Facing grim economic prospects at home, desperate young Egyptians are seeking jobs in Libya – a country sliding into lawlessness where...
JACK CHANG, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Working out of a Beijing office full of video game designers from around the world, Chinese-born Pin Wang and...
Edwin Kindzeka Moki and Krista Larson, ASSOCIATED PRESS YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — The Nigeria-based terror group Boko Haram on Monday threatened neighboring countries Niger and...
Jenny Barchfield, ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Neuza Maria Terreira loves Carnival so much that neither the pouring rain nor the stench of...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters)—The Palestinian government on Saturday condemned as “terrorism” the killings of three young Palestinian-Americans in North Carolina and called on U.S. authorities...
(Mail & Guardian) – With the shenanigans of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) last night in Parliament, the ANC had the nation behind it even...
DANY PADIRE, Associated Press KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press MOUNDOU, Chad (AP) — Suspected Boko Haram militants staged their first attack in Chad on Friday, hitting the...
(Bloomberg) — How does an Aruban taxi driver who shuttles mostly U.S. visitors around the Dutch Caribbean save $17,000 a year? By sailing to Venezuela...
PARIS (The News) – Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has denied he was consulted over the postponement of Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Election officials took the decision on...
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Thousands of civilians fled their homes in the southeastern Niger town of Diffa this week, officials said on Thursday, following waves of cross-border...
ERALDO PERES, Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The most fortunate of them have tents. The rest use black-and-blue plastic tarps draped over bamboo trunks to...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sudanese army troops raped at least 221 women and girls in a Darfur village in a series of...
JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Judging by Israel’s election race, the decades-long conflict with the Palestinians is not an important issue. Prime Minister Benjamin...
by Carolyn Guniss Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times The buzzwords at “A Village Dialogue: An Invitation from the Afro-Cuban Community” discussion are working...
HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Militia fighters have released a government minister seized more than two weeks ago in Central African...
CHIKA ODUAH, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead...
TARIME, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a remote, deeply traditional corner of northern Tanzania, growing numbers of girls are running away from home to...
(BBC) – Nigeria has postponed its 14 February presidential election by six weeks because of security fears. Election commission chief Attahiru Jega said the delay until...
by Omowale Clay Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Jan. 30, the 54 nations of the African Union Assembly of Heads...
(Salon) – President Barack Obama inspired a great deal of debate when, in December, he asserted that it was time for the United States to...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News As Caribbean governments prepare to review region-wide legislation allowing for medical marijuana use...
Chris Kay, Bloomberg News via CHICAGO TRIBUNE ABUJA, Nigeria (Chicago Tribune) — Nigeria’s military has six weeks to do what it failed to accomplish in...
