IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Thirteen-year-old Sulaiman wanders the streets of Nigeria’s northeastern town of Yola, hungry, dusty and...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network (GIN) – “I am a Liberian, not a virus.” That’s the loud and clear message of a...
(Quartz) – Sometimes, the best innovation isn’t an app. South Africans Thato Kgatlhanye and Rea Ngwane are co-founders of the business Rethaka. Their brand of Repurposed Schoolbags are made...
Lynsey Chutel, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Namibia’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that health workers sterilized HIV-positive women without their consent, a human rights...
Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremists tells the world...
(New York Times) – A prominent businesswoman and politician has come under fire for comparing the Hong Kong protesters’ bid for democracy to that of...
MONROVIA, Liberia (New York Times) — The president waited until her family members were seated around the dining table before announcing, with no fanfare,...
(Reuters) – A convoy of Iraqi Kurdish forces in Turkey rolled late on Friday across the border into Syria to help Syrian Kurds defend the besieged town of Kobani...
ADAM SCHRECK, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The family of an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post who has been jailed in Iran...
(Reuters) – Russia, Ukraine and the European Union are likely to conclude an accord on Thursday that would see Moscow resume gas supplies to its ex-Soviet neighbor over...
ANKARA, Turkey (The Washington Post) — The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their...
The Associated Press The annual Global Gender Gap index by the World Economic Forum, shows marginal improvement in women’s equality worldwide, according to data on access...
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida is using U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches...
NOEL SICHALWE, Associated Press CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia’s vice president Guy Scott, a white Zambian of Scottish descent, became the country’s...
(The Washington Post) – In a remarkable new video released by the Islamic State militants, British hostage John Cantlie gives a tour of the Syrian...
Sean Silbert and Julie Makinen, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BEIJING (The L.A. Times)—Hong Kong’s democracy protesters are fighting off their chief executive, who is dressed...
(BBC.com)—For six months the world has waited for news of the fate of more than 200 girls abducted by Nigerian militant group Boko Haram. As the...
(BBC) – Voters are going to the polls in Botswana in what is expected to be the closest general elections in the world’s largest diamond...
(BBC) – Women’s football may be the fastest growing sport in the world but it faces huge challenges in Africa. More than 20 years after coming...
(Vanity Fair) – To be an undocumented immigrant is to obsess over documents. A driver’s license, for example, is not merely a driver’s license—it proves you...
BERLIN (AP) — An anti-corruption watchdog says that several of the Group of 20 global economic powers are making little or no effort to enforce...
(The Washington Times) – The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the Obama administration to task Friday for its “irresponsible” plan to allow...
(Business Week) – Persistent violence in northeast Nigeria is undermining the government’s claims to have brokered a cease-fire with Islamist militant group Boko Haram. A lack...
(The Independent) – Singapore has topped Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2015 list this year, followed by Namibia and Lithuania. With its unique style of cuisine and culture,...
(The Washington Post) – The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria Ebola-free — after more than six weeks without a new case of the disease...
