Obama Administration speeds up deportation proceedings by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News If Caribbean nations and their consular representatives...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The recent conference of African leaders convened by President Obama in the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group, claims it has added the city of Gwoza to an Islamic state that it has established...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Opposition lawmakers heckled South African President Jacob Zuma during a parliamentary session Thursday in which questions were raised about...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The use of child soldiers — teenage boys dressed in military uniforms and carrying assault rifles — is...
HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In its latest personal attack on a prominent official from a rival country, North Korea on Wednesday...
(United Nations) – The United Nations is marking World Humanitarian Day today by paying tribute to aid workers who carry out life-saving activities around the...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Charles Onyango-Obbo of The East African, a Kenyan daily, joined a growing number of writers...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent’s...
(CNet) – Locked inside a small apartment in central London, Julian Assange has avoided arrest only because his dimly lit ground-floor bedroom also happens to...
(BBC) – A group of soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria is refusing to fight Islamist Boko Haram militants until they receive better equipment, one of the mutineers...
by Sameer N. Yacoub and Vivian Salama, ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD (AP) — The decision by Iraq’s embattled Nouri al-Maliki to step down as prime minister...
TOBY STERLING, Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam’s mayor and the organizers of a large children’s winter festival have unveiled plans to overhaul the image of...
CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian officials voiced cautious optimism Thursday, hinting at progress in Egyptian-mediated negotiations with Israel to bring an end to the fighting in Gaza...
(NPR) – “The future of humanity is increasingly African.” That’s the prediction in a new UNICEF report, which estimates that by the end of this century,...
GREG KELLER, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Calling the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan “catastrophic,” France said Wednesday it would start supplying arms to the Kurdish forces...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.N. Security Council could impose sanctions on leaders in South Sudan if gross violations of human rights...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hecklers on Tuesday accused South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa of being a murderer for the police killings of...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda is urging parliamentarians not to rush to reintroduce a controversial anti-gay law that...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Last week, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar fired controversial Sports...
Liz Sly, THE WASHINGTON POST FISHKHABOUR, Iraq (The Washington Post) — Burned by the sun, blistered with thirst and weak from exhaustion, thousands of Yazidis on...
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Far fewer unaccompanied immigrant children are crossing the Texas-Mexico border, allowing the federal government to close the temporary...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant group seized the northeastern town of Gwoza, overwhelming soldiers based in the...
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli Cabinet minister warned Thursday that Israel will respond if Hamas resumes fire after a temporary truce expires in the Gaza...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — They were leaders of Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed...
