(BBC) – Relatives and friends of the abducted Nigerian schoolgirls have identified some of them from a video released by Boko Haram Islamist militants. The...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — New fighting broke out in South Sudan on Sunday less than 48 hours after the country’s president and...
(Los Angeles Times) – Seeking to take advantage of calmer seasonal waters, more migrants from Africa are trying to cross to Europe from Libya in...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s election commission completed a vote count that confirms the ruling African National Congress as the winner but...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A handful of sex workers sit on discarded cardboard along a filthy sewer channel, sharing food and razors...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling party led its rivals in early election results on Thursday after a campaign in...
(CNN) — He is the face of terror. A ruthless leader with a twisted ideology. And the sadistic architect of a campaign of mayhem and misery....
(Globe & Mail) – South Africans voted in the first “Born Free” election on Wednesday, although polls suggest the allure of the ruling African National Congress...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Traveling from lush green hilltops to hot dusty roads and seaside ports, U.S. Secretary of State...
by Margaret Summers Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer TransAfrica President Nicole Lee announced Thursday she will step down after eight years in the...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The number of kidnapped schoolgirls missing in Nigeria has risen to 276, up by more than 30...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Confronting global fears of genocide, South Sudan’s president tentatively agreed Friday to revitalize peace talks...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million people in South Sudan have fled their homes at a crucial time of...
BABACAR DIONE, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The most high-profile rebel leader in Senegal’s southern Casamance region declared a ceasefire Wednesday, raising government hopes that...
LAURA DEAN, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Justice Minister on Wednesday rebuffed international criticism of a mass trial this week in which some 680 defendants...
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Nigerians took to the streets Thursday to demand the government do more to rescue scores of girls abducted by militants more than two...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is bringing his two main tools of diplomacy — peace...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rainy season is about to start in South Sudan, but war in the world’s newest country has...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a bill that legalizes polygamous unions and opens the door for men to...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials say nearly 40,000 Congolese citizens have been deported from neighboring Republic of Congo because they did not have immigration papers. Kinshasa...
CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president urged voters to head to the polls next week in the spirit of “democracy and freedom”...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the Malaysian government to improve its human rights record...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press MAY PEN, Jamaica (AP) — It’s been nearly a year since Sevina Giderisingh’s 20-year-old son died in a confrontation with a police...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian rights group is urging the United Nations to help secure the release of some 230 schoolgirls abducted by extremists...
BABA AHMED, Associated Press TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — Roofs are torn off, mud bricks are strewn about and walls barely rise from the desert dunes where...
