[Daily Star] JOHANNESBURG: Twenty years after the euphoria of South Africa’s first democratic elections swept liberation hero Nelson Mandela to power, the ruling party faces its toughest...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Senegalese party official says the former president plans to return home on Thursday after finally receiving permission for his plane...
PARIS (AP) — A study by the U.N. education agency says cellphones are getting more and more people to read in countries where books are...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The top United Nations envoy to Somalia warned Tuesday that the U.N. and other foreign diplomats may...
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian officials say machete-wielding thugs have attacked delegates at a meeting of Nigeria’s main opposition coalition, wounding scores in the northern...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An official says the son of Senegal’s former president will be tried for illicit enrichment following an investigation into how he...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Five Ivory Coast newspapers whose publications have been temporarily suspended are denouncing the measure. Most of the newspapers were suspended for...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The diplomat who was president of the U.N. Security Council in April 1994 apologized Wednesday for the...
[USA Today] DUBAI/RIYADH, April 15 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, rattled by regional turmoil that has destabilised the Middle East, is intensifying a crackdown on domestic dissent, raising...
By Boubacar Diallo and Sarah DiLorenzo Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Ebola could continue to spread in West Africa for months in one of the...
By Peter Leonard Associated Press DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister went on a charm offensive Friday as he visited the country’s southeast, pledging...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A threatened, but averted, American missile strike to punish Syria’s government for a chemical weapons attack last summer would not have been powerful...
PERTH, Australia (AP) — For the fifth time in recent days, an underwater sensor detected a signal in the same swath of the southern Indian Ocean...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved a nearly 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force for Central African...
GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Global murder rates have declined slightly, but remain very high in the Americas and parts of Africa, according to...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABBA, Ethiopia (AP) — Two groups in Ethiopia said Thursday that they will hold an anti-gay demonstration later this month, a...
BEIRUT (AP) — Fierce infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria killed more than 50 fighters Thursday, an opposition group said, while government shelling...
by Jehron Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – “A weak African National Congress threatens to strengthen the radical populists” is how...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News In another recent retaliatory measure against European imperialism, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announced earlier last month...
NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court on Friday sentenced to death three men who raped a photojournalist inside an abandoned textile mill in the financial...
The Associated Press Russian military forces are far better equipped than their counterparts in Ukraine, whose government can barely afford to pay their soldiers’ salaries. Here...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Mar 31 (GIN) – The N.Y.-based Committee to Protect Journalists is protesting the “degrading” treatment of a...
HANNAH DREIER, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Battling food shortages, the government is rolling out a new ID system that is either a grocery loyalty...
[The Washington Post] A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Mar. 31 (GIN) — A new study by the research group AfroBarometer finds that despite a flurry...
