(CNN) — Tubes used to clear his lungs prevent Nelson Mandela from speaking, and he uses facial expressions to communicate with doctors and family, according to his former wife....
ANGUS SHAW, Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s longtime President Robert Mugabe says he doesn’t want anyone to be fooled by his impeccable Western style...
[The Guardian] Private firms are selling spying tools and mass surveillance technologies to developing countries with promises that “off the shelf” equipment will allow them to snoop on...
PETER JAMES SPIELMANN, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The African Union demanded that the Security Council vote Friday to shelve the International Criminal Court trial of...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president lashed out at criticisms of his nation’s human rights record, saying Thursday that the...
PARIS (AP) — The French government has opened a racism investigation after a far-right magazine compared the country’s black justice minister to a monkey on its...
HEATHER MURDOCK, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian lawmakers have ordered an investigation into the country’s oil business after an international financial watchdog group alleged...
MAGGIE MICHAEL SARAH EL DEEB CAIRO (AP) — A court declared that Egypt’s 3-month-old state of emergency expired Tuesday, two days earlier than expected, but the...
[BBC] Efforts to vaccinate 165,000 children against polio in Sudan have been blocked by the government and rebels, the UN humanitarian chief says. John Ging said...
ROBBIE COREY-BOULET, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese police detained five women accused of violating the country’s anti-gay law, highlighting increased pressure on suspected lesbians...
JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s Drug Enforcement Agency has arrested the head of the presidential motorcade for allegedly using an official vehicle...
by RAPHAEL TENTHANI, Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Police in Malawi arrested a former justice minister on suspicion of involvement in the Sept. 13 shooting...
by JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian officials have banned motorcycle taxis from the main roads of the capital city, Monrovia, sparking outcry...
[Telegraph] Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, may well have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, Swiss scientists have concluded in findings that may solve a 10-year...
by SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A court in Egypt upheld Wednesday an earlier ruling that banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its...
by DIDI TANG, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The 27-year-old journalist wore a green jail uniform, his head shaved and hands in metal cuffs, when he...
[Los Angeles Times] JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Four Somali men were arraigned in a Kenyan court Monday, charged with aiding the September terrorist attack on the...
[Bloomberg] Secretary of State John Kerry visited Cairo yesterday to reassure the men who led the coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected president that the U.S. is...
by Barrington M. Salmon Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Don Rojas didn’t know that when he accepted Maurice Bishop’s offer to become his...
[Los Angeles Times] Question: We applied for and received Global Entry status about two years ago. We lost our Global Entry cards on our recent trip to...
[Reuters] (Reuters) – The trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on charges of crimes against humanity is unlikely to start next month as planned, after prosecutors...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News Even before the first legal briefs have been filed in a British or...
[The Republic] JOHANNESBURG — Staff at a South African prison allegedly administered electroshock as punishment to inmates and injected them against their will with anti-psychotic drugs,...
by MOHAMED OSMAN KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s president said Monday that 58 people will face trial for their alleged role in violent protests against the...
[All Africa] Sources in Somalia say a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed a key operative of the militant group al-Shabab. Witnesses tell VOA that Ibrahim...
