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By Jamila Bey (BET.COM) (Photo by RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images) A former rebel known as “the torturer,” who had a history of armed insurrection against Haitian presidents, was apprehended in connection with the murder […]
(CNN) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the struggle to end apartheid in his […]
NNPA NEWSWIRE — July 14, 2021 – by BlackPressUSA – By Fitsum Arega, Ethiopian Ambassador to the U.S., Special to the NNPA NewswireIn 2011, Ethiopia announced to build a hydroelectric dam on its Abbay River, known […]
GABORONE, Botswana — Growing up in the dusty village of Ledumadumane a few miles outside Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, Kgomotso Phatsima dreamed of being a pilot. As a young girl, she would watch with fascination as planes […]
NAIROBI, Kenya — Hellen Okanga, 15, an HIV/AIDS patient, lives with her aunt in Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Nairobi. She wants to be a doctor, but she might not realize that dream if the […]
GABORONE, Botswana — Could the innate animal tracking skills of Botswana’s Kalahari Bushmen save them from poverty? Researchers and conservationists think so. The art—honed and passed from generation to generation—is slowly disappearing, replaced by modern counting […]
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — People in the West African nation of Nigeria are excited about Germany’s decision to send back valuable artifacts looted from ancestors by British soldiers and sailors during the European colonization of Africa. Known as […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Two years ago, Richard Mutende, 33, was arrested and charged with marijuana possession and sentenced to serve three years in jail at the Chikurubi Prison, a maximum-security facility on the outskirts of Harare, […]
NAIROBI, Kenya — The past one month has been a difficult one for Richard Lijoki, who lives in Mathare, a slum in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and works as a waiter in a small restaurant in the […]
MELBOURNE, Australia — Health authorities are warning Australian women from Victoria to be on alert for symptoms after 16 developed a rare form of cancer from breast implants. The cases of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell […]
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