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…
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(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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…