International

By Hassan Isilow – South Africa steps up testing to contain spread and manage COVID-19 cases Johannesburg – South Africa’s top doctor announced Friday two more people have died from the novel coronavirus, bringing the total […]

By Nefeteria Brewster South African law enforcement officers are under scrutiny after videos of them assaulting citizens went viral following a call for the country to lock down due to the coronavirus. Since South Africa […]

By Edward Lempinen The first cases of COVID-19 emerged in China last November, and the virus has since moved inexorably to Europe and the United States. The virus didn’t arrive in Africa — home to 1.2 […]

By Bukola Adebayo, CNN Lagos, Nigeria — For many years, Rose’s clothing store was the destination of choice for Lagos women in search of a new outfit for a party or occasion. She traveled regularly to […]

African Americans find new home in Ghana – gateway of the brutal African slave trade to the US that began 400 years ago. Accra, Ghana – Afia Khalia Tweneboa Kodua, then a resident of Los Angeles, still […]

Students running from tear gas. (Global Information Network) By Global Information Network Instability is growing in the East African nations of Sudan and South Sudan while the U.S. pursues a military solution to a decades-long […]

  In 2016, Mexico’s government for the first time ever recognized the 1.38 million citizens of African descent living in the country. They weren’t counted in the national census until 2015.  In Mexico’s 2020 national […]

Chagos protestor (TriceEdeyWire.com/GIN) – When colonial powers redrew borders in Africa and picked choice lands for themselves and less desirable land for everyone else, some of those deals remained through this century. Few were undone. […]

Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel peace prize for his humanitarian work with the UN. (Photograph: Allison Joyce/Reuters) by Chris Johnston via theguardian.com The former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, has died at the […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — While visiting Kenya, former U.S. President Barack Obama praised Kenya’s president and opposition leader for working together but said this East African country must do more to end corruption. On his […]