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It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his family's hut.
A lifetime ago, a young black South African student was on trial with 21 other suspects accused by the white racist government of treason, terrorism and working for the African National Congress.
Struggling but deserving designers got a chance to show work inspired by the creativity and history of South Africa's most famous township as Soweto's first fashion week opened Thursday.
A lawyer for South Africa's president broke down in tears Thursday as he tried to convince three judges that the display of a portrait that depicts the president's genitals is unlawful.
Army leaders say a combat brigade will be assigned to the Pentagon's Africa Command next year in a pilot program that will send small teams of soldiers to countries around the continent to do training and participate in military exercises.
South Africa's main opposition party called a march Tuesday to make a point about economic policy, but ended up facing rock-throwing counter-protesters in scenes that illustrated that democracy and traditions of political tolerance are still young 18 years after apartheid was toppled.
U.S. actor and director Kevin Spacey said he sees opportunity for expanding film making in Africa, Asia and Europe.
A rescue official says a 50-meter (164-foot) Japanese trawler with 28 fishermen and a dog aboard has run aground off a popular Cape Town beach.
A South African judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to investigate whether Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government committed human rights abuses, saying it would benefit Zimbabweans tortured in their homeland and South Africans determined to see their own government live up to its international responsibilities.
The World Bank partner devoted to developing the private sector and The MasterCard Foundation will spend millions of dollars so more impoverished Africans can get loans and other financial services, officials said Monday.
One of Said Lakenizaa's two remaining cows fell sick and died last year as he led it down the steep dirt track from his village in Morocco's Atlas mountains to the rest of the world.
South African unions took to the streets. Big business added its opposition to proposed tolls to pay for road upgrades for the nation's commercial hub, saying an irrational plan was being imposed on citizens by the governing African National Congress.
President Barack Obama is inviting the heads of four African nations to join other world leaders at the G-8 summit to discuss food security on the continent.
Ugandan officials are renewing a claim made with some frequency over the years: That rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army are receiving backing from the government of Sudan.
Adye Sunday isn't sure about the calls to kill or capture Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony. Though the elusive warlord abducted her when she was 13 and forced her to be one of his dozens of "wives," the 25-year-old says he's also the father of her two children.
An African National Congress internal appeals committee has upheld a ruling expelling the governing party's youth leader for sowing disunity in its ranks.
South Africa is bestowing posthumous presidential honors on U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who died of brain cancer in 2009.
Aid groups warned Monday they are nearly $200 million short of the money needed to fight a growing hunger crisis that threatens more than 1 million children across western and central Africa this year.
Lawyers in South Africa's heartland quietly wrapped up arguments Thursday in the murder of a white supremacist, a case that has illustrated how far South Africa has moved from apartheid.
Captured by a ruthless African guerrilla group, 12-year-old Jacob Acaye refused to cry as members of the Lord's Resistance Army killed his older brother as an example for those who try to escape.
When a 17-year-old girl said to have the mental capacity of a 5-year-old was reported missing four weeks ago in the sprawling South African township of Soweto, police distributed her photo and asked neighborhood residents for help.
Two men from the African country of Mali have admitted in a New York court to engaging in drug dealing in support of Colombian terrorists.
Rabbi (Dovid Weiss) speaks out against Israel (at Muslim Students Convention in CA)Rabbi Dovid Weiss spoke out against Zionism and the State of Israel to a scattered crowd of Cal State Long Beach students and Long Beach community members Tuesday.(May 3 2011)
S. Africa urges release of Zimbabwe vote results Bush, Rice call on African nation's neighbors to act; Zambia asked to step in
MEMRI: Thousands of Tunisians Salafis: "Obama, We Are All Osama"; MC Calls US President "The Ape Obama"
(Israeli) Likud MK Danny Danon Wants to Put African Migrants in Israel into Concentration Camps | MyFDLAs violence against illegal and legal African migrants to Israel has escalated this past week in and around Tel Aviv, so has the rhetoric coming out of recently elevated figures in Netanyahu’s new coalition power structure:
Mugabe: Same-sex couples 'lower than dogs' "Our customs look down on women as inferior. Men pay cattle and money to get a wife and expect women to obey them. Women will surely lose. Men say that women are not as knowledgeable as us. The attitude of men still despises women," he said.
Are the "Overwhelming Majority" of the World's 1.5 Billion Muslims Peace Loving Moderates? Nigeria opposes U.S. bid to tag Boko Haram terror groupAMID pressure on President Barack Obama to formally designate Boko Haram a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO), Nigeria has kicked against the move. The Federal Government raised its objection to the plan ahead of yesterday’s meeting of the National Security Adviser (NS …
Judge: Sudan responsible for USS Cole attackFamilies of 17 sailors killed in 2000 alleged African nation aided al-Qaida
Muslim Persecution of Christians: April, 2012 "The Christians were running in all directions for their lives, including the children who were crying in fear." One Muslim, "brandishing a sickle, chased many of them, hurling all kinds of insults and attempting to murder them all…. 500 Muslims had gathered and were watching i …
64th Anniversary of the Nakba: (Catastrophe) Palestinians' Suffering Continues to Aggravate and the Human Rights Situation deteriorates15 May 2012, marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the anniversary of the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. This was the harshest and most brutal ethnic cleansing in the world, and included systematic and deliberate killings an …
Statements at International Conference for the Defence of Al Quds (Jerusalem) (Doha, Feb. 26/27, 2012) | Global March to Jerusalem“Sheikh Ahmed thanked the participants, noting that their contribution crowned the efforts exercised to defend the holy city, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine.”
Obama’s 1991 Literary Agent: Born In Kenya - Independent Journal ReviewBreitbart News has obtained photographs of Barack Obama’s biography printed in a promotional booklet for a literary agency that say he was born in Kenya before being raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. Before we go further into detail, Breitbart’s Senior Management wan …
Israeli Racism (Indoctrinating Israeli Children to Hate)Tel Aviv University's Professor Daniel Bar-Tal studied dozens of elementary, middle, and high school texts on grammar, Hebrew literature, history, geography and citizenship. They justify Israel's right to wage humanitarian wars against Arabs who won't accept or acknowledge exclus …
Crocs, snakes worsen deadly Ethiopia floodsAt least 68 deaths this week, 1,000 since June; 279,000 homeless
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