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A French court has decided not to pursue an investigation into three African heads of state for money laundering linked to their assets in France.
The head of South African organizers for next year's World Cup thinks a successful tournament could lead to the Olympics being hosted on that continent for the first time in 2020.
In a snub to recent ex-presidents and heads of state in Africa, organizers of a multimillion-dollar annual prize for good governance on the continent said Monday they had decided not to give out the award this year.
An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his homeland to be crowned king of his people in the mountains of western Uganda.
A Costa Rican court has ordered three Colombians jailed for up to a year pending an investigation into charges they smuggled 54 U.S.-bound migrants from Africa and Nepal.
Costa Rican authorities detained 54 U.S.-bound migrants from Africa and Nepal after their boat arrived on the Central American country's coast, officials said Sunday.
U.S. embassies in Africa are inviting residents to ambassadors' residences and movie theaters on Saturday to watch President Barack Obama's speech in Ghana.
Being in Africa is an entirely new experience for most soccer players. For United States teammates Oguchi Onyewu and Freddy Adu, the continent is a second home.
Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists.
Hundreds of thousands of women, girls and babies have been raped during 12 years of conflict in eastern Congo, victims of a weapon of war that almost always goes unpunished, senators were told Wednesday.
A French judge has decided to investigate three African heads of state for money laundering and other alleged crimes linked to their wealth in France.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will embark on a wide-ranging African tour next week in a bid to shore up Congo's struggling peacekeeping mission, show support for victims of war in Congo and Rwanda and press for progress on climate change.
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe has signed legislation that disbands the country's elite anti-crime investigating unit, known as the Scorpions.
The closest 9-year-old Ruan Gamibeb has come to war is the fighting he sees on the news at night, when his family gathers around the television to watch Congo's latest horrors.
He took an AIDS test publicly despite a deep stigma in Africa against the disease. He pressed to cut the prevalence of mothers passing the HIV virus onto their babies. He fought to make more anti-retroviral drugs available. Festus Gontebanye Mogae, the former president of Botswana, was honored Monday with a multimillion-dollar leadership prize for his campaign to tackle one of the world's highest HIV infection rates.
Black Enterprise magazine has released its "20 Best Places to Retire" list in the October edition. The publication ranked cities on quality of life, health care, taxes and leisure, arts and culture and climate.
The United Nations and the African Union said Thursday they want their 26,000-strong peacekeeping force on the ground in Darfur quickly.
In his drive to spread Libyan and Islamic influence in Africa, Moammar Gadhafi inaugurated a huge new mosque in this predominantly Christian country Wednesday, with several African heads of state attending and scores of Arab journalists flown in for the occasion.
In a former life, Emmanuel Jal turned a gun against his government as a conscripted rebel soldier in his native Sudan.
Isayas Gabriel remembers when tens of thousands of his fellow soldiers were cut down during Ethiopia's last war with Eritrea, a 2 1/2 year bloodbath over a seemingly insignificant border town called Badme.
Mozambique's former president was honored Monday by Africa's elite with a prize of more than $5 million designed to promote good governance in a continent often blighted by misrule.
Mozambique's former president Joaquim Chissano on Monday became the first winner of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African leadership — a $5 million gift intended to promote good governance on a continent blighted by misrule.
About 3,000 European security forces could start deploying to Chad and Central African Republic next month to protect hundreds of thousands of refugees and other civilians caught up in the spillover from the Darfur conflict, French officials said.
Africa needs to build infrastructure and curb corruption to become truly attractive for private investment, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz told a forum of African and black American leaders.
Ordeal of girl whose mother 'only knew the African way' of disciplineA girl of 12 kept a diary of the mental and physical torture she suffered at the hands of her mother, who believed in the 'African way', a court heard yesterday. The youngster wrote about the sadistic punishment rituals her mother, a former banker, subjected her to.
Africa must think big to thriveMany African states are too small to continue to exist independently, Sudan-born magnate Mo Ibrahim has told a conference in Tanzania. Mr Ibrahim said the idea that 53 small African countries thought they could compete with China, India, Europe and the US was a "fallacy".
Animal slaughter for the World Cup? - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsThis is crazy ,Animal slaughter is cruel and in this age we should know better.If this does not work what next people slaughter.
Chavez and Gaddafi urge redefining of "terrorism"Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi have joined forces to urge the world to redefine "terrorism".
Usa: Carter Attacks Racism Behind Criticism Of Obama Washington, September 16 - Jimmy Carter has launched an alarm on racism in the United States, maintaining that there is more than political motives behind the wave of criticism of president Barack Obama.
IAAF Has Gender Test Results on Runner Semenya Runner... Both Male and Female?In an e-mail to The Associated Press, IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Thursday he couldn't confirm a story in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald newspaper stating that tests show Semenya has male and female sexual organs.
Embattled Track Star Caster Semenya Gets MakeoverIt's been a week of change for Caster Semenya, the South African runner at the center of a gender controversy at last month's world track championships.
Is There a Science to Beauty?"He look-a like a man." Remember Ms. Swan? Mad TV's maybe-Korean, maybe-Icelandic, slightly androgynous nail technician played with adroit cultural ambiguity by Jewish-American actress Alex Borstein? Ms.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | 'Russia's Obama' defies racistsRussia is comparatively quite hostile for many racial minorities. There was an earlier very grim report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy that concluded that at least 60% of African immigrants in Russia, had been physically assaulted.
African fashion has the look; not what you expect - Yahoo! NewsCAPE TOWN (AFP) – Leopard-print in acid pink and orange show African fashion with a twist, flinging curio-like interpretation off the ramp as local designers seek to show their diverse talent and find global appeal.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Racism' claims at Lebanon beach clubsRacism overall in Lebanon, not just at the beach clubs. New law maybe on the way to outlaw discrimination, we'll see. These maids and labourers need protection from abusive employers. Like at the end of the article says:
African tribe populated rest of the world The entire human race outside Africa owes its existence to the survival of a single tribe of around 200 people who crossed the Red Sea 70,000 years ago, scientists have discovered.
So I was reading an article I found from 2007 saying that Dr. James Watson, one of the world's most respected scientists, Nobel Prize Winner and DNA Pioneer has claimed that black people are less intelligent than white people.
Obama, the African ColonialHad Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today.
RFI - Who will get Bongo's cash?While the people of Gabon mourn the death of their President and await his funeral, others are asking themselves what will happen to the criminal case brought against Omar Bongo in relation to alleged stolen assets, and a string of luxurious apartments, bank accounts and cars.
Foreign Policy: What Muslim World?Even before U.S. President Barack Obama utters a word of his long-anticipated June 4 address to "the Muslim world," there is already a problem with the rhetoric. As well meaning as it sounds, the term "Muslim world" is a trap. There is no unified Muslim world.
Student suspended for insisting he's a white African-American, and moreA medical student says he was suspended from New Jersey's University of Medicine and Dentistry for insisting that he's a white African-American.
The black democratic caucus has just announced they will begin "limited hunger strikes" to show solidarity with the people of Darfur, and to urge President obama to take action. It is unclear what action the west can take to aid that country.
Q. Is it embarrassment? Is it guilt? It makes me uncomfortable when someone won't look me in the eyes when they are speaking with me. It makes me think there is something I don't know that is happening. Perhaps they are hiding something. What do you think?
Poll Does any one know where the original homeland of white people was located ? I recently learned that all other races of people on this planet had and still have ancestral lands that their evolutionary ancestry can be tied to except white people.
Elephants roam Berlin suburbsThree elephants that belong to a circus currently camped in a southern suburb of Berlin have been spotted roaming the area regularly, the daily Tagesspiegel reported on Sunday.
Headlines Africa - Witch TrialsPeople&Power goes to the Central African Republic to investigate how people are still charged with the practice of witch craft.
Presidential Tipple: French Vintner Creates 'Obama Cuve'While Germany opted for creating the dubious Obama Fingers, France has gone a more tasteful route. A female vintner, originally from Africa, has created an Obama wine -- and is donating all the profits to an NGO in Darfur.
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