Africa News

AFRICA Day will be celebrated across the continent on 25 May. This has become a kind of an annual ritual.

President Obama's speech Thursday detailing a new approach to counterterrorism focused heavily on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones.

"Africa has been consolidating and strengthening the legal framework protecting indigenous people," Senior Specialist on Indigenous Tribal Peoples' Issues for the International Labour Organization , Albert Kwokwo Barume, said at a Headquarters press conference being held in connection with the 12th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous ... (more)

Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country.

"My goal was always to create an African show," Jacob tells the Straight from Las Vegas, where he's now based.

Why should the law regulate marriage when so many people in South Africa decide to live together or cohabit without getting married? asks Bertus Preller .

Dear Sen.Obama: Thanks for repudiating Gen. Wesley Clark's stupid comments regarding John McCain's military service and preparedness to be Commander in Chief.

Libya is a country located in Northern Africa that borders the Mediterranean Sea.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, meet with Chief of Police Marc Armblah at the police academy in Monrovia, Liberia Thursday, Aug.

Six years after its 2007 Seoul run, South Africa's iconic musical "Umoja: The Spirit of Togetherness" is back in Korea to show off the country's colorful and explosive culture, deeply linked to its stormy history.

Successful global leaders are able to identify and respond effectively to new and unfamiliar circumstances.

The Covenant by James Michner is a very well written historical novel set in South Africa .

Hancock & Moore has introduced a new range of safari-inspired seating collection which is infused with African animal and tribal prints.

Thieves scaled down a rope into a stadium in Johannesburg after it hosted a Justin Bieber gig to steal the contents of a walk-in safe, South African police said Tuesday.

Dear Sen.Obama: Thanks for repudiating Gen. Wesley Clark's stupid comments regarding John McCain's military service and preparedness to be Commander in Chief.

Remember your favorite grandparent - the one who was smart, sweet, funny, and wise, if a bit cranky and repetitive? "The Last Train to Zona Verde," Paul Theroux's latest major travel book, is a lot like that.

Bob Geldof's 8 Miles African private equity fund has made its first investment, backing a start-up company that plans to build commodity exchanges across Africa and improve food security.

Dear Sen.Obama: Thanks for repudiating Gen. Wesley Clark's stupid comments regarding John McCain's military service and preparedness to be Commander in Chief.

By the time of his death, he had become the radical and highly controversial voice of an oppressed people, not only of his home country Nigeria, but of all of Africa.

Peter Kubelka is an Austrian experimentalfilmmaker. His films are primarily short experimentsin linking seemingly disparate sound and images.