ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s parliament swore in a new prime minister on Friday in the U.S. ally’s first peaceful change of
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Rev. Jesse Jackson secures release of US prisoners in Gambia
Rev. Jesse Jackson added to his long list of diplomatic accomplishments this week by securing the release of two Americans who had been imprisoned in Gambia for decades...
Zimbabwe businessman spends millions to send Africans to HBCU
theGRIO REPORT - The telecom tycoon has committed $6.4 million in scholarship dollars to send 40 African freshmen to Morehouse, over a four-year period....
Mandela's daughter Zindzi promotes road safety
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - When Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a June 2010 car crash, her tragic death cast a shadow over the start of the FIFA World Cup, and kept the former president and Nobel Prize winner away from the opening events...
Togo women push sex strike to unseat president
LOME, Togo (AP) - The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president...
Gambia president vows to execute death row inmates
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) - Gambia's president says he has vowed to start executing by mid-September all of the country's inmates who had been sentenced to the death penalty as part of efforts to curb the rising crime rate...
South African gets life for killing white supremacist
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A black farmworker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the brutal murder of South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche in a case that has been a source of racial tension in the city of Ventersdorp...
Somali Olympic runner drowns off Libya coast
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - An official says one of Somalia's best female athletes drowned after the small boat she was riding in capsized off the Libyan coast during an attempted crossing to Italy for training a month ago...
Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi dies
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's long-time ruler and a major U.S. counter-terrorism ally who is credited with economic gains but blamed for human rights abuses...
Play about gay man staged in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - A play that revolves around the turbulent life of a gay man in Uganda is being staged in the East African nation, where three years ago a parliamentarian wrote a bill seeking the death penalty for homosexuals...
