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Melania Trump AP thegrio.com
October 5, 2018
Melania Trump sashayed to the beat of African music as she was welcomed to an orphanage in Kenya on Friday.
October 3, 2018
Following in the footsteps of South Africa, Namibia reportedly plans to take back land from white owners and ration it
Melania Trump visits slave castle in Ghana thegrio.com
October 3, 2018
[griojw id=”icOg0v7H” playerid=”x9J2bwvH”]   Melania Trump has visited a former slave holding facility on the coast of Ghana and says
Melania Trump TheGrio
September 27, 2018
First Lady Melania Trump announced Wednesday at the UN that she would be visiting Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt in…
Joseph Kabila Kabange Congo AP thegrio.com
September 27, 2018
Congo says it has decided to boycott two planned U.N. events focusing on the central African nation because it was…
South Sudan thegrio.com
September 26, 2018
South Sudan's civil war has caused nearly 400,000 "excess deaths" since fighting erupted in late 2013.
Tanzania ferry thegrio.com
September 21, 2018
Hundreds of solemn people watched Friday as body after body was pulled from a capsized ferry that Tanzanian authorities said…
Ethiopia thegrio.com
September 6, 2018
Ethiopian, Eritrean and Somalia leaders are set to meet in Eritrea's capital Asmara, furthering the diplomatic thaw in the strategic…
Emmerson Mnangagwa thegrio.com
August 27, 2018
[griojw id=”vKIB5mg2″ playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   Zimbabwe on Sunday inaugurated a president for the second time in nine months as the country
MeerKAT thegrio.com
August 7, 2018
A high-powered telescope built in South Africa is giving scientists a crystal clear view into the cosmos.
Zimbabwe thegrio.com
August 3, 2018
Zimbabwe's capital was quiet on Friday hours after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner of the tight election.
Somalia thegrio.com
August 2, 2018
Eritrea and Somalia have agreed to restore diplomatic relations, both countries announced Monday in another thaw in the restive Horn…
Zimbabwe thegrio.com AP
August 2, 2018
Zimbabwe's president said Thursday that his government has been in touch with the main opposition leader in an attempt to…
Zimbabwe thegrio.com AP
August 1, 2018
Rioting erupted Wednesday in Zimbabwe's capital as opposition supporters clashed with police and army troops.
Nigeria
June 27, 2018
More than 200 people died in weekend clashes in central Nigeria between farmers and herders after attacks by "suspected militia…
black panther thegrio.com
June 22, 2018
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture had acquired several objects from Black Panther, including the costume…
June 15, 2018
Jean-Marie Chanoine promised he wasn’t going to let his daughter fail. The 46-year-old tech entrepreneur, says that after watching his eldest
Ebola thegrio.com
May 25, 2018
As the Democratic Republic of Congo fights against the rapid spread of the Ebola virus with an experimental vaccine, officials are…
congo thegrio.com
May 11, 2018
Congo's minister of health on Thursday announced the first death since a new Ebola outbreak was declared in the country,…
Yoweri Museveni thegrio.com
April 21, 2018
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has issued what he calls a "public warning" against oral sex. Of all the problems plaguing his country…