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April 19, 2013
NAKIVALE, Uganda (AP) — Leodegard Kagaba lifted his shirt to reveal an ugly scar on his belly left by a…
April 17, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has harshly criticized a longtime associate of the former president and anti-apartheid…
April 14, 2013
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Discussing what will happen to the country once its iconic leader Nelson Mandela dies has long…
April 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Noelle Hunter will fly out to the African nation in early June following the recent news…
April 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. has historically had a poor track record in welcoming black immigrants regardless of their talents…
April 10, 2013
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - The Malawi government issued an angry attack on the pop diva Madonna Wednesday, alleging expected to…
April 6, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday after an improvement in his health…
April 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Fake drugs for tuberculosis and malaria kill around 700,000 people each year in less developed countries, according…
April 3, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Wednesday offered up to $5 million in rewards for information leading to the…
April 3, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's government says Nelson Mandela "continues to make steady improvement" as he spends a 7th day…
April 2, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's presidential spokesman says former President Nelson Mandela spent Monday with family members in the hospital…
March 28, 2013
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council authorized a new 'intervention brigade' for Congo on Thursday with an unprecedented…
March 28, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A lung infection that has plagued Nelson Mandela has struck again, prompting doctors to admit the 94-year-old…
March 25, 2013
OPINION - The Nigerian political establishment’s eagerness to identify with Achebe is ironic, given that he despised the guys who…
March 25, 2013
GOMA, Congo (AP) - Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant...
March 22, 2013
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was just 10 years old when she first read Chinua Achebe's…
March 22, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern…
March 18, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Yetunde Orungbemi faces the prospect of being estranged from her African-American husband and deported back to a…
March 14, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Could Francis’ election open the doors for the first African pope in more than 1,500 years?...
March 13, 2013
CAPE COAST, Ghana - On Sundays in the Ghanaian city of Cape Coast, the pews in Roman Catholic churches do…