Africa

All Articles

October 20, 2011
OPINION - In many sub-Saharan countries, authoritarian regimes know how to appease their people -- sometimes a whiff of democracy…
October 20, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - White House officials are monitoring reports that Muammar Gadhafi has been captured in Libya, but are unable…
October 20, 2011
TheGRIO REPORT - The deployment is the biggest effort by the U.S. to eradicate the cult-like group the Lord's Resistance…
October 18, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two…
October 18, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The quest for the world's first malaria vaccine appears to have taken a big step: A study…
October 17, 2011
BBC - Many believe that members of the country's new elite are paying witch doctors vast sums of money for…
October 16, 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that U.S. military "personnel" being sent to Uganda to help…
October 14, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said Friday he's dispatching roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help battle…
October 12, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - A Nigerian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to bring down an international flight over Detroit with…
October 11, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A U.S. government-backed program is telling young Kenyans that 'Yes Youth Can!' in a political program…
October 10, 2011
Daily Mail - International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has already cut aid to Malawi by £19 million after two gay men…
October 7, 2011
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged…
October 5, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Would it be too far-fetched to imagine a coalition of African-American celebrities united as a voice for…
October 4, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Tutu had invited the fellow Nobel Peace laureate to South Africa to attend his 80th birthday party…
September 30, 2011
PARIS (AP) - UNESCO's director-general appealed to the organization's executive board Friday to reject a life sciences prize to be…
September 29, 2011
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Retired Guinea-Bissau Ambassador John Blacken told The Associated Press he was stunned to hear the news…
September 26, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's most recognizable woman, Maathai won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism...
September 16, 2011
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Carnegie Mellon University will open a branch campus in Rwanda next year, making it the first American…
September 16, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The U.N. says Somali children are more likely to die before they turn 5 than those…
September 14, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The South African governing party's youth leader has called the courts "racist" after he lost a hate…