Africa

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July 21, 2011
Shortly before she was hired in 2009 as the first female coach of Nigeria's powerful women's national soccer team...
July 20, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Tens of thousands of Somalis are feared dead in the world's worst famine in a generation...
July 19, 2011
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - At least one member of his security detail was killed, several more were wounded and portions…
July 18, 2011
KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya (AP) -- At Morris Michael's graduation, the mother who shepherded him out of a Sudanese war…
July 15, 2011
MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) -- Amy Russell isn't expecting her walk across Connecticut to pose much of challenge.
July 14, 2011
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The African nation, which gained independence Saturday, became the U.N.'s 193rd member by acclamation Thursday...
July 14, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - In a familiar routine, people around the world have finally seen the images of suffering and are…
July 12, 2011
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Authorities are reviewing the case of a black man found hanging dead from a tree after…
July 11, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Southern Sudanese flocked to the streets of Juba to celebrate their independence on July 9th, 2011. The world's…
July 8, 2011
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a new peacekeeping force for South Sudan on Friday...
July 8, 2011
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - U.N. and Congolese officials say a colonel accused of mass rapes in volatile eastern Congo has…
July 7, 2011
Through exhaustive interviews, Jacobs assembles a complex depiction of the elder Obama as a brilliant but troubled man.
June 29, 2011
VIDEO - Michelle Obama's trip to southern Africa both charmed and inspired many young women, children and citizens...
June 28, 2011
OPINION - Despite the growing trend of Chinese workers marrying local African women, predictably, many in their home country have…
June 24, 2011
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) - Michelle Obama wielded a brush Friday and helped paint a mural at a children's HIV/AIDS clinic…
June 24, 2011
Africa is starting to change for the better and Kenya is becoming the leader in this long overdue movement offering…
June 23, 2011
SLIDESHOW - TheGrio presents the top travel destinations for fans to follow Michael Jackson's life and career, in honor of…
June 23, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Met by singing children, tears, and embraces, the first family continues to volunteer and inspire in South Africa...
June 23, 2011
OPINION - The first lady has delivered on her "core Africa issues" -- AIDS, poverty, and education; and she has…
June 22, 2011
OPINION - Is Farrakhan's see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and countenance no evil spoken against Gadhafi…