Africa

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June 14, 2011
OPINION - Cain essentially suggests that being 'African' is somehow a trait to be disavowed -- instead of embraced and…
June 13, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - In Nampula General, up to 60 percent of beds are taken up by patients with basic forms…
May 20, 2011
VIDEO - With 600 million girls growing up in developing countries, the humanitarian organization CARE has decided to focus their…
May 13, 2011
OPINION - By killing the spirit of the victim without actually physically committing homicide, the aggressor gains more control over…
May 11, 2011
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a…
May 9, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - In a lawless, desperate country, piracy might still seem irresistible. For many young Somali men there is…
May 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The South African government appears to have been jolted into action by the latest killing, and has…
May 4, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's most talked-about hip-hop video exhibits all the excesses of its American counterparts -- beautiful, scantily…
May 4, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The central Johannesburg building where Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo had a historic law office was on…
April 26, 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - David Bahati says if the committee the bill currently sits before recommends that the provision be…
April 15, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - What do President Barack Obama, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila…
April 14, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The Broadway cast of "Fela" introduced Afrobeat superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to hundreds of thousands of new…
April 12, 2011
OPINION - What once was a thriving democratic country with a healthy cocoa industry and growing tourist business has become…
April 11, 2011
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Gbagbo's dramatic arrest came after days of heavy fighting during which French and U.N. helicopters…
April 6, 2011
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Heavy arms fire rang out Wednesday near the home of the country's strongman who remained…
March 7, 2011
OPINION - The new book "Colonization After Emancipation' portrays the former president's sincerity about racial equality in a new an…
March 3, 2011
GENEVA (AP) - A U.N. panel says there are hundreds of thousands of victims of rape and other sexual violence…
March 2, 2011
MSNBC - Atlanta genealogical researcher William Holland is going to do something that according to him, has never been done…
February 28, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Producers say the show -- starring its original Broadway cast, including actor Sahr Ngaujah portraying Anikulapo-Kuti…
February 22, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been in power for decades and is grappling with a high youth…