Africa

On Thursday March 2nd, the U.S. Department of State’s Africa Regional Media Hub held a virtual press conference. The briefing was attended by the Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), U.S....

Ngande Ambroise was recently honored by Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr. for Black History Month. Ambroise was honored along with four other honorees at a Black History Month Luncheon on Thursday,...

Thomas Sankara, the former revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, and 12 others were reburied on Thursday, February 23. Sankara, along with the other individuals, were reburied at the site where...

On the morning of Tuesday, February 21st, Clayson Monyela, the head of public diplomacy of South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation, tweeted about a group of 22 Afghans...

On Tuesday, February 14th, Kenyan Senator Gloria Orwoba was asked to leave parliament after members noticed a blood stain on her pants while in session. Members of parliament criticized her,...

Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li, a senior Israeli diplomat, was escorted out of the African Union's Summit, which was held in Ethiopia. It is alleged that the only Israeli delegate with permission...

On Saturday, February 18th, Christian Atsu, Ghanaian footballer who played for Turkey's Hatayspor, was found dead underneath the rubble of the apartment building he lived in. 31-year-old Atsu had been...

Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang had two houses and a superyacht seized this week by South African officials. Vice President Obiang lost a lawsuit filed by South African...

Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, the South African rapper popularly known as AKA, was shot and died in the city of Durban, South Africa on Friday, February 10th. AKA was outside Wish,...