The United States proposed on Friday that the United Nations Security Council blacklist South Sudan opposition figure Riek Machar, South Sudan army chief Paul Malong and South Sudan Information...
The United States circulated on Thursday to the 15-member United Nations Security Council a draft resolution to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan and further targeted sanctions amid warnings by a...
For more than 25 years the people of South Sudan fought their powerful common enemy to a standstill. The enslaving Arab Islamist forces of north Sudan were matched fire for fire until the northerners...
It is common knowledge that President Mahama has referred to Ghanaians as a people who have short memories. Perhaps, the president is right about a certain category of Ghanaians but not academics....
MOGADISHU — The Somali National Army (SNA), backed by troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), on Tuesday captured Mir-tugo village in the central Somali region of Middle Shabelle...
If anybody had told me then, or over any succeeding ten (10) years from the CPA interim period to 15th December crisis in which he was then a Governor of Unity State and later the SPLM-IO chief...
Measles jab saves more than 20 million young lives in 15 years, but hundreds of children still die of the disease every day, United Nations health agencies report has revealed. According to the...
The following are news highlights in Ethiopia's major media outlets on Saturday. — Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Workneh Gebeyehu said Ethiopia has the desire to replicate the people-to-people...
The following are news highlights in major Kenyan media outlets on Saturday. — Women leaders in Kenya who had hoped to use Hillary Clinton’s win to shore up their chances of being elected for...
LOS ANGELES — A tow truck collided with a China Southern Airlines flight just before takeoff late Thursday night, resulting nearly 1,500 passengers grounded at Los Angeles International Airport....
“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own cotton, fix her own roof, make her own whiskey, walk in her...
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election means an uncertain future for Africa. His rival Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a landslide – at least among those in Barack...
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said there are still over 16,000 South Sudanese children involved in active combat among the various armed groups in the war-torn country despite the...
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence on 9 July, sporadic gunfire rent the air in Juba, the capital city. What many assumed was a celebration of the world’s newest...
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election means an uncertain future for Africa. Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election means an uncertain future for Africa. His rival...
The following are news highlights in major Kenyan media outlets on Wednesday. — The first batch of Kenyan soldiers serving under the UN Mission in South Sudan is expected back home this morning...
At least 11 people are dead and 16 others have been injured after an attack on football fans in South Sudan, local media report. A gunman opened fire on a crowd watching an English Premier League...
At least 11 people are dead and 16 others have been injured after an attack on football fans in South Sudan, local media report. A gunman opened fire on a crowd watching an English Premier League...
"...until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens...
The last we saw of President George W. Bush in Africa, he was literally dancing into the sunset of his presidency, on this occasion with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia, Liberia,...
