Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who once vowed to rule the tiny West African nation for "a billion years", said he had accepted his shock election defeat on Friday, 22 years after seizing power in a...
Tropical Storm Otto continues to weaken as it heads into the Eastern Pacific. As Hurricane Otto, this storm hit the coast of Costa Rica and Nicaragua as a Category 2 storm on the five point...
U. S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday praised demonstrators for being passionate about their country, just hours after he accused them of being "professional protesters" incited by the media....
Commander JSK Dzamefe, the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the 37 Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC), has charged parents to take interest in their children’s education. He said...
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are locked in a knife-edge battle in swing states after polls closed across half the US in the White House election. The contest is too close to call in the crucial...
Polls have closed across half the US as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump await the verdict of voters after a bitterly fought White House election campaign. Republican nominee Mr Trump has racked up...
These are two of the cars which were seized Prosecutors in Switzerland have seized luxury cars belonging to the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea, who they are investigating for corruption....
VGMA artist of the Year EL is not happy with GMA UK organized by West Coast UK. The multiple hit factory took to Twitter to call out organizers of the awards saying; “Yo almost forgot, got...
A pair of airstrikes targeting a Yemeni prison killed dozens of inmates off the nation's west coast Saturday, the nation's Houthi-controlled Defense Ministry said. The airstrikes, which targeted the...
Malabo-based Cronos Airline is set to start operations in the country on Friday. The airline is expected to operate twice-weekly flights on Fridays and Mondays between the Equatorial Guinean capital...
A former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau who was arrested three years ago in a U. S. drug sting off the West African coast was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison, most of which he has already...
Gabon's newly re-elected president, Ali Bongo, said Saturday that he would seek to form a new government based on a national political dialogue that will "most likely" include leading opposition...
The former president of the Italian Republic and central banker, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, died on Friday at the age of 95, the Italian government said. He died in a hospital in Rome after a long...
A huge storm bearing down on the Pacific coast of Mexico has strengthened to a hurricane just hours before it is due to make landfall. Hurricane Newton is heading north-west towards the southern end...
Rhian Benson is enigmatic -- enigmatic because she defies categorization; enigmatic because her life and her music are framed by paradox. Complex and cerebral, Rhian's music is simultaneously warm...
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on April 4, 1939, in Witbank, South Africa. He began singing and playing piano as a child. But at age 14, after seeing the film, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, where Kirk...
