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Africa: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo elected president of Ghana Ghana will have a new president January 7, 2017 when Nana Akufo-Addo takes office following his victory in last week’s election. Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi The Chronicle ACCARA, GHANA — The Reformed Patriotic Democrats (RPD) has congratulated Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on his election as the […]

South Africa: White population declined – 2016 Mid-year population estimates Statistics South Africa Source: Stats SA, Mid-year population estimates Publication Date: 30 November 2016 South Africa’s population has grown over the past 10 years reaching 55.90 million people in 2016, up from 40.6 million people in 1996. Every population group has shown an increase in […]

Cuba: Fidel Castro, leader of revolution, dies at 90 BBC News Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro, one of the world’s longest-serving and most iconic leaders, has died aged 90. Castro was the longest serving non-royal leader of the 20th Century. His younger brother and successor as president Raul Castro announced the news on state television. […]

Africa: Gambia Says It Will Leave The ‘International Criminal Court’ The U.S. is not a member of the International Criminal Court Rebecca Hersher NPR Gambia says it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court in The Hague — the third nation to do so this month. The small West African country alleges that the court […]

‘Racist’ Gandhi statue banished from the University of Ghana campus campus Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying African heroes ‘come first Jason Burke The Guardian A statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be removed from a university campus in Ghana after professors launched a petition claiming the revered […]

Chinese built railway opens linking Ethiopia to Djibouti Xinhua ADDIS ABABA- African people cherish a dream that one day the capitals of all African countries will be linked by high-speed railways, Chairperson of African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma once said. Perhaps, the African people have never come closer in their endeavor towards making the dream […]

United Nations- Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent recommends reparations for African Americans United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner The history of slavery in the United States justifies reparations for African Americans, argues a recent report by a U.N.-affiliated group based in Geneva. The Working Group of Experts on […]

Obama administration the U.S. Government to pay $492 million to 17 Native American tribes The settlements mark the end of a push by the Obama administration to resolve what the U.S. says is more than 100 lawsuits totaling more than $3.3 billion brought by American Indian individuals and tribal governments against the federal government. Rebecca […]

Zimbabwe government pays out $42.7 million (US) to evicted white farmers Xinhua HARARE- The Zimbabwean government has so far paid out 42.7 million U.S. dollars to former white commercial farmers who lost their land during the country’s on-going land reform program, an official has said. The land reform program seeks to redistribute farms to formerly […]

Georgetown University to give descendants of enslaved Africans priority for admission Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of enslaved Africans owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people, Dear Members of the Georgetown University Community: Earlier this week, I […]