Africa News

The Chief Marketing Officer Council today announced a creative advertising contest that invites consumers to produce attention-getting public service announcements for its Pause to Support a Cause corporate social responsibility initiative.

November 8, 2009 - The situations in Sudan have become complicated where the entire country which is ten times size of Egypt, is on the brink of collapse.

President Obama told American Indian leaders today he knows that Washington has broken many promises to the original settlers of this land, but "I get it." "I understand what it means to be an outsider," Obama said, son of a single mother and oft-absent father from Africa.

President Obama is preparing to break the deadlock in negotiations on a global deal on climate change by announcing a target for cutting US greenhouse gas emissions.

For Africa, 1989 was a watershed year. The promise of democracy heralded by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War was only comparable with the euphoria of the independence movements in Africa in the 1960s and Nelson Mandela's release from incarceration in 1990.

Rolihlahla "Nelson" Mandela was born to a tribal chief in Transkei, a former republic of Africa.

Zhang Yong with Sudan boys. The 52-year-old was the only Chinese high-ranking commander to join overseas peacekeeping missions.

Dancers clad in animal skins opened a royal ceremony Tuesday, a nod to tradition for the forward-thinking kings, queens and chiefs who jetted in to Johannesburg from across Africa to launch an institute they hope will expand their roles on the continent The two dozen leaders from Morocco to Swaziland describe their new Institute of African Royalty ...

Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation.

I am the Congo, the Congo has made me. I am making the Congo. -Patrice Lumumba Four years after his death, a lot of people talk as if Patrice Emergy Lumumba were still the Congo.

COMPARISON: FACE TO FACE TALK VS MOBILE PHONES, AND, THEIR EFFECTS Life without cell / mobile / satellite / I phones ! You will even hesitate to even ponder over this, avoid wasting time thinking such stupid matters.

A man who travelled to Kenya on a mercy mission has returned home to Brampton with plans to build an orphanage for homeless children in Africa.

Nearly two dozen celebrities and professional poker players came to Highland on Thursday to participate in the Ante Up for Africa charity tournament.

Jonathan Jansen: The young woman who sat behind me, to the left, hardly made an impression.

Maintaining a competent military organization is a challenge for wealthy nations, even in times of relative peace.

When Zhang Zuyue, chief of the Chinese Shipowners' Association, describes the pirates plaguing the Somali coast as "a beaming new star" in the ancient trade of piracy, he is not exaggerating.

The US has imposed a travel ban on a senior Kenyan government official for obstructing efforts to rid the country of corruption.

Naval forces from about 40 nations, including China, failed to prevent a hijacked mainland ship with 25 crew from reaching a pirates' haven in Somalia.

As the Synod of Bishops for Africa nears its conclusion, the Synod fathers have issued a message to the world and especially to the leaders of Africa, calling for a revival of spiritual and family life, a new impulse toward economic development, and an end to exploitation and political corruption.

Bishops attending a Vatican meeting on Africa issued a blunt ultimatum Friday to corrupt Catholic political leaders in Africa: repent or leave public office.