President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are making their first-ever official presdential African tour since Obama entered into office. The Obamas will travel to…
We’ve enjoyed 19 seasons of “America’s Next Top Model” and now Tyra Banks’ hit reality competition show is headed to Africa. According to reports, “Africa’s Next Top Model” will begin filming in Cape Town, South Africa in August. The spin-off will feature 12 models from across the continent and be hosted and executive produced by Nigerian […]
Two 27-year-old South African men, Tshepo Cameron Modisane (pictured left) and Thoba Calvin Sithole (pictured right), tied the knot Saturday in a ceremony that is being heralded as the nation’s first gay wedding, according to the Huffington Post. The couple was married in the town of KwaDukuza and stood before 200 guests as they exchanged their vows. On a continent that […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe‘s finance ministry said it has just $217 left in its accounts after paying the nation’s civil servants and government employees earlier this month. Finance Minister Tendai Biti said the monthly salaries cleared out government earnings and tax revenues in January when he made an appeal Tuesday for foreign donors to […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — President Barack Obama promised to visit his father’s homeland — Kenya — before the end of his presidency, but of the 51 country visits Obama made the last four years, America’s first black president spent less than a day in sub-Saharan Africa. That could now change. Presidential travel trends suggest Obama is […]
Concert promoter Patrick Allocco says he was taken hostage at gunpoint and held for ransom, because Nas was a no-show for a gig in Africa. He is now suing the rapper for $10 million big ones, reports TMZ. Allocco is claiming that he was held as ransom by Angolan promoters and their “henchmen” because they wanted […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — White South Africans earn six times more than black South Africans nearly two decades after the end of apartheid and much remains to be done to reduce the disparities between rich and poor, the president said after the release of the country's census. "These figures tell us at the bottom of the […]
KITGUM, Uganda (AP) — Augustine Languna's eyes welled up and then his voice failed as he recalled the drowning death of his 16-year-old daughter. The women near him looked away, respectfully avoiding the kind of raw emotion that the head of the family rarely displayed. "What is traumatizing us," he said after regaining his composure, […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The head of a planned African Union force to hunt warlord Joseph Kony said on Wednesday that he can't start his task because he doesn't have troops, equipment or the necessary funding. Ugandan Col. Dick Olum spoke to The Associated Press from Yambio, South Sudan, as AU and United Nations officials […]
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — President John Atta Mills vowed to spread Ghana's wealth stemming from newly discovered offshore oil fields, but his death Tuesday came before he could finish his first term in this West African nation long held up as a model of democracy. He was 68. The country's state-run television stations GTV and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a “moral imperative” to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world. Obama announced $3 billion in private sector pledges to help boost agriculture and food production in Africa. He said the U.S. and […]
Deep in the jungle, this small, remote Central African village is farther from the coast than any point on the continent. It’s also where three international armies have zeroed in on Joseph Kony, one of the world’s most wanted warlords. Obo was the first place in the Central African Republic that Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army […]
