Zambian ex-president Kaunda’s burial begins despite court challenge
The burial of Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, started on Wednesday despite a court challenge by one of his sons against his burial site. Kaunda...
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Ex-Mali coup leader won’t stand trial for 2012 killings
The man who overthrew Mali’s president in 2012, former Gen. Amadou Haya Sanogo, will no longer stand trial on charges he had 21 soldiers killed...
Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania’s first woman president
Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president at State House, the government offices in Dar...
Biden, Harris offering solace to grieving Asian Americans
For Asian Americans, 2020 was a year of political success and newfound influence. But it was also a time of vulnerability to racist assaults. That painful...
House passes two immigration bills that would establish path to citizenship for millions
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that would establish paths to citizenship or legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants,...
Death of Tanzania’s Magufuli draws sorrow but ire from some
News of the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli drew mixed reactions; sorrow from many but bitterness from a critic who said he suffered during...
Tanzania’s populist President John Magufuli has died at 61
President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight,...
Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems
A Congress riven along party lines has approved the landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a major triumph on...
Uganda’s Bobi Wine calls for peaceful protests after polls
Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine is calling for peaceful protests in the aftermath of presidential elections, charging that electoral authorities are grappling with forged results...
Why Senegal protesters are clashing with police
Deadly protests have erupted over the past week in the West African nation of Senegal, long considered a bastion of democracy and a regional leader...