A Comoran opposition leader arrested after challenging the outcome of presidential elections last month was freed Monday and immediately retracted claims of electoral fraud. Colonel Soilihi Mohamed was picked up on March 28 after declaring he was heading a National Transitional Council (CNT) calling for a new vote. President Azali Ass ...

To experience a taste of African culture deep inside the Big Apple, visitors mdash;including many Senegalese mdash;turn to Le Petit Senegal (Little Senegal), a West African neighborhood in West Harlem, New York. African grocery shops, fabric stores, hair braiding parlors and regional restaurants sit shoulder to shoulder along the streets. The Sa ...

African countries barely existed when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human rights in Paris, France in 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War. It was the first time an internationally agreed document unequivocally says that all human beings are free and equal, irrespective of their color, creed or religio ...

The International Criminal Court, beset by allegations of vulnerability to manipulation, has suffered another blow after the US announced it would not grant ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda or any of her staff visas into the country. According to the Nairobi-based East African Standard< ...

The young man picks up a heavy wooden horn, raises it to his lips and with widened eyes and puffed cheeks starts to blow. A primal rumble emerges from the mouth of the instrument. On a stony hill in Bambari, deep in the heart of the Central African Republic, 14 other horns start to sound, each with a unique hum, and an impromptu polypho ...

Africa 39;s youth are bearing the brunt of the crisis on the African continent due to poor governance, not migration, according to a panel headed by former Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation weekend in Abidjan, Cote d 39;Ivoire that focused in the issue of jobs or migration for Africa 39;s youths. ldqu ...