In an essay in the British Guardian, David Olusoga wrote: “When the media analysts at the Vatican scrutinize the social media traffic of the past seven days, their eyes might well be drawn away from Turkey and the Armenian diaspora towards a cluster of tweets ...

Shocking images of South Africans beating foreign-born residents residing in Durban, Johannesburg and other parts stunned the continent which had taken a message of brotherhood from former president Nelson Mandela. ...

As Europeans debated their policies towards the leaky flotillas steaming out of Libya, carrying most to a certain death at sea, members of ISIL were streaming a video of captured Ethiopian Christians on a beach. ...

SC Cop Shoots Unarmed Walter Scott ...

Profits from cacao farming have been so generous that farmers invaded national parks in order to carve out plantations, cutting down forests and turning animal habitats into inhospitable treeless zones. Today a trail of destruction ...

People from around the world come to launch themselves into the air from Ghana's second highest mountain. The annual paragliding festival is organized by Ghana's Tourism Board and this year celebrates ...

On Sunday, militants in the guise of Islamic preachers called residents of Kwajafa, a remote village, together for ‘religious instruction.’ Instead, they opened fire, killing 24 and wounding others, a military source said. ...

Frightened students at Garissa University in northeast Kenya, hid for what seemed like a lifetime as a small band of al Shabaab terrorists lined young people up on the floor and put a bullet in the back of their heads, one by one by one. ...

The Southern Africa Litigation Center, Amnesty International and over a dozen other human rights organizations including the African Commission ...

A journalist jailed in Swaziland is getting some unexpected help from a class of journalism students at the University of Maryland who are taking up the cause ...