African Communities Together is holding a recruitment session for its African language services worker cooperative on August 15, at 5:30 pm at 2211 Frederick Douglass in Harlem. The organization is targeting bilingual/multilingual Africans who are interested in business development, non-traditional … Read More
South African track & field sprinter Wayde van Niekerk won the Gold Medal in the 400m at the Rio Olympics with a World Record time of 43.03s, breaking Michael Johnson’s world record from the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in … Read More
As voting ended Thursday at 6pm (local time) in some polling stations across Zambia, the country’s electoral management body said there was huge turnout in most polling stations. “We have had a good turnout at most polling stations,” Electoral Commission … Read More
A 21-gun salute at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday signaled the 60th anniversary of the historic women’s march to the headquarters of the Apartheid-era government to demand an end to the hated race laws. Statues of Lilian … Read More
The African Union (AU) has re-opened the race for the next Chairperson of the Commission, the deputy Chairperson and the Commissioners ahead of the polls in January 2017, the AU Commission announced on Friday. The elections were suspended in … Read More
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has started a major project aimed at enhancing citizens’ knowledge and awareness of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) and its relevant protocols and frameworks that mandate member states to be … Read More
A move by Nigeria’s anti-graft agency to arrest and later release a popular local blogger has raised the specter of clampdown on social media and free press in the West African country. Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell You might have seen a glimpse of the West African country Senegal in Anthony Bourdain’s TV show “Parts Unknown” or in Andre Zimmern’s series “Bizarre Foods” and been mesmerized by its beauty, wondering when the opportunity … Read More
As part of its mosquito control program, the Health Department will conduct its sixth aerial larvicide treatment to marsh and other non-residential areas of Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx from Monday, August 8 to Wednesday, August 10, … Read More
The 2016 Olympic Games, the world’s biggest sports party, officially began on Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a record number of countries participating in a record number of sports. More than 11,000 athletes from 206 National Olympic … Read More
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Bangura, has added her voice to condemnation of the escalation of violence in South Sudan, in particular the sexual violence crimes being committed against women and girls. In a … Read More
By Craig Urquart While the ruling African National Congress continues to lick its wounds following the most fiercely contested elections since the advent of democracy in South Africa, the spotlight is shining brightly on a white farmer-turned-politician who is expected … Read More
Vote counting in South Africa’s fiercely contested local government elections continued on Friday, with a pattern emerging that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has lost ground to the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in several key centres. Most notably, … Read More
Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba has dismissed opposition’s leader Hakainde Hichilema’s claim of political instability in the country ahead of the August 11, elections as an attempt to merely scandalise the credible electoral process. Hichilema, president of the main … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell The Office of Senegalese Citizens Abroad organized, in partnership with the Consulate General of Senegal in New York, an Investment and Habitat Forum dedicated to the Senegalese community living in the United States on July 30-31 … Read More
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The City of Newark will host a flag-raising ceremony to observe the 56th anniversary of Cote d’Ivoire gaining its independence on Friday, August 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the City Hall First Floor Rotunda, at 920 Broad Street. The City … Read More
With today being National Night Out, it is a perfect time for a change in leadership at the NYPD as it was necessary in order for a new and collaborative direction between the community and officers. While I am still … Read More
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that Jimmy O’Neill will serve as New York City’s next Police Commissioner. As Chief of Department, O’Neill has been the architect of the NYPD’s neighborhood policing program, a growing initiative to strengthen the relationship … Read More
