2 days ago - Nigeria's state oil company says that Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to create a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline to ship gas to Europe.
2 days ago - Concluding marathon talks held late into the night, African leaders agreed Friday to a Libyan-driven push to transform the African Union and in theory greatly extend its powers.
2 days ago - Concluding marathon talks late into the night, African leaders agreed Friday to a Libyan-driven push to transform the African Union and in theory greatly extend its powers.
2 days ago - First there was smoke, then flames burst out of the aircraft engine. But I was having difficulty communicating with the Mozambican flight attendant who was fussing with warm sodas and soggy sandwiches and did not speak English.
2 days ago - Liberia's truth and reconciliation commission recommended Thursday that ex-President Charles Taylor and seven other former warlords be prosecuted for crimes against humanity for their alleged roles in the West African country's civil war.
3 days ago - A Bronx man has been charged with helping unqualified tenants get apartments in low-income housing by filing false applications with the New York City Housing Development Corporation.
3 days ago - Africa's leaders were locked in a heated debate Thursday over a draft African Union summit decision that would give Sudan's president continent-wide impunity from prosecution for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
3 days ago - A U.S. aid agency and Western Union Co. are teaming up to offer a cash boost to sub-Saharan Africans who live in the U.S. but have business plans back home.
5 days ago - Oil prices rose to near $72 a barrel Tuesday after briefly jumping above $73, an eight-month high, due to a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in Nigeria.
5 days ago - There might be about 5 million Igbo people in the United States - and 40 million worldwide - but "people don't know us," says Stan Ogbonna, who grew up in an Igbo state in southeastern Nigeria.
5 days ago - Oil prices jumped above $73 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in Nigeria helped push prices to eight-month highs.