Category: INTERNATIONAL

94-year-old former SS sergeant Reinhold Hanning who served as a guard at Auschwitz sits in the courtroom in Detmold, Friday, June 17, 2016. He has been found guilty of more than 170,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he helped the Nazi death camp kill 1.1 million Jews and others. Henning was sentenced to […]

By Lenore T. Adkins Myra Queen, who knows what discrimination looks like having grown up in  a segregated section of Baltimore during the 1950s and ‘60s, said she saw subtle patterns of racism play out during a recent trip to Cuba. Queen, 66, said she noticed during her weeklong trip that most of the staff […]

In this Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, Kenyan gays and lesbians and others supporting their cause wear masks to preserve their anonymity and one holds out a wrapped condom, as they stage a rare protest, against Uganda’s increasingly tough stance against homosexuality and in solidarity with their counterparts there, outside the Uganda High Commission […]

In a photo made on June 8, 2016, an African man walks through one of the few neighborhoods that rents to people of African origin in New Delhi, India. For hundreds of thousands of Africans drawn to India by better education and work opportunities, rampant racism is a daily battle. In a country where fair […]

With a long history of beekeeping dating back between 3500 and 3000 B.C. and a new growth in silk production, Ethiopia looks to expand both industries for increased economic opportunity for youth. Earlier this year, the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, which specializes in beekeeping and silk farming enterprises, and The MasterCard Foundation […]

The NBA is making a new play for fans in Africa by splitting with the continent’s biggest sports broadcaster and teaming up with a Zimbabwean telecommunications entrepreneur who started his first business with $75. In this Aug. 1, 2015 file photo, Team World’s Jeff Green of Memphis Grizzlies, left, goes up for a shot as […]

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela (Courtesy Photo) A South African court recently dismissed a claim by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, for possession of the civil rights leader’s rural home. The Eastern Cape High Court on April 7 dismissed Madikizela-Mandela’s 2014 claim of rightful ownership to the Qunu village home, located in the […]

Ghana’s Minister of Education Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang recently announced plans to revoke English as the primary medium for instruction throughout the nation’s entire education system. There have been several proposals urging Ghana to eradicate English as a basic teaching device for all schools, however, concrete action only officially began to take place during the October […]

A body lays on the beach were gunmen attacked people in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, Sunday, March 13, 2016. At least six armed men attacked beachgoers outside three hotels Sunday in Grand-Bassam, killing several civilians and special forces, sending tourists fleeing through the historic Ivory Coast resort town. (AP Photo/Christin Roby) GRAND-BASSAM, Ivory Coast (AP) […]

In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, vigilantes and local hunters armed with locally made guns gather. First come the whispers, then accusations loud enough to raise alarms throughout villages ravaged by extremist violence. Next, people accused of being Boko Haram are rounded up, sometimes by the military, sometimes by […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former missionary from Oklahoma convicted of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya was sentenced Monday to 40 years in a federal prison. This undated file photo provided by the Logan County Sheriff’s Office shows Matthew Lane Durham, 21, of Edmond, Okla. Durham, who was found guilty of sexually […]