Diaspora

📷 Google screenshot By ANDREW MELDRUM JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation’s president said. “It is a real disaster of great proportions,” President Filipe Nyusi said. Cyclone Idai…

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Emergency crews sifted through debris as night fell on frantic efforts to rescue scores of school children and others feared trapped inside a three-story building that collapsed Wednesday in Nigeria’s densely populated commercial capital, Lagos. At least eight people were confirmed dead and 37 others were rescued alive. Anguished families crowded…

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By ELIAS MESERET and YIDNEK KIRUBEL ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian Airlines jet faltered and crashed Sunday shortly after takeoff from the country’s capital, carving a gash in the earth and spreading global grief to 35 countries that had someone among the 157 people who were killed. There was no immediate indication why…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Briggs v. Elliot plaintiffs and supporters at Liberty Hill AME Church. By Kharisma McIlwaine  In honor of Black History Month, Nathaniel Briggs spoke at the Riverside Presbyterian Community Center to commemorate one of the most iconic struggles and triumphs this country has ever known. Briggs is the youngest son of Harry and Eliza…

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers on Thursday unanimously elected the country’s first female president, days after approving one of the world’s few “gender-balanced” Cabinets. As seasoned diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde takes the largely ceremonial post, many celebrated Africa’s only current female head of state. Africa’s first female president, Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left office…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Kofi Annan   TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM/GIN Kofi Atta Annan, former Secretary General of the U.N., is being remembered for his leadership over ten tumultuous years when the world faced a crisis of poverty, injustice and disease. Mr. Annan passed away last month at age 80. Secretary General Annan, a polished diplomat from Ghana and later…

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Photo: Kofi Annan/Shutterstock GENEVA –Kofi Annan, one of the world’s most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. His foundation announced his death in Switzerland on Saturday in a tweet , saying that he died…

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By EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ and EVENS SANON PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned Saturday amid widespread unrest following his failed attempt to increase fuel prices. Lafontant told Haiti’s Chamber of Deputies that he had sent President Jovenel Moise his resignation letter. The deputies had called on the prime minister to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Recy Taylor (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File) By Lynn Elber ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — When Oprah Winfrey saluted unheralded #MeToo crusaders at the Golden Globes last January, she chose a rape victim from 1940s Alabama to drive home her point. “Recy Taylor, a name I know, and I think you should know,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Mandela Poster  (Photo: Renée S. Gordon) By Renée S. Gordon Nelson Mandela, widely referred to by his tribal honorific, Madiba, would have been 100 this year. South Africa and the world have taken this opportunity to commemorate his life and legacy with a series of ongoing events, exhibitions and performances that are designed…

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