July 23, 2013, (JUBA) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit sent shock waves throughout the two-year old nation and issued a presidential decree on Tuesday firing his longtime Vice President Riek Machar and dissolving ....

By Hama Tuma: And now has come the Trayvon walk which has led and may lead to more deaths. It require being black first and foremost. No menacing face required. Wearing a hoodie is an ....

By Marthe van der Wolf:  Members of a European Parliament human rights delegation have been blocked from visiting an Ethiopian prison, and are concerned about the human rights situation in that nation.  Read More...

By Alex Greig and Associated Press:  Ethiopian runner Meskerem Legesse, 26, of Westport, Connecticut was with her two-year-old son at a Chinese restaurant on the 900 block of Dixwell Ave in Hamden eating lunch when ....