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CAPE TOWN, (AP): South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by a former president to court, underscoring a fractious buildup to what could be the country’s...

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Tuesday urged families to crack down on relatives engaged in criminal activities as Trinidad and Tobago law enforcement authorities seek to stem the rise in murders here. Speaking at the sod-...

GEORGETOWN (AP): Caribbean leaders said Tuesday that all groups and political parties, except one, have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti, which remains engulfed in...

ERREKUNDA (AP): Lawmakers in Gambia on Monday rejected, for now, an attempt to repeal a ban on female genital cutting, which would make the West African nation the first country anywhere to make that reversal. Activists in the largely Muslim...

WASHINGTON (CMC): Republican lawmakers on Friday said the Biden administration “owes Congress a lot more details in a more timely manner before it gets more funding” for Haiti, even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday warned that the...

LONDON (AP): The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A bill aimed at overcoming a UK Supreme Court block on the deportation flights returns to the House of...

ABUJA, (AP): Armed gangs attacked two villages in Nigeria’s northwest over the weekend and seized at least 100 people from their homes, residents and a state official told The Associated Press on Monday in the latest mass abduction in the region....

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC) The United Nations children’s agency said one of its containers carrying essential supplies for the survival of newborn babies and their mothers was looted by gangs at Haiti’s main port in the capital on Saturday. UNICEF...