The Federal Reserve kicked off its campaign to lower interest rates with a larger-than-typical half percentage-point cut, ...

But as everyone watched Armstrong playing Mack the Knife and When it's Sleepytime Down South, the CIA-backed Colonel Mobutu had Lumumba under house arrest. Lumumba escaped, was arrested again and ...

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where myriad existing problems make stemming the spread particularly hard.

The resurgence of mpox during 2024 has been declared a continental emergency by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and a Public Health Emergency of International ...

The Community Foundation of NCW set a new record this year by awarding nearly $1.3 million to 277 Washington students.

Steve Simusokwe, a young activist from Karonga, recently expressed his remorse regarding his past involvement in protests ...

Authorities in Nigeria are probing the death of 40 passengers on a boat. Local officials say the wooden boat was ferrying more than 50 farmers to their fields across the river near Gummi town in ...