US Protesters have toppled Washington DC’s only statue of a Confederate general and set it on fire, according to US media, an act labeled a “disgrace” by President Donald Trump. The images, broadcast on ABC7 News late Friday, showed the figure of Albert Pike being pulled down by rope before dozens of demonstrators started chanting […]

Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, who moved to Britain after being shot for campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan, described her joy Friday at graduating from Oxford University. Almost eight years after she was attacked by the Taliban on her school bus in the Swat Valley, the Malala, 22-year-old, posted her photos on Twitter of […]

Kenya was elected to the UN Security Council on Thursday after defeating Djibouti in a run-off vote. The East African nation will replace South Africa in the non-permanent seat. It received 129 votes against Djibouti’s 62. Niger and Tunisia are the other representatives of the African continent. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said the win was […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Nigeria and Cameroon to be free of polio, a crippling disease that usually affects children under five. Afghanistan and Pakistan are now the only countries with cases of the wild poliovirus. The UN health agency is expected to formally present Nigeria with a certificate and also declare Africa […]

A 12-year-old whose song protesting police killings of African Americans in the US went viral has been signed by Warner Records, his producer said on Instagram Thursday. Keedron Bryant’s song I Just Wanna Live, about his fears growing up as a black man in America, will be released on Friday, which is the Juneteenth holiday marking […]