This week in history: Sesquicentennial of African-American explorer Matthew Henson
An explorer best known as the co-discoverer of the North Pole with Robert Edwin Peary in 1909.
Zuma impeachment rebuffed, but calls for removal intensify
Events commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the assasination of Chris Hani were held throughout South Africa over the weekend.
Today in history: Birthday of South African liberation fighter Oliver Tambo
Oliver Reginald Tambo, anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary, was born on this date in 1917.
Burkina Faso coup reversed, general arrested
The coup in the West African country has evidently been reversed by the opposition of sections of the army loyal to the interim government.
South Africa: miners’ killing marked with call for unity
President Jacob Zuma called on South Africans to remember the 44 people killed at the Marikana platinum mine.
Kenyans and Ethiopians welcome Obama with open arms
Obama's Kenyan paternal family background made his presence in the country as much a homecoming as a state visit.
Benghazi & Hillary: missing the story
The congressional harrying of Clinton over emails concerning the 2012 death of a U.S. ambassador and three staff members in Benghazi has become a running joke.
South African Communists reassess country’s national democratic revolution
The South African Communist Party's Special National Congress took stock of a range of problems besetting South Africa's young democracy.
Today in history: Mozambique achieves independence in 1975
The decade 1964-74 marks the wars of independence for Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, and islands of Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe.
Kenya’s sorrow: the U.S. connection
Absent from most of the mainstream American media was an examination of exactly what role the U.S. has played in Somalia over the past decade.
