Yearly Archives: 2021

CAPE TOWN, South Africa’s Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace laureate, passed away yesterday morning in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, at the age of 90, his Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation announced.Tutu, born ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is observing a week of mourning leading up to the Saturday funeral of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90.Each day at noon, the bells at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town will toll for 10 min...

JOHANNESBURG — Archbishop Desmond Tutu's legacy is reverberating among young South Africans, many of whom were not born when the clergyman battled apartheid and sought full rights for the nation's Black majority.Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90, ...

Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, so long as you speak English or another of the world's dominant languages....

WEDOWEE, ALABAMA — The Rev. Athanasius Chidi Abanulo — using skills honed in his African homeland to minister effectively in rural Alabama— determines just how long he can stretch out his Sunday homilies based on who is sitting in the pews.Seven minute...

Following the release of three Cameroonian students sentenced in 2016 to 10 years in jail for sharing a sarcastic text message that referenced Boko Haram, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Director, said:“The release of Fomu...

CAIRO – Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, stressed yesterday, the importance of intensifying joint efforts to settle the Libyan crisis. During...

ATHENS – Two bodies have been retrieved, as a rescue operation was underway Friday night, near the Aegean Sea island of Paros, after the...