Caribbean 360 is reporting Fyre Festival promoter Billy McFarland plead guilty to fraud, admitting in a Manhattan (NYC) court he had falsified documents, defrauded 80 investors and a ticket vendor to the tune of $26 million. McFar...
BBC Africa is reporting two American and two Canadian citizens kidnapped Wednesday, January 17 have been released by their captors. The author writes: “The group, who were ambushed in a forested area north of the capital Abu...
BBC Africa is reporting Africans trying to migrate to Europe are being sold into “slave markets” in Libya. The BBC reports: “Victims told International Organization for Migrants (IOM) that after being detained by...
Protesters took to the streets of Pretoria, South Africa’s administrative capital, to protest the presence of “foreigners” in the country based on the widespread belief that many are engaged in criminal activity ...
Reuters Africa is reporting security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 34 people during protests this week against President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down at the end of his mandate. The author wri...
Jason Hanna and Nima Elbagir of CNN are reporting that conflicting information about the details surrounding the release of 21 Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria by Islamist militants Boko Haram is being reported by various sources. Th...
Multiple media outlets are reporting the Ethiopian government has declared three days of mourning after 55 people died in a stampede at an Oromo religious festival. The stampede occurred after police fired bullets into the crowd o...
A group of African-American leaders in Charlotte, NC is calling for systemic reform in response to national police violence against African Americans. Protests erupted last week in Charlotte and other cities across the country ami...
The Twitterverse if in an uproar over reports that Ferguson, Mo. social justice activist and protester Darren Seals has been found dead. Victoria M. Massey of Vox writes: “According to the St. Louis County Police Department,...
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. NewsOne is reporting the parents of Kendrick Johnson, a teenager whose dead body was found rolled up in a gym mat at his Lowndes High School on January 11, 2013, have been ordered by Judge Richard P...
