Pretoria, South Africa – (AFP): Hundreds of protesters from a radical leftist party in South Africa marched Wednesday on the French embassy in Pretoria to demand that France leave Africa. Chanting “Fuck off, France” and dressed in their trademark red T-shirts and caps, the Economic Freedom Fighters carried placards reading &#...
TERNTON, Canada – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Governor General Mary Simon and Indigenous leaders gathered together to commemorate the first anniversary of the finding of unmarked graves at a former Indian Residential School site. While Trudeau made his way through the crowd in the late evening, there were also chants of ̶...
President Joe Biden today signed an executive order to “advance effective, accountable policing and criminal justice practices” that will build public trust and strengthen safety. The White House announcement came on the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a former Minneapolis police officer. Floyd’s murder spurr...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – A ceremony was held in the Tuzla city of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday to honor the 71 victims of the 1995 massacre. The relatives of the victims and politicians participated in the ceremony to mark the 27th anniversary of the May 25, 1995 massacre, also known as the Kapija massacre. […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has said it is “appalled” by “jarring” photographic evidence of China’s widespread rights abuses against its minority Muslim Uyghur population. “This new reporting further adds to an already damning body of evidence of the PRC’s atrocities in Xinjiang,” State Depart...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The senseless killing of George Floyd by a police officer two years ago in the US state of Minnesota is still vivid in the minds of African Americans. On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, placed his knee on the back of Floyd’s neck for […]
NAIROBI, Kenya – (AA): Leading media outlets, mainly in North America and Europe, are using images of African negroid people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak, which has offended many Africans. The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA), a Pan African non-profit membership organization of journalists covering Africa for the i...
White supremacists are a growing national threat, warn the FBI, National Counterterrorism Center, and Department of Homeland Security. Yet, in the wake of last weekend’s deadly Buffalo, New York shooting by a suspected gunman who said he was targeting Blacks, most Republicans in Congress deny there’s a trend. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas told Raw...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Russia is subjecting Crimean Tartars to the same repressive policies of the Soviet era, the leader of the Crimean Tatars said Thursday. Mustafa Abdulcemil Kirimoglu, who is also a deputy in Ukraine’s parliament, was speaking to Anadolu Agency on the 78th anniversary of the Crimean Tatars’ deportation from their historical ...
JOHANNESBURG – Thousands of South Africans have signed a petition calling for the expulsion of a white student who was recorded urinating on the belongings of a Black student at Stellenbosch University. Nearly 50,000 people had signed the petition to expel Theuns Du Toit, who urinated on the desk, textbooks and laptop of Babalo Ndwayana,...
