1609 – The Bermuda Islands became an English colony. 1664 – New Jersey became a British colony. King Charles II granted land in the New World to his brother James (The Duke of York). 1755 – In North ...

The United States ordered the immediate departure of non-emergency personnel from the capital of South Sudan, citing an increase in crime, kidnapping and armed conflict, the Department of State ...

In warehouses across Africa, food shipped from the United States intended for the starving people of war-torn Sudan is sitting rotting, its fate unknown. In Cameroon, Djibouti and elsewhere ...

Mr Mahdi is in a coma in a critical condition. The admin wrote: “Please pray that Faishal is given strength to recover and that his family is granted patience and strength in facing this ...

South Sudan's government has denied earlier reports that Uganda had deployed special forces to its capital, Juba. Uganda's military chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said the soldiers had gone to the ...

The United States has ordered all its non-emergency staff in South Sudan to leave, amid rising tensions in the country. Fighting in recent days has threatened an already fragile peace deal between ...

The U.S. State Department on Sunday ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates because of fighting in the north. The travel advisory issued on ...

On the murder of Ruth First and others killed by the South African death squads, and on the threat to the lives of activists at home and abroad. No. 96 (1st Quart. 1984), p. 5 Speeches at the funeral, ...