Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania. The ...

Bill Bell — Willis Bell — was an American photographer who settled in Ghana, and we became close. He published “The Roadmakers” (1961) [a collaborative photo essay done with the playwright Efua ...

Wesley Louissant--a.k.k. Wesli--is a Montreal-based singer/composer/guitarist/bandleader from Haiti. His stylistic range is deep and wide, and he's a dynamo on stage, as we've learned seeing his ...

The highlights this week: Aid in Sudan is in jeopardy as the country faces worsening famine, Kenya’s high court suspends the ...

A pilot has been taken to the hospital with injuries after a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in southern ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. His son ...