Africans mull citizenship for slave kin
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African and black American leaders meeting this week debated an unusual proposal to spur investment and interest in the continent &#151; securing African citizenship for American descendants of Africans taken away as slaves.
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On 5 December, Hungarian voters will decide whether to extend dual citizenship to their ethnic kin abroad and at the same time consider a law to ban hospital privatization.
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A draft loyalty pledge has plunged South Africa into a new identity crisis as it mulls its common values 14 years after discarding apartheid to forge a united society under a single flag.
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A Botswana court is to decide whether the Kalahari bushmen were evicted illegally from their ancestral lands.
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The mere concept of Afrikaner pride remains an exquisitely sensitive issue among whites and blacks alike.
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African Americans in Congress, many facing huge pressure from their constituents, are mulling whether to shift support from Clinton to Obama.
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The government is to seek views on whether to change a 136-year-old law to give prisoners the right to vote.
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Hands aloft and tears streaming down her   cheeks, Alicia Chipoyi prayed in a high-pitched voice for   spiritual healing for the wounds caused by years of slavery and   colonization of Africa by Europeans.
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Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 21 (IPS) - African nations have been reduced to  "begging" in negotiations on their future economic ties  with the European Union (EU) in what has turned into exercise  "assaulting democracy," according to trade unionists and  policy analysts from both north and south.
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ACCRA, Ghana -- African leaders argued fiercely yesterday over whether to rapidly create a single state stretching from the Cape to Cairo, and one small group threatened to break away and forge ahead with the project.
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Equatorial Guinea and South Africa are discussing the possibility of extraditing Mark Thatcher, son of the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, accused of bankrolling a coup plot in Malabo, an official said.
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Letting Africans save Africa has become an operating objective for world diplomats. But that&#39;s been difficult for one former colonial power, France.
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Descendants of a plantation's masters and slaves come together to recount history - and forge family bonds.
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THE spirit of the Habsburg Empire will hover over central Europe as Hungarians vote tomorrow on a proposal to offer citizenship to three million of their ethnic brethren across the borders.
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Hardbeatnews.com, JOHANNESBURG, SA, Tues. Oct. 12: Jean Bertrand Aristide is thousands of miles away from South Africa but remains tuned to the strife ongoing in his homeland of Haiti.
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PRETORIA, South Africa  - South Africa must spend  some $2.05 billion to resolve outstanding land claims by blacks  in an effort to reform land ownership in the formerly  white-ruled country, the government said Tuesday.