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The Minnesota African American Museum (MAAM) has been designated as one of the official United States locations, by South Africa's embassy, to host in...

Dr. Edwin Bogonko, a former Kenya Medical Association secretary was last night installed as president of the 5,000 member Twin Cities Medical Society, the...

When the civil war erupted in Somalia more than two decades ago, Abdi Daud left everything he had known and loved about the country...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recognized on Wednesday the crucial role of diaspora communities in national and global development efforts, emphasizing their potential to...

Too often, people pass by the businesses on Snelling Avenue, near University in St. Paul, without stopping. As one way to change that, the African...

FastJet, the pan-African low-cost carrier planned by EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, expects to launch operations in three to four months, chief executive-designate Ed Winter...

The call came through around 2pm last Friday. I was on a conference call with a client so I let it go to voicemail. It was Wynfred Russell. He is the executive director of ACER (African Career, Education & Resource, Inc.), a Brooklyn Park nonprofit. He was reminding me the next day was the daylong tour of the proposed Bottineau transitway. I had it in my calendar but for some reason I had assumed it was on a weekday and not a weekend. I normally run two marathons during the year and practice season is in high gear around this time of year.

The Vice President of Liberia, Joseph Boakai, will Friday, June 17, pay a one-day working visit to Minnesota at the invitation of the African Career, Education & Resource, Inc. in conjunction with the Liberian Ministers Association, and the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota.

Saro Nkesi still finds it difficult to talk about the years before he finally left Nigeria.

“During the period of 1993 to 1995, I was always staying in the bush and dashed home to eat and went back to the bush again,” he said. “Sometimes I would stay with other friends who were not from Ogoni. It was a terrible time in my life.”

Google has donated $1.25 million to the Nelson Mandela Foundation Center of Memory in Johannesburg to help digitize memorabilia related to the South African leader.

Is it possible to develop software applications in Africa that respond to civil society needs? Techies, or technologists, in East Africa say “yes!” and will set out to do exactly that with “Apps 4 Africa,” a contest that challenges software developers to respond to specific needs described by people in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.