African and Caribbean

After years of languishing in makeshift shelters in the Horn of Africa, the final remnants of an Ethiopian community claiming Jewish descent received permission Sunday to move to Israel.

According to South Africa, the future is here. The country has announced it will build the world's biggest solar power plant.



It is expected to be the country's first-ever democratic election.

Haiti urged homeless quake survivors to flee tents and tarps Thursday as a tropical storm closed in.

Despite the bombings at the beginning of its 50 years of Independence Day celebrations in October, Nigeria is ready to move on.

Ethiopia is denying opposition supporters food, other aid, loans and government services.

A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince where 1.3 million earthquake survivors live. Health authorities and aid workers are scrambling to keep the tragedies from merging and the deaths from multiplying.

S.Africans fear that a proposed media bill could transform SAfrica's freedom to the autocracy of Zimbabwe.