For a yowling metal-core band, Death of an Era boasts some awfully nice guys.

NAIROBI, Kenya | Last year, Somalia's Radio Warsan was a pro-government station that vilified al Qaeda-linked insurgents. Today, it is in the hands of the rebels as they battle the U.N.-backed government on the ground with guns and on the nation's airwaves with pro-jihad messages. As the propaganda war intensifies in the battered Horn of Africa nation, the government is using a newly modernized ...

Just when it appears there is a lot of meta-sublimity going on in the Ghanaian reggae music industry, the presence of a few icons seems to be giving a positive signal that the Rastafarian melody still lives on.

Skip Searcy is more than a fan of Up With People, a high-energy entertainment group that will be performing this weekend in Naperville. As a former cast member whose daughter also performed in a tour, Searcy has seen firsthand the group's ability to inspire audiences with messages of hope and goodwill.

Fleeing a military regime, thousands of young Eritreans stream into neighbouring east Sudan, the first stage of their long migration to Europe, Israel -- or even Khartoum.

Joanne Inman, Riverside resident, passed away peacefully on Dec. 10, 2009 after a long battle with cancer. Inman was born on Jan. 28,1945 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

The Blur singer has been working with Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure on a project in Ethiopia, and the 28-year-old singer was delighted to have been invited to take part.

Bob Geldof is to file a complaint against the BBC after a report alleged that money raised by his Live Aid concerts in 1985 was used to buy weapons for a rebel army in Ethiopia.

Damon Albarn wants more young musicians to work with African artists. The Blur singer has been working with Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure on a project in Ethiopia, and the 28-year-old singer was delighted to have been invited to take part.

Damon Albarn and Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure have been working with a group of musicians in Ethiopia on a new musical project.