OTTAWA - While the country will celebrate its birthday next week, O Canada got a head start on Friday as Canada marked its 45th year as the official national anthem.

OTTAWA - While the country will celebrate its birthday next week, O Canada got a head start on Friday as Canada marked its 45th year as the official national anthem.

It wasn't until 1931 that the song became the national anthem, when President Herbert Hoover signed it into law. Despite there being four verses, only one is generally sung.

East African finance chiefs increased planned spending to a record to sustain economic growth and mitigate the effects of geopolitical risks and cuts in foreign aid. Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and ...

On July 5, 2025, the Embassy of Tanzania in Sweden, teaming up with Tanzanian community associations, threw a festival-sized ...

Noah Webster, creator of "An American Dictionary of the English Language" (1828) led the charge. It was Webster who removed ...

PITTSBURGH — The National Aviary revealed the genders of its newest African penguins on social media Tuesday. The penguins hatched in early February, and they are the offspring of penguin ...

"'You are young, gifted and black,' we must begin to tell our young. There's a world waiting for you. Yours is the quest that ...

PREPARATIONS for the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN) are gaining momentum as host countries Tanzania and Kenya held ...

At long last, the 2025 Men’s College World Series finally began on Friday afternoon. In the first of a potential 15 games in the event, Coastal Carolina and Arizona kicked off the festivities in ...

Kristin Chenoweth sang the National Anthem ahead of Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals on Sunday (June 22).

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) has increasingly dominated the news in east Africa, with Kenya witnessing a number of deaths and killings of prominent female athletes in recent years.