here's a less hysterical article Scientists find 7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans
I predict great arguments to be had over this in the future, regarding some misplaced sense of worth of white people/black people coming from where humanity also originated.
Interesting stuff, if a bit hysterical as pointed out. It's quite exciting to still be seeing these mad shifts in palaeoarchaeology, though it's a bit troublesome making grand explanations out of tiny sample sizes. This is a jawbone and a tooth. I remember reading Don Johanson's book about Lucy, and how she was the oldest complete skeleton ever found (>3m years). They found 40% of her bones.
It's an all hominins are apes but not all apes are hominins kind of deal. There are apes, then a smaller set of apes called hominids (or Great Apes; chimps, Damon Albarn, humans) and then a smaller set called hominins which basically covers not-very-chimp-like early humans right up to Homo Sapiens.