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Africa has become a major theater for Islamist violence How Boko Haram Brought Terror To Nigeria By any measure, Africa’s fight against terrorism has been Read more
Africa has become a major theater for Islamist violence How Boko Haram Brought Terror To Nigeria By any measure, Africa’s fight against terrorism has been Read more
The UN refugee agency has criticised Cameroon for the forced return of hundreds of refugees to north-east Nigeria after they had fled from the Islamist Read more
Democratic Republic of Congo – The increasingly brutal nature of fighting in central Congo between the army and local militia is on vivid display in the Read more
By Ifeanyi Nwoko Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Affairs to the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that Read more
Newly elected Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Ahmad Ahmad has stepped down as Vice-President of the Madagascar Senate. Ahmad, who is also the Madagascar Read more
GENEVA – More than 6,000 migrants have been rescued on the central Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy in the last few days, as greater Read more
Hollywood actor Ben Stiller has teamed up with social media stars to raise $2 million for people facing starvation in Somalia amid a devastating drought. Read more
CAIRO – The World Bank has disbursed another $1 billion in financial assistance to Egypt out of its $3 billion loan programme with the country, the Read more
MOGADISHU – Somalia’s new president named a 26-strong cabinet on Tuesday, including a former foreign affairs chief as finance minister and a BBC journalist as the Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African airport customs officials have confiscated male sexual enhancement tablets worth 20.6 million rand ($1.63 million) en route to Swaziland from Read more
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis asked on Monday for forgiveness for the “sins and failings of the Church and its members” during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Read more
A plane belonging to a small South Sudanese airline crash-landed at the airport of the northwestern town of Wau on Monday, injuring several passengers, local Read more
The eldest granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and an anti-apartheid icon, has been urged to reconsider her decision no longer to Read more
The World Bank Group President, Mr Jim Kim said the bank would be investing 57 billion dollars to accelerate growth and development In Sub-Saharan African Read more
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika appeared in a video on Sunday for the first time in a month since his abrupt cancellation of a meeting with Read more
JUBA – South Sudanese rebels said on Monday they had kidnapped four oil workers including a Pakistani national, in a bid to force their Chinese and Read more
ACCRA (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed when a large tree fell into the pool they were bathing in at the base of Read more
Despite the economic recession, Nigerians are Africa’s sixth happiest people, according to a new report released on Monday that called on nations to build social Read more
Dr Bodeno Ehis, Consultant, Public Health, University of Benin Teaching Hospital says no fewer than 100,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed yearly in Nigeria. Read more
Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola says houses built under the Federal Housing Scheme will be allocated to all Nigerians, irrespective of their Read more
A Chibok schoolgirl who escaped from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria has called on the international community not to forget those still in captivity. Next Read more
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday defended his controversial decision to appoint a 110-minister government, calling it a “necessary investment” in the small west African Read more
DAKAR – Three years after the world’s worst recorded Ebola outbreak was first declared in Guinea, hundreds of survivors who suffer from physical and mental health Read more
Islamists and secularists are virtually at war in Sudan over a recent newspaper article on the condom usage and the concept of the faithfulness among Read more
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have given awards to 60 micro finance banks and institutions under the Read more
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s central bank has printed half of the ‘bond notes’ quasi-currency it intends to issue under a $200 million scheme, a state Read more
By Tanisha Heiberg JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered the government on Friday to pay social grants on April 1 via its current Read more
The crisis rocking the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) was further deepened yesterday as Borno State chapter of the party disowned the National Chairman, Sen Ali Read more
BLANTYRE, MALAWI — Attacks on people with albinism are resurging in Malawi after a six-month lull last year, when the government and a local rights Read more
A Christian pastor has discovered one of the world’s largest uncut diamonds in Sierra Leone’s Kono district. The diamond, weighing 709 carats, is now locked Read more
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