Boko Haram makes Nigeria’s break-up less likely, says Soyinka
Abeokuta - Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group, Boko Haram, than it did during a secessionist Civil War, yet...
Fear of Boko Haram Hits Food Prices in Cameroon During Ramadan
Amchide, Cameroon - Muslims in Cameroon are observing Ramadan in the face of serious price hikes for food due to border closures meant to...
Zimbabwe: Victoria Falls Tourists Injured As Train Hits Tram
Several tourists were reportedly injured after a tram carrying 30 tourists was hit by a goods train near the Victoria Falls Hotel in the...
Namibia turns down troop request by the UN
Windhoek - The Namibian government has turned down a request by the United Nations to send soldiers to the Central African Republic (CAR), where...
Kills people and takes their belongings to earn a living for...
Maseru - The body of a 34 year-old man found dead and buried in his garden in Lithoteng, Maseru, was exhumed last Saturday.The Maseru...
Sudan’s Meriam Ibrahim faces new legal challenge
Muslim “relatives” of Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian woman hiding at the U.S. embassy are taking her to court to try to prove she belongs...
Egypt’s richest man, Nassef Sawiris, sentenced to 3 years in jail...
Egypt's wealthiest man, Nassef Sawiris, has been sentenced in absentia to three years in prison and fines worth LE50 million on charges of refraining...
UN experts urge Egypt to overturn largest confirmed mass death verdict
The credibility and integrity of the Egyptian justice system has become “deeply compromised”, a group of United Nations human rights experts today said, urging...
Dr William Fischer speaks of horror in Guinea as Ebola outbreak...
WHAT began as a trip to Geneva to analyse technical documents landed US doctor William Fischer in a cement building in the middle of...
Military nabs abductor of Chibok schoolgirls
ABUJA - Almost three months after Boko Haram terrorists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, the military announced, yesterday, that it...