UN Condemns Assassination Attempt On Leading Human Rights Defender
People demonstrate in Bujumbura against a decision by Burundi’s ruling party to nominate President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term (April 2015). Photo:...
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28,000 People Evacuated From Yemen To Somalia
More than 28,000 Somalis and Yemenis fleeing warfare in Yemen have been evacuated to Somalia’s northeastern region of Puntland since late March, the United Nations...
IRON MAIDEN – HORN OF AFRICA NATION DJIBOUTI RELAUNCHES NATIONAL AIRLINE WITH HELP FROM BRUCE DICKINSON
According to Business Insider, the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti has relaunched its national airline — a company managed by Iron Maiden lead singer...
Malaria Cases On The Rise in S. Sudan’s Unity State: MSF
The medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has expressed concerns over the significant rise in cases of malaria in South Sudan’s Unity state over the...
Nigeria Naira Weakens As Black Market Now sells At N229/$
The naira reversed its gains against the US dollar on the parrallel market yesterday following the decision of many currency traders to hold on to...
UN Body Urges Somalia To Probe British oil Contract
A UN sanctions committee wants Somalia to open a corruption investigation after uncovering evidence that British oil firm Soma may have paid off several Somali...
Hibiscus Petroleum Unit Awarded Concession in Egypt
Hibiscus Petroleum Bhd’s wholly-owned unit, Gulf Hibiscus Ltd, has been awarded the South East Ras El Ush concession (Block 2) in Egypt by the Ganoub...
Young Egyptian Journalist Shawkan In Jail For Two Years Without Charge After photographing Muslim Brotherhood Demonstrations
The brother of 27-year-old photographer Mahmoud Abou Zeid has spent the past two years trying to have him freed from an Egyptian jail, where he...
Obama’s 21st-Century Imperialism on Display in Africa
Last month, the eyes of the world were on Africa as President Obama welcomed Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari to the White House and, for the...
260,000 Moroccan Students To Benefit From Health Insurance
Monday 3 August 2015 – 21:20 Larbi Arbaoui Dedicated free-lance journalist with three years of experience as a news correspondent, translator, and editor. Larbi has...
WB Approves Guarantees For Ghana’s Energy Transformation
The World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a record investment of $700 million in guarantees for Ghana’s Sankofa Gas Project a statement from the...
Benghazi Defendant Asks U.S. Judge To Send Him Back To Libya
The accused ringleader of the 2012 attack that killed four Americans at a U.S. diplomatic compound and CIA base in Benghazi, Libya, has asked a...
Sudan Says Bashir Plans To Speak At UN Summit in New York World
File Photo: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. (Agence France-Presse) Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes...
Libya Hunts Prison Guards ‘Shown In Video Torturing Colonel Gaddafi’s Son Saadi’
Saadi Gaddafi, the son of late dictator Colonel Gaddafi who fled abroad during Libya’s revolution, has appeared in a video being tortured and tied to...
Nigeria LPG export Rises By 13%
By Michael Eboh Nigeria’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, export appreciated by 13.07 per cent in 2014, according to data obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum...
Burundi Capital Tense After Killing of President’s Ally
Gunfire rang out in Burundi’s capital on Sunday night following the killing of a feared military general who was a close ally of President Pierre...
MH370: Mauritius Joins Search For Malaysia Airlines Debris in Indian Ocean Waters
Mauritius says it will do all it can to search its Indian Ocean waters for possible debris from Malaysia Airlines missing flight MH370, after wreckage...
UN Airlifts DR Congo Refugees Out of C. Africa
The UN said Monday it had begun repatriating more than 600 people who had fled to the now violence-torn Central African Republic from the Democratic...
UN Emergency Response Mission Winds Down As WHO Announces Possible ‘Game Changer’ Vaccine
The Ebola vaccine is administered to a participant in the trial in Guinea. Photo: WHO/S. Hawke Having achieved its “core objective” of scaling up global...
Drone Surveillance in African
Drone Surveillance in African...