Category : AFRIKA HERALD

“Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all...

Saudi terrorist Khaled al-Fawwaz was sentenced to life in prison Friday by a New York federal court for his role in the 1998 attacks on...

  US President Barack Obama has announced the establishment of The Obama Foundation, a few weeks before visiting Kenya for the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit....

THE very first Pan-African Conference was held in the city of London in July in the year 1900. This was the very beginning of the...

Heavy gunfire and blasts were heard in Burundi’s capital on Thursday amid claims from pro- president officials that a coup attempt had failed. A man...

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza arrived back in the country Thursday, a day after a coup was declared while he was in Tanzania for regional talks,...

Burundi’s armed forces chief announced early Thursday that an attempted coup by a top general against President Pierre Nkurunziza had failed, although the claim was...

Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked Nigeria’s northern city of Maiduguri in Borno state on Wednesday from a cashew plantation a few kilometres from the Giwa...

People celebrate in Bujumbura after it was reported that President Nkurunziza had been overthrown(Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) Burundi coup: shutdown of radio airwaves stokes fear By gagging...

A session of a past forum at the UN headquarters in Gigiri. A UN diplomat was shot and robbed of Sh20,000 and a gold chain...

UN says South Sudan conflict includes child kidnappings, rapes and causes humanitarian crisis   The United Nations mission to South Sudan has received credible reports...

  Mr. President Elect , Let this season of Change be known as the season which did more for civil rights than the last fifty...

  President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday expressed confidence that posterity will judge his outgoing administration right. According to Jonathan, his government has delivered the dividends...

United Nations peacekeepers in Central African Republic shot in the air on Monday and used tear gas to disperse gunmen who tried to disrupt a...

Algeria, Tanzania express “concern” over terrorist threat in Africa  ALGIERS – Algeria and Tanzania expressed their “concern” over the over the terrorist threat in the...

    So the law didn’t end conflict minerals. But was there any way it could have? By TOM BURGIS Looiking out on the banana...

Protest leaders say charges against those arrested at demonstration should be dropped, ask for improvements in housing, education Ethiopian-Israeli Inbar Bugale explains the demands that...

An international medical aid agency evacuated staff from a town in South Sudan on Saturday as fighting escalated once again in the country’s 16-month long...

  Cons  331   Lab 232   SNP 56   Lib D 8  Ukip 1   Other  23  After 650  of 650 seats BY ‘JIDE...

By : CARA ANNA Associated PressThe U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is planning to go ahead and take action against a rebel group in eastern...