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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses a wreath laying ceremony on the Inter On the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the “invaluable...

BET has unveiled most of the categories for its annual awards and this term Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj lead nominations with six each including Video of...

A riot police officer speaks to residents participating in street protests against the decision made by Burundi’s ruling party to allow President Pierre Nkurunziza to...

Tunisia called in army reservists and shuttered dozens of unregulated mosques in a security crackdown after militants killed dozens of people at a seaside resort....

Tunisia attack: British man used body as human shield to protect fiancee Briton shot three times in back and suffers heart attack after using his...

Nigeria Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has written to the Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in response to an earlier letter by...

Former Mozambican president Samora Machel  Image by: © Sowetan Mozambique celebrates 40 years of independence from Portugal today. Get to know this gorgeous country better...

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German authorities release Al Jazeera correspondent Ahmed Mansour two days after detaining him at the request of his native Egypt, Al Jazeera says. Al Jazeera...

After spending over three weeks at the Defence House since his inauguration , Nigeria new elected President Muhammadu Buhari finally moved into the Presidential Villa...

  Lagos – Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited (NLNG), a joint venture between the government and foreign oil majors, has generated some 85 billion...

SPECIAL REPORT CARD ON NIGERIA          JIDE ADESINA “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs...

(AFP) On Tuesday, an Egyptian court upheld the death penalty for Mohamed Mursi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president. Mursi was first sentenced to death last...

Amid four years of turmoil, Islamist militia controlling capital welcomes draft unity deal, but says ‘modifications’ needed The UN Security Council on Wednesday urged Libyan...

Aid workers loading a plane with survival kits for distribution in South Sudan. Photo: International Organization for Migration (IOM) The United Nations agriculture agency has...

Boko Haram took control of a large swath of north-east Nigeria until a multinational force this year forced them out of towns and villages A...

More than a hundred people jailed under a tough law curbing the right to demonstrate have been freed by Egyptian President el-Sissi. The move was...

Newly elected Nigerian senator Prince Buruji Kashamu, widely regarded as one of the key inspirations behind author Piper Kerman’s hit series Orange is the New...

African leaders were set to sign a potentially historic 26-nation free trade pact Wednesday to create a common market spanning half the continent from Cairo...

An opposition demonstrator holds a sign in French reading “No to a third term” next to a barricade fire set by protesters in the Ngagara...