Category : AFRIKA HERALD

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...

    Electoral Commission 11pm Houghton & Sunderland South –traditionally the first seat to declare. Safe Labour territory 1am Nuneaton – one of the first...

Protesters hold placards as they demonstrate against the ruling CNDD-FDD party’s decision to allow Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third five-year term...

Guinea deployed security forces nationwide on Monday to police fresh anti-government protests, witnesses said, as clashes broke out in the capital but the provinces remained...

The United States said Monday it will give $45 million to help Kenya deal with an increasingly complex refugee crisis in a region long defined...

Three people were killed and three others were seriously injured in a road accident late on Saturday in the central province of Beni Mellal, local...

Following shocking revelations of child sexual abuse by French peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic, the UN has warned that it is “horribly possible”...

Burundi policemen detain protesters opposing President Pierre Nkurunziza from We Recommend Protesters claim that the government has been clamping down on free speech in recent...

Chadian UN peacekeepers heading to their base in Tessalit, northern Mali. Photo MINUSMA/Marco Dormino  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for an immediate end...

A plane carrying Bill Clinton made an emergency landing in Tanzania, according to several national news outlets including Business Insider,CBS News, the Huffington Post and...

Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Protesters gathered outside Nigeria House in London on April 14 to mark the one-year anniversary since a group of Nigerian schoolgirls was...

Thousands of police and National Guard troopers back up officers in Baltimore after riots triggered by anger over the death of a black man in...

  Islamic State militants have killed five journalists working for a Libyan TV station in the eastern part of the country, an army commander said...

Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng briefs the press. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard  A United Nations-backed forum today concluded in Fez, Morocco, having...

Candle-lit memorials held on beach in Malta and Rome’s Verano Cemetery In memory of Libyan refugees who died on a smugglers’ vessel on Sunday  Italian...

“What makes ladoja to be popular is that he did well to the civil servants and the publics’ Accord Party governorship candidate in Oyo State,...

Zimbabweans have taken to social media to mobilise for a “Black Friday” campaign following the deadly xenophobic attacks targeting foreign nationals in South Africa. Zimbabweans...

Foreign investors are becoming more aware of the investment opportunities available in West Africa and are seeing the region as the next growth hub for...

A special court martial of the Nigerian Army has discharged and acquitted 57 soldiers who were charged with losing their weapons and going on an...

The ‘Chibok Girls Not Forgotten’ event brought together, from left, VOA Director David Ensor, U.S. Representatives Frederica Wilson and Karen Bass, escaped Chibok schoolgirl Patience...