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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...

South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is led by an officer into a holding cell after being sentenced at the high court in Pretoria, on...

Jack Warner is wanted by the US on alleged corruption charges. Credit: Reuters The former head of Egypt’s football federation has claimed ex-Fifa vice president...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi issued a rare apology Sunday over a police officer beating a lawyer with a shoe last week, an attack that...

Nigeria’s fuel marketers, who are still not importing due to money owed them, have agreed to distribute fuel brought in by the state oil company,...