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Nigerian drug agents on Saturday arrested a senator-elect wanted by the United States in a nearly 20-year-old heroin deal that was allegedly the basis for...

CARL DE SOUZA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES Burundi’s President, Pierre Nkurunziza waves from his car, flanked by security forces, while leaving an electoral rally outside Bujumbura...

A Rwandan already behind bars for assisting a massacre in Rwanda could face life in prison after Germany’s top court said he was also guilty...

The chairman of a U.S. congressional subcommittee has called for a full investigation into a Globe and Mail report of alleged Rwandan government involvement in...

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari yesterday expressed his  anonymity  and unstructured  system of Nigeria military’s inability to secure the life and property of its citizens. “The military...

The United States’ President Barack Obama has named his Secretary of State, Hon John Kerry as the head of the American “Presidential delegation” to the...

A Burundian refugee boy sits inside a mosquito net in his family’s makeshift tent room set up by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for...

The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) condemns in the strongest possible terms the death sentences meted out today against its respected...

‘ This is the most draconian , imperialist and anti -human sentence in the history of Africa and leadership’. If African leader should keep quite...

“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...