Category : AFRIKA HERALD

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a new video. Photo: AFP Niamey: Islamist Boko Haram insurgents from Nigeria bombed a Niger border town,...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi salute the members of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara, Turkey. (Photo: Turkish...

BY DALATOU MAMANE ASSOCIATED PRESS Boko Haram staged an overnight assault on a border town in Niger and a suicide bomber detonated explosives near a...

Written by ; ‘JIDE ADESINA Nigeria’s electoral commission will postpone the Feb. 14 presidential and legislative elections to March 28, 2015 in order to give...

Campaigners ask Spain to grant Hassanna Aalia, accused of killing members of Moroccan security force, political asylum. Mainly desert, Western Sahara has been the entrenched...

The Council of State on Thursday rose from a seven-hour meeting, advising the Independent National Electoral Commission to go ahead and perform its constitutional responsibility...

THE AFRIKA MARKET EDITORIAL By ; JIDE ADESINA A powerful blast, believed to have been triggered by two female suicide bombers, ripped through a car...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday denounced as “heinous and despicable” the beheading of a second Japanese hostage by Islamic State terrorists. ISIS claimed in...

A kidnapped senior Libyan oil official has been released after more than two weeks of captivity, a senior official said on Sunday. Libya’s Oil Ministry...

Photo by BGNES The six Bulgarian aid workers, who were held captive in Sudan since January 26, have been released. The six Bulgarian citizens were...

circa 800 BC – Jos plateau settled by Nok – a neolithic and iron age civilisation. circa 11th century onwards – Formation of city states,...

David Tolbert . David Tolbert is President of the International Center for Transitional Justice and a former assistant secretary-general at the United Nations. On January...

African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, an African Union official said Saturday, Jan 31,...

BY RORY MOULTON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ASK people throughout Africa to document the continent’s biggest challenges, city systems, and burgeoning innovations? You get mesmerizing...

BY KARIM LEBHOUR The African Union called Friday for a regional five-nation force of 7,500 troops to defeat the “horrendous” rise of Nigeria’s Boko Haram...

A food distribution centre near the Somali city of Beletweyne. UN Photo/Abdulkadir Ahmed  Malnutrition rates are “stubbornly high” in Somalia with more than 200,000 children requiring emergency...

Canada Post has unveiled a new stamp to commemorate the heroic life of Nelson Mandela. (CNW Group/Canada Post) Former president Nelson Mandela has been honoured...

Children in South Sudan. Photo: UNMISS/Ilya Medvedev The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is celebrating the release of some 3,000 South Sudanese child soldiers today...

  Photos ; US. Embassy, Abuja . Nigeria Written by ; JIDE ADESINA  & Edited by VERONICA OLAYINKA ADESINA The United States Secretary of State,...