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Samwu is accusing Salga of not negotiating in good faith. File photo The first round of wage negotiations between the SA Municipal Workers’ Union and...

Boko Haram, the Nigeria terrorist group engaging in numerous horrific attacks in West Africa, posted a graphic video online Monday showing the apparent beheadings of...

By Joyce Namutebi President Yoweri Museveni will this Sunday launch a campaign intended to mobilise men and boys to support gender equality and women and...

U.S. generals reportedly accused Nigerian commanders of colluding with Boko Haram By Rafiu Ajakaye A senior Nigerian army official on Monday denied reports that the...

© AFP file photo A bomb blast on Sunday killed two people in the Egyptian tourist resort of Aswan, police said, in the first such...

By SAMWEL BORN MAINA What appeared to be a turning point of good fortune for two men on a plane to Angola was, in fact,...

A woman suicide bomber on Saturday killed two passers-by and her accomplice in an attack in northeast Nigeria, witnesses and security sources told AFP. Moments...

Nigeria–Africa’s top crude producer cut its forecast for oil prices and the value of its currency this year, an acknowledgment of the pain that tumbling...

save Phyllis Sortor life … The Afrika Market and its media affiliates join the crusade in calling the Nigeria government and the entire citizens of...

Abdel Fattah was prominent in anti-Mubarak revolt * Activists say Egypt is a police state again * Islamists and secular activists being rounded up (Adds...

Nearly 500 South African miners who were trapped underground have been rescued. All 486 miners who were trapped underground at a gold mine in South...

Rescue workers managed to bring to the surface 330 of the about 500 miners trapped by a fire at Kusasalethu Gold mine, near Carletonville, Harmony...

  By Nathan Were In the last decade, at least a dozen African leaders have had their time in office extended through constitutional amendments. The leaders...

Credit: flickr.com/Paul Cross     South Africa’s ailing economy is expected to take a further beating as the country battles its worst power outages in seven years...

Nigerian forces backed by air strikes seized the northeastern border town of Baga from Islamist group Boko Haram on Saturday, the military said, a significant...

“There is no ‘family gathering’ today that is any different from any other day since (Bobbi Kristina) has been in the hospital — the family...

Nigerian warplanes bombarded training camps and caches of weapons and vehicles belonging to the Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeasterly Samibisa forest on Thursday,...

Nigeria May Devalue Naira Against Dollar high RiseNigeria’s central bank abandoned weekly foreign-exchange auctions, a key part of managing the local currency, effectively devaluing the...

The 41st Annual People’s World African American History Month Celebrations in Hartford and New Haven, Conn., will feature remarks by guest speaker Zenobia Thompson, long-time...