Category : AFRIKA HERALD

A street scene in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. Photo: AU-UN IST/Stuart Price The United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General expressed outrage today over an Al-Shabaab...

     style=”display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px”      data-ad-client=”ca-pub-3299921071151129″      data-ad-slot=”2102069697″>   Up to 36 people were killed by a  suspected gun men who was assumed to be a member...

France does not want to preach democracy to its former colonies, President Francois Hollande said Sunday after taking flak for accusing African leaders of seeking...

Radical Islamist terrorist Boko Haram believed behind bloody Friday attack Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to track down the perpetrators of the bomb blasts...

More than 400,000 people in northeastern Nigeria, who have been forced to flee their homes due to ongoing violence by militant Islamist group Boko Haram,...

Windhoek – Voting began on Friday in Namibia’s presidential and legislative elections, in a vote that is expected to see liberation party the South West...

The head of Tunisia’s anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party, Beji Caid Essebsi, leads the country’s presidential election with 39.46 percent of votes, six percentage points ahead...

One in three known victims of human trafficking is a child, and girls and women are particularly targeted and forced into “modern slavery,” according to...

                          Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria’s restive Borno State,...

                        A barrel of oil now costs just under $80, and for Nigeria, that’s...

Abdirisak Ali Abdi, killed in town of Galkacyo, is the third journalist murdered in Somalia this year. Gunmen have shot dead a journalist in the...

Any mention of roping in the agricultural sector into the tax bracket will definitely generate very emotional arguments for, but mostly against, targeting income earned...

                        Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will ask the national assembly to extend a state...

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, has expressed concern over yesterday’s outbreak of violence during preparations for the...

President Goodluck Jonathan today formally declare his ambition to contest the 2015 presidential election on the platform of the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party...

Part of an 18-truck WFP convoy crossing into South Sudan from Sudan, carrying 700 metric tons of food. Photo: WFP video screen capture  Eighteen trucks...

Agence France-Presse in Kano Many left dead and injured after explosion before morning assembly at secondary school in Yobe, north-east Nigeria At least 13 people...

LAGOS: Nigeria´s main political parties are charging eye-watering fees from election hopefuls, in a move condemned as undemocratic and a breeding ground for high-level cronyism...

                      Though Chad has so far been spared from an attack by Boko Haram, the...