Category : AFRIKA HERALD

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,...

Editorial Review on Nigeria presidential election , February 14, 2015 Written By ‘JIDE ADESINA & Edited by VERONICA OLAYINKA ADESINA “I join General Abdulsalami and...

Nigerian Sunni jihadist group Boko Haram released about 190 captives, who returned to their community in the northeast state of Yobe between Friday and Saturday, while...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday reportedly came face to face with Zambian protesters who expressed their dislike for him over his continued 35-years grip...

United Nations rights advocates last week challenged Tanzanian officials regarding the recent killings of 36 albinos, the prevalence of female genital cutting, and corporal punishment...

Zambia’s governing Patriotic Front (PF) candidate Edgar Lungu is headed for a victory in Tuesday’s tightly contested presidential election, according to results from 146 constituencies...

We urge the appellate court to review both the convictions and the sentencing without delay. FILE – Mauritanian anti-slavery protesters march to demand the liberation...

The Nigerian opposition rejected on Thursday any delay of Feb. 14 presidential and parliamentary elections as has been reportedly proposed by the country’s national security...

crimes tribunal Fatimata M’Baye (right) and Philip Alston, two members of the International Commission of Inquiry on the Central African Republic (CAR), briefing the press....

  Defeating Nigeria’s “dastardly” Boko Haram insurgents requires support from across the continent, the African Union chief warned Wednesday, urging increased backing for Nigeria and...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has accepted an invitation from the Nations Media Group, to address the Second Kenyan Governors’ Summit slated for February 26...

ICIJ  |  By Sasha Chavkin This article was reported by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a Washington DC-based global network of 185 reporters in...

Martin Luther King Jnr Memorial Martin Luther King, Jr was a man of destiny, an apostle of peace who had risen to the lofty heights...

Flooding in Malawi in October 2014. Photo: UN Malawi United Nations agencies are gearing up for relief efforts in Malawi and neighbouring Mozambique, where heavy...

  In the presence of Kofi Annan, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, former President General Muhammadu Buhari and nine other presidential candidates today adopted an inter-party...

Nigeria’s president was among leaders who condemned last week’s attack by Islamic extremists on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, yet his response to the...