Category : AFRIKA HERALD

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...

The presidential campaign rally in Mapo hall, Ibadan was a show of dignitaries and who is who in Oyo state politics. Ministers from the South-West...

   Huge crowds in Paris for unity march after three days of terror left 17 people dead  40 world leaders including UK PM Cameron and...

A destroyed house in Ahy Badr in the town of Mizdah in the Nafusa mountains in Libya after tribal conflict in March 2013. Photo: IRIN/Jorge...

The United States condemned a spike in attacks in northeastern Nigeria by BokoHaram, urging all responsible for the “recurring terrorist attacks” to be held accountable....

Officers said the operation began after witnesses sighted the two men said to be responsible for the attack [AFP] French media reports that both brothers...

President Goodluck Jonathan flag-off his presidential campaign at Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday 8th of January, 2015 with immense crowd present. PDP chieftain across the...

United Nations peacekeepers and the Congolese military are preparing to launch operations against the Rwandan Hutu rebel group, the FDLR, based in the eastern Democratic...

Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Four of the...

Settlement avoids London High Court case and will be split with £35m paid directly to affected individuals and £20m for the Bodo community A Shell...

A MONUSCO attack helicopter provides aerial protection for a convoy carrying FDLR ex-combatants from Kanyabayonga transit camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Photo: MONUSCO/Force...

By Matthew Hill Zambia’s presidential candidate for the main opposition party, Nevers Mumba, said he will review a plan to impose mining royalties if he...

Spate of attacks has stoked concerns about growth of white racism Archbishop Desmond Tutu: said recently it felt like the dark days of apartheid had...

Kris Jepson Kris Jepson is an investgative reporter for Al Jazeera English, based in London. Ahead of us blue flashing lights, a rudimentary police cordon...

A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a church in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Gombe during a New Year service, wounding eight...