Category : AFRIKA HERALD

  By Jakkie Cilliers The relative decline in the influence of the West is widely and increasingly acknowledged. From Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in...

Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis vows attacks against the interior minister and police on first day of the coming Muslim feast. Egypt’s deadliest militant group has vowed...

 ICC to decide on Gbagbo henchman trial   Judges in The Hague will decide whether former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo’s right-hand man, Charles Ble Goude,...

Amid forced conscription, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, the human rights situation in Eritrea continues to remain “dire,” a United Nations independent expert warned, adding...

Angola is preparing itself to participate in peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR), under the aegis of UN, announced on Friday in New...

Une société qui n’a pas interpréter correctement et d’apprécier son passé ne peut pas comprendre ses fortunes actuelles et les adversités et peut être pris...

 Zambian Vice-President Guy Scott on Friday denied reports that President Michael Sata has died while attending the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in the United...

The United Nations refugee agency announced today that it is stepping up efforts to move some 5,000 Nigerian refugees in Cameroon away from a border...

  Russia and South Africa have signed an intergovernmental agreement for a strategic partnership in the nuclear energy sector opening the possibility of the construction...

Sudan’s Ministry of Finance and National Economy has called for greater economic co-operation between Sudan and China. State Minister of Finance and National Economy Dr...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today said that addressing the root causes of the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and...

Thousands of mourners gathered in Kenya’s capital on Sunday for emotional commemorations marking a year since Somali Islamist gunmen attacked Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall and...

Nigerian government officials and the International Committee of the Red Cross have had talks with Boko Haram about swapping imprisoned members of the Islamist terrorist...

First Lady with Emory University officials after her speech on Rwanda’s recovery.  First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame yesterday said that Rwanda’s journey to resilience, 20...

  Mr Salmond thanks people “above all for Scotland for 1.6 million votes for Scottish independence”. “It’s important to say that our referendum was an...

Duale told Ruto that the money governors’ are asking for “does not belong to your mother”./FILE A section of Jubilee Coalition MPs have come out...

Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi talks to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as they arrive to attend the 23rd African Union Summit (AUS) in Malabo...

  Protesters burn tyres in Grabouw, Western Cape. File photo. Image by: SHELLEY CHRISTIANS Reasons for the ongoing violence in the small Western Cape town of...

  Protesters burn tyres in Grabouw, Western Cape. File photo. Image by: SHELLEY CHRISTIANS Reasons for the ongoing violence in the small Western Cape town of...