Category : AFRIKA HERALD

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has left newly-installed Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in charge as he began his annual holiday, state radio announced Monday. The move...

 A lone gunman kept terrified staff and customers captive into Monday night in a downtown Sydney cafe, brandishing an Islamic flag, as five of his...

  French forces have either killed or captured nearly 200 jihadists in the Sahel region of west Africa in the past year, French Defence Minister...

Amid a proliferation of militant groups and “disquieting” levels of food insecurity, the situation in the Sahel has become increasingly fragile, a United Nations special...

THE AFRIKA MARKET IS OFFICIALLY PROJECTING GEN. BUHARI AS THE WINNER OF APC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES 2014 The stage was set and charged up with all...

Despite a volatile security situation and ongoing fighting throughout the country, the Central African Republic (CAR) is now entering “a critical phase” in its transition...

Mr Jimi Agbaje has won the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State defeating a former Minister of State for Defence,...

Gunmen broke into a prison in the central Nigerian city of Minna, freeing around 200 inmates, a police spokesman and security sources said. The sources...

By way of illustration, Nelson Mandela concludes his address with the phrases, ‘Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let...

Afrika Market is projecting Ambode As the Winner of Lagos state Governorship flag-bearer for APC After a much contending primaries within the ranks and files...

Today Lagosians is witnessing the battle of likely foes It will as Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State battles his god father and political benefactor,...

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,...