Rwanda’s Senate President Resigns
The president of Rwanda’s upper house resigned on Wednesday citing personal reasons, but following a petition from colleagues to discuss how he ran the Senate,...
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Nigerian Army Kill Over 200 Members Of Boko -Haram Terrorist
Several Boko Haram insurgents have been killed in a fierce battle with Nigerian troops in a northeastern town near Maiduguri, an army statement said Wednesday....
Tunisian Forces And Militants Clash Near Border, One Killed
Tunisian police killed an Islamist militant during clashes near the Algerian border, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, after the government raised the security alert level...
80 Missing In CAR Riverboat Sinking
Bangui – At least 80 people are missing in Central African Republic after their boat sank last week on the M’poko River south...
Documentary Of Nigeria National Conference 2014 – CONFAB
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UN Takes Charge Of Central African Republic Peacekeeping Force
By Crispin Dembassa-Kette The United Nations on Monday took over a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic previously run by the African Union, a...
Liberian president sacks 10 officials
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has sacked ten senior officials because they failed to heed a warning to return from overseas travel to help the...
Catholic Bishops Urge FG To Tackle Insecurity
Express worry over huge devastation by Boko Haram By Omon-Julius Onabu Catholic Bishops in Nigeria have described as unacceptable the enormous destruction of lives and...
Ghana Lacks Marginal Reserve Of Energy Generation – ECG
Mr William Boateng, Director of Public Relations of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), said lack of marginal reserve of energy generation is a contributory...
Is U.N. Ignoring Janjaweed Danger?
Editor’s note: Akshaya Kumar is Sudan and South Sudan Policy analyst at the Enough...
UN Vehicle Hits Landmine In Mali, 1 Peacekeeper killed
A UN military vehicle struck a land mine Sunday in the volatile Kidal region of northern Mali, killing a Chadian soldier and wounding four...
Explosives Seized And 19 Arrested In Suspected Plot in Uganda
The police in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, seized “substantial amounts of explosives” and suicide vests in raids on what they said was a terrorist cell with...
Nigeria Civil War Hero, Gen.Benjamin Adekunle a.k.a Black Scorpion is Dead At 78
The War Hero, who played a key role in the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), Brig.-Gen Benjamin Adekunle (retd.), A.k.a “Black Scorpion”, died this morning at...
Under Violence Nigeria’s Girl Abductees Become Child Soldiers
Children are bearing the brunt of much of the violence in northeastern Nigeria – including killings, rapes, abductions and attacks on schools. A new report...
Ban Appoints New UN Envoy For West Africa
Mohamed Ibn Chambas. UN Photo/Loey Felipe Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Mohammed Ibn Chambas as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office for...
Oscar’s Family Warned About ’Complications’
Oscar Pistorius’s family has been warned to keep the culpable homicide-convict on the straight and narrow in the next month while he awaits sentencing. In...
Maiduguri In Rumble Battle As Nigeria Army Clash With Boko Haram Terrorist
Abuja – Nigerian government forces were fighting Islamist insurgents 35km outside Borno state capital Maiduguri on Friday to try to stop any attack on the...
Setback For Gay Rights In Gambia
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh really doesn’t like homosexuals. And because he’s been in...
Oscar Pistorius Guilty Of Culpable Homicide – But Not Of Murder
Oscar Pistorius is also found guilty of one weapons charge, but not guilty of murdering Reeva Steenkamp Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable...
US Implementing Development Programmes In Libya
A United States Agency for International Development (USAID) spokesperson today said that US government sponsored initiatives are still operative in Libya. This week, the US...