Category : AFRIKA HERALD

Schoolchildren and university students accused of sabotaging educational facilities will be tried by military courts under a new law issued on Monday. The law also...

Not many presidents could survive three multi-billion dollar government oil corruption scandals and a wave of cold-blooded killings and kidnappings of civilians by Islamist militants...

Amid continuing flare-ups of deadly violence and a tenuous humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the head of the United Nations...

Around 30 adolescents, some of them girls aged as young as 11 have been abducted in northeast Nigeria over the weekend. The kidnapping is suspected...

South Sudan army said on Sunday at least 20 soldiers were killed in clashes with armed herdsmen at Buhairat State on Friday. “A group of...

  Voting opened at 7am (06:00 GMT) on Sunday to elect a five-year legislative assembly and will close at 6pm. More than 4,500 polling booths...

Botswana’s ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) secured 33 of 57 parliament seats in national elections, initial results showed, putting President Ian Khama at the helm...

Combating rising income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa will require a pragmatic, multipronged approach to uncover new sources of revenue while also enabling critical investments in...

A source close to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday the leader of Africa’s most populous country has decided to run for re-election in...

At least 25 suspected Boko Haram insurgents were killed in clashes between soldiers and the militants in northeast Nigeria and five civilians were killed in...

        BY ADEKEYE ADEBAJO THE African Union’s (AU’s) fifth annual retreat of special envoys and mediators will take place this week in Arusha,...

Amid an intensifying campaign of violence committed by insurgent groups in north-eastern Nigeria, the number of refugees fleeing the conflict into the West African country’s...

Egypt is deepening its involvement in the fight against Islamist militias who have taken over key parts of Libya, with officials saying Egyptian warplanes have...

The United Nations envoy in Somalia warned today that despite some political and security gains, the humanitarian situation in the long-troubled country has deteriorated, with...

Renowned Kenyan scholar Ali Alamin Mazrui passed away Monday morning in Binghamton, New York in the United States.   Prof Mazrui passed away at the...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tripoli today where he urged all Libyan parties to press forward on peace talks in order to restore stability to...

Twenty-seven hostages seized by militant group Boko Haram in Cameroon in May and July have been released, including 10 Chinese workers and the wife of...

  By Wole  SOYINKA This intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of...

Amid a vast population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and ongoing ethnic tensions, the challenges in South Sudan continue to remain “enormous,” the head of...