Category : AFRIKA HERALD

Special Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay (right), speaks with the Speaker of the Somali Federal Parliament, Mohamed Osman Jawari, in Baidoa. UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed The...

A group of women and children in Kalma camp for internally displaced people, South Darfur. Photo: UNAMID/Albert González Farran Concerned about escalating tensions, the African...

   Minister for Foreign Affairs, George Vella, participated in a high-level Conference entitled “Invest Tunisia – Start-up Democracy” held in Tunis on Monday. Participants in...

Two elderly Italian nuns were murdered in their convent in the capital of Burundi, with police hunting their suspected killer, government officials said Monday. The...

Two elderly Italian nuns were murdered in their convent in the capital of Burundi, with police hunting their suspected killer, government officials said Monday. The...

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said that the immediate and major step now required to ensure lasting peace is the parliamentary ratification of the ceasefire agreement...

Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan leaves Abuja for Ndjamena, Chad on Monday for talks with his Chadian counterpart, President Idriss Deby in continuation of the...

                      SOLDIERS RAID KAWURI * Kills 50 Boko Haram insurgents * Multiple captured * Seizes...

  Victims and Heroes who died at World Trade Centre   Victims and Heroes who died at World Trade Center Ramzi A. Doany John J....

The UN Security Council on Saturday welcomed the release of two Algerian diplomats abducted in northern Mali more than two years ago. In a statement...

Thousands of residents in Nigeria’s northeast have fled their homes after troops failed to retake a major town seized by Boko Haram militants. Thousands of...

The American University of Nigeria (AUN) has announced the formation of the American University of Nigeria Foundation and the launch of the #EducateOurGirls campaign to...

In a major setback for al-Qaeda’s affiliate in East Africa, the Obama administration said Friday it had confirmed the death of a key Somali militant...

                        Boko Haram’s self-declared caliphate in Nigeria is unlikely to last, writes Haytham Nouri In...

Nigerian women forced to flee their homeland work together to build a shelter at the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon. Photo: UNHCR/J.M. Awono Recent attacks...

A young rape survivor at a safe house in Monrovia, Liberia. UN Photo/Staton Winter Violence against children is universal – so prevalent and deeply ingrained...