Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi gives his opening remarks at the Transform Africa Summit on Monday. Transform Africa 2015 Summit ends today in Kigali. Under the...
While the situation of justice in Guinea-Bissau is ‘sad’ and ‘terrible,’ the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyer today noted...
Since he was sworn in on May 29, Mr Buhari has been running Nigeria with permanent secretaries (senior civil servants), laying himself open to charges...
At least 39 people have died after multiple explosions in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri. Three female suicide bombers, thought to be aged between 11...
By NORIMITSU ONISHI Private jets that used to crowd the airport here have been grounded, their wings clipped by the new government’s crackdown on corruption....
Chad police arrested 62 women for wearing full veils in public as the country steps up security against extremism following a multiple suicide bombing attack,...
The Sudanese President Omer Hassan al-Bashir said that the escalation of terrorist activities in all of Libya, Syria and Iraq has become a danger to...
EDITORIAL BY ‘JIDE ADESINA This editorial presents strategies for effective governance in Africa with emphasis on Nigeria @ 55.The question of good and effective governance has...
At the recently-held Kogi State APC gubernatorial primaries, a man who is described by many Kogites as a great grassroots mobiliser and who also happens...
Teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks at a press conference during the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2015 in New York. She urged leaders...
An overview of Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: UN-Habitat/Julius Mwelu Speaking at a presidential dialogue on the African Urban Agenda at United Nations Headquarters in...
The European Union hailed the return to power Wednesday of Burkina Faso’s interim president Michel Kafando after a week-long coup by renegade troops. “President Kafando’s...
In Afghan villages, committees of grandmothers have been teaching younger women about health during pregnancy and advising them to visit clinics, leading to a fall...
A protestor holds a Burkina Faso national flag during a protest against a recent coup in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Sept. 21, 2015.. James Butty The...
In its preamble, the pending Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the successor to the Millennium Development Goals—states that it represents humanity’s crystallizing of its “plan of...
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