Category : AFRIKA HERALD

In a state of cautious optimism, the Egyptian authorities dealing with the Nile waters file have begun to prepare for the return of technical negotiations...

Boko Haram on Tuesday attempted to blow up a bridge on the Nigerian border with Cameroon after overrunning a town and sending residents and soldiers...

Two minibuses crashed into an irrigation canal in southern Egypt Tuesday, killing 19 and injuring 15, according to sources at the AFP. A security official said the...

Mozambique rebel movement Renamo’s agreement to a ceasefire is seen as aimed at keeping its political aspirations alive ahead of national and presidential elections on...

Mozambique rebel movement Renamo’s agreement to a ceasefire is seen as aimed at keeping its political aspirations alive ahead of national and presidential elections on...

  NIGERIAN military authorities have disagreed with the Cameroon authorities over the report that Nigerian soldiers fled into Cameroon, following fierce fighting with Boko Haram...

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates were responsible for carrying out two series of air strikes in the past week on armed Islamist factions in...

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates were responsible for carrying out two series of air strikes in the past week on armed Islamist factions in...

TRIPOLI, Libya — “The fire is inside the airport!” a militiaman cried, as he fired an antiaircraft cannon on the back of a pickup truck...

A Fuchs armoured vehicle Photo: Rheinmetall/DPA Germany approves Algeria arms factory deal Germany’s Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has given the go-ahead for defence technology company Rheinmetall to...

Renewables investments set to rise slowly on continent as countries explore potential for wind, solar and geothermal NASA satellite photos show how undeveloped Africa’s electrical...

Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant group kidnapped 100 people earlier this month but most were freed by security forces from neighboring Chad, a Nigerian security official...

  Thousands of striking doctors in Nigeria have been dismissed as the country tries to combat Ebola. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has fired thousands of...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Friday that Japan will provide $1.5 million in emergency grant aid via three international organizations to West African nations...

                        The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has decided to take badly needed humanitarian aid to...

                    East African states worried by a surge in heroin smuggling via their Indian Ocean ports...

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today sought to allay fears amid reports that airlines are suspending flights over the Ebola outbreak by sending...

  A senior United Nations official today condemned the murder of six members of the same family in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo...

The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) today expressed deep concern over security raids, recently conducted by the Sudanese Government, in several camps for...