Category : AFRIKA HERALD

  The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) condemned the killing today in Mogadishu of parliamentarian Mohamed Mohamud ‘Hayd’ and voiced...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (righ) and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe 26 June 2014 – The United Nations is proud...

Libyan activist shot dead in Benghazi, 3 killed in eastern Libya   Human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis died in hospital after succumbing to gun shots...

By Kola Folorunso  In the wake of euphoria of apologists of power-power on the outcome of the recent governorship election in Ekiti where contrary to...

With women and girls in Central African Republic (CAR) falling prey to a raft of “terrifying” violations ¬perpetrated by armed groups – from rape to...

The former rebel chieftain, who returned to the bush in 2012 and embarked on a low-level insurgency, was anointed presidential candidate for October polls by...

  Information reaching Afrika Herald that EMMAB Plaza was under siege this afternoon 3.45pm; as bomb blast exploded at EMMAB plaza Wuse , Abuja. According...

  By the time Ayman Al-Barasa saw the body of Muammar Gaddafi in the meat warehouse in Misrata he had been fighting almost every day...

A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her faith — and then released — was detained with her family on Tuesday as they...

A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her faith — and then released — was detained with her family on Tuesday as they...

Hundreds of protests have took to the streets in Kenya to march for justice for a school girl who was brutally gang raped, and whose...

Hundreds of protests have took to the streets in Kenya to march for justice for a school girl who was brutally gang raped, and whose...

A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroun has disappeared, according to Cameroun aviation sources on Tuesday. The plane, owned by the U.S....

A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroun has disappeared, according to Cameroun aviation sources on Tuesday. The plane, owned by the U.S....

  While the United Nations and its partners continued over the past year to meet the needs of an ever-increasing number of desperate people –...

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    BY RICHARD PALMER Germany approved the export of over $1 billion worth of arms to Algeria in 2013, making it the largest buyer of German weapons...