Malala Speaks Up for Abducted Nigerian Girls
When girls are targeted by terrorists, no matter where they are in the world, it hits home for Malala Yousafzai. In 2012, she...
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US Warns of Terrorist Attack on Ugandan Airport
The U.S. embassy in Uganda warned of a possible terrorist attack on Entebbe International Airport in Uganda. The embassy said on its website that, according...
Did Oscar Pistorius Have Time To Think?
Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) — Did Oscar Pistorius have time to think before he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year? That’s the question that state prosecutor...
Confab 2014; Nigeria To Have 54 States And Rotational Presidency
“For nearly a decade, we have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves...
UN envoy ‘appalled’ at murder of Somali parliament membe
The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) condemned the killing today in Mogadishu of parliamentarian Mohamed Mohamud ‘Hayd’ and voiced...
THE LION OF THE WEST -OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA; GOVERNMENT OF CONTINUITY
Editorial review by; JIDE ADESINA Edited by Veronica Olayinka Adesina On a recent tour of the State of Osun, the Afrika Market editor found...
In Equatorial Guinea, Ban pledges closer collaboration with African Union
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
Libyan activist shot dead in Benghazi, 3 killed in eastern Libya Human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis died in hospital after succumbing to gun shots...
Ekiti and Osun are not the same!
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...
Central African Republic: UN official urges strong action to protect women, girls
With women and girls in Central African Republic (CAR) falling prey to a raft of “terrifying” violations ¬perpetrated by armed groups – from rape to...
Mozambique Presidential Candidate Campaigns From Bush Hide-Out
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...
Abuja Under Bomb Again at EMAB plaza wuse II
Information reaching Afrika Herald that EMMAB Plaza was under siege this afternoon 3.45pm; as bomb blast exploded at EMMAB plaza Wuse , Abuja. According...
Tension In Libya As The Country Heads For The Polls In An Attempt To End Anarchy And Conflict
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...
Released Sudanese Christian woman detained at airport
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...
Released Sudanese Christian woman detained at airport
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...
‘Grass cutter’ gang rape: Kenyans protest after rapists told to ‘cut the lawn’ outside police station as punishment for brutal attack
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...
'Grass cutter' gang rape: Kenyans protest after rapists told to 'cut the lawn' outside police station as punishment for brutal attack
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...
Plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon ”missing”
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....
Plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon ''missing''
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....
Top UN humanitarian official urges greater effort to foresee, prevent crises
While the United Nations and its partners continued over the past year to meet the needs of an ever-increasing number of desperate people –...