Category : AFRIKA HERALD

A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber detonated himself in the middle of a procession of hundreds of moderate Shiite Muslims, and organizers say he killed...

Teaching at schools in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno on Tuesday resumed, more than one year after a shutdown due to Boko Haram attacks. Before...

A man cycles past a barricade set up by protestors in the Nyakabiga neighborhood in Bujumbura. Photographer: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images When night falls, the...

President Muhammadu Buhari will officially inaugurate a new Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, November 11, 2015. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to...

Killings, rapes, burning of villages and abductions are continuing in South Sudan where the government and rebels are stockpiling weapons in violation of a peace...

The long revolution by Khaled Fahmy Political demonstrators mix with food stalls and people praying in Tahrir Square following Friday prayers. Photo by Martin Roemers/Panos...

Nigerian soldiers patrol in the north of Borno state close to a former camp of Boko Haram on June 5, 2013 near MaiduguriAFP Nigeria’s army...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has landed in India and already he is causing a stir. The controversial leader, indicted for genocide and war crimes by...

Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jets have successfully carried out airstrikes and destroyed the Boko Haram sect’s vehicle workshops, fuel and ammunition within the Sambisa...

Prince Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi of the Giesi ruling house has emerged the 51st Ooni of Ile-Ife, Osun State governor Rauf Aregbesola has said in a...

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...

      The world share your joy , your hope ,your tenacity and courage Ride on , the new prime minister of the modern...

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...

A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a bombing mission against Boko Haram crashed in a windstorm in the country’s northeast, killing the pilot, an...

Seleka fighters are silhouetted as they patrol in the town of Lioto June 7, 2014. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic – French and U.N. troops halted a rebel...