Category : AFRIKA HERALD

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...

Maman Sidikou of Niger appointed as the new Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Head of the UN Mission in...

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...

The Police has stopped the live coverage of the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who is facing a 13-count criminal charge bordering on false...

Attack claimed by IS on Tripoli airport kills 3: Libyan official Tripoli (AFP) – Militants attacked Tripoli’s airport on Friday and killed three security personnel,...

Presidential guard officers in Burkina Faso have announced the dissolution of the transitional government. A new “national democratic council” has taken control, an officer said...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhar Photo: Getty Images  Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian president, has said his government may consider releasing jailed Boko Haram fighters in exchange for...

Families on the run often surviving brutal attacks in Nigeria are now threatened with the lack of food, water and deadly epidemics in neighbouring Cameroon,...

On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the...

Corruption should be punishable by death in Nigeria, labor officials said Wednesday in the capital city of Abuja. Their call falls within a broader effort by Nigerian...

Community volunteers conducting Ebola awareness raising activities in Port Loko, Sierra Leone. Photo: WHO/S. Gborie The United Nations health agency’s special envoy on Ebola response...

Photo: UNODC An independent United Nations human rights expert has condemned the recent executions of 10 people in Chad who were suspected of being members...

According to  statement by the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu said “the documents...