Category : AFRIKA HERALD

The immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, declared his intention to run for the national chairmanship of the All Progressives Congress (APC)....

 Congolese general and former presidential candidate Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, 71, was sentenced on Friday to 20 years for “undermining internal state security” after authorities accused...

Deliberate cruelty of this treatment shows the wider contempt for human rights and dignity by the Egyptian authorities’ Amnesty International on Monday accused Egypt of...

President Trump suggested the Korean Demilitarized Zone could be a possible option to host the eventual U.S.-Korea talks, calling it an “intriguing” choice for the...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump on Monday, April 30th . His visit comes less than four months since...

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously backed a resolution that lays the groundwork for deploying a UN police presence in Burundi to help quell...

Parties sign Action Plan to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children in national security forces in Khartoum, Sudan. Photo: UN of for...

Libyan presidential council demanded for a transfer of power to the newly appointed UN-backed government of national accord, local media reported on Sunday. “The presidential...

At least 16 people have been killed in a shooting at a hotel popular with Westerners in the Ivory Coast. Four Europeans were reportedly amongst...

Candidates bidding for their party’s nomination in the US presidential election face their biggest test yet in the “Super Tuesday” primary polls. Eleven states cast...

The grounds for the appeals court ruling are still unclear, but the new trial will be held in a criminal court. By Bamzi Banchiri Amr...

Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria, is looking for $3.5-billion (U.S.) in low-interest loans from the World Bank and the African Development Bank as it struggles with...

The Republic of Congo will hold early presidential elections in March, authorities said, after a new constitution removed barriers to President Denis Sassou Nguesso extending...

FOREWORD BY KOFI ANNAN OVERVIEW INTRODUCTION POWER TO THE PEOPLE – AFRICA’S ENERGY IMPERATIVE Disconnected Africa Opportunity Africa – The region’s vast untapped energy potential...

French forces in Mali have killed or captured some 10 Islamist fighters belonging to a group that claimed last month’s attack on a hotel in...

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...