(BBC) – With presidential polls on 14 February, it is clear that some of the potential voters residing in the troubled north-east of Nigeria will not...
(BBC) – When Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok in April 2014, the world woke up...
(BBC) – The producers of a popular television soap in Angola have apologised after an episode which showed a gay couple kissing caused outrage among viewers....
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press EMILY SWANSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s lead negotiator with Cuba is vowing to maintain U.S. support for democracy...
(BBC) – Chad’s army says it has killed more than 200 militant Islamists and lost nine men during a battle to recapture a key town in...
(Reuters) – A bomb blast that went off just minutes after Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan left an election campaign rally was the work of a...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — South Sudan’s warring factions early Monday signed another peace deal in the latest effort to end hostilities...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Jan. 27 (GIN)—It’s election time in nearly a dozen African countries, and the wish of some leaders...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fraught relations between the United States and Venezuela turned openly hostile on Monday as the U.S. slapped new visa...
Patrick McGroarty, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOHANNESBURG (The Wall Street Journal)—Companies and government officials are illegally moving as much as $60 billion out of Africa...
Michelle Nichols and Aaron Ross, REUTERS KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters)—United Nations support for a planned military operation against Rwandan rebels in eastern Democratic Republic...
Elias Meseret, ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast...
Edmund Blair, REUTERS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters)—Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, one of Africa’s most divisive figures, ascended to the rotating chairmanship of the African...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press LEKAN OYEKANMI, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Chad sent a warplane dropping bombs and ground troops to drive Islamic extremists from...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government Friday granted parole to Eugene de Kock, the head of an apartheid state covert unit...
(Bloomberg) — Israel pressed ahead with plans to build 450 homes in West Bank settlements weeks before its parliamentary election, in a move likely to...
(BBC) – AU commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said the threat posed by the Islamist group required a “collective, effective and decisive response”. Boko Haram has...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press JALINGO, Nigeria (AP) — Youths angry at the Nigerian government’s failure to fight Islamic extremists threw stones Thursday at President Goodluck Jonathan’s...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The threat posed by Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels, will be a focus of U.N. Secretary-General...
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved his unwieldy coalition and called new elections last month, he appeared almost certain...
JAVIER CORDOBA, Associated Press MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro demanded on Wednesday that the United States return...
(BBC) – More releases will occur in the coming weeks, said the agency, which helped negotiate the children’s freedom. The soldiers were recruited into an armed...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists are rampaging through villages in northeastern Nigeria, killing, burning and looting with...
MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press BETIN, West Bank (AP) — The fate of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl, tried before an Israeli military court for hurling rocks at...
(Bloomberg) — Nigeria’s military failed to protect civilians despite being warned of impending Islamist attacks on two northeastern towns where hundreds died this month, Amnesty...
