South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar says he could return to the turbulent country as early as next month, even if he has to enter the way he fled — on foot. He has begun speaking out again after a...
The left is undertaking an amazing back door plan to dramatically increase its influence over the Fed’s interest-rate-setting Open Market Committee. The key activist group, a division of the Center...
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers wounded and an unknown number missing, the army said Wednesday. Monday's attack comes...
Several Nigerian soldiers are missing following an attack by suspected militant Islamists on their positions near the border with Niger, the army has said in a statement. It did not give a number,...
This used to be South Sudan's second largest city, a bustling center on the White Nile River of more than 120,000 people, many employed in the oil fields nearby. Today Malakal is rubble and almost...
Kurdish forces are rolling in from the east The EU should be prepared for returning jihadists if the so-called Islamic State (IS) is driven out of its Iraqi stronghold, Mosul, an official warns....
Europol, the EU's police intelligence unit, estimates that around 10,000 unaccompanied children have gone missing in Europe over the past two years. The BBC World Service Inquiry programme asks why...
Fourteen members of the same family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government pursued its Russian-backed campaign...
Iraqi pro-government forces have made gains at the start of a large-scale operation to retake Mosul, the last major stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the country. Iraqi government...
Barring justice in heaven, judiciary use to be one place in Nigeria where people get relative reprieve. Our lawyers and judges were so well trained locally, most African countries gained from their...
Security situation in Sinai has deteriorated since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in 2011 The Egyptian military has launched airstrikes on "terrorist positions" in the Sinai peninsula "to avenge the...
I hope I got my Latin correct. The title for this essay comes from the Latin book I used while a student at Mfantsipim long time ago called LATIN FOR TODAY. Latin happened to be one of my weakest...
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has acquitted the military officer who was under investigation after his Kalyppo selfie circulated widely on social media recently. Private Osei Owusu of the Ghana...
At least 11 people have died in clashes in northern Nigeria as Shia Muslims mark an important religious event. Ashura day gatherings, which commemorate the killing of the grandson of the Prophet...
The military officer in one of the widely circulated Kalyppo selfies on social media is under investigation by the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) for possible breach of regulations, Army PRO has said....
I am glad that we are making such a happy event out of the launch of our Manifesto. It is a fact of our lives that not many people, or political parties for that matter, in our country appreciate the...
The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has officially welcomed Awal Mohammed, who until recently was a leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDCs)...
The flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday presented his vision to restore hope, dignity and prosperity to the people of Ghana, saying it was a solemn...
President John Mahama is not feeling the suffering of most Ghanaians because he is cocooned in the trappings of being in power, flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana...
The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew – the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade – has soared to more than 300, officials say. Some 50 people were reported killed in the...
