I will not destroy my U. S. residency permit just yet – Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Wednesday, stated that he will not destroy his United States’ residency permit just yet;...
International media started paying attention to Boko Haram in April 2014 when the group abducted over 250 school girls in Chibok in northern Nigeria. In Boko Haram, an upcoming Al Jazeera...
The fifth African Union High Level Dialogue on Human Rights is slated for November 23 to November 26 at Arusah, United Republic of Tanzania to take stock and reflect on our achievements in the search...
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Office of West Africa (UNOWA), Dr Ibn Chambas says though progress has been made in flushing out militant group,...
Ghana’s illustrious son and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, says the UN in...
"...until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens...
Until last week, no country had withdrawn from the International Criminal Court. Now, three African states — South Africa, Burundi and Gambia — have made official decisions to leave. Gambia...
Kenya will shrug off the slump in growth on the continent to be among the best performing economies in Sub Saharan Africa. The continent is set to slow to its lowest level in more than 20 years. The...
The drop in oil prices has left President Deby no choice but to cut spending Chad's President Idriss Deby has announced that former prime ministers will be stripped of the state privileges they have...
After her husband was killed by a Boko Haram suicide bomber late last year, Hajjagana Mbasaru was forced to pull her children from school and rely on friends to feed them. Like other widows of...
1.3 million Kenyans in 23 counties are in need of food aid - Report Despite the progress Kenya has made in reducing hunger, it is among 50 countries where levels of hunger remain serious or alarming,...
Ghanaian quintet have lost their coach at TP Mazembe There was no Ghanaian player in CAF's preliminary list for the 2016 African Player Based in Africa award. CAF Champions League finalists Mamelodi...
Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Mali and Somalia have been ranked at the top of an index of countries listing the hardest place to be a girl. The report, called Every Last Girl, ranks...
One girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds, according to a new report by Save the Children. The study says girls as young as 10 are forced to marry much older men in countries...
Kenya's surprise decision to nominate the Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed for the job of African Union (AU) Commission chairperson will test the lobbying skills of the country's diplomats and its...
Rigobert Song is reportedly out of a coma, breathing by himself and has been flown to France after suffering a cerebral aneurysm on Sunday. Two photographs emerged of Song on Twitter on Tuesday,...
Amnesty International has accused the world's wealthiest nations of shirking responsibility towards refugees, saying they host the fewest and do the least. Ten countries which account for just 2.5%...
The former Indomitable Lions skipper and head coach of the Chad senior national team is in a critical condition after suffering a cerebral aneurysm. According to reports, the 40-year-old was at his...
Former Cameroon international Rigobert Song is in hospital after reportedly suffering a stroke. A member of Song’s family told the BBC the 40-year-old was “unconscious” when he was taken to a...
Maroua (Cameroon) (AFP) - With his finger on the trigger, ready to fire his weapon in an instant, a policeman keeps an eye on people passing in the centre of Maroua, capital of Cameroon's Far North...
