Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked villagers in the village of Godogodo, Nigeria on October 15 with guns and machetes, burning down homes, killing more than 40 people and injuring dozens more. It was...
ISIS has "executed" 232 people near Mosul and taken tens of thousands of people to use as human shields against advancing Iraqi forces, the UN says. A spokeswoman for the UN's human rights arm told...
An official said the killings were to avenge the death of one of ISIL's commanders Fighters have killed at least 30 civilians, including children, after abducting them in the remote Afghan province...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) John Kudalor has reiterated his call for social media ban on election day if users post information that will threaten the peace of the country. According to...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Some 83 Nigerian soldiers are missing in action since Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked a remote military base in the northeast, senior army officers said Sunday. The...
The Togolese footballer Emmanuel Adebayor converted to a Muslim is no longer news as the Aston Villa bound striker had also confirmed it. The 32-year-old has finally addressed the issue by giving...
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group said Sunday they had retaken control of a town in central Somalia after hundreds of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union's...
Parliament in Iraq has voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol, with backers of the move arguing that its availability contradicts Islam and is unconstitutional. Opponents argue that...
The Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho has described the Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as a...
Despite Kenya making major strides in the war against terror, al Shabaab still remains the biggest threat to the nation, Chief of Defense Force General Samson Mwathathe has said. Mwathethe on Friday...
No one has claimed the attack that has left at least 30 people dead in Baghdad At least 30 people have died in a suicide attack targeting Shia in Iraq's capital Baghdad, officials say. More than 60...
Two of the dismissed recruits of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have revealed on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that, they have received offers from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Boko Haram...
Security Analyst, Irbard Ibrahim, has described the discourse around the dismissal of some 501 military recruits in December 2015 as worrying. The peace ambassador and governance expert in an...
Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN's cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism's connections to the religion's holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision...
The presence of Vice Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in Mecca last year is believed to have caused the stampede resulting in dozens of deaths...
The death in a prison cell of a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany is a judicial scandal, his lawyer has said. Jaber al-Bakr, 22, hanged himself in a jail in Leipzig with...
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 Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has said that the dismissed military recruits who have threatened to join ISIS are free to do so. GAF dismissed some 501 military recruits in December 2015 for staging an...
A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has killed himself in his prison cell in Leipzig, Germany, officials say. Saxony's state justice ministry said Jaber al-Bakr...
The 501 army recruits who were dismissed by the Ghana Armed Forces in 2015 are free to decide wherever they want to go, but the military will not reinstate them, Public Affairs Director of the GAF,...
