David Waweru was watching a World Cup match in a bar in the Kenyan coastal town of Mpeketoni when fighters from Somalia’s Islamist Shebab militants began...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday economic growth in the continent’s most advanced economywould be the focus of his second term, as he...
Blantyre (Malawi) (AFP) – Malawi’s President Joyce Banda on Saturday declared this week’s chaotic election “null and void” and called for a fresh vote, throwing the...
CNN The Thai military has taken control of the government in a coup, the country’s military chief announced in a national address Thursday. Military officials also...
At least 36 migrants drowned when their boat sank off the Libyan coast earlier this week, officials said, following the recovery of more bodies on Sunday....
United States First lady Michelle Obama has condemned the “unconscionable” kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, saying the action was taken by “a terrorist group determined...
by BBC Three people have reportedly been killed in two explosions in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa. According to one report, a grenade was thrown...
PRETORIA(AFP) – President Jacob Zuma led celebrations Sunday on the 20th anniversary of post-apartheid democracy in South Africa, insisting it is closer to its dream of...
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – About 100 Malaysian Muslim activists protested Friday outside the US embassy against the coming visit by President Barack Obama, denouncing him as...
Mexico City (AFP) – Colombia’s Nobel-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez died Thursday in Mexico City at the age of 87, Mexican and Colombian media reported. Garcia...
The United States of America, USA and Britain, yesterday, condemned the bomb attack on a packed bus station in Abuja and called for a full investigation....
NAN Nigeria on Tuesday assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for April. Mrs Joy Ogwu, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN,...