EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI, Associated Press MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters took revenge Thursday on villagers in Cameroon, shooting...
(The Independent) – Robert Mugabe has fallen down a flight of stairs on his return to Zimbabwe from Ethiopia, in an incident captured on camera...
(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) – 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) – 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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...