Nigeria - Boko Haram Frees 14 In Prison Break
Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram freed 14 inmates from a prison in the northeast state of Yobe late on Wednesday and a...
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Mali - Coup Leader Seeks Help As Rebels Take Town Of Kidal
Mali's junta leader appealed on Friday for outside help to secure the West African country after separatist Tuareg rebels took the strat...
Nigeria - Boko Haram Attacks Police Station, Military Base
Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect Wednesday night attacked a police station and a makeshift military base in Damagum communi...
South Sudan - Troops Withdraw From Oil Area After Clashes
South Sudan's troops have pulled out of Sudan's oil-producing Heglig area, both sides said on Wednesday, easing tensions after two d...
Mali - African Neighbours Threaten Force To Reverse Coup
Mali's neighbours threatened on Tuesday to use sanctions and a readiness to use military force to dislodge the army leaders behind last ...
OMOJUWA JAPHETH - TO THE NEXT GENERATION FROM MY DEATH BED
We had some of the best brains the nation had ever dreamt or imagined it would have. Like the generation before ours, it was not about our ...
Egypt - Al Ahly Target African Crown To 'Honour' Port Said Dead
Al Ahly officials are targeting African Champions League glory to honour the 74 fans who died in last month's stadium disaster in Port S...
South Africa - Malema To Challenge ANC Expulsion In Court
South Africa's ANC youth rebel Julius Malema upped the stakes in his political wrangling with the ruling party on Sunday, saying he woul...
Okonjo Iweala - World Bank Must Mirror Global Shift
Emerging economies must be given a fair shot at leading the institutions at the heart of global finance or they will end up going their own ...
Senegal - President Wade Admits Election Defeat
Senegal's long-serving leader Abdoulaye Wade admitted defeat in the presidential election, congratulating his rival Macky Sall, a move s...
Senegal - Nation Votes In Cliffhanger Run-Off Election
Senegal voted in a run-off election on Sunday pitting octogenarian President Abdoulaye Wade, whose bid for a third term has triggered violen...
Mali - UN/African Delegation Tells Junta To Go
A delegation of U.N. and African officials has told the military junta that seized power in Mali on Wednesday night to hand back power, sayi...
Mali - World Bank, African Development Bank Suspend Funds
The World Bank and African Development Bank on Thursday condemned the military coup in Mali and suspended project financing to the West Afri...
Mali - Soldiers Seize Power After Palace Attack
Renegade Malian soldiers went on state television on Thursday to declare they had seized power in protest at the government's failure to...
Guinea Bissau - Gomes Wins Disputed First-Round Vote
Guinea Bissau's former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior scored 49 percent in a presidential election, poll authorities said on Wednesd...
Developing Nations To Name 2 Candidates For World Bank
Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the ...
South Africa Tops Nigeria As SA Movie Leads Nominations For AMAA 2012
Nominees for the 2012 AMAAs were announced at an event held in Gambia on Saturday night. SA Movie, is leading the list with 13 nominations ...
Congo - Kabila Forces Killed At Least 33 During Polls: UN
Security forces loyal to Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila were responsible for abuses and killings which left at least 3...
Malawi - Police Arrest Leading Politician For Fiery Protests
Police in Malawi arrested an opposition leader on Tuesday for the torching of a police station in the capital by anti-government protesters,...
Nasir El Rufai - Failing State, Fading Peacekeepers
Recently, this column analysed Nigeria’s defence spending and raised concerns about the poor levels of equipment of our armed forces. The wr...
Sudan - Court Sentences Six Darfur Rebels To Death
A Sudanese court sentenced to death six members of a major Darfur rebel group on Tuesday, including a top commander, the group's lawyer...
Somalia - Rebel Mortars Kill 5 Near Presidential Palace
At least five people were killed when a salvo of mortars targeting Somalia's presidential palace missed and landed on a nearby refugee c...
Congolese Born Fabrice Muamba Still Critically ill
Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba remained in a critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest during the FA Cup quarter-final...
Somalia - US Fighter Threatened By Fellow Militants
An influential American fighter for Somalia's al Shabaab rebels, who has in the past urged Western-backed Muslims to join the group, has...
Nigeria Tops Oil Expat Pay Table
A typical oil and gas executive in Nigeria earns nearly half a million dollars a year, chalking up the biggest premium for working abroad ov...
Eritrea - Ethiopia Again Attacks Rebel Targets
Ethiopian troops carried out more attacks on rebels inside Eritrea on Saturday, a government source said, a day after its neighbour called f...
Morocco - Police Violently Break Protest In Capital
Moroccan police on Wednesday beat up protesters who were seeking to stage a demonstration in the capital Rabat in solidarity to anti-governm...
Zambia - Government Deregisters Leading Opposition Party
Zambia was thrown into political uncertainty on Wednesday that risks stoking social tension after the government deregistered the leading op...
Nigeria - Helicopter Crash Kills Deputy Police Chief
A police helicopter crashed in central Nigeria on Wednesday, killing the country's deputy police chief and three other police officers, ...
Nigeria - Security Forces Parades Suspected Killers of Briton, Italian
Barely a week after the killing of a Briton, Chris McManus and an Italian, Franco Lamorina by a suspected splinter group of Boko Haram, the ...
South Africa Plans To Cut Iran Oil Imports
South Africa hopes to have a plan by the end of May for replacing Iranian crude that currently makes up a quarter of its crude imports, the ...
Ivory Coast - President Ouattara names PM from allied party
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara kept a promise to a key ally on Tuesday by naming his new prime minister, Jeannot Kouadio Ahoussou, ...
OPEC - World Oil Demand To Grow by 900,000bpd
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has predicted that the world oil demand will grow by 900,000 barrels a day. OPE...
NIgeria - Naira Drops As Fuel Importation Resumes
The naira slumped at both the interbank and Wholesale Dutch Auction System (WDAS) segments of the forex market yesterday as oil marketers co...
Kenya - Police Arrests 4 Over Weekend Grenade Blasts
Kenyan police have arrested four people over a grenade attack at a Nairobi bus station blamed on Somali Islamist militants, a senior police...
Mali - Tuareg Rebels Take Charge Garrison Town
Tuareg rebels seeking to carve out a desert homeland in Mali's north have taken control of the key garrison town of Tessalit after a wee...
Kofi Annan Ends Syria Visit With No Clear Progress
U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has ended talks with President Bashar al-Assad and left Syria with little sign of progress on halting the ...
Nigeria - Bomb Blast Hits Church In Jos, 10 Dead
A suspected suicide attack hit a Catholic church in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, killing ten people, the National Emergency M...
Kenya - Bomb Blast In Nairobi Bus Station
A grenade attack at a bus station in central Nairobi killed five people and wounded 69, the Kenya Red Cross said on Sunday. There was no imm...
Joachim MacEbong - Messi’s Place In History
Throughout his career, Lionel Messi has made us reach for the history books more than once. In the 2nd leg of the game with Bayer Leverkusen...
Libya - Thousands Rally Against Autonomy For East
Thousands of people protested in Libya's two biggest cities on Friday in a show of opposition to moves from some in the oil-producing ea...
Nigeria - Police, Islamists Wage Gun Battle In Kano
A gun battle broke out on Friday between suspected Islamist militants and police in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano, after the m...
Nigeria - Security Forces Detain Five Suspects Over Deadly Kidnapping
Nigerian authorities have detained five Islamist militants suspected of involvement in kidnapping two Westerners killed during a failed Brit...
Sijuwade Salami - South Africa versus Nigeria: The Curious Case of a Kettle and a Pot.
A few months ago, Akanmu visited his motherland, Nigeria. His first port of call was the Immunisation Centre in Marina, Lagos. With his loc...
Nigeria - MoHits Star D'Banj and Award Winning Producer Don Jazzy Split
Nigeria’s most celebrated entertainer Don Jazzy, chief executive of Mo’Hit records and his partner D’Banj, the number one musician on the ...
Nigeria - Boko Haram Kill British And Italian Hostage
A Briton and an Italian held hostage in Nigeria were killed by their captors before they could be freed by a rescue mission, British Prime ...
Ghana - A Model For African Democracy, Says Obama
President Barack Obama praised the African state of Ghana on Thursday as a model of democracy and growth in a continent that many Americans...
Nigeria - Boko Haram Attacks Kill 7 In Northern Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked a police station and two banks in a remote part of northern Nigeria on Thursday, shooting dead four...
South Africa tells Nigeria sorry over yellow fever row
South Africa apologised to Nigeria on Thursday for deporting 125 Nigerians accused of trying to enter the country with fake vaccination cert...
Ivory Coast - Prime Minister Soro, Government To Resign Thursday
Ivory Coast's prime minister will resign on Thursday to make way for the formation of a broader coalition government, an official told ...
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