The two Edo-born female boxers, Edith Ogoke and Oluwatoyin Aladeji, have been commended for their performances at the just-concluded African…
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A Zambian minister on Monday sounded the alarm over the condition of the Kariba Dam as he appealed for hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for urgent repairs. The hydro-electric dam’s wall, which is 128 metres (420 feet) high, must to be repaired…
A court sentenced 529 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death on Monday after just two hearings, in the largest mass death sentencing in Egypt’s modern history. Legal experts said the shock verdict would likely be overturned…
Scores of rioters went on the rampage on Monday outside an abandoned building in Nigeria dubbed the “House of Horror” after decomposing human remains and skeletons were found there. At least 20 people were injured and 12 vehicles damaged when about…
24 March 2014 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns today that despite notable recent economic progress,…
24 March 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it was shocked and saddened by the deaths of…
24 March 2014 – The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region is providing protection to thousands of…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Kay,…
NEW YORK, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — [AS DELIVERED] Your Excellency, Chairperson of the Peace and Security Council,…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (http://ltwp.co.ke) meant to add an…
MAPUTO, Mozambique, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Mozambique’s discovery of the 4th largest gas reserves in the world,…
IBM’s Big Data analytics to help crack the code of the tuberculosis genome and uncover new diagnosis and treatment approaches IBM Corporation logo. (PRNewsFoto/IBM Corporation) DURBAN, South Africa, March 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — On World Tuberculosis…
Gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack on a farming community in central Nigeria in the latest deadly violence to rip through the region, police said on Monday. A further 10 people were injured in the shooting in the village of Gbajimba on Sunday…
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack on a key military barracks in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, in a new video obtained on Monday by AFP that warns of further bloodshed, including against civilians. “We carried out the attacks…
TUNIS, Tunisia, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Despite important economic progress and agricultural successes, Africa remains the world’s…
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is…
KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Mr. Ali…
Syrian rebels seized the Kasab village and border crossing with Turkey Monday, an NGO said, as the regime launched fresh air strikes in a bid to halt the opposition advance. The air raids come a day after a Syrian warplane was shot down by Ankara’…
Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial entered its fourth week on Monday with more testimony on gunshots and a woman’s terrified screams on the night the star Paralympian shot dead his glamorous girlfriend. Anette Stipp, a neighbour and one of the prosecution…
Defence Ministry Report The Director of Defence Information of the Counter Terrorism Campaign, Chris Olukolade has revealed that the…