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Three Lebanese nationals suspected of being Hezbollah members were cleared of terrorism charges in Nigeria on Friday but one of the accused was convicted of a weapons offence and jailed for life. Mustapha Fawaz, Abdallah Thahini and Talal Ahmad Roda…

A militia accused of mass rape and murder in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is ready to lay down its weapons, the head of the UN mission said Friday, urging the army to restore order in the vicinity. A self-defence militia led by “General” Sheka…

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 29, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Working Group* of Experts on People of African…

TUNIS, Tunisia, November 29, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Africa has made significant progress in fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In…

A “gang” of around 60 people attacked the headquarters of a coalition of political parties opposed to Tunisia’s ruling Islamists in Tunis overnight on Thursday-Friday, the opposition group announced. “A paid gang tried to attack the headquarters of…

South Africa has been hailed as a model for HIV treatment, but some now fear its very success may be breeding complacency and making people less careful about infection. South Africa’s free drugs programme for AIDS has expanded rapidly to 2.4 million…

The Nigerian Government has directed the Vice Chancellors of federal universities under siege by the current strike action of the…

Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has called for increased synergy between the Nigerian and Brazilian business community to engender…

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has ordered immediate release of Pa Nelson Tempurah, father of the State Commissioner for…

250 youths from Bayelsa State are to undergo vocational training in automobile technology, cinematography, photography, fashion designing and ICT at…

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma personally benefitted from the controversial security renovations at his private home and must repay the state, according to a damning watchdog report leaked in a local newspaper on Friday. The government has spent…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is feeling much better today after becoming ill in London on Thursday. He was in Britain for an investors conference. VOA’s Heather Murdock joins VOA’s Vincent Makori via Skype from Lagos to discuss his health and…

KHARTOUM, Sudan, November 29, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Ali Al-Za’tari,…

YAOUNDE, Cameroon, November 29, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Combating terrorism and illicit trafficking were the focus of an international…

Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has inaugurated the principal officers of the 7th session of the Abia State Council of…

Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, was among the governors of the South-East/South-South who unanimously agreed to organise a summit…

A new and more aggressive strain of HIV discovered in West Africa causes significantly faster progression to AIDS, researchers at Sweden’s Lund University said Thursday. The new strain of the virus that causes AIDS, called A3/02, is a fusion of the…

South Africans flocked to cinemas on Thursday to watch the first screenings of the hotly-anticipated Nelson Mandela biopic in a country still battling to exorcise its dark past. Viewers of the two-and-a-half hour “Long Walk to Freedom” tracing Mandela…

Restrictions on protests and hefty jail terms for girl demonstrators are reviving Egypt’s autocratic past, say activists and erstwhile supporters of the government that replaced Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after he was overthrown. The military,…

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (Bernama) — Malaysia and Nigeria today agreed to set up a committee in a bid to…