23 May 2014 – The United Nations Security Council has added Boko Haram, the Nigerian militant group that has claimed…
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25 May 2014 – The United Nations humanitarian chief today expressed outrage at a deliberate attack on a humanitarian warehouse…
25 May 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today regretted that the Lebanese Parliament was unable to elect a new president…
23 May 2014 – Health experts and veterinarians called for stepped-up monitoring, investigations and immediate reporting of cases of the…
23 May 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned a deadly mortar attack on an electoral rally in southern Syria…
23 May 2014 – The United Nations human rights chief has voiced her “very serious concerns” about a recent incident…
Follow @{0}Looks like rain: traditional weather forecasts can involve studying termite movementsKISUMU, 23 May 2014 (IRIN) – In the latest…
BAMAKO, Mali, May 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — H.E. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of the Islamic Republic of…
Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Most Rev Felix Femi Ajakaye yesterday had messages from the pulpit for both the Federal…
Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi (right), educating traders at Oja Egbe Odo, Ijesa-Isu, on the voting process…
From left: Governor Kayode Fayemi, his deputy and celebrator Prof Modupe Adelabu, governor’s wife, Bisi and Speaker, Ekiti State House…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said that growing insecurity in Nigeria will not stop the conduct of the 2015 general elections.…
Governors of the 19 northern states have pleaded for the assistance of past leaders in a bid to come up…
A bitterly divided Ukraine voted Sunday in a presidential election seen as the most important in the country’s history as it battles a deadly pro-Russian insurrection in the east. Turnout was brisk in the capital Kiev and the west where long queues…
The leader of Nigeria’s Muslims on Sunday called for followers of the faith to unite against Boko Haram extremists, pledging the government full support to ensure their defeat. But the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, also said the government…
An explosion that killed at least three people in the central Nigerian city of Jos was hidden in a car, police said on Sunday, as an investigation opened into the second deadly blast within a week. “It was a vehicle-borne IED (improvised explosive device…
Beneath the calm waters of Lake Kivu lie vast but deadly reserves of methane and carbon dioxide, which Rwanda is tapping both to save lives and provide a lucrative power source. Plans are in place to pump out enough gas for power that would nearly double…
Belgian police hunted down a gunman Sunday who shot dead three people including two Israelis in an attack on the Brussels Jewish Museum reviving fears of a fresh wave of anti-Semitism in Europe. The first attack against a Jewish target in Belgium for…
At least three people died and three others were injured in a blast Saturday in the central Nigerian city of Jos targeting football fans watching the European Champions League final, police said. “So far we have three dead, three injured,” Chris Olakpe…
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, May 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur peacekeeper was…