The Defence Headquarters has faulted the allegation by Amnesty International that the military authority was informed of the impending attack…
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The Lagos State Government has warned residents against carrying out jungle justice or meting out instant punishment in form of…
VATICAN, Holy See, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Yesterday, in a statement to journalists, the director of the…
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Media NoteOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCMay 9, 2014The Department of State, Bureau…
ROME, Italy, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The latest IPC food security analysis carried out in South sudan…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister for Africa welcomes agreement but expresses grave concerns over human…
JUBA, South Sudan, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — “Given the enormous, immediate and medium-term humanitarian consequences of the…
NEW YORK, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Secretary-General welcomes the signing in Addis Ababa today, by President…
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Press StatementJohn KerrySecretary of StateWashington, DCMay 9, 2014Today’s agreement to immediately stop…
RABAT, Morocco, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),…
KHARTOUM, Sudan, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Edward Gemayel…
Vote counting in South Africa’s election that returned Nelson Mandela’s ANC to power wrapped up on Saturday, while the army was deployed overnight to quell violence in a Johannesburg township over alleged voter fraud. Completed results showed the African…
The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria was an “unconscionable act” of terror against the education of girls, US First Lady Michelle Obama said Saturday. Speaking in her husband’s place during President Barack Obama’s weekly Saturday morning address…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said Saturday that a planned separatist referendum in eastern Ukraine is “illegal,” during a meeting in Germany. The two European leaders also warned Moscow of “consequences” if…
Several Red Cross members whom rebels said they had detained in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk have been released, an official from the organisation in Kiev told AFP Saturday. “An emergency response team from the local Red Cross and one member…
Extradited British millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani is due in court in South Africa Monday on charges of ordering his Swedish wife’s murder during their 2010 honeymoon in Cape Town. After losing a three-year extradition fight in Britain, Dewani…
U.S. advisers arrives in Nigeria to aid in search for the kidnapped schoolgirls. CNN’s Barbara Starr reports.
The member representing Daura Constituency at the Katsina State House of Assembly on the platform of All Progressive Congress (APC),…
President GOODLUCK Jonathan DECLARING OPEN THE 2014 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ON AFRICA IN ABUJA ON THURSDAY (8/5/14). President Goodluck Jonathan…
First Lady Michelle Obama is to speak out against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic militants when she gives the weekly presidential address instead of her husband, the White House said Friday. White House deputy spokesman…