GENEVA, Switzerland, May 9, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Church leaders from South sudan are arriving in Ethiopia’s capital Addis…
Browsing: News
Latest breaking news, top articles, media highlights and press releases.
The owner of a Miami restaurant chain has paid nearly $10 million for a luxurious beach-front home in the US city once owned by famous Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar. Christian Berdouare, owner of the Chicken Kitchen restaurants and one of…
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants attacked Yemen’s presidential palace Friday, killing five guards and triggering a fierce gunfight as the jihadists hit back at an army offensive aimed at crushing them. President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi was not at the palace…
The Dow closed at a fresh record high as US stocks rallied Friday, with investors shrugging off mixed earnings reports and uncertainty over the Russia-Ukraine crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 32.37 points (0.20 percent) to 16,583.34…
Nigeria’s military was warned of an attack on a school in which more than 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram Islamists but failed to act for nearly five hours, Amnesty International said Friday. The allegation, which the military has denied, came…
US and British experts have arrived in Nigeria to help in the hunt for more than 200 schoolgirls whose abduction last month by Islamists prompted universal outrage. The US embassy in Abuja told AFP Friday that a team of American experts had arrived…
Elizabeth Smart, a former child abductee turned activist, talks to the Wall Street Journal’s Lee Hawkins about more than 200 girls who are missing in Nigeria and reveals what she would tell them if she could speak with them now. Lee Hawkins reports.…
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has tasked Nigerians on the need to unite in the fight against insurgency in the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the National Assembly to urgently initiate a probe into how the budgetary allocations…
The Enugu State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for keeping opposition…
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has alleged that opposition parties contesting in the June 21 governorship poll were determined…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, said on Thursday that it has the capacity to rescue the girls abducted from Government Secondary…
Almost a month after over 250 girls were kidnapped, Nigeria’s military and police chiefs, Thursday, visited the school where the…
An Onitsha-based Islamic cleric, Hanafi Anasalatu, on Thursday, stated that forced marriage was not recognized in Islam or the teachings…
A group, BAOBAB for women’s right on Thursday called on the First lady, Dame Patience Jonathan to as a matter…
8 May 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his deep concern at the fate of the recently kidnapped schoolgirls…
7 May 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s top envoy on children and armed conflict expressed deep concern about…
7 May 2014 – The United Nations independent expert tasked by the Human Rights Council to look into conditions of…
7 May 2014 – Having just met with displaced, war-weary South Sudanese sheltering in United Nations compounds, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon…
6 May 2014 – Waves of South Sudanese women and children are fleeing across the Ethiopian border, with more than…