A year after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building left more than 1,100 dead, Washington says it remains concerned about worker safety and rights in Bangladesh. In a briefing for journalists, a group of senior US officials said progress…
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Nigerian soldiers and vigilantes are hunting “around the clock” for the Islamist fighters holding scores of schoolgirls hostage, an official said Monday, as locals claimed the number kidnapped was far higher than first reported. The mass abduction blamed…
Officials say that seven more school girls have escaped from Islamic militants after a mass kidnapping. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/ To license this and other CNN/HLN content, visit http://imagesource.cnn.com or e-mail cnn.imagesource@turner…
Just add water and stir. A US company says its new powdered alcohol product has been approved by US regulators and is poised to hit stores in the coming months. Palcohol is made by an Arizona company called Lipsmark and will come in six varieties of…
21 April 2014 – Opposition forces in South sudan killed “hundreds of South Sudanese and foreign civilians” after determining their…
21 April 2014 – The top United Nations envoy in Somalia today condemned the murder of parliamentarian Isaak Mohamed Rino…
18 April 2014 – The Security Council on Friday voiced its outrage at the recent attacks by armed groups in…
Saudi Arabia dismissed its health minister on Monday just days after he visited a hospital at the centre of growing concerns about the kingdom’s handling of the MERS virus. Abdullah al-Rabiah was named adviser to King Abdullah and replaced by Labour…
Rebel gunmen in South Sudan massacred “hundreds” of civilians in ethnic killings when they captured the oil town of Bentiu last week, the UN said Monday, one of the worst reported atrocities in the war-torn nation. In the main mosque alone, “more than…
China’s car market is just gearing up as the world’s largest, yet automakers are already eyeing the next big thing — the market for reselling them. Their eagerness to attract buyers in the world’s largest car market is on full display at the Beijing…
Some Socio-political groups in the South on Sunday lampooned the Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State over his recent letter…
It has been almost six months since renowned Professor of Nuclear Physics, James Olomo, suddenly disappeared while on a project…
The Kwara State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has appealed to the federal government to close down…
Worried by the rising wave of insecurity occasioned by rounds of terrorists attacks in Nigeria, Pope Francis yesterday specially devoted…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 21, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns in the strongest…
A coalition of over 13 United States-based organisations under the aegis of Working Group on Nigeria, has written to President…
A Lagos-based group, Visioners for New Lagos, VNL, on Sunday, vowed to kick against any attempt to impose a former…
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has warned that people of the state would resist any attempt to rig the…
Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako has insisted that the Presidency is confused, saying the strategy being adopted by government to…
All appears not to be well within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as governors have reportedly given three conditions…