18 March 2014 – With about half of the health facilities in strife-torn Central African Republic (CAR) having been looted,…
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18 March 2014 – The United Nations peacekeeping chief today called on the parties in South sudan to respect the…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, March 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A five thousand US dollar ($5,000) donation has been pledged…
PORT-LOUIS, Mauritius, March 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Central bank officials from English-speaking African countries took part in an…
VICTORIA, Mahé, March 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African Union Ministerial Working Group on tourism sector development strategy…
18 March 2014 – Massive international support is crucial as the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon continues to rise…
18 March 2014 – As the Syrian war enters a fourth year, the harrowing violence shows no signs of subsiding…
18 March 2014 – Hundreds of thousands of Syrians forced to flee the bloodshed in their homeland and now living…
18 March 2014 – Against the backdrop of last week’s ‘dangerous escalation’ in Gaza and Israel, the top United Nations…
17 March 2014 – As Jordan struggles with severe water shortage issues – ongoing drought, population growth and now waves…
LAGOS, Nigeria, March 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — There is currently a significant opportunity for Nigerians as a result…
Italy’s supreme court on Tuesday upheld a two-year ban from public office against former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi who had filed an appeal with the country’s top court. The ban was imposed as part of a tax fraud conviction against the media magnate…
I recently sat down with Michael Chasen, former co-founder/CEO of BlackBoard, at SXSW to discuss his brand new app called SocialRadar. As may have guessed by the name of the app, SocialRadar is a social discovery app, but instead of using location…
Gunfire rang out in Crimea’s main city of Simferopol on Tuesday, even as hundreds partied on the central Lenin Square to celebrate an agreement to incorporate their Black Sea peninsula into Russia. Two people were reported killed and two injured in…
Canada’s long-time finance minister announced his resignation Tuesday, after steering the G7 nation through the Great Recession and back to a balanced budget forecast for next year. Jim Flaherty, 64, said he informed Prime Minister Stephen Harper on…
One of the leading publishers in Akwa Ibom And chairman league of newspaper publishers in the state, Mr. Uko Umoh in this interview spoke on a range of issues that bother on the league, politics in Akwa Ibom and other issues of relevance. Excerpts:…
Fast Market Research recommends “Soup in Nigeria” from Euromonitor International, now available Boston, MA — (SBWIRE) — 03/18/2014 — Westernisation and changing consumption patterns are resulting in sales growth of soup in Nigeria. More consumers…
A Nigerian labour union on Monday staged a protest over a deadly weekend stampede at a recruitment drive and demanded the interior minister’s resignation. At least seven job-seekers were killed when a stampede broke out on Saturday at the national stadium…
Video News by NewsLook Chris Brown was kicked out of a rehab facility and spent a few days in jail. And now, it looks like he’ll be staying there for a while.
Fifty-five people were killed and 10 were injured in two separate road crashes in northern Nigeria, the country’s road safety body said Monday. “We have recorded 55 deaths in two road crashes on Sunday and Monday due to speeding and reckless overtaking…