Scientists on Tuesday said they could fill a blank in the history of Central Africa’s pygmies, whose past is one of the most elusive of any community in the world. At a key period in the human odyssey, these hunter-gatherer tribes shunned interbreeding…
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Nigeria’s military on Tuesday said that a call by the country’s top military officer for a swift end to the Boko Haram insurgency had been “taken too literally”. Air Marshal Alex Badeh was appointed chief of defence staff last month and on January 20…
Gunmen killed about 30 people in an early morning raid on two villages in central Nigeria, witnesses said on Tuesday, in the latest violence to hit the region. The police in Plateau state, which has been hit by repeated communal violence, confirmed…
Eight people were killed and 26 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a hotel in a Shiite…
Nigeria’s Muslims have voiced concern about an apparent increase in religious “profiling” after hundreds of terror-related arrests in the country’s Christian-majority south. Last month some 300 traders from the Muslim majority north of the country were…
Africans played leading roles in some of the most surprising results around Europe over the weekend, with Algeria’s Sofiane Feghouli in particular to the fore. Feghouli starred in Valencia’s stunning win away to Barcelona in La Liga, while Peter Odemwingie…
Nigeria’s ruling party, weakened by mass defections and riven by months of in-fighting, was dealt a fresh blow on Sunday, when one of its most senior figures said he had joined the main opposition. Atiku Abubakar, the country’s vice-president under…
A Muslim cleric who had previously criticised Boko Haram has been shot dead with his wife and child in northern Nigeria, locals and his family said on Sunday. Unknown gunmen opened fire on Adam Albani’s car at about 10:30 pm (2130 GMT) on Saturday in…
General Electric has signed a deal with a Nigerian bank to invest $350 million in Nigeria’s ailing power sector, the country’s trade and investment minister said on Friday. Olusegun Aganga said the deal between the US conglomerate and Stanbic Bank would…
Eight people were killed in religious violence in Nigeria on Friday, including a Christian family of seven, while a roadside bomb killed seven others in an area known for Boko Haram activity. The two incidents follow deadly violence last weekend, which…