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Ghana and South Sudan Thursday signed a General Cooperation Agreement that provides for cooperation between the two countries in diverse areas including Trade, Education, Health, Agriculture, Mining and Technical Cooperation.
Conflict in Africa, especially the violence of Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgents, and efforts to stem Ebola will top the agenda as African leaders gather for their annual summit this week.
Turning the tide against Boko Haram will require a “huge” international effort, a top US military commander warned on Tuesday, taking a swipe at Nigeria’s response to the emboldened extremists.
Twelve young men were arrested in Kano for allegedly planning a gay wedding, the Islamic law-enforcement agency, the Hisbah, said on Tuesday.
The Chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, affirmed that the commission would overcome all challenges it was facing before the commencement of the elections on February 14.
President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday set an age barrier for a possible successor if he wins re-election, saying that anyone above 57 years would not receive his support in 2019.
Gunmen stormed a luxury Tripoli hotel popular with diplomats and officials Tuesday in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, killing at least nine people — including five foreigners — before blowing themselves up.
For years, ex-CIA case officer Jeffrey Sterling was the one under indictment but prosecutors' primary focus of pursuit was journalist Jeffrey Risen.
Militants have attacked a hotel popular with foreigners in the Libyan capital Tripoli, officials say.
Niger Delta militants have issued a fresh threat to go to war except President Goodluck Jonathan wins the February 14 presidential election.
Boko haram members Sunday released 192 out of the 218 people abducted at Katarko town, Gujba local government area of Yobe state.
The shipment will be the first potentially preventative medicine to reach one of the hardest hit countries.
Zambia's presidential election has been won by Defence and Justice Minister Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front.
Fighters from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have launched an attack on the key city of Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria, reports say.
The government has secured 100,000 jobs for Kenyans willing to work in the United Arab Emirates, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed has said.
Soldiers from 144 Battalion, Asa, in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State have rescued 14 pregnant teenagers and eight children from a motherless babies’ home at Umunkpeyi Nvosi in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area.
KANO—The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega has said that the penchant by the Nigerian politicians to cut corners at the expense of the acceptable convention posed a major impediment to free and fair election in the country.
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, in Sokoto described those calling him enemy of the North, as liars who have nothing to offer the region.
