Parliamentary elections canceled in the Democratic Republic of Congo
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AA) – The Central African Republic will hold a fresh parliamentary election after the Constitutional Court...
View ArticleNigeria: former leader blasts parliament ‘corruption’
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo has criticized the country’s parliament for not opening its N115bn ($583.8m) budget...
View ArticleSecretary-General Stresses Development, Good Governance Can Prevent...
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the African Union Peace and Security...
View ArticleNigerian ex-defence chief held in corruption probe
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s former chief of defense has been detained as part of a corruption probe. Security sources...
View Article58 die in Nigeria suicide bomb attacks
Maiduguri, Nigeria, Feb 10, 2016 (AFP) – Two female suicide bombers killed at least 58 at a camp for people...
View ArticleNiger okays controversial ‘voters without ID’ plan on poll eve
Niamey, Feb 20, 2016 (AFP) – Niger’s top court approved a controversial plan to allow voters to cast their ballots...
View ArticleCherie Blair Foundation for Women Partners with ExxonMobil Foundation to...
LAGOS, Nigeria, March 8, 2016 — Today, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (http://www.CherieBlairFoundation.org) celebrated an innovative new initiative to...
View ArticleNigeria’s Jonathan vows to return abducted schoolgirls
LAGOS (AA) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan vowed on Saturday to bring back home girls kidnapped in April of 2014...
View ArticleNigeria’s Buhari: Fourth time’s the charm
LAGOS – (AA) After losing three presidential races, Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler, has finally clinched Nigeria’s top post. The...
View ArticleAl-Shabaab attack targets UAE convoy in Somalia, kills 7
MOGADISHU, Somalia – (AA) Seven people were killed and 10 others injured in a suicide attack that targeted a United Arab...
View ArticleArchbishop Desmond Tutu admitted to hospital for infection
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – (AA) Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was admitted to a Cape Town hospital Tuesday evening for treatment of...
View ArticleStringent hygiene protocols keep classrooms in West Africa free of Ebola,...
NEW YORK, – PRN Africa — United Nations-supported measures put in place to protect them from the Ebola virus have...
View ArticleFour bodies found in Burundi’s Bujumbura
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AA) – Four bodies were found Monday morning in the northern part of Burundian capital Bujumbura, according to...
View ArticleSuccessful climate change adaptation calls for all-inclusive and...
Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania – 23 September 2015. Climate smart agriculture (CSA) is one of the ways to support smallholder farmers...
View ArticleFive suicide blasts rock Nigeria’s northeast
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Five female bombers simultaneously attacked a security post manned by a government-backed vigilante group in northeastern Nigeria...
View ArticleNigeria says Boko Haram planning fresh mass abduction
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria has said it has intelligence that Boko Haram plans to carry out mass abduction of...
View ArticleEritrean president visits Saudi Arabia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki traveled to Saudi Arabia on Sunday for a two-day visit, in...
View ArticleFemale genital mutilation season begins in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Schools in Kenya have closed paving the way for the December holiday season with many people celebrating...
View ArticleNigeria: New minerals minister plans roadmap for industry
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s minister for solid minerals development late on Monday announced a roadmap to reposition the mining industry...
View ArticleKenya: Two killed, hundreds displaced by ethnic clashes
Nairobi (AA) – Two people have been killed in ethnic clashes between Maasai and Kipsigis communities in southwestern Kenya’s Narok...
View ArticleAfrican Union threatens Burundi with sanctions
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – The African Union (AU) on Thursday threatened Burundi’s rival factions with sanctions if they derail peace...
View ArticleSufi cleric in Nigeria sentenced to death for blasphemy
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – A Sharia court in Nigeria has sentenced to death a Nigerian Sufi cleric in northwestern Kano...
View ArticleFive killed in Kenyan cattle-rustling violence
NAIROBI (AA) – Five people have died so far in ongoing clashes which have rocked the Nandi-Kisumu area of western Kenya....
View ArticleKenya calls for united front against terrorism
ANKARA (AA) – The international community must come together to fight terrorism, Kenya’s foreign minister said on a visit to...
View ArticleEritrea attempts economic makeover
ANKARA (AA) – Eritrea is attempting an economic makeover, with structural reforms and even a new currency, in an attempt...
View ArticleBURKINA FASO TEMPORARILY FREES EX-RULING PARTY HEAD
A military tribunal in Burkina Faso says it has for the time being released the chairman of the country’s former...
View ArticleWOMEN IN GHANA’S PARLIAMENT ARE “ENDANGERED SPECIES” – HANNAH TETTEH
Foreign Affairs Minister, Hannah Tetteh has described women in Ghana’s parliament as “endangered species”. Mrs Tetteh said female voices hardly affect...
View ArticleSEXUAL VIOLENCE ON THE RISE IN GHANA
Almost 1,300 girls in Ghana were defiled in 2014 while the recorded cases of rape increased from 290 in 2012...
View ArticleGHANA’S RESOURCES ENTICE CHINESE INVESTORS
As the volume of trade between Ghana and China hits 6.6 billion US dollars in 2015, the Chinese Ambassador to...
View ArticleZambia: Edgar Lungu re-elected president
LUSAKA, Zambia (AA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu has been re-elected, the country’s electoral commission announced Monday. With 1,860,877 votes,...
View ArticleBoko Haram attacks on the wane, Nigerian body claims
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – The number of people killed in Boko Haram attacks in northeastern Nigeria have gone down by...
View ArticleMedia workers protest against working conditions at King’s newspaper in...
Members of the Media Workers Union of Swaziland (MWUS) have gathered near the offices of the Swazi Observer for several...
View ArticleAfDB Injects USD 1 Billion to End Youth Unemployment in Africa
ROME, Sep 27 2016 (IPS) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) together with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)...
View ArticleWhat we can learn from The Gambia
After a coup and 22 years of authoritarian rule, The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh conceded power in elections on December...
View ArticleWhy African families are larger than those of other continents
Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters Gilles Pison, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Sorbonne Universités In Africa women have 4.5 children on average, while...
View ArticleTanzania at 56: echoes of the best and worst of Nyerere under Magufuli
Julius Nyerere (second right), his successor Ali Hassan Mwinyi (right) and Mwinyi’s successor Benjamin Mkapa (left) host South Africa’s Walter...
View ArticleAt current rates of reduction, it will take over 100 years to end child...
DAKAR, Senegal -PRN Africa — Unless progress is seriously accelerated, it will take over 100 years to end child marriage...
View ArticleCall for Applications – the AfDB Next African Global IT Leaders Program 2019...
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire – PRN Africa — The African Development Institute of the African Development Bank is implementing the next...
View ArticleIn Politics, You Cannot Clap With One Hand Alone
There was a seeming air of optimism among many Sierra Leoneans when President Maada Bio and the leaders of the...
View ArticleMegaphone Diplomacy – You Can Fool Some People Some times, But……..
It is an open secret that the relationship between our 2 major political parties, the SLPP and APC is one...
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