Governors of the six states in Nigeria’s Southwest have endorsed the recommendation of a committee they set up for the establishment of the Southwest Development Commission (SWDC). The Technical Committee,

Authorities in Niger say seven soldiers and four suspected jihadists were killed Monday in fighting in the country’s Tillabéri region, in a grip of recurrent jihadist attacks, less than a week

No less than 20 African migrants have died after their makeshift boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday while trying to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa. Five people

Morocco has commenced the implementation of the three weeks night curfew to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. The curfew that begins at 9 pm and ends at 6

Reports suggest two demonstrators were killed on Wednesday in a protest outside the police headquarters in the Zambian capital Lusaka, where opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was being questioned. AFP reports that riot police

There are doubts over the Nigerian government’s commitment to “faithfully implement” the agreement it recently reached with the country’s university lecturers. The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) an umbrella

Nigeria’s federal government has introduced new security apparatus to further secure the nation’s busiest gateway, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The government in response to reports of incessant

The Nigerian presidency has suggested that a smear campaign that aims to portray the country’s leader Muhammadu Buhari as not being in charge of the country is in the works,

More than 100 people were killed by unknown gunmen in Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, the latest deadly violence in the area. Witnesses said the attack occurred early on Wednesday

The United Nations says it has reclaimed a town in the Central African Republic from rebels who seized it on Tuesday. “The situation in Bambari is under control,” Abdoulaziz Fall, spokesman for the UN

The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) has called for a strong tobacco control law to protect citizens of Botswana from the devastating effects of tobacco following the frightening rise in the number of

There is a need for urgent funds to address a humanitarian emergency for tens of thousands of Ethiopian refugees, the United Nations has said. These refugees have fled conflict in Ethiopia’s

A spokesman for Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday dismissed an editorial in Financial Times,  an international daily newspaper based in Britain,  which  described Nigeria as a country that is

Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has raised the alarm over the “plot to bomb some places” during the Christmas holidays. In a statement on Tuesday, the agency asked Nigerians

Governors of Nigeria’s 36 states under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Tuesday expressed worry over the deteriorating security challenges bedevilling the country, particularly in the North-west.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday charged Nigerians to brace up for the inconveniences of measures being introduced by the government to protect them in the aftermath of the resurgence of

Botswana’s gross domestic product shrank by 6%% from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2020, easing from a record slump of 24% in the previous three-month period when

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said the effective supervision of the border the country shares with Niger can only be supervised by God. A statement by a presidential aide

A report by the International Commission on Mali has indicted the Malian army and several armed groups for committing “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”. The commission was established by