Nigeria’s crippling fuel shortages are unlikely to ease any time soon and much-needed deregulation of the subsidised market would be a fraught process, the chief executive of energy co... Read more
President of the Republic of Niger, Alhaji Mahamadou Issoufou, says President Goodluck Jonathan’s conduct during and after the presidential election is a model for Africa’s democracy. Issouf... Read more
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has been photographed playing football as protests continue over his bid to run for a third term in office, BBC reports. Mr Nkurunziza was playing... Read more
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced Former President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi to death for a mass prison break in 2011. The Egyptian authorities had accused Mr. Morsi, and over 100 other... Read more
The United Kingdom Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has withdrawn from the Labour party leadership contest, just days after throwing his hat into the ring. The MP, 36, said in a statem... Read more
Russia’s AIDS epidemic is worsening and at least two million people are likely to be infected with HIV in about five years as the virus increasingly affects the heterosexual population, the... Read more
North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un took his father Kim Jong-il’s brutality one notch higher when he reportedly executed his own defence chief, Hyon Yong-chol, by docking him in front o... Read more
Scene of one of the protests in Burundi Thousands of people poured on to the streets of Burundi’s capital Bujumbura on Wednesday after a senior military officer declared a coup against the c... Read more
The former member of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 who says he killed Osama bin Laden has joined the chorus of critics refuting Seymour Hersh’s controversial report challenging the White House a... Read more
The head of the North Korean army has been executed for insubordination and treason, South Korea’s intelligence agency said Wednesday, in a report that, if true, would underline the brutal e... Read more
