Africa, World

With preparations for new local elections under way, following a successful military venture by the Comoros Union government and African Union (AU)...

Exploitation and abuse of human trafficking victims, mainly taken from Mozambique to South Africa, has seen a surge in media headlines but experts...

With fighting on 2 April between Tuareg rebels and government soldiers 20 km south of Kidal on the road to Gao, some aid agencies are suspending...

The Monam group of rape survivors in the northern town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic (CAR) does what it can to keep going, but morale...

Two foreign aid workers attached to a United Nations (UN) project were kidnapped in southern Somalia on Tuesday. The UN stated that the two men, one...

It is going to take more than a regime change back home to get the several million-strong Zimbabwean diaspora to return, according to analysts. ...

A 39-nation coalition in Africa passed a declaration on Tuesday to ban cluster bombs in a nearly unanimous vote. The gathering in Lusaka, Zambia was...

The joint Mawlud Nabi committees of the Independence Drive and King Fahad Mosques, under the chairmanship of the Imam Ratib of Banjul, Alhagie...

In a letter dated 5th March 2008 sent to the Daily Observer, the Office of the President, the Secretary of State for Local Government and Lands,...

The Gambia on Wednesday ratified the Anti-terrorism bill 2008 at the Second meeting of the National Assembly in the 2008 Legislative Year. It could...