Africa, World

Two teenage boys have been arrested for running an illegal initiation school

Some people are really crazy and passionate about footbal. But killing yourself after your team lost?

"It is suspected that the man took his parent's vehicle without their knowledge and damaged it. After stopping at his school he could not start the...

Thousands of people have remained homeless in Chad and Cameroon since the rains began early in August, according to Norbert Allale, disaster response...

A six-year-old albino girl in Burundi has been found dead with her head and limbs removed, in the latest killing linked to ritual medicine.

Crude oil smuggling continues unabated in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria, spurred by chronic under-development, a disaffected youth, and...

Women marched through the Southern Sudanese town of Bor recently to highlight an important message: “Treat women with respect”. "Bring an end to...

Moussa Aksar, managing editor and Sani Aboubacar, reporter of   L’Evénement, an independent weekly newspaper were on November 12, 2008 detained at...

State House is now under lock and key for sycophants and brokers, in a new style of leadership ushered in by the Grand Coalition Government.

The widening split between Somalia's leaders could lead to the total collapse of the transitional federal government (TFG), a Nairobi-based regional...