S.africa's Zuma Denies Role In Indian Wedding Scan

JK PartyWorld Organises Entrepreneurship Training For Youths

CEO, JK Partyworld, Mrs. Joke Odunowo (Middle) With Other Members Of Staff, During The Entrepreneurship Training For Youths Tagged Thursday, May 23, 2013

JK PartyWorld, a fast raising catering and events management outfit, in a bid to empower Nigerian youths and equip them with the necessary tools to succeed in the ever changing 21st century business e ...

Thousands mourn literary giant Achebe at hometown funeral

Mourners carry Chinua Achebe's coffin to St. Philips Anglican Church at Ogidi, southeast Nigeria, on May 23, 2013.  By Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP) Thursday, May 23, 2013

OGIDI, Nigeria (AFP) - Thousands mourned Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe on Thursday at the hometown funeral of the man regarded as the father of modern African literature, best known for his seminal no ...

Nigeria says children detained in connection with insurgency

A Nigerian prison bus is pictured on March 7, 2011, in Lagos.  By Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP/File) Thursday, May 23, 2013

LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian authorities have detained children in connection with the Islamist insurgency they are battling, but the government plans to release them under a peace gesture announced this we ...

UN troops in DR Congo in 'one or two months': Ban

People flee Sake, west of Goma, on November 22, 2012.  By Phil Moore (AFP/File) Thursday, May 23, 2013

KIGALI (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon pledged Thursday that UN troops will be in place within "one or two months" to battle armed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, as he toured ...

Don’t Gamble With Amaechi’s Life—ACN Tells Speaker

Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Rivers State Chapter is disturbed over the manner the Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly; Rt. Hon Otelemaba Dan Amachree and the Chief of Staff, Government H ...

300,000 displaced in Sudan's Darfur this year: UN

A woman in front of her shelter in the Zam Zam camp for Internally Displaced Persons in North Darfur on May 22, 2013.  By Albert Gonzalez Farran (UNAMID/AFP) Thursday, May 23, 2013

KHARTOUM (AFP) - A resurgence of fighting in Sudan's western Darfur region has driven 300,000 people from their homes so far this year, UN humanitarian aid chief Valerie Amos said on Thursday. She ...

S.Africa interest rate unchanged amid high inflation

South African Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus speaks in Pretoria on February 11, 2012.  By Stephane de Sakutin (AFP) Thursday, May 23, 2013

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - The South African Reserve Bank held interest rates unchanged Thursday in the face of high inflation, while warning of major risks to already mediocre growth. A downbeat Reserve ...

Nigeria to free children held in insurgency swoop

A Nigerian prison bus is pictured on March 7, 2011, in Lagos.  By Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP/File) Thursday, May 23, 2013

ABUJA (AFP) - Nigerian authorities have detained children in connection with the Islamist insurgency they are battling, but the government plans to release them under a peace gesture announced this we ...

West Africa’s Fifth Border Information Center Set To Tackle Delays, Costs

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Elubo, Côte d'Ivoire, May 23, 2013 -The Ministers of Transport of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, joined by the U.S. Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire and the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, today launched the fifth Bor ...

Obama to take first major Africa trip in late June

US President Barack Obama returns to the White House in Washington on May 19, 2013.  By Nicholas Kamm (AFP/File) Tuesday, May 21, 2013

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour nex ...

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Nigeria offensive on Islamists escalates in key city

Sandbags are in place at a road block in the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri, Borno State., on April 30, 2013.  By Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP/File) Sunday, May 19, 2013

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AFP) - A key city in northeast Nigeria was on lockdown Sunda ...

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Editor questioned over Meles' widow

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Ethiopian police in Addis Ababa questioned an editor for several hours today in ...

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Air strikes, dozens dead in Nigeria assault on Islamists

A Nigerian soldier patrols in the remote northeast town of Baga in Borno state on April 30, 2013.  By Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP/File) Friday, May 17, 2013

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Nigeria's military on Friday attacked Boko Haram Islamist ...

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UN calls for 1,100 extra peacekeepers in disputed Abyei

A peacekeeper of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) stands guard in Abyei on November 6, 2010.  By Guillaume Lavalee (AFP/File) Saturday, May 18, 2013

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the UN Security ...

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Malian Tuareg separatists lose key support faction

A girl prepares fresh-caught fishes on the bank of the Niger river, near Timbuktu, on February 4, 2013.  By Pascal Guyot (AFP/File) Friday, May 17, 2013

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AFP) - An influential Mali tribal chief has withdrawn his suppor ...

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