As the migrant crisis worsens, EU ministers are to meet and try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently...
A new twist was added to the Republican Party’s controversies in the race to occupy the White House, as a presidential hopeful, Ben Carson said no...
President Muhammadu Buhari will host an Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government tomorrow, Tuesday,...
Despite the suspension by African Union (AU) and the barrage of condemnations around the world, the general who led a coup in Burkina Faso this week...
Germany auto maker, Volkswagen, has promised to launch a full investigation into the ‘emissions allegations’ that made US to order for the recall of half a...
For being a worthy envoy and his role in the peaceful resolution of the recent political crisis that left Guinea Bissau without a government for 37...
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent coup d’etat in Burkina Faso, and the detention of some officials of the transitional government, and called for the...
Determined to protect the people against any environmental hazard, the Obama administration on Friday directed Volkswagen to recall nearly a half million cars from the road,...
For daring to break the new ‘convention’ in Africa that forbids military regime, the continent’s apex political body, the African Union (AU) on Friday suspended Burkina...
After keeping him incommunicado for a reason best known to them and raising fear about his safety, Burkina Faso interim president, Michel Kafando, has been freed...
Two West African presidents – Senegal’s Macky Sall and Thomas Boni Yayi of Benin – are going to Burkina Faso to mediate with the leaders of...
Cuba has appointed an ambassador to the US – the first since 1961 – as part of the ongoing thaw in relations between the two countries....
The military show of might in Burkina Faso on Wednesday was a rehearsal for a full-fledged coup as a shadowy spy master, and former right-hand man...
The authorities in Saudi Arabia have offered to pay families of the 110 victims who died in last Friday’s crane collapse in the Mecca grand Mosque...
Apparently unable to come to terms with the reality that their beneficiary, Blasie Campaore, has been toppled by popular uprising, Burkina Faso army troops loyal to...
Following International Criminal Court (ICC) charge to South Africa for not arresting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during a recent visit, the country has been trying every...
As way of quickly rectifying the gaffe of Tuesday, Zimbabwe’s Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has submitted a speech to parliament that the president was supposed to give...
A surgical scissors that may have been forgotten in the belly of a Nigerian was discovered in Saudi Arabia where he went to perform the annual...
In spite of the ongoing crisis in his country, and the attendant out spill of refugees flocking to Europe, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he would...
Ninety one-year-old President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Monday read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament. He gave the same one during his...
Worried by the influx of migrants across its borders, Hungary has declared a state of emergency in two southern counties as tough new laws to stop...
Nigerian refugees in neighbouring Cameroon are gradually dying as Toby Lanzer, UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for Africa’s Sahel region, said the Nigerian refugees in the country...
After a 16-year-old girl was killed in the new outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone, the health authorities said on Tuesday that they had quarantined almost...
After taking in hundreds of migrants and many are still struggling to come, Germany on Sunday re-imposed border controls after Europe’s most powerful nation acknowledged it...
There was global outrage after footage appeared of Taliban stoning a man and woman to death over allegations of a love affair. The incident was the...
Three Nigerians pilgrims were among the injured in the heavy-duty crane collapse in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Friday. They, however, sustained...
A French man, who displayed an usual bestiality towards his three-year-old son by stuffing him into a washing machine and setting it on for five minutes...
The death toll in Saudi Arabia crane collapse is now 107 while the number of the injured stands at 230. The authority has commenced investigation into...
Tragedy is gradually taking the shine off this year’s pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as a crane collapsed on Friday killing several people. Just on Wednesday, five...
For the roles they played in backing ex-president Blaise Compaore’s failed bid to cling to power last year, Burkina Faso has barred its former foreign minister...
In its first specific commitment towards increasing its acceptance of refugees from war-torn Syria, The United States’ President Barack Obama has directed his administration to prepare...
The judiciary, which is the last hope of the common man, has been hit with serious scandal in Ghana, a country regarded as being ahead of...
Widespread flooding and landslides in north-east Japan have forced more than 90,000 people to abandon their homes. The city of Joso, north of the capital, Tokyo,...
Tragedy struck in the Holy land of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as five of the Nigerians pilgrims who had gone to the country for pilgrimage died....
Though her mother is contesting for the same position, Chelsea Clinton, former first daughter of America is surprisingly one person that thinks Kanye West’s announcement that...
A British Airways plane bound for London has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 172 people on board on emergency slides. Airport...
As the refugee crisis leaves a scar on Europe, France has announced a 10 million euro ($11.16 million) emergency fund for housing, health and education of...
North and South Korea agreed on Tuesday to hold a further round of reunions of family members separated during the 1950-53 Korean-War next month, the South...
The burgeoning refugee crisis in Europe may have claimed its first high profile official. Unable to keep thousands of migrants off its borders, Hungary’s Defence Minister...
An Unknown number of people may have lost their lives in a mid-air collision involving two planes in Senegal. The Senegalese National Civil Aviation Agency had...
A council appointed by Thailand’s military rulers has rejected a controversial new constitution drafted after last year’s coup. A new committee must now be appointed to...
Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4bn) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the influx. Critics at...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the start of construction of a fence along Israel’s border with Jordan after calls for Tel Aviv to take...
An aircraft carrying seven people, including a French patient, went down off the coast of Senegal at 7:08 p.m. (1908 GMT) on Saturday. The medical evacuation...
Russia is providing “serious” training and logistical support to the Syrian army, Vladimir Putin has said, in the first public confirmation of the depth of Russia’s...
The first group of what are expected to be some 10,000 migrants has been greeted in Munich after an arduous journey through Hungary and Austria. German...
The Austrian chancellor has said his country and Germany have agreed to let migrants cross their borders from Hungary. Werner Faymann’s announcement came after Hungary began...
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin said on Friday he would vote against the nuclear agreement with Iran, lessening the chances that President Barack Obama can win enough...
A new report by AfrAsia Bank and New World Wealth says Johannesburg alone, known as the “city of gold”, is home to 23,400 millionaires. South Africa...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reportedly said that his country does not want to take in large numbers of Muslims, in defence of Hungary’s response...