Deadly clashes broke out in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), after a Muslim motorbike taxi driver was killed. About 20 people have...
For going against their constitutional duty of protecting the country and its institutions, a unit of guards that carried out a coup in Burkina Faso last...
Aftermath of the stampede that claimed hundreds of lives, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered a safety review for the Hajj pilgrimage. At least 717 people...
The 14th Dalai Lama is the supreme spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and he is known to also support women’s causes. When asked by a...
After months of diatribes over Ukraine crisis and Syria war, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will on Monday meet with U.S. President, Barack Obama, in New York,...
The world is in turmoil. Wars and crises are dominating the political space in many countries and thousands of people are bearing the brunt. Many of...
The death toll in Saudi Arabia pilgrimages’ stampede has continued to rise with the latest figure standing at 717 while about 863 were also confirmed injured....
Another tragedy has struck in the holy land of Mecca, as at least 310 people have been killed and more than 450 injured in a stampede...
Worried that the migrants’ influx is getting out of hand, the European Union leaders have agreed to beef up controls at the 28-nation bloc’s outer borders...
It was one of the most controversial acts of his U.S. visit. Pope Francis’ canonization of an 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra at the Basilica of...
One week after he was sent out of power by the Presidential guards who staged a coup, Burkina Faso’s interim President Michel Kafando has said he...
Following the resolutions of the Extra-ordinary session of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders in Abuja on Tuesday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) will...
Pope Francis has arrived in US. And in a rare departure from protocol, the president, vice-president and their families turned up to greet the pontiff, underlining...
Volkswagen said a scandal over falsified U.S. vehicle emission tests could affect 11 million of its cars around the globe as investigations of its diesel models...
Central European countries have reacted angrily after plans to relocate 120,000 migrants across the continent were approved by EU interior ministers. Under the scheme, migrants will...
Tension is now very high in Burkina Faso as troops loyal to the deposed government said they were preparing to attack the Camp Naaba military base...
President Muhammadu Buhari who will be leaving Nigeria next week for the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York is also billed...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … The recent visit of President Muhammadu Buhari has begun yielding results as a crack team of United States top counter-terrorism delegation...
Burkina Faso’s army has reached the capital Ouagadougou to seek the surrender of the presidential guard who staged a coup last Thursday. Negotiations between army chiefs...
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...
