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AFRICAN UNION, Jan 21- Defeating Nigeria’s “dastardly” Boko Haram insurgents requires support from across the continent, the African Union chief warned Wednesday, urging increased backing...
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The 91-year-old author, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, said the US consulate asked him to bring in his passport so...
AFRICAN UNION, Jan 21- Defeating Nigeria’s “dastardly” Boko Haram insurgents requires support from across the continent, the African Union chief warned Wednesday, urging increased backing...
BANGUI, Jan 20- Armed men kidnapped a female UN employee in the capital of the strife-torn Central African Republic on Tuesday, a day after two...
LUSAKA, Jan 20- Polling opened Tuesday in Zambia’s tightly contested vote to elect a president after a ruling party power struggle following the death...
ROME, Italy, Jan 20 – Pope Francis announced Monday he will make his first visit to Africa later this year with stops in Uganda...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan 19 – Zambian political parties on Monday wrapped up their campaigns ahead of a special presidential election called following the...
NIAMEY, Niger, Jan 19 – Forty-five churches were torched over the weekend in Niger’s capital during deadly protests over the publication of a Prophet...
Maltam, Cameroon, Jan 19 – Boko Haram fighters kidnapped at least 60 people in a deadly attack in northern Cameroon on Sunday, police said,...
ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan 19 – Africa’s largest oil producer Nigeria on Sunday announced a cut in petrol prices, a month before the country votes...
N’DJAMENA, Jan 17- Tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital of Chad on Saturday in support of the authorities’ decision to send...
NAIMEY, Jan 17- At least two churches were torched in Niger’s capital Saturday as protests raged on against the publication of a Prophet Mohammed...