An executive at internet giant Google said Tuesday that Washington's latest move to encourage service providers to expand their work into Iran, Cuba and Sudan was a 'great...

Almost 400 people who were slaughtered when Muslim herdsmen raided Christian villages near Nigeria's restive central town of Jos have been buried in a mass...

A top official of Sudan’s opposition Umma party says its presidential candidate Sadiq al-Mahdi has the principles and vision to unify the people of...

Foreign Christians working in Morocco have been expelled by authorities. Among the 20 deported foreigners, 16 are workers who cared for abandoned and orphaned children. In a Sunday raid, police...

The French far right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen may be a veteran provocateur but to infuriate both the Algerians and the Swiss with one poster takes genuine talent. The Algerian government has...

The report, which has not yet been made public but was shown to The New York Times, outlines a host of problems so grave that it recommends Secretary...

Geneva - Just over half of about four million people who fled the civil war in South Sudan have returned there after the 2005 peace agreement, the International Migration Agency said on Tuesday. ...

Jos after recent clashes when Muslim herdsmen reportedly attacked Christian villagers. "We have about 351 corpses being buried at this mass grave, and at the other end, there is another village...

Nairobi — The man who masterminded the 1998 terrorist attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam is believed to have taken over the leadership of al-Shabaab in war-torn Somalia,...

editorial Regional Heads of State and Government meeting in Nairobi yesterday asked Sudan to ensure that the forthcoming elections are free and fair. Inter-Governmental Authority and Development...

As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff, according to a new Security...

SNEY ) is pleased to release a new report prepared by Robert Levich CPG, EurGeol, Director and Chief of West African Operations (See Press Release dated December 21, 2009) discussing the alluvial...

Washington — Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo, intends to use his country’s two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council to highlight democratic reforms and his fight against corruption,...

LONDON - The United Nations Ethics Committee has upheld complaints by a former employee of the UN Development Program who said he suffered retaliation from the UNDP for alleging that its Somalia...

By Shuaibu Mohammed Jos - Nigeria must prosecute those behind a weekend massacre and address underlying issues of poverty and discrimination if it is to end a cycle of violence in the zone between...

The dispute showed the sensitivity of Tripoli's ties with the West more than six years after its decision to abandon weapons of mass destruction led to a rapprochement with Washington, including the...

ACCRA — Crown Prince Naruhito attended a memorial symposium in the Ghanaian capital of Accra on Tuesday held to present an award named after Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi and...

The mandate of the Irish Army peace-keeping mission in Chad has been extended by two months. The mandate, which was due to expire next Monday 15 March, was extended by this morning's Cabinet...

Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi gestures as he enters the U.N. headquarters for the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2009 in New York City. (Rick Gershon, Getty Images) ...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi The US State Department apologised for dismissive comments its spokesman made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for jihad, often translated as armed...

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations Ethics Committee has upheld complaints by a former employee of the U.N. Development Programme who said he suffered retaliation from the UNDP for alleging that...

People stand by a grave before a mass burial of victims killed in religious attacks in the Dogo Nahawa village, about 15 km to the capital city of Jos in central Nigeria, March 8, 2010. Soldiers...

The US State Department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland.Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department apologized on Tuesday for dismissive comments its spokesman made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for "jihad," often translated as "armed...

Buzz This It looks like Google may be ready to wade into another controversial censorship vs. availability of services situation. A high-ranking corporate representative has welcomed the U.S....

W ASHINGTON — A senior State Department official apologized today for a joking remark he made about Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi that prompted Libya to threaten diplomatic retaliation. Chief...

JOS, Nigeria (AP) - The U.S. government and human rights activists called Tuesday for Nigeria to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the deaths of more than 200 unarmed people in renewed...

Embassy of Sudan, US As elections draw closer in Sudan, diaspora living in the U.S. are scrambling to obtain documents that would allow them to vote. David Choat, an official of the South Sudan...

Zenit.org ).- Last Sunday's violence near Jos that caused the deaths of perhaps several hundred people is being portrayed as a Muslim-Christian conflict, but according to an archbishop of the area,...

US State Department apologized for dismissive comments its spokesman made about Libya leader's call for "jihad," meaning an economic boycott against...

[in January] said Mathew Dabup, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) polio immunization manager in Plateau State, which includes Jos. IFRC has been...

A mass funeral held in Nigeria for 500 people killed in Sunday's violent clashes between Islamic pastoralists and Christian villagers. Mourners gathered in Nigeria to bury in mass graves hundreds of...

Somalia’s government would welcome US air support for an expected offensive aimed at retaking control of areas from al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels, President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said...

A new scheme in Tanzania is bringing medical workers out of retirement to fill in gaps in hospitals.The doctors and nurses from the 'retired but not tired' project will help run the country's under...

ACCRA, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Visiting Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito attended a memorial symposium in the Ghanaian capital of Accra on Tuesday held to present an award named after Japanese...

Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked a Kenyan-flagged fishing boat with 16 crew which may be used as a "mother ship" to launch more attacks in the Indian Ocean, maritime sources said Tuesday. ...

Nigeria fraught with tensions between Christians and Muslims, and called on the government to bring the perpetrators of the killings to justice. Navi Pillay,...

DAKAR, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - The poorest households in Chad will find themselves with no food reserves in the coming weeks, according to the US famine early warning systems network, FEWSNET. ...

DAKAR, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to...