Sheikh Ahmed Gunmi, an Islamic cleric in Kaduna, has mentioned to former Nigerian leaders who visited militants and raised questions on Boko Haram and bandits.
ECOWAS leaders met in Sierra Leone to affirm the 2027 launch of the ECO currency, address xenophobia, and enhance regional security and cooperation.
Over 1,000 people demonstrated in Tunisia's second city Sfax on Thursday amid an ongoing trash crisis exacerbated by a landfill fire polluting the city's air. They demanded the resignation of Sfax's governor Fakher Fakhfakh, who the previous day attempted to play down the dangers of a landfill fire near the city's port.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias snubbed his Libyan counterpart Thursday, abandoning a planned visit to Tripoli to avoid being welcomed by the top diplomat of a government allied with arch rival Turkey.
Mali gained independence from France in 1960, yet even today French is the language of government business, used on road signs and in state TV broadcasts. Of these 13 are recognised as "national" languages but French is the only official one, meaning that it is used for government and regulatory business, said Amadou Salifou Guindo, a specialist in sociolinguistics.
Jihadists have dynamited bridges and mounted deadly attacks against supply convoys, blockading Burkina Faso's northern town of Djibo and leaving its people destitute. Several supply convoys have recently been attacked on the road.
Shortly after nightfall, flashlight in hand, Rivas Bright knocks twice on the broken window of an abandoned building in Pretoria, South Africa. Tonight they have come to an abandoned building within the campus of one of South Africa's largest universities, which asked not to be named.
Showered with applause and chants of "Lula!" "It's so good to see Lula bringing Brazil back into the fold," she said in a statement. lth/lg
The commander of the East African Community's military force in the Democratic Republic of Congo vowed Wednesday to protect Goma, a key eastern city threatened by advancing M23 rebels.
Nigerians are facing up to the reality of not qualifying for the World Cup, which kicks off Sunday in Qatar, as the African football giants have to watch from the sidelines the countdown to the quadrennial global showpiece. Will Nigerian fans now switch their support to "Old Enemy" Ghana, a neighbouring West African country, one of five teams from the continent who qualified.
Three candidate vaccines against the strain of Ebola wreaking havoc in Uganda will be shipped to the East African country next week for trials, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The WHO and the Ugandan health ministry accepted the committee's recommendation, he said, adding: "We expect the first doses of vaccine to be shipped to Uganda next week."
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