Category: Africa

The family was gunned down on Saturday in the single worst incident of ivory poaching recorded in the country. Kenya has recently taken a more aggressive stance against poaching as...

Kenyan Police Service Commission chief Johnstone Kavuldi said the officers had been adversely mentioned during initial investigations. Last week, Joshua Waiganjo was charged with impersonating a police officer in Kenya's...

Several journalists reported being attacked in the aftermath of Ghana's contested presidential elections on December 7, 2012, according to CPJ interviews, news reports, and local press freedom organizations. The journalists,...

Our culture as Africans demands that family members care for their elderly, and most families do this to the best of their ability. However, total commitment to this is declining...

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”- Brigham Young Some say having a girl is like tending a neighbours’ garden. This...

In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU, the Ambassador of Switzerland to Nigeria, Hans-Rudolf Hodel, speaks about improvements in the Swiss financial system, the infamous Abacha loot and efforts of his...

MATERNAL deaths in Kagera Region have dropped from 194 per 100,000 live births to 88 per 100,000 births during 2010, the Kagera Regional Commissioner (RC), Mr Fabian Massawe, has said....

Arusha, Tanzania - A ferry sank in Lake Tanganyika overnight, leaving eight dead and around 20 missing, police said Friday. “The ferry between Tanzania and Burundi had some 90 people...

The Human Right department of Ilemba Hausa Police Division, in Ojo area of Lagos has arrested a 49- year-old man who allegedly had been having carnal knowledge of his teenaged...

Angry revellers threatened to assault pole dancer Beverly Sibanda after she was unable to take to the stage at the Gunners Night Club in Highfield. So angry were the fans...