Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday inaugurated Kolmani Integrated Development Project to drill oil and gas in the northeastern part of the country. Speaking at the project’s flag-off ceremony in the northeastern state of Bauchi, [Read More]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday announced the appointment of Mohamed Ag Ayoya of Mali as the new resident coordinator for the Central African Republic. The resident coordinator is the highest-ranking representative of the UN [Read More]
Seven member states of the Accra Initiative, a West African security cooperation initiative, are considering setting up a standby military force to deal with armed insurgencies within the region, a Ghanaian minister said Sunday. Albert [Read More]
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Saturday said it was deeply concerned about the violence in Upper Nile State in South Sudan. The UN mission said the fighting in Fashoda County between [Read More]
Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, on Friday announced a first emergency response grant worth 5 million U.S. dollars for Somali children affected by a devastating [Read More]
Ghana has covered at least 400,000 children in phase one of the pilot Malaria Vaccine Implementation Program (MVIP), said an official on Thursday. Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, manager for the Expanded Program on Immunization at the Ghana [Read More]
At least seven gunmen were killed in a shootout with Nigerian police in the central state of Niger on Thursday, police said. “We received intelligent reports on a planned attack by the bandits on Kumbashi [Read More]
An unidentified Nigerian soldier shot and killed a soldier and an aid worker in a military base in northeastern state of Borno Thursday, and also injured a helicopter co-pilot from the United Nations Humanitarian Air [Read More]
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said urgent funds are needed to support the Ebola response in Uganda and the readiness in neighboring countries. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa told reporters here [Read More]
Intense battles erupted between Yemen’s government forces and the Houthi rebels in various areas of the southwestern province of Taiz on Thursday, a military official told Xinhua. “The Houthis carried out a large military operation [Read More]
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