Nigeria | 5 seconds ago Olusegun Samuel in Yenagoa After months of anxiety and high expectations, the independent power project of the Bayelsa State Government is set to be inaugurated this month. Also awaiting inauguration are the 630-metre-long Angiama-Oporoma bridge across the River Nun in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, and one of the newly constructed dual carriage roads linking the New Yenagoa City from the Gbarantoru axis of the state capital. Governor Douye Diri, who disclosed this on Tuesday during the March edition of the monthly Praise Night at the King of Glory Chapel, Government House, Yenagoa, said the 60-megawatt gas-fired turbine plant was set for test-run and...

New York, April 1, 2026?The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the release of journalist Abdiqani Abdirahman Mohamed, also known as Dhulmar, who has been held without charge since March 26 over a video that criticized President Abdiqadir Ahmed Aw-Ali of the newly-formed Northeastern State of Somalia....

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militia groups are using sexual violence as a 'weapon of war' in Darfur to control civilians, according to medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a major report. ......

Egypt called for an increase in bilateral trade and the expansion of Egyptian private sector involvement in the Gambian market during a ministerial meeting in Cairo on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty met with his Gambian counterpart, Serigne Modou Njie, on the margins of a ministerial meeting for African countries implementing the...

JOHANNESBURG A Holy Week attack in a predominantly Christian...