Four people were killed and nine others wounded in an apparent Sudanese airstrike on South Sudanese territory, a South Sudanese government official said Thursday. Sudan is to blame because it is the on...

(Source: The Muslim Brotherhood) From the first days of its inception, the Muslim Brotherhood set its stance against violence and terrorism as one of its essential constants. Evidently, the group passe...

ABUJA, Nigeria ? As Nigerians celebrated the electrifying victory Wednesday that returned one of its harshest former dictators to power, sobering challenges confront Muhammadu Buhari, from an Islamic i...

Fourth time?s the charm for Muhammadu Buhari. After losing the last three times he ran for president, the former military dictator made democratic history by beating incumbent Nigerian President Goodlu...

ABUJA, Nigeria ? Nigerians celebrated Muhammadu Buhari's electrifying victory in presidential elections Wednesday but sobering challenges confront their next leader, from an Islamic uprising to widespr...

It is exactly 130 years since Gen Charles Gordon was hacked to death on the white steps of the governor-general#039;s palace in Khartoum. It was a defining moment in Britain#039;s colonial history. Stu...

Muhammadu Buhari made history...

[Independent (Lagos)]The shift in the earlier announced dates for the 2015 general elections by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was bound to generate as much controversies as witnessed...

Hundreds of bodies remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested is the deadliest massacre in the history of Boko Haram. Mike Omeri, the gov...

Nigerian forces backed by air strikes were fighting Friday for the town of Baga, seized by Boko Haram last weekend in what Amnesty International suggested is the ?deadliest massacre? in the Islamist mi...