Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS has inaugurated its Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre for Zone ?E? in Cotonou, Benin, to respond to security threats and other maritime issues along the territor...

[Independent (Lagos)] The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has received a grant of $3.4 million (about N750 million) from the Government of Japan for the provision of life-saving emergency inter...

(Source: African Development Bank Group) The African Development Bank (AfDB) is actively participating in the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC), which kicks off Friday, March 13, 2015 in Sha...

Marthe van der Wolf ASOSA, ETHIOPIA? With a newly-signed deal on sharing Nile River waters with Egypt, Ethiopia is moving ahead with the continuing construction of Africa#39;s largest hydro-power dam a...

A selection of photographs from around the African continent this week: Men on camels cross the waters of Lake Chad as a woman washes clothes in Ngouboua on Monday. Refugees fleeing attacks by Boko Har...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday said women and children make up the vast majority of the latest wave of refugees fleeing violence in northern Nigeria, noting that, it i...

A suicide bomber in north-eastern Nigeria has killed four people and injured other commuters at a bus station, witnesses have told the BBC. He drove a car into the station on the outskirts of Potiskum ...

Egyptian officials have found ancient sarcophagi floating in polluted water near the city of Minya.

[MSF]Thousands of people fleeing violence in the contested border area between Sudan and South Sudan are in desperate need of food, water and medical care. MSF has launched an emergency intervention to...

[Ethiopian Herald]In an exclusive interview with the Ethiopian Press Agency journalists Sudanese Scholar Dr. Osman Eltom Hamad, Adviser for the Minister of Water Resources and Electricity in the Republ...