Latest ?mass capture? in Zamfara state shows banditry crisis shifting from land conflict to organised crime...

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) welcomed on Sunday a high-level delegation from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) for an official three-day visit focused on cybersecurity. The visit centred on the work of the CBE?s Cybersecurity Sector and the Egypt Financial Computing Incident Response Team (EG-FinCIRT), which is regarded as a leading regional model in cybersecurity across Africa and the Middle East. The...

The members of ?Vlahakis Greek tribe? that bear the surname are about 3,500 people, scattered not only across Africa but around the world. Credit: Facebook/Metropolis of Zambia The name Vlahakis is widespread in Zambia, thanks to a brave Greek man from the island of Crete called Nikolaos Vlahakis who arrived in southern Africa at the end of the 19th century. His descendants, who are members of the ?Vlahakis tribe? and proudly bear the surname, total about 3,500 people, scattered not only across Africa but around the world. The story of Vlahakis in Zambia could be made into a Hollywood movie Vlahakis was born in the town of Malia on the island of Crete. As he grew up in the 1890s, he became...

Au Mali, l?ancien Premier ministre Moussa Mara est en prison depuis vendredi. Il est inculpé pour un tweet publié pour soutenir des hommes et femmes emprisonnés après avoir critiqué la junte au pouvoir.

Des bandits armés ont enlevé, vendredi, une cinquantaine de personnes, à Sabon Garin Damri, dans le nord-ouest du Nigeria, selon un rapport d'experts pour l'ONU. La région de Zamfara est en proie à des enlèvements de masse de plus en plus fréquents, indiquent ces derniers.

The Conservative Party leader says she has not renewed her passport for the West African country in years.

Nigeria | 1 hour ago Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti No fewer than 200 elderly people from the six wards making up Ido/Osi constituency 1 in Ekiti State on Thursday received financial support from the lawmaker representing the constituency at the State House of Assembly, Hon. Abiodun Fawekun, as part of the lawmaker#8217;s quarterly constituency engagement Meeting. Fawekun who gave out the stipends in Ido Ekiti during the constituency engagement meeting said the gesture was borne out of the need to #8220;bend back#8221; by giving financial...

Newly declassified British documents reveal that the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak supported US and British...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Friday reiterated his country?s strong opposition to any attempts to forcibly...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday received Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni...

Dubai: What began as an attempted robbery turned into an act of unexpected heroism in Tunisia, when a young man broke into a home only to find the entire family unconscious due to a gas leak and saved their lives. According...

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received on Friday 1/8/2025 a phone call from the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Dick Schoof. ......

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration,...

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi reaffirmed, during a...

Former Malian Prime Minister Moussa...

Addis Abeba -- When the United Nations Security Council voted in December 2023...

Download logo Special Representative of the Secretary General Hanna Tetteh engaged with 239 Libyans Friday in an open Zoom call, discussing issues ranging from options to take the country to elections, to accountability measures for potential spoilers, to the inclusion of women, youth and persons with disabilities. The online meeting, the second the SRSG has hosted in the last month, was part of the United Nations Support Mission in Libyarsquo;s ongoing efforts to increase two-way communication with the public about the political process. Since May, the Mission has engaged nearly 1,000 people across the country in person and another 1,250 online, including focused meetings with community...

Nigeria | 4 hours ago .Urges accountability, non-politicisation Michael Olugbode in Abuja ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has applauded the federal government?s bold plan to commence the Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme (RHWDP), which targets over 8.8 million Nigerians across 8,809 electoral wards, seeking to deliver economic stimulus at the local level. AAN said this development marks a significant step toward aligning national economic planning with local governance structures in a way that could foster inclusive growth and leave no community behind. Speaking in Abuja, the Country Director, ActionAid Nigeria, Dr. Andrew Mamedu, said that ??the targeted nature of this...

Nigeria | 3 hours ago Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has advised corps members posted to the state to approach their one-year mandatory national service with open hearts and minds. The governor gave the advice at the swearing-in ceremony of the 2025 Batch #8216;B#8217; Stream #8216;I#8217; corps members at the NYSC ...

Nigeria | 5 hours ago Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi The United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) Bauchi Field Office has organised a capacity-building for 25 young people in Bauchi State on child-focused budgeting and advocacy, with a call on governments at all levels to place children?s needs at the heart of national development by prioritising child-focused budgetary allocations. This was as the U-Reporters who participated in the training pledged to advocate more actively for child-friendly budgeting to enhance the lives of children and young people in Bauchi State. THISDAY reports that U-Report is UNICEF?s community for young people, by young people, where they can raise their voices on...

A third free train service for Sudanese nationals voluntarily returning home from Egypt is scheduled to depart from Cairo on Sunday, Aug. 3, as part of a programme to facilitate repatriation. The special air-conditioned train is set to leave Cairo#8217;s main station at 11:00 AM and arrive at the High...

An activist?s fight against big oil leads to his death sentence. Thirty years on, government says hes a national hero.

Moussa Mara, the PM for eight months in 2014-2015, has been charged with undermining the credibility of the state.

United States President Donald Trump has officially imposed a 15 percent tariff on Nigeria and other African countries. ......

Mogadishu, Somalia -- Airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab militants in Somalia's central Hiiraan region have killed dozens, including senior leaders of the extremist group, local sources and officials said on Friday. ......

KANO: IS-affiliated fighters killed over a dozen farmers and children in a gun attack and mine explosion in Nigeria's northeast Borno state, the epicentre of a fighter conflict, tw ......

Along with a number of countries, the majority of the population in the Sahara welcomes Morocco?s sovereignty, writes Andrew M Rosemarine...

Conservative party leader, who grew up in Nigeria and US, says she has not renewed her Nigerian passport in decades...

ldquo;Where is Angelo?rdquo; Itrsquo;s been three years since they met, with the last one, without tiring fighting, having rendered Anguei Angelo Madit unrecognizable even to his old friends. In 2022, during an outbreak of violence around the South Kiir River in Twic County, south of Abyei, a resource-rich border region contested by South Sudan and Sudan, Angelo and his peers were wearing army uniforms and fatigued looks matching them. Fast-forward to July 2025 and, with the heat-excused exception of the jackets, he and the four young men accompanying him are dressed in suits....

Once, almost 400 people called Mosso, some 50 kilometers from Tambura, home. Isolation and years of insecurity-induced displacement have reduced the current population to 15 hardy souls. ldquo;Killings and ambushes created fear and made this happen,rdquo; says one of them, Rebecca Evariste, a mother of nine. ldquo;The rest have fled,rdquo; she adds, mentioning Yambio, Ezo, Nzara and Bagidi as some of their favoured destinations. Reduced numbers further increase the villagersrsquo; sense of being cut off, not least from goods and services. To get...