Artiste musicien nigérien, Moustine Jazy a débuté sa carrière musicale à Bamako avant de rejoindre son pays natal, le Niger.

Domaine réservé du Palais, au Maroc la gestion des affaires étrangères participe du prestige de Mohammed VI, qui s'appuie sur des hommes de dossier. Avec, comme fil rouge, la question du Sahara.

Frank Gardner on how foreign teams can help Nigeria schoolgirls

FGM still prevalent in Egypt, despite deadly risks

South Sudan postpones presidential elections due next year to give government and rebel forces more time to achieve reconciliation, the president says.

"Concerted international help" will be needed to find the abducted Nigerian schoolgirls reports John Simpson, who witnesses the scale of the problem on the ground in Borno state.

At least 17 people died and 200 were rescued when a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank between Libya and southern Italy, navy officials say.

Nigeria insists it will not agree to a swap deal with militants holding dozens of schoolgirls, after an official said all options were available.

« Ils nous ont emmenées à l'extérieur et ont brûlé toute l'école », raconte l'une des élèves, qui a échappé au rapt de plus de 200 lycéennes à la mi-avril.

Une vidéo montrant les centaines de lycéennes kidnappées en avril a été diffusée, lundi. Le gouvernement a refusé toute négociation.

Mezzi militari, ricognizione aerea, spionaggio: in campo tutte le armi per ritrovare e portare a casa le studentesse rapite

At least 10 people have been killed in a huge explosion targeting a senior official in the southern Somali town of Baidoa....

Moki Edwin Kindzeka YAOUNDE, CAMEROON ? Kidnappings, an influx of refugees and an increase fighting and criminal acts in Cameroon#39;s border communities have raised concerns about Nigeria#39;s Boko Haram insurgency. Cameroonians in northern communities that share a boundary with Nigeria#39;s Borno state, the base of the Boko Haram militant group, are worried the violent group has extended its reach into Cameroon. Nurse Mary Nana, 31, told VOA she was preparing to leave the border locality of Fotokol after four Cameroonians were killed and some 3,000 Nigerians crossed over to her area following last week#39;s attack on a market by suspected...

(Source: The Muslim Brotherhood) Dr. Mohamed Badie, Muslim Brotherhood Chairman, said Sunday that quot;no one can enslave the people of Egyptquot;. This came in a speech by Dr. Badie at the start of a session in Cairo Criminal Court, held at the Police Academy in Torah (south of Cairo), at the start of another farcical...

LAGOS, Nigeria ? A Nigerian Islamic extremist leader says nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls will not be seen again until the government frees his detained fighters. A new video from Nigeria's homegrown Boko Haram terrorist network received Monday purports to show some of the girls and young women chanting Quranic verses in Arabic. The barefoot girls look frightened and sad and sit huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils. Some Christians among them say they have converted to...

A man whose three cousins are among more than 200 schoolgirls being held by Islamist militants in north-eastern Nigeria tells the BBC#039;s Focus on Africa radio programme of his reaction to the emergence of a video apparently showing about 130 of them. The man declined to give his name because of security concerns for his family. The girls, a mixture of Christians and Muslims, were taken by Boko Haram fighters on the night of Monday 14 April from their school hostel in the town of Chibok in Borno state. In the new video a group of them is shown reciting Koranic verses, after apparently converting to Islam....

RSS feed Home World UK England N. Ireland Scotland Wales Business Politics Health Education Sci/Environment Technology Entertainment amp; Arts Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle East US amp; Canada 12 May 2014 Last updated at 19:51 Video #039;shows missing Nigeria girls#039; Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The video, released by Boko Haram, claims to show more than 100 of the girls praying A Boko Haram video purports to show dozens of abducted Nigerian girls, as the...

12 May 2014 Last updated at 19:47 BST Islamist militants Boko Haram have released a video apparently showing about 130 girls kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria on 14 April. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau also appeared in the video and said the children would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed. The group has abducted more than 200 girls in recent...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa ? The Islamist extremist sect Boko Haram said Monday that it is willing to negotiate with Nigeria's government over the release of more than 200 schoolgirls it abducted four weeks ago. The group released a video demanding the release of all imprisoned insurgents in Nigeria in exchange for the teenagers. Hundreds of Boko Haram prisoners are held in various detention...

The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has said he will release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for prisoners, according to a new video seen by Agence France-Presse. Around 100 girls wearing full veils and praying are shown in an undisclosed...

Libya's navy has intercepted and rescued 340 illegal migrants off the coast of the western town of Sabratha when their boat began to take on water....

Fighting between South Sudanese rebels and government troops is raging, just days after a fresh ceasefire deal, dashing hopes to a swift end to the civil war....

(Source: Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Republic of South Africa) Ghana and South Africa success stories in reducing hunger 2 May 2014, Accra - As the only countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with under five percent of their populations undernourished, Ghana and South Africa provide two examples that major successes in fighting hunger can be achieved by African governments given strong political commitment, FAO said today. Ghana has since 1990 slashed the prevalence of undernourishment from 44.4 percent of its population in 1990 to less than five percent, as of 2011. For its part, South Africa has maintained the percent of its population experiencing undernourishment at less...

(Source: Confédération Africaine de Football) Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic on Monday (12 May 2014) unveiled a 30-man provisional squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The final 23 will be named on June 1, barely 24-hours after a test game with Armenia in Sion,...

The abduction of almost 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria has recently...

Their clothes had been replaced by a new uniform ? drab veils of black and grey. One of the girls stepped forward amid the Koranic chanting to state that she and her classmates are unharmed. But her eyes and shaky voice told a story of fear and duress. Almost a month after they were abducted from their school in northern Nigeria, the first evidence of the fate of about 130 of the stolen girls of Chibok emerged yesterday after Boko Haram released a video alleging the teenagers had converted to Islam. In a 27-minute film combining purported footage of the schoolchildren with separate footage of its confident leader, the Islamist terror group offered to release some of the girls in return for...

President Salva Kiir says South Sudan will postpone presidential elections scheduled for 2015 as the country's warring factions will need time to reconcile....

US experts assisting the search for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are closely examining a new video for clues to their whereabouts....

The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has released a video said to show some of the scores of girls who were abducted from a boarding school last month. In the images, delivered to news organizations and posted on YouTube on Monday, about 100 girls...

Deutsche Welle: The Islamist militia Boko Haram has been launching attacks throughout the country, and the government and military have not been able to stop them so far. What is there to say about rumors that parts of the military even support or cooperate with Boko Haram terrorists? Garba Umar Kari: Well, you say rumor and I also still believe that these are rumors. I fervently pray that they are rumors, because if they are true, then we have a very serious problem. I know about the issue of corruption, I know about the issue of neglect, and I know of the inability to arm [troops]. But I am not sure that there are elements within the Nigerian military who are with the Boko Haram people,...