Face à une mobilisation de plus en plus importante, Washington a annoncé l'envoi d'une équipe pour tenter de retrouver les quelque 200 jeunes filles disparues.

Trapped in the desert as sex workers, dreaming of escape

Egyptian presidential favourite Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed that the banned Muslim Brotherhood group "will not exist", if he wins.

A face-to-face meeting between South Sudan's rival politicians is likely to take place on Friday, UN chief Ban Ki-moon says on a trip to Juba.

Egyptian painter Hassan Al-Shark talks to the BBC about overcoming his family's disapproval and a lack of formal training to become one of Egypt's best known artists with pieces on display in galleries across Europe and the US.

Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped eight girls in northern Nigeria, following last month's mass abduction, police say.

Le chef du Parti de la justice et de la reconstruction, l'un des principaux soutiens d'Ahmed Miitig au poste de premier ministre, revient sur cette élection contestée.

Le groupe islamiste Boko Haram revendique dans une vidéo l'enlèvement de 276 lycéennes à la mi-avril dans le nord-est du Nigeria. Son leader, Aboubakar Shekau, menace de les traiter en « esclaves » et de les « marier » de force.

Agées de 12 à 15 ans, les jeunes filles ont disparu dans la nuit de lundi à mardi dans des villages de l'Etat de Borno.

Egypt's prestigious Islamic institute Al-Azhar has urged the Nigerian Muslim group Boko Haram group to free more than 200 schoolgirls captured for slavery....

WASHINGTON ? The White House says a U.S. team will head to Nigeria as soon as possible to aid in the search for nearly 300 teenage...

Ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi has been uncompromising in his first television interview since announcing his run for Egypt's presidency....

Nigeria#039;s militant Islamist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a boarding school in the northern town of Chibok on 14 April. An estimated 200 heavily armed militants arrived at night in 20 vehicles to steal supplies and kidnap the students. Why were the girls captured? In the local Hausa language, Boko Haram means quot;Western education is forbiddenquot;. So the abductions show the group#039;s visceral hatred for Western education. Moreover, the group promotes the puritanical Islamic view that a woman#039;s place is in the home. The militants have attacked schools before. The school in Chibok, which was hosting final year exams for Christian and Muslim schoolgirls,...

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped eight more girls from a remote village in north-eastern Nigeria just three weeks after snatching nearly 300 schoolgirls who the militant group?s leader has warned face being sold into slavery. The latest attack, news of which took a couple of days to emerge, comes as the Nigerian government faces growing criticism for its failure to find the schoolgirls and curb the activities of the group that has claimed thousands of lives in its five-year insurgency. Residents in Warabe in Borno State said that armed militias in two camouflaged vehicles swooped on the village on Sunday night, taking girls and torching homes. ?They moved door to door looking...

Whitehall source says government prepared to deploy special forces and spy planes if requested by Nigerian authorities President Goodluck Jonathan has welcomed a US offer to send an American team to Nigeria to support the search for the girls. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters Britain is prepared to send special forces and intelligence-gathering aircraft to Nigeria to help in the hunt for the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants, Whitehall officials have said. Options for British support for the Nigerian forces struggling to find nearly 300 young girls were discussed by officials at a meeting of the government's emergency committee, Cobra. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of...

6 May 2014 Last updated at 20:24 BST US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the US is willing to provide intelligence and hostage negotiation expertise to assist Nigeria in the search for more than 230 kidnapped girls. The vast majority of the girls were seized from their school, in Borno, Nigeria, on 14 April, and the leader of the Islamist group Boko Haram has threatened to sell...

Les moutons, Medhi decided finally, his glass of mint tea paused en route northwards as he considered the question. Yes, definitely: the sheep were what bugged him most about Essaouira nowadays. He lifted the glass and slurped a full stop. Following his half-hearted sales pitch, the shopkeeper and I had settled into a discussion about the changes to Morocco's most celebrated coastal resort. In the eight years since my last visit, the Marrakech style set had painted a sheen of gloss onto the blue-and-white-washed town. The place now seemed awash with boutique hotels and stylish cafes, many of them more metropolitan than Moroccan, and tourist craft shops lined the streets. The car park was...

WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration plans to send a team of advisers to help Nigerian officials rescue more than 270 girls abducted from a boarding school last month or negotiate their release, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday. Nigerian President Goodluck...

[Premium Times]A former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has called on all Nigerians irrespective of religious or political affiliation to join in the campaign to find the abducted Government Secondary School, Chibok, girls....

[Premium Times]The Nigeria Export Promotion Council, NEPC, and its Kenya counterpart, on Tuesday pledged to explore the vast market opportunities in Africa to promote trade and investment....

[Premium Times]Nigeria's current security situation jars the mind, and troubles all those who have a touch of conscience about the plight of their fellow man. We have been brought to the point where we must now admit that basic security no longer exists for a vast segment of our people. This means too many of our people have been cast into the no man's land where law and order, justice, and respect for human life and dignity do not abide....

[Premium Times]Nigeria has been listed by the World Health Organisation, WHO, as one of the countries infected with polio virus, but does not export the disease to the rest of the world....

South Sudan rebel chief Riek Machar has promised to attend peace talks....

Leaders of both sides of...

The United States levied its first sanctions against South Sudan on Tuesday, targeting military leaders on both sides of the civil conflict for perpetrating unthinkable violence against civilians....

Amid a high-profile and unprecedented...

6 May 2014 Last updated at 22:44 BST The US has announced sanctions against individuals on both sides of the conflict in South Sudan, where violence has flared in the past few days as government forces try to take back the key oil town of Bentiu. Meanwhile, both the country's president and the opposition leader have told the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that they will...

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls who have been missing since they were abducted from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened to sell them. Finding the girls is the immediate priority, Obama said, and dealing with the Boko Haram group is a close second. quot;In the short term our goal is obviously is to help the international community, and the Nigerian government, as a team to do everything we can to recover these young ladies,quot; Obama said in an...

Nouakchott , Mauritania (PANA) - Former Health Minister and leader of the Party for Democracy and Harmony (El Wiam), Bodiel Ould Houmeid, has filed his papers for the Mauritanian presidential election, scheduled for 21 June, the Constitutional Council announced here Tuesday.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The gunmen who abducted three Dutch Nationals in the Letugbene community in Nigeria's oil-rich Bayelsa State have freed the two Nigerians who were taken along with the foreign nationals.
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