Nigeria's anti-corruption watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has found what it described as a 'staggering' sum of money from a former head of the country's oil company.
AMISOM Force Commander Lt. Gen. Jonathan Rono has said that the war against terrorism will be won faster and more effectively if better embraced and supported by local communities which the troops serve.
SINGAPORE (AP) — Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore who was both feared for his authoritarian tactics and admired worldwide for turning the city-state into one of the world's richest nations while in power for 31 years, died Monday. He was 91.
An Egyptian mother who dressed herself as a man to provide for her family was awarded by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Sunday for working more than 40 years.
BHUBANESWAR, India — Beaten back in their usual area of operations, Somali pirates are "shifting their location" towards India, but the country is watchful to deal with such threats, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said.
In a first for Africa, a public-private water fund was launched in Kenya on Friday, bringing together businesses, utilities, conservation groups, government and farmers to fund upstream water conservation through activities such as watershed protection and reforestation.
Kenya will this week start constructing a wall to separate it from Somalia as part of efforts to contain terror attacks. Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery said the construction will start this week.
The Somali National Army Chief, Gen. Odewa Yusuf Rage met with the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia and Head of the African Union Transition Mission, Amb. Souef Mohamed El-Amine to discuss on the security situation and cooporation between SNA and ATMIS.
Somalia is at war with a cruel, global and morally bankrupt terrorist group which we cannot allow to live and operate in our country. If we do not root this evil and mindlessly violent group out of our society, they will destroy our future and that of the generations to come. Enough is enough! This nightmare must finally end.
Officials of the African Union Commission, the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and international partners are meeting in Mogadishu, Somalia, to discuss the mandate, composition, size, structure, and the Concept of Operations (CONOPs) of a proposed new AU mission in Somalia – the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), which will replace the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) whose mandate ends on 31st March 2022.