France is facing a tough diplomatic battle to convince the United States to lend UN support to a counter-terrorism force for Africa's Sahel region, where...
Seven more bodies have been found after a Boko Haram raid on a military camp in northeast Nigeria, a security source told AFP on Friday.
Ibrahim Aminu launched his first clothing line eight years ago when he designed a dress for his sister.
The Nigerian military on Wednesday said it was investigating reports that a recent bombing raid killed one of the wives of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.
UNESCO’s 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring Report highlights the responsibility of governments to provide universal quality education and stresses that...
Faced with escalating violence, a lack of funding, and locked out of male-dominated networks, many women are reluctant to enter politics with growing concerns...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence Monday described the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed over 200 Marines as the “opening salvo” of the war on terror as he hit out...
Libya’s oil production revival is being undermined by the same financial, economic and security problems that threaten the promise of stability and a better...
President Michel Aoun received the credentials of six ambassadors at the presidential palace Tuesday, the state-run National News Agency reported.
President Michel Aoun received the credentials of six new ambassadors to Lebanon at the presidential palace Tuesday.
Despite low world prices for the commodities on which they tend to depend, many of the world’s poorest economies have been doing well.
Nigeria has convicted and jailed 45 Boko Haram suspects, the government said Friday, the first sentences it has handed down in a set of mass trials that have...
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said donors responded quickly to his warning in February that some 20 million people were at severe risk of famine in...
A migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean carried hundreds of children and unaccompanied minors from over 15 countries to safety in Italy on Friday.
Five people were killed in a suicide bomb attack when Boko Haram raided a remote village in northeast Nigeria, a civilian militia member and the emergency...
Global hunger has fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but conflict and climate shocks are beginning to reverse these gains, an annual global hunger index...
Oil production by the OPEC cartel increased again September to a level that's beyond the limit the group had agreed on in order to push up prices.
The Trump administration is nearing completion of new 01:00 “Buy American” rules to make it easier to sell U.S.-made military drones overseas and compete...
he trial of more than 1,600 people suspected of ties with Boko Haram was expected to begin in Nigeria on Monday behind closed doors, in the biggest legal...
More trees at water sources improve sanitation and lead to fewer children dying from diarrhoea in poor countries, a global study said on Monday.