Category: INTERNATIONAL

(Courtesy Photo faceofmalawi.com/) JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Beware of the wildlife. Elephants and crocodiles have killed seven people in separate incidents over a seven-week period in an around a wildlife park in Malawi, the park’s managers said. African Parks, a Johannesburg-based group, on Monday attributed the deaths in Liwonde National Park primarily to the fact that […]

Google is extending Android One, its low-cost smartphone program which was launched in India last year, to six African countries where access to Internet continues to be a challenge, the company announced this week. Beginning Aug. 18, Google’s new Hot 2 phone became available at retail stores in Nigeria at a recommended price of $88. […]

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have voiced their support for a universal right to have access to clean drinking water in a letter to a Nigerian organization currently fighting a water privatization effort backed by the World Bank. “We are deeply concerned that low-income communities and people of color are disproportionately affected when water […]

Victims receive treatment at a hospital, after an explosion in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. A large sack of home-made bombs discovered at an abandoned Boko Haram camp exploded, killing 63 people, witnesses said Wednesday of a toll many times higher than in any recent attack in northeast Nigeria. The explosives were found by […]

Women are children rescued by Nigeria soldiers from Islamist extremists at Sambisa forest sit at back of a pickup truck as the arrived a camp in Yola, Nigeria, Saturday May. 2, 2015. The first group of nearly 300 Nigerian girls and women released from Boko Haram were brought by the military to the safety of […]

In this photo made available by the Nigerian Military taken Wednesday, April 29, 2015, a Nigerian soldier stands next to woman and children that were allegedly rescued by the Nigerian Military after being taken by Islamic extremists in Sambisa Forest, Nigeria. Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote […]

3: 40 p.m. (1240 GMT, 8: 40 a.m. EDT) Kenya’s president says hostages have been taken in the attack on a college in the northeastern town of Garissa. Students of the Garissa University College get out of a house where they seek refuge after fleeing from an attack by gunmen in Garissa, Kenya, Thursday, April […]

Supporters of opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari celebrate an anticipated win for their candidate, in Kano, Nigeria Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Nigeria’s aviation minister says President Goodluck Jonathan has called challenger Muhammadu Buhari to concede and congratulate him on his electoral victory, paving the way for a peaceful transfer of power in Africa’s richest and most […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Al-Shabab gunmen attacked a college in northeast Kenya early Thursday, targeting Christians and killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others, witnesses said. Even as security forces cornered the gunmen in a dormitory at Garissa University College where they could be holding hostages, survivors described to The Associated Press a […]

In this Saturday, March 28, 2015 file photo, opposition candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari holds his ballot paper in the air before casting his vote in his home town of Daura, northern Nigeria. On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Nigeria’s aviation minister said President Goodluck Jonathan had called challenger Muhammadu Buhari to concede and congratulate him on […]

People displaced following attacks by Islamist militants lineup for accreditation before casting their votes, in Yola, Nigeria, Saturday March 28, 2015. Nigerians went to the polls Saturday in presidential elections which analysts say will be the most tightly contested in the history of Africa’s richest nation and its largest democracy. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) ABUJA, Nigeria […]

The United Nations has pulled out of a partnership with mobile-app-based taxi company Uber, which would have created 1 million driving jobs for women because of concerns about the company’s treatment of women. On March 10, the opening day of the two-week session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York,Uber and […]