Category: INTERNATIONAL

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 […]

Chadian soldiers escorting a group of journalists ride on trucks and pickups in the Nigerian city of Damasak, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Damasak was flushed of Boko Haram militants last week, and is now controlled by a joint Chadian and Nigerien force. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military claims it has […]

In this Monday, March 16, 2015 file photo, passengers sit on a bus driving past a billboard with the photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and late rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a long time spiritual leader of the Shas party, a day ahead of legislative elections, in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel. Netanyahu […]

President John Mahama’s recent loan from the International Monetary Fund is troubling to some. (Courtesy Photo) (GIN) – The steady nation of Ghana could be heading for a painful train wreck as government borrowing raises the foreign debt to sky-high levels. Last month, President John Mahama signed on to a nearly $1 billion loan from […]

Performers from the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school parade in a float with the sculpture depicting Nelson Mandela, during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Racial pride and the fight against racism in Brazil were the themes of samba group […]

A man takes pictures of the float on which a singer was electrocuted by an overhead power line as the float passed beneath it during a carnival parade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, early Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. At least 20 people were killed early Tuesday after he was electrocuted, setting off a panic in which dozens […]

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Nigeria’s Islamic extremists invaded a second country in the region Friday, attacking two towns in a part of Niger that is already home to tens of thousands of refugees who have fled the terror group’s attacks back in Nigeria. In this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, Nigerian Soldiers, left, […]

Men hold a banner during a gathering at the Trocadero place, in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015 to protest against extremist Islamic group Boko Haram after a large-scale attack in Baga, where as many as 2,000 people were massacred in a raid on January 7, 2015. Cameroon, Chad and Niger have launched a regional bid […]

In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, people including stranded villagers at a local market after recent violence in surrounding areas at Maiduguri, Nigeria. Islamic extremists are rampaging through villages in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state, killing, burning and looting with no troops deployed to protect civilians, fleeing villagers said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola) MAIDUGURI, […]