Africa

ACCRA-Nana Akufo-Addo is to be sworn in as Ghana's new president on Saturday after beating incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama in elections last month. The 72-year-old former human rights lawyer will take the oath of office at a ceremony in Independence Square in central Accra...

The heat is being turned on the Leader of Majority in the National Assembly, Mr Aden Duale, in the wake of a sound clip circulating on social media where a voice is calling for the barring of a neighbouring Bantu community from registering as...

Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein and her sister played softball when they were young, but in middle school they stopped, as did many of their Muslim peers. “It...

Even without reading the entire article, the headline is piercing enough. This is one of the stingers from veteran Ugandan scribe, Charles Onyango –Obbo, who needs no further introduction. We quote him here verbatim: ‘What do Somalia Sheep, goats and Ugandan doctors have in...

At least 200 million women alive today in 30 countries have been subjected to the painful procedure known as female genital mutilation, a practice the U.N. says is deeply rooted in tradition in some cultures. About half of those women come from Egypt, Somalia...

They could be found on the outskirts of Sirte, Libya, supporting local militia fighters, and in Mukalla, Yemen, backing troops from the United Arab mirates.  At Saakow, a remote outpost in southern Somalia, they assisted local commandos in killing several members of the terror...

Rabat (AFP) - Morocco has ordered the closure of schools it says are linked to a US-based Islamic preacher that Turkey blames for a failed coup last year, the interior ministry said. "Investigations on the establishments of the Mohamed Al-Fatih group, linked to Turkish national...

Riyad Mahrez has capped the most successful period of his career by winning the 2016 African player of the year award. The winger scored 17 Premier League goals as Leicester won the title under Claudio Ranieri, with the Algerian’s exploits earning him the PFA players’...

By AGATHA NGOTHO The Food and Agriculture Organisation has appealed for US$1 billion (Sh102 billion) to feed more than 40 million starving people in drought-stricken countries worldwide. “Forecasts for 2017 are alarming as millions of people, many of them children, face the threat of starvation in...

  Pretoria – While many were celebrating New Year’s Day, all hell broke loose in the Somali community in Pretoria West with a couple dying in front of their toddler. The father, Hassan Moalim Ahmed, 28, shot his ex-wife Deqa Hassan Yusuf, 22, six times in...