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Syrian troops and rebels are recruiting children to fight in the country's civil war and some have been tortured by government forces for having links to the opposition, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said...
The cost of communication in South Africa will go under a microscope as the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) embarks on an ambitious programme to identify and resolve...
Suicide attacks on a French-run mine and a military base in northern Niger have shown how an Islamist threat is spreading across the weak nations of the Sahara, meaning France may be tied down...
Nigerian soldiers have killed three members of Islamist militant sect Boko Haram and arrested 25 more in the northeast, the army said on Tuesday, two weeks after the launch of a major ground and...
This paper addresses the steady disappearance of Lake Chad and continues from an initial exchange of discussions on the Consultancy Africa Intelligence (CAI) LinkedIn Group.(2) It starts by setting...
US Secretary of State John Kerry, who last week expressed concern about allegations of gross human rights violations by Nigerian forces fighting the Boko Haram Islamist sect, raised the issue with...
Nigeria has asked neighbouring Niger for support in a week-old offensive against Islamist insurgent bases in its semi-desert frontier region, underlining moves towards West African cooperation...
African National Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday that President Jacob Zuma doesn’t have to explain his ties to the Gupta family.
He said the National Executive Committee...
Armed groups in central Africa are using powerful weapons, some of which may be left over from the civil war in Libya, to kill elephants for their ivory, the United Nations (UN) said on Monday. In...
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) today was shocked with the news of the untimely death of its former President Hon. Moussa Idriss Ndélé, who perished in a motor vehicle accident in the capital...
Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not...
The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has learnt, with great shock, about the ambush and killing, on 12 May 2013, at the border between Chad and...
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) has committed to a partnership with the Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), which will see PAP allocate a day during each of its...
All of South Africa’s top schools focus squarely on WHY they educate. They start with their vision of the adults their efforts will produce. And so, Minister, should you.
When you do, you will...
One of the ambitions of pan-Africanism is the realisation of what Ali Mazrui, the renowned Kenyan political scientist, called Pax Africana, a peace ‘that is protected and maintained by Africa...