Africa

ABUJA: Nigeria LNG Ltd (NLNG) has signed landmark 20-year gas supply agreements with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPC)...

NAIROBI:  South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the country's finance minister, state-owned radio announced, the seventh replacement to the...

TUNIS: Thousands of members and supporters of Tunisia's powerful Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) protested in the capital on Thursday...

MOGADISHU:  Diphtheria cases and deaths have risen sharply this year in Somalia, where the response has been curtailed by vaccine...

LONDON/DAKAR: The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century...

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron formally acknowledged France's role in violent repression during Cameroon's struggle for independence in a letter...

N'DJAMENA: Chad’s former Prime Minister and prominent opposition figure, Succes Masra, has been handed a 20-year prison sentence after being...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa moved closer to becoming a full sovereign member of the Africa Export-Import Bank, the continent's leading provider...

LAGOS: Nigerian nurses have called off their nationwide strike after securing a breakthrough deal with the federal government. The National...