World

By Ebi kesiena Fourteen men, including a former President, will go on trial in Burkina Faso over the assassination in 1987 of Thomas Sankara, the country's revolutionary leader and a pan-African icon. Near the Sankara memorial...

By Ebi Kesiena The United States has said that the first face-to-face meeting between senior US and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was "candid and professional" and that the Taliban would...

By John Ikani  Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday demanded France’s “total respect”, following a diplomatic row over visas and critical comments from Paris about the North African country. Algiers last week recalled its Ambassador from...

By John Ikani  Nigerians living in the US on Saturday converged at New York in a carnival to celebrate the 61st Independence Anniversary of their homeland. The annual event described as the largest gathering of Nigerians...

By Ebi Kesiena Gloria Narvaez, Colombian nun who was kidnapped more than four years ago by al-Qaida-linked extremists in Mali, has been released. The nun was kidnapped in February 2017 near Mali’s border with Burkina Faso....

  By Ebi Kesiena Migrants in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, have demanded immediate deportation to a safe location due to living conditions in detention centres and ill-treatment by Libyan authorities. Dozens of migrants protested on Saturday...