Africa

Namibia To Join Global Sanitation Partnership To Improve National Situation

WINDHOEK, Sept 21 (NNN-NAMPA) – Namibia is set to join a global partnership — Sanitation and Water for All (SWA)…

Nigeria shuts Action Against Hunger aid group ‘for feeding militants’

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria), Sept 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nigeria’s army has stopped the work of international NGO Action Against Hunger accusing it…

Nigerian elected president of United Nations General Assembly

Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (c) UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Every year in September, all 193 members of the United Nations…

UN: At least 28 displaced people killed in northern Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo KINSHASA, Sept 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 28 people have been killed in a northeastern…

Oil theft cost Nigeria $1.35 bln, group urges legal task force: govt committee reports

ABUJA, Sept 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nigeria lost $1.35 billion to oil theft in the first six months of this year…

Burkina Faso: Ambush leaves at least 5 soldiers dead, bridge blown up

OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least five soldiers were killed in an ambush in northwestern Burkina Faso near the…

Namibian police arrest man with live pangolin in possession

OTJIWARONGO, Namibia, Sept 20 (NNN-NAMPA) – A 22-year-old man was arrested with a live pangolin at a service station in…

Libyan Coast Guard picks up nearly 500 migrants in region surrounding Tripoli

TRIPOLI, Sept 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Libya’s Coast Guard said it had picked up 493 migrants on six inflatable boats in…

DR Congo: 12 dead in attacks on refugee camps – officials

BUNIA (DR Congo), Sept 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 12 civilians have been killed in renewed violence targeting refugee camps…

Nabil Karoui: Tunisia candidate to stay in jail

TUNIS, Sept 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A presidential candidate in Tunisia who reached the final stage of the election is set…