Government forces were battling rebels to keep a foothold in a flashpoint town on Thursday, in a widening conflict that may split South Sudan along ethnic lines and has prompted an east African bid to mediate.
Five days of fighting...
Neighbor turning on Neighbor, villages razed to the ground, hundreds of victims shot or hacked to death with machetes.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, visited violence-racked Central African Republic on Thursday, where she will feel the...
SYRIA'S PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD (L) RUSSIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MIKHAIL BOGDANOV (R)
A Russian diplomat signaled on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should refrain from statements suggesting he might seek re-election because it could fuel tension before planned peace...
The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the Egyptian authorities on Thursday for charging former President Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists with terrorism and conspiring with foreign groups, saying the allegations were "risible".
The Brotherhood also reiterated calls for all nations to put...
Oil workers have sought protection at a U.N. base in South Sudan's Bentiu oil producing area, the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said, after a minister said crude output was unaffected by five days of conflict in the...
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday embarked on the risky task of winding down the era of easy money, saying the U.S. economy was finally strong enough for it to start scaling down its massive bond-buying stimulus.
The central bank modestly...
AstraZeneca (AZN.L) has agreed to buy Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMY.N) stake in the companies' diabetes joint venture for up to $4.1 billion in a deal that will help return the group to growth, sending its shares to an new high.
AstraZeneca...
Ashikaga Holdings Co Ltd's (7167.T) return to Japan's stock market has rival lenders bracing for the exit of its main shareholder Nomura Holdings Co (8604.T) - an event expected to trigger consolidation among the country's regional banks.
Japan has more...
December 16, 2013
President Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR
Former President of Federal Republic of Nigeria
Hilltop Mansion,
Abeokuta, Ogun State
RE: MR PRESIDENT! MAY I REMIND YOU
Your Excellency, having perused carefully your open 18 paged letter to Mr. President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, it dawned on...
Any writer worth his/her salt ought to draw wisdom, superior intellectual strength and inspiration from works of accomplished masters in the diverse fields of human endeavours both in times past and contemporary periods.
With that trend of thought, I have...
Describing the allegations as entirely false, Adedeji said they were the handiwork of individuals determined to discredit him and weaken public confidence in the Tinubu administration.
