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Flood in Nigeria - climate change

African leaders pledge to fight for a deal on climate change

By Dan Shepard and Kingsley Ighobor As African leaders, climate change experts and scholars understand it, the climate change agreement currently being negotiated and...

Hands of a prisoner on prison bars

Op-Ed: It’s time to stop death penalty in Africa

By Ivan Simonovic On Tuesday, 6 June 1995, over a year after electing the late Nelson Mandela as its President, South Africa ended the use of the death penalty, with a...

Uganda’s foreign minister Masimba Tafirenyika

If you want to liberate your body, liberate your mind

Recently the United Nations declared 2015-2024 as the International Decade for the People of African Descent. Africa Renewal‘s Masimba Tafirenyika sat down with the...

United Nations Refugee Agency

Aid agencies appeal for USD 174 million to help Nigerian refugees

Dakar – 9 April 2015 – Today, United Nations Agencies and non-governmental organizations are launching the Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) for Nigerian...

AFP shows video of U.N.’s Abuja office bomber

AFP - Videos have emerged purporting to show members of a Nigerian Islamist sect preparing for suicide attacks, including a young man said to be responsible for...

‘Bomb explosion’ rocks UN office in Abuja

There has been report of fatal bomb explosion at the United Nations office in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Abuja based news daily, Leadership reports that the explosion...

African economies up to the global challenge

By André-Michel Essoungou, Istanbul, Turkey Two foreign shoe sellers were once sent to Africa in search of new customers. At the sight of locals marching barefoot, the...

UN declares state of famine in parts of eastern Africa

AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on donor countries to immediately come up with $1.6 billion in aid for two regions in Somalia declared...

UN team arrives in Lagos to probe Iranian arms

A United Nations panel of experts on sanctions on Iran on Tuesday probed an illegal shipment of weapons seized in Nigeria last October sent from an Iranian port, the...