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…
Update: Peter Magombeyi, Zimbabwe union leader found after ‘abduction’
HARARE, Sept 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Zimbabwean union leader who was thought to have been abducted is alive and well,…
ECOWAS parliament calls for reversal of Nigeria’s borders closure
ABUJA, Sept 20 (NNN-XINHUA) — The recent closure of the Nigerian borders with West African neighbours might hamper the implementation…
Congo president’s $19m seized in San Marino after ‘spending more than $2m on watches and crocodile shoes’
President of the Republic of Congo- Brazzaville, Denis Sassous Nguesso SAN MARINO, Sept 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — One of Africa’s longest-serving…
Update: Day of mourning declared after Liberia fire
MONROVIA, Sept 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Liberia’s President George Weah has declared Thursday a national day of mourning following a deadly…