Africa

30 children go missing in Kenya daily

NAIROBI, May 27 (NNN-KBC) — Close to 30 cases of missing children are reported every day in Kenya as families…

UN calls for release of arbitrarily detained, abducted persons in Libya

TRIPOLI, May 27 (NNN-Xinhua) — The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called for the immediate release of all persons…

South Africa: Cabinet announcement later this week

PRETORIA, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The announcement on the members of the new executive will be made later in the…

Burkina Faso: Four dead in new attack on Christians

OUAGADOUGOU, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four people were killed on Sunday at a Catholic church in northern Burkina Faso in…

Sudan: Islamists back army in push to preserve sharia

KHARTOUM, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — With talks suspended between protest leaders and Sudan’s military over a transfer of power to civilian…

Madagascar goes to polls in latest battle of bitter political feud

ANTANARIVO, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Madagascar holds parliamentary elections Monday (May 27) in what is being seen as the latest…

Iran’s Non-Oil Trade With Zimbabwe Reaches 6.65 Million USD

TEHRAN, Iran, May 27 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran traded 1,188 tonnes of non-oil commodities worth 6.65 million U.S. dollars with Zimbabwe,…

Militants kill at least 25 Nigerian soldiers, some civilians in ambush

ABUJA, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Insurgents killed at least 25 soldiers and a number of civilians in an ambush in…

Malta rescues 216 migrants

VALLETTA, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Maltese armed forces patrol boat picked up more than 200 migrants from two dinghies…

Uganda protests Rwanda military incursion on its territory

KAMPALA, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Uganda protested an incursion by Rwandan soldiers on its territory that it said resulted in…