At least 32 people have died in Nigeria's northern Niger state after a boat sank in a river, an official has said.
The boat was reportedly overloaded, carrying about 100 passengers including women and children, capsized when it struck a submerged (...)
At least 76 hostages, including children, have been freed after Nigerian forces launched precision airstrikes on militant hideouts in the country's northwest, local authorities said.
The strikes targeted Pauwa Hill in the Kankara area of Katsina (...)
Augustine Ogbo works as a doctor, treating patients in clinics across the striking Caribbean island of St Lucia.
When he returns to his home in the coastal town of Rodney Bay, he clocks in for his second job — as the owner and solo chef of a (...)
RIYADH — The ministerial committee mandated by the Joint Extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit on developments in Gaza has condemned Israel's announcement of its intention to impose full military control over the Gaza Strip, describing it as crimes (...)
Kidnappers in Nigeria have killed at least 35 people they abducted from a village in northern Zamfara state despite ransoms being paid for their release, a local official told the BBC.
In recent years, criminal gangs in the region, known in the (...)
At least 25 people were killed after a passenger boat capsized on a river in Nigeria's Niger state, local media reported Sunday.
The vessel was reportedly transporting marketgoers from the Munya region when it sank in the Shiroro area. Dozens remain (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, alongside key Arab and Islamic countries, has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset's recent declaration calling for the imposition of so-called "Israeli sovereignty" over the occupied West Bank, denouncing it as a blatant (...)
Last summer, a woman was arrested at Gatwick Airport after she arrived from Nigeria with a very young baby girl.
The woman had been living in West Yorkshire with her husband and children, and before leaving the UK for Africa had told her GP she was (...)
Nigeria's former president Muhammadu Buhari — who once ruled as a military strongman before returning as a democratically elected leader — has died at age 82, his press secretary announced on Sunday.
Buhari died in London, where he had been (...)
Nigeria's president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage.
Along with eight other campaigners, Saro-Wiwa was convicted of murder, then hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime.
Many (...)
Namrata Nangia and her husband have been toying with the idea of having another child since their five-year-old daughter was born. But it always comes back to one question: 'Can we afford it?' She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her (...)
Families traveling abroad this summer on holiday or to visit relatives are being warned about the rise in measles cases in Europe and other regions.
Measles infections in Europe are at a 25-year high, while cases are also surging in countries such (...)
At the age of 24, Nafisa Salahu was in danger of becoming just another statistic in Nigeria, where a woman dies giving birth every seven minutes, on average.
Going into labor during a doctors' strike meant that, despite being in hospital, there was (...)
The official death toll after deadly floods hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to more than 200, officials say. Another 500 people are still missing in the town in the central Niger State however, local official Musa Kimboku told (...)
Flights were temporarily disrupted at Liberia main airport on Thursday night after a private jet carrying President Joseph Boakai almost crashed while landing.
Part of the presidential jet's landing gear malfunctioned while approaching the runway, (...)
At least 88 people have been confirmed dead after floods submerged Mokwa, a market town in Nigeria's Niger State, on Thursday, an official said.
Husseini Isah, head of the operations office in Minna, capital of Niger State, said that many more are (...)
The Nigerian government has pressed charges against a senator who accused one of the country's top politicians of plotting to kill her.
In April, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan alleged that Godswill Akpabio, the Senate president, and Yahaya Bello, a former (...)
Australia's Liberal Party has for the first time chosen a woman as its leader, with Sussan Ley to take over from Peter Dutton after he led the party to a bruising election loss.
Ley, from the moderate faction of the party, beat Angus Taylor - who (...)
Visa applications from nationalities thought most likely to overstay and claim asylum in the UK could be restricted under a new government crackdown.
Under Home Office plans, first reported in the Times, people from countries such as Pakistan, (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's non-oil exports recorded a high performance in 2024 with a total value of SR515 billion, the highest in its history.
Exports grew by 13% compared to the previous year, in addition to an increase of more than 113% since the (...)
Millions of African Catholics, as well as the continent's leaders, are mourning a man who they felt spoke for Africa.
Home to nearly a fifth of the Church's followers, or 272 million people, Africa is becoming increasingly important in the Catholic (...)
Transnational organized crime groups in East and Southeast Asia are spreading their lucrative scam operations across the globe in response to increased crackdowns by authorities, according to a UN report issued on Monday.
For several years, scam (...)
شهد مؤتمر مبادرة القدرات البشرية في نسخته الثانية تحت شعار «مابعد الاستعداد للمستقبل»، ضمن أعماله المنعقدة في مركز الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي للمؤتمرات بالرياض، جلسة وزارية بعنوان «تفعيل وتوسيع الإمكانات البشرية من الاستعداد إلى ما بعد الجاهزية»، (...)
شهد مؤتمر مبادرة القدرات البشرية في نسخته الثانية تحت شعار "مابعد الاستعداد للمستقبل"، ضمن أعماله المنعقدة في مركز الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي للمؤتمرات بالرياض، جلسة وزارية بعنوان "تفعيل وتوسيع الإمكانات البشرية من الاستعداد إلى ما بعد الجاهزية"، (...)
US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned.
It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight against HIV, which has seen (...)
