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Pakistan Navy Ship while deployed on Counter Piracy mission saved precious lives in Gulf of Aden. The ship was operating as a part of Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151), an international Coalition Task Force of naval ships and aircraft formed under the UN mandate...

By:Maher Sattar Some hid in rice fields, others ate only leaves while making the long journey by foot across the border into Bangladesh. Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - Outside this town by the Bay of Bengal, we kept bumping into fresh arrivals when we visited the camps for...

Explosion during mass targeted worshippers inside St Peter's Church next to the main Coptic church in central Cairo. A bomb blast has killed at least 25 people during Sunday mass inside a Cairo church near the main Coptic Christian cathedral, according to Egyptian state TV...

The African Union is calling on Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to accept the results of the presidential election earlier this month as he said he would. AU Commission Chairperson Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma said, "The chairperson of the commission strongly urges President Yahya Jammeh to facilitate a...

President Barack Obama has requested a review of all cyberattacks that took place during the 2016 election cycle, the White House said Friday, amid allegations of Russian interference. "The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the...

Africa’s target of ending violent conflict by 2020 may be a pipedream if member countries do not finance the organisation. Candidates seeking to become the next chairperson for the African Union Commission argued in their first ever pre-election debate that financial constraints facing the continental...

The Governments of Sweden and the Netherlands have made financial contributions of USD 3.3 million and USD 800,000 respectively towards UNDP’s regional initiative on preventing and responding to the growth of violent extremism in Africa through a development lens. The project also received an earlier...

BANJUL - Gambia's leader of some 22 years Yahya Jammeh announced late Friday he would no longer accept defeat in recent elections, plunging the West African country into turmoil with a demand for fresh polls. Investigations into the December 1 vote have revealed a string...

Ghana's main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, has won the country's national election after President John Mahama conceded defeat. Akufo-Addo said on Twitter that Mahama had called him "congratulating me on winning the 2016 Presidential Election". https://twitter.com/NAkufoAddo/status/807319465876721664 Ghana's state television has also confirmed Maham's concession. Crowds of jubilant supporters...

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — As many as 3.5 million people in Africa were uprooted from their homes in 2015 because of conflict and natural disasters and left stranded in their own countries, with many governments overlooking this growing problem, a report released Friday said. Figures...