A steady stream of mourners on Tuesday paid their respects to the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan as he lay in state in the capital of his native Ghana. The diplomat's body was flown back from Switzerland on Monday ahead of a state funeral and private burial in Accra on Thursday. Nobel peace laureate Annan, who was the world body's fir ...

The Comoran army's deputy chief-of-staff has been arrested in connection with an alleged conspiracy against President Azali Assoumani, his family told AFP on Tuesday. Colonel Ibrahim Salim was arrested on Monday afternoon by two military police officers who presented him with a summons , one of his relatives told AFP, speaking on condition of ...

Dubai's global port operator DP World said Tuesday it will pursue all legal means to defend its claim to a Djibouti terminal after the African nation nationalised the facility. The decision by Djibouti on Sunday to nationalise the Doraleh Container Terminal came after the government scrapped a 50-year concession contract with DP World, trigger ...

A steady stream of mourners on Tuesday paid their respects to the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, as his body lay in state in the capital of his native Ghana. The diplomat's body was flown back from his home in Switzerland on Monday ahead of a state funeral and private burial in Accra on Thursday. Nobel peace laureate Annan, who was t ...

More than 1.6 billion people around the world depend on forests to some extent for their livelihood while some 60 million indigenous people are completely dependent on forests for all aspects of their survival. In this age of climate change and pollution, forests have never been more important to the human existence. ...

Boycotted by radio shows for being too provocative but piling up hits on Ivory Coast's social media for nailing facts of life, the young rapper's latest song has a bite. Sex, money, social injustice -- Bop de Narr tackles head-on any aspect of society that strikes him as in need of comment, but he does so with a subversive turn of mind and rare ...