East Timor Votes For Parliament Amid Huge Challenges
East Timor headed to the polls to elect a new parliament Saturday as Asia's youngest democracy battles economic challenges 15 ...
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Increased Mental Patients On Our Streets Worrying
Psychiatric disorders (mental illness) according to experts can be caused by a predisposing factor. This means that it is genetic ...
Farmers Call To Return Home
Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease ...
Economic Activities Shutdown In Onitsha For Biafra
Economic activities in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state, south-east Nigeria were shut down Tuesday May 30th in commemoration ...
World Watches As Yemen Descends Into Total Collapse
Yemen is descending into total collapse, its people facing war, famine and a deadly outbreak of cholera, as the world ...
Shutdown For 50th Anniversary of Biafra Declaration
Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of ...
Shut-Down For 50th Anniversary of Biafra Declaration
Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent republic ...
Frustration and Hope
Nigeria on Tuesday marks 50 years since the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra plunged the country into a ...
A Painful Chapter In Nigeria’s History
Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking a brutal ...
More Than One Million On Brink of Starvation
reas outside the famine zones are also suffering from severe food shortages. It has been three months since famine, which ...
UN Says Struggling To Cope With Mosul Exodus
The exodus of civilians from the battleground city of Mosul has reached an unprecedented level, leaving aid agencies struggling to ...
US Accuses Syria of Mass Executions and Burning the Bodies
The Syrian government has been accused of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners by the US government - ...
South Sudanese Refugees Need $1.4 Bn This Year
The United Nations said Monday that $1.4 billion (1.3 billion euros) was needed this year alone to help the nearly ...
Charity Warns S.Sudan ‘man-Made’ Famine Could Kill 6 Million
The famine ravaging South Sudan and its neighbours could claim six million lives, a charity warned Friday, as the international ...
Over 95,000 S.Sudanese Fled To Sudan In 2017
More than 95,000 South Sudanese have entered Sudan so far this year, the UN said Thursday, as thousands continue to ...
UN Eyes New Yemen Peace Talks By End of May
A new round of peace talks between Yemen's warring sides should begin by the end of May, the UN mediator ...
US Pushes UN To Again Consider Arms Embargo On South Sudan
The United States on Tuesday urged the divided UN Security Council to back an arms embargo and sanctions against South ...
UN Urges Saudi Coalition Not To Bomb Yemen Port
The United Nations called Thursday on the Saudi-led coalition intervening in Yemen not to bomb the rebel-held port of Hodeida, ...
Rise In Boko Haram Child Suicide Bombers ‘alarming’
An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the ...
Drought, Conflict and Famine In Africa
Drought and conflict have pushed the Horn of Africa, Nigeria and Yemen to the brink of famine, and a lack ...