Drought-hit Ethiopians are facing a worsening food situation as the cost of maize soars nearly three-fold in some areas of the Horn of Africa country compared to last year, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) The laborious activity of the missionaries is the best way to celebrate World Mission Day in Malawi. Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Montfort Missionary who has been working in the small African nation for 30 years, tells Agenzia Fides

Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai remains hopeful a power-sharing deal with President Mugabe can work, despite an impasse talks.

ESIT-EKET Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom want ExxonMobil, to review it Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the host communities.

The owners of eight Nigerian vessels abducted on Thursday by pirates in the country's territorial waters are considering negotiating with the pirates for the release of their hijacked vessels and kidnapped crew members numbering 96 in total.

After four days of negotiations the two main political parties in Zimbabwe's power sharing deal have failed to reach an agreement over the allocation of key ministries.

INTER-PARTY talks on allocating ministries in the envisaged inclusive government were deadlocked last night with both parties resolving to refer the matter to the Sadc Troika which is scheduled to meet in Swaziland on Monday.

The dispute over the allocation of ministries in Zimbabwe's power-sharing government has been referred to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) after four days of talks in Harare failed to bring about an agreement.

Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama are potential icons of a post-racial age which is unfolding before our eyes. Mandela has become the most respected Black man by all races in world history.

THREE students of Anambra State University, Uli, Ihiala local government area of Anambra State, yesterday, appeared before the chief magistrate court sitting at Ihiala over alleged kidnapping of two-year old Chukwuemeka Desire Okeke, son of the Registrar of the university.

NFL chairman Oyuiki Obaseki has muddied the waters following last weekend's physical assault on Sharks coach Kadiri Ikhana by fans of Kaduna United, suggesting that Ikhana was "not beaten up, only slapped".

A FOUR-year old nursery school pupil has been electrocuted at Umuoma Irete in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State.

ESIT-EKET Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom want ExxonMobil, to review it Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the host communities.

Striker Joseph Akpala says he will wait for his chance and time with the Super Eagles of Nigeria.

THE World Bank is sponsoring 124 micro-projects in Ebonyi State, under the Community Based Poverty Reduction Projects (CPRP), an official has said.

The owners of eight Nigerian vessels abducted on Thursday by pirates in the country's territorial waters are considering negotiating with the pirates for the release of their hijacked vessels and kidnapped crew members numbering 96 in total.