Zimbabwe has barred former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, former US President Jimmy Carter and other prominent figures from visiting the country to assess the humanitarian crisis.

The Federal Ministry of Transportation has set up an eight-man committee that will look into the ship handling services in the country and include it in the Cabotage Act.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested the Chairman of Ondo State Local Service Commission, Mr. Joseph Olabisi for including ghost workers on the pay roll of all the local government councils in the state

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Sokoto has decried the increasing construction of illegal petrol stations in the zone.

The Customs Area Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Seme border, Comptroller Ali Wakili, Monday read out the riot act to the Badagry and Seme border community.

Mohammed Garba Kukuwa, a Damaturu based human right activist who sued the Secretary to the Yobe State Government Engineer Baba Goni Machina and four other commissioners in the state, has withdrawn the case he filed before a Damaturu High Court.

VICE-PRESIDENT George Kunda has assured that the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) will complete its work by December next year so that the country can have a new Constitution before the 2011 elections.

Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah was one of the South-south governors that championed the cause for resource control and development of the Niger Delta area. In this interview with ROLAND OGBONNAYA, he looks at the area

The Security Council this morning authorized a temporary increase of the military strength of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) of up to 2,785 military personnel, and the strength of its formed police

As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South African city of Cape Town, in Western Cape Province, she heard the armed men outside shout: "We're going to kill you because

Vowing to protect Sudanese civilians, the International Criminal Court prosecutor yesterday requested arrest warrants for three rebel commanders he accused of war crimes in an attack that killed 12 African Union peacekeepers in the Darfur region of Sudan.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20 -- The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to reinforce the beleaguered U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, approving the temporary deployment of more than 3,100 additional personnel to help protect hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Last year, there was a candlelight dinner at sold-out, shut-down Union Station to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Federalist Society, with President Bush on stage and three Supreme Court justices in the audience.

We are seeing signs of a plan to launch hostilities, which would include South Kivu," Agenzia Fides was told by a local Church source (we withhold their name for security reasons) in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu, in eastern

Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) When they arrived in what was then Upper Volta (Burkina Faso's name at the time), in 1967, the Daughters of Saint Camillus (the Camillians) began a network of healthcare centers, offering quality health assistance, free of charge,

Diabo (Agenzia Fides) The Redemptorist Sisters, founded in 1731 by Italian religious Mother Maria Celeste Crostarosa, are now present on all the continents of the world. In southern Africa, they are in Burkina Faso, with two contemplative communities, mostly formed

Somali Islamist rebels search for pirates who hijacked a Saudi oil tanker, saying seizing a Muslim-owned ship is a crime.

Somali man says world ignores their real problems

Hi Guys,Sorry we haven't updated in a while but internet is hard to find in the bush and very expensive. We will have a better journal later on but for now please enjoy some amazing pictures of wildlife in Kenya.Love,Dan