In today’s world, where wars are multiplying and civilians bear unspeakable costs, women’s leadership is not a luxury. It is a necessity for collective survival.
Opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary said the soldiers are ensuring my protection, according his post on Facebook.
The decision is a repudiation of his advisor for Africa, Mossad Bullos, who recently rejected claims that a "genocide" against Christians was taking place in Nigeria.
The move came two days after the US embassy urged all citizens in the country to "depart immediately" on commercial aircraft.
Coups and unrest have been common in the West African country since independence from Portugal in 1974.
Africa's cleanest cities are no longer exceptions but the way forward for a continent that now believes civic will and public consciousness will shape its urban future.
Over 4,500 left Bara city, including 1,900 who have reached El Obeid, says local medical group
A South African court has ruled that the 1967 death of ANC leader and Nobel prize winner Albert Luthuli was due to "assault" by apartheid policemen, overturning a finding that he was struck by a train.
The clerk of parliament blamed the loss of power to a faulty electricity generator supplying power to the building.
Members of the UN Security Council have condemned the assault by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Al Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur and expressed "grave concern" over escalating violence.
Sudanese medical group says 38 civilians summarily executed by RSF group in Umm Dam Haj Ahmed town in central Sudan.
Bipartisan lawmakers call on the Trump administration to label RSF a terrorist group following reports of mass killings and abuses in Al Fasher.
The paramilitary leader Dagalo says investigative committees have been formed to investigate the violence that the RSF carried out in the region.
AU chair Mahmoud Ali Youssouf urges "inclusive national dialogue and consultation" in the country following the victory of President Paul Biya.
The two stop staff "have been designated as persona non grata, and asked to leave the country within 72 hours," the WFP said in a statement.
Tanzanian police declared an evening curfew in the country's largest city after hundreds protested on Wednesday.
Nigeria's top general on Wednesday said the military did not have enough resources in its fight against terrorist groups and called on the country to strengthen its police force.
Nigeria's parliament has approved President Bola Tinubu's request to borrow $2.85 billion from international debt markets.
Egypt’s top diplomat holds talks with Sudanese counterpart to discuss situation in Al Fasher city.
Voters are electing the president, members of the country's 400-seat parliament and a leader and lawmakers in the semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago.
The Civil Aviation Authority said the accident happened at Kwale, near the Indian Ocean coast
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called for international "mediation" with Eritrea over access to the sea, insisting on an "irreversible" claim to the coastline as tensions rise between the Horn of Africa neighbo
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Tuesday that five of its volunteers were killed in Sudan.
Eighteen people perished when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of migrants capsized off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, while 64 people were rescued, the United Nations' migration agency said.
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