Adama Barrow Promises to Turn Page on Rights Abuses Jim Wormington Researcher “This is the day we’ve been waiting for,” Sanna told me as he and hundreds of Gambians gathered outside their country’s embassy in Dakar, Senegal to celebrate the inauguration today of President Adama Barrow. Barrow...

As insecurity in the Central African Republic (CAR) has displaced more than 200,000 people within the country and in neighbouring states in less than two months, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that tens of thousands are facing dire conditions. Refugee arrivals into the Democratic Republ...

Hpasawng-Maw Chi high way which is located in Kayah state would be built with a union budget of three billions (thirty three thousand million kyats) and will be completed by 2015. The road development process will begin this coming April and it would be built within (2014-2015) year budget. U...

By Daji Sani in Yola and Senator Iroegbu in Abuja In an effort to prevent a re-occurrence of a bomb blast in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Adamawa State, the Police Commissioner, Gabriel Adaji has ordered security beef-up and total re-screening of the IDPs before they are re-a...

Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Tobi Soniyi, Paul Obi in Abuja and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Tuesday was another day of tragedy for Borno State as a Nigerian Airforce fighter jet mistakenly dropped bombs on some settlements, believed to also harbour Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs), in Rann, Kala Balg...