The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, West Coast zone, is training its communication officers and selected journalists on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) prevention in the region.

Self-acclaimed NFF president Chris Giwa was stopped by security operatives from parading himself as the country’s football boss at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar on Saturday.

European leaders were set on Monday to unveil punishing new sanctions on Russia after weekend fighting in Ukraine imperilled a fragile truce aimed at halting a bloody pro-Kremlin uprising.

Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successfully underwent prostate surgery it was announced Monday, in an unprecedented public statement about his health, which has long been the subject of speculation.

Prince William and his wife Kate are “very pleased” to announce that they are expecting their second child, Kensington Palace said on Monday.

Desperate residents were huddled on rooftops Monday as they tried to escape flood waters which have already claimed more than 350 lives in India and Pakistan and left tens of thousands homeless.

France’s Morocco-born education minister said on Monday she would take legal action after a false letter circulated on the Internet advising towns to offer a weekly Arabic language class.

Lesotho’s prime minister told AFP on Monday that he would not reopen parliament, calling into question a South African-brokered peace deal which allowed him to return to the mountain kingdom after an attempted coup.

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Internationally-funded African Union troops in war-torn and impoverished Somalia have raped women and girls as young as 12 and traded food aid for sex, Human Rights Watch said in a damning report Monday.

Two suicide bombers detonated explosives-rigged vehicles on Monday in a town north of the Iraqi capital that has battled jihadist militants, killing 10 people, police and a doctor said.

Dubai has relaunched an ambitious project to develop its second airport, touted originally as the world’s largest, to handle 120 million passengers a year.

A 45year old farmer John Ogunji has reportedly killed his wife Christiana in Okitipupa area of Ondo state over an argument on the sharing of a bag of cassava flour (Garri).

Thousands of people displaced by a Muslim rebel assault on a major Philippine city are enduring squalid conditions in an evacuation camp where dozens have died, while the guerilla leader remains free one year on.

President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to China represents an “important milestone” in US-China relations, the top White House national security aide said Monday at a meeting with officials in Beijing.