French Military Commandos Frees Four Hostages From Militants in BurkinaFaso

French commandos rescued four foreign hostages including two French citizens from a militant group in Burkina Faso, France’s military said ...

Extremely Poor South Sudan Signs New Deal With US Lobbyist To Remove Sanctions

South Sudan has signed a contract with a U.S. lobbying firm, after cancelling an earlier deal with the same company that drew criticism from...

Why Does Terrorism Still Exist?

In light of the recent terrorist attack in Sri Lanka , African Jotter decided to explore the reason why terrorism is still popular tactic ...

Citizens Celebrate As Sudanese Army Prepares to Make 'Important Announcement'

Recent reports have surfaced that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has stepped down, this after the Sudanese army on Thursday planned to...

China Donates $2m to AU for Capacity Building Efforts

The African Union Commission, AUC, on Wednesday confirmed receipt of two million dollars from the Chinese government. The amount was hand...

EU Provides Extra €115.5 million To Tackle Insecurity and IllegalMigration in West Africa

As part of its commitment to help tackle insecurity and irregular migration in the G5 Sahel region, the European Union (EU) has announced...

World Bank slashes Nigeria’s growth projection amid a slowing global economy

Nigeria’s economic growth forecast for 2019 has been slashed to 2.1 percent, down from the 2.2 percent forecast made by the World Bank last...

Despite of AfCFTA, SADC Bloc Concludes Economic Partnership AgreementWith EU

It took 10 years of negotiations between the six members of SADC and the EU to successfully conclude talks on an Economic Partnership Ag...

Thousands Protest Appointment of Bensalah as Algerian Interim President

Thousands of protesters rejected the Algerian parliament’s choice of an interim president on Tuesday after the resignation of Abdelaziz Bout...

Shell plans $15 billion investments in Nigeria’s oil and gas development

Oil major, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has earmarked about $15 billion for investments in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. Th...