Africa Archive

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday unveiled locally produced mine resistant ambush protected vehicles named Ezugwu and other armoured vehicles designed to carry out insertion and extraction of troops, assault, counter-terrorism, delivery of high fire power and urban warfare. The News Agency

A gas tanker exploded at a ceramics factory in Khartoum on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people and injuring dozens more. Eyewitnesses in the Sudanese capital said the tanker exploded while a shipment was being unloaded. Doctors at Bahari Hospital in

Germany expelled two Russian diplomats after prosecutors announced possible Moscow involvement in the slaying of a Georgian man in Berlin, pointing at Moscow’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation. The Russian Foreign Ministry promptly denied that the Russian government had been

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had called out Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for failing to meet the target of spending 2% of national output on defense adding he was two-faced for comments he appeared to have made about him.

President Akufo-Addo the law is on the side of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) in their standoff with Nigerian traders but it does not mean that they have the right to take the law into their own hands. Addressing