The death toll from the worst cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe's history continues to rise and now stands at 1 608, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

A meeting has taken place in Monrovia between President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and a senior official of the new military leadership in neighboring Guinea, the 2nd Vice President General Mamadou Bah Camara.

The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission, tasked with protecting civilians in war-ravaged Darfur and quelling the violence in the Sudanese region, commemorated its first anniversary in operation today.

Somalia's problems are driven by a lack of responsible political leadership, the top United Nations envoy to the Horn of Africa nation said today.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has delivered emergency supplies for more than 18,000 displaced people in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who are victims of violence at the hands of the notorious Ugandan rebel

When it all looked like there was going to be peace at last in Zimbabwe with the power-sharing agreement, there seems to be far more crisis there than was ever imagined.

Caritas is shocked by its staff reports of a series of massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by Ugandan rebels on Christmas Day and the days following.

2008 will remain memorable in the history of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the "appalling atrocities" reportedly committed by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and southern Sudan, and demanded that they respect all rules of

The Federal Government said yesterday, that it will review all policies relating to recruitment into the Nigerian Police Force in order to ensure that 'bad eggs' do not find their way into the Service.

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have nabbed an alleged fake priest, Herbert Chukwu, who specialises in duping donors of foreign currencies.

In a bizarre manner that left most of the people in the courtroom in sheer disbelief, a mobile court in Kano yesterday sentenced a famous film producer and actor Alhaji Hamisu Lamido Iyantama to 15 months imprisonment with a fine

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is in an uncomfortable position; it is stuck between its will to fairly try all the people whom it accuses of having organized the 1994 genocide and the United Nations wish to see

Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State yesterday dared President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua over the recent Jos North crisis, when he constituted another six-man committee to probe the crisis.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have made a breakthrough in the murder case of the former Kwali Area Council Chairman, Mr. Samuel Gwamna, with the arrest of the key suspects in the mater.

Kano State government will soon sign into law the anti-corruption bill to enable the state Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission perform its work effectively.

Kwara State Police command yesterday declared that, a total number of 75 armed bandits were arrested in the outgoing year, while 19 of them were killed during gun duel.

Four civil society organisations have petioned UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Mr. Leandro Despouy, condemning the dismissal of fomer Economic and Financial Crimes Commission's (EFCC) Chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu.

A member of the National Assembly, Hon Dr. Hashimu Abdullahi, has assured Nigerians that the report of recent power sector probe at the National Assembly would not be swept under the carpet.

The FCT Minister, Senator Mohammed Adamu Aliero, has assured that his administration would work assiduously to better the lives of all residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).