Last summer, a woman was arrested at Gatwick Airport after she arrived from Nigeria with a very young baby girl.
The woman had been living in West Yorkshire with her husband and children, and before leaving the UK for Africa had told her GP she was (...)
Nigeria's former president Muhammadu Buhari — who once ruled as a military strongman before returning as a democratically elected leader — has died at age 82, his press secretary announced on Sunday.
Buhari died in London, where he had been (...)
Nigeria's president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage.
Along with eight other campaigners, Saro-Wiwa was convicted of murder, then hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime.
Many (...)
Namrata Nangia and her husband have been toying with the idea of having another child since their five-year-old daughter was born. But it always comes back to one question: 'Can we afford it?' She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her (...)
Families traveling abroad this summer on holiday or to visit relatives are being warned about the rise in measles cases in Europe and other regions.
Measles infections in Europe are at a 25-year high, while cases are also surging in countries such (...)
At the age of 24, Nafisa Salahu was in danger of becoming just another statistic in Nigeria, where a woman dies giving birth every seven minutes, on average.
Going into labor during a doctors' strike meant that, despite being in hospital, there was (...)
The official death toll after deadly floods hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to more than 200, officials say. Another 500 people are still missing in the town in the central Niger State however, local official Musa Kimboku told (...)
Flights were temporarily disrupted at Liberia main airport on Thursday night after a private jet carrying President Joseph Boakai almost crashed while landing.
Part of the presidential jet's landing gear malfunctioned while approaching the runway, (...)
At least 88 people have been confirmed dead after floods submerged Mokwa, a market town in Nigeria's Niger State, on Thursday, an official said.
Husseini Isah, head of the operations office in Minna, capital of Niger State, said that many more are (...)
The Nigerian government has pressed charges against a senator who accused one of the country's top politicians of plotting to kill her.
In April, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan alleged that Godswill Akpabio, the Senate president, and Yahaya Bello, a former (...)
Australia's Liberal Party has for the first time chosen a woman as its leader, with Sussan Ley to take over from Peter Dutton after he led the party to a bruising election loss.
Ley, from the moderate faction of the party, beat Angus Taylor - who (...)
Visa applications from nationalities thought most likely to overstay and claim asylum in the UK could be restricted under a new government crackdown.
Under Home Office plans, first reported in the Times, people from countries such as Pakistan, (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's non-oil exports recorded a high performance in 2024 with a total value of SR515 billion, the highest in its history.
Exports grew by 13% compared to the previous year, in addition to an increase of more than 113% since the (...)
Millions of African Catholics, as well as the continent's leaders, are mourning a man who they felt spoke for Africa.
Home to nearly a fifth of the Church's followers, or 272 million people, Africa is becoming increasingly important in the Catholic (...)
Transnational organized crime groups in East and Southeast Asia are spreading their lucrative scam operations across the globe in response to increased crackdowns by authorities, according to a UN report issued on Monday.
For several years, scam (...)
شهد مؤتمر مبادرة القدرات البشرية في نسخته الثانية تحت شعار «مابعد الاستعداد للمستقبل»، ضمن أعماله المنعقدة في مركز الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي للمؤتمرات بالرياض، جلسة وزارية بعنوان «تفعيل وتوسيع الإمكانات البشرية من الاستعداد إلى ما بعد الجاهزية»، (...)
شهد مؤتمر مبادرة القدرات البشرية في نسخته الثانية تحت شعار "مابعد الاستعداد للمستقبل"، ضمن أعماله المنعقدة في مركز الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي للمؤتمرات بالرياض، جلسة وزارية بعنوان "تفعيل وتوسيع الإمكانات البشرية من الاستعداد إلى ما بعد الجاهزية"، (...)
US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned.
It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight against HIV, which has seen (...)
CAIRO — A meeting of the members of the Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee and a senior official of the European Union condemned the resumption of hostilities and the targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. In a (...)
CAIRO — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived in Cairo on Sunday to take part in high-level discussions on the ongoing crisis in Gaza.
The meeting, organized by the Ministerial Committee formed during the Joint (...)
JEDDAH — The Arab – Islamic Ministerial Committee reiterated its demand to the international community to assume its moral and legal responsibilities by immediately intervening to put pressure on Israel to halt its aggression on the Gaza Strip and (...)
A Nigerian senator who alleged she was sexually harassed by one of the country's top politicians has told the BBC the Senate operates like a "cult".
A fortnight ago, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for six months after submitting a petition (...)
The US government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists and experts who say the effort was vital to monitor global air quality and improve public health.
In response to an inquiry (...)
More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centers in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand.
The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian (...)
Thirty-eight people were injured, including six hospitalized, after a United Airlines flight from Lagos to Washington, D.C., encountered midair difficulties, Nigerian officials confirmed.
The exact nature of the emergency remains unclear, but video (...)
