BENGHAZI — The old center of Benghazi lies in ruins but one shopping street has sprung up in the war-ravaged Libyan city, with sportswear and fashion stores that would not be out of place in Dubai or Istanbul.
Foreign brands are tapping into (...)
Life seems to be returning to normal in this northern Nigerian town a year after the army expelled the fighters of Boko Haram — shops bustle with customers and vendors hawk their wares in the pot-holed streets.
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed (...)
ENJOYING a chilled drink in a hotel, former Nigerian militant leader Ebi John has a simple message for President Muhammadu Buhari — keep paying my men or risk a new insurgency in the Niger Delta.
Tensions have been building in the southern swampland (...)
KUWAIT'S ruler may have defused a political crisis in the OPEC exporter by dissolving parliament but some analysts say the next assembly and cabinet are no more likely to agree on much-needed economic reforms than the last.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad (...)
