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European humanitarian organisations are involved in a conspiracy to keep Africa in the throes of poverty, a former senior European Union official who is now a British peer has said. Lord Peter Mandelson, the ex-EU Trade commissioner, told a summit on Africa in London that European charities opposed his attempts to re-negotiate trade agreements that would afford Africa more commercial ...

The United Nations is hosting a series of events, beginning today, to pay tribute to the men and women who bravely fought against the transatlantic slave trade and those who continue to stand up against modern forms of slavery. “The transatlantic slave trade was a tragedy because of slavery’s fundamental barbarism and immense scope, and because of its organized, systematic ...

(SaharaReporters) – A businessman Mr. Emmanuel Okolie this evening escaped electrocution after a Power Holding Company of Nigeria PHCN pole fell and crushed his car directly in front of the Sabo police station in Ebute-Metta. According to police sources at the scene of the accident, a commercial bus driver popularly known as ‘danfo’ was trying to beat traffic along Herbert ...

A senior Pastor of United Evangelical Church, Rev. Sunday Alfa has murdered his wife, a mother of 4 for refusing him sex. The wife, Mrs. Rose Alfa was murdered in the Mission House at about 3am in Igojo, Ubali Village near Okene in Kogi State. We learnt that before the woman gave up the ghost, she had confessed to a ...

The African Union said Friday it was boosting coordination of regional armies hunting down the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels led by international fugitive Joseph Kony. “What’s going to change is that we will have better intelligence and better coordination,” said Francisco Madeira, AU special envoy to end the LRA insurgency. Kony’s rebels are notorious for a grim campaign of ...