ABUJA-- The top brass of African armies will converge in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, next week for the African Land Forces Summit, which is being hosted by the Nigerian army…
ABUJA -- Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, now has a population of 198 people, according to the National Population Commission (NPC), which says the the country's urban population is growing…
Islamist fighters from Nigeria's Boko Haram group have abducted more than 1,000 children in the northeast since 2013, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said Friday.The militants regularly took youngsters…
A new report, released early Thursday in London, from rights group Amnesty International spotlights sub-Saharan Africa as a "beacon of hope" in the fight to abolish the death penalty as…
Amnesty International reports the number of executions around the world continued to fall last year, with a 4 percent drop in executions and a significant decline in the number of…